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The UN Human Rights Council passed Friday a historic resolution that seeks equal rights for everyone regardless of their sexual orientation, marking progress for...

The Pak US Business Council has urged visiting US Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources Thomas R Nides to honour the recommendation...

Brooke Bond has over 140 years of tea expertise and has been catering to the diverse preferences of consumers across the country. As one...

Libya sought Thursday to refute crimes against humanity charges at the UN Human Rights Council, but states including France and Spain said they did...

Saudi Arabia’s advisory Shoura Council said on Monday that women should be allowed to vote in future municipal elections. Saudi authorities announced in March...

International Sufi Council (ISC) Chairman Fakhar Zaman on Thursday made nominations for council presidents in various member countries. The nominated presidents included Galleze Ouiza, Algeria,...

Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) has elected Fakhar Zaman, a renowned novelist, poet and a dramatist, as the first president of the recently established...

ISLAMABAD - Kashmir Council EU Chairman Ali Raza Syed on Monday said that cricket diplomacy was not enough to improve the relations between Pakistan and India and Kashmir issue would have to be resolved on priority basis according to the will of Kashmiris.
Addressing a news conference here at National Press Club (NPC), Ali Raza said that failure of numerous agreements between India and Pakistan including Tashkant and Shimla, revealed that conflicts between both the countries

KARACHI - The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has created a Central Council in a bid to expand its party structure across the country, announced Rabita Committee Deputy Convenor Dr Farooq Sattar at a press conference on Sunday at the party headquarters Nine-Zero.
A decision to form the Central Council was taken by the Rabita Committee after extensive deliberations, Sattar explained, with the council set to assist the Rabita Committee in meeting important national challenges and

KARACHI - The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has created a Central Council in a bid to expand its party structure across the country, announced Rabita Committee Deputy Convenor Dr Farooq Sattar at a press conference on Sunday at the party headquarters Nine-Zero.
A decision to form the Central Council was taken by the Rabita Committee after extensive deliberations, Sattar explained, with the council set to assist the Rabita Committee in meeting important national challenges and

ISLAMABAD - While global discussions on climate change are becoming intensely heated and the world is witnessing its effects more clearly than ever, Pakistan's national organisation, Pakistan Environmental Protection Council (PEPC) headed by prime minister and set up to formulate and implement policies only exists on papers as not even a single meeting of this body has been held for a year now.
The PEPC was formed in 1984, then headed by president, under section 3 of the Pakistan

UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations on Tuesday suspended Libya from its main human rights body over Moamer Kadhafi's crackdown on protests amid warnings of new Security Council action against the regime. With growing western calls for a no-fly zone over Libya, Britain's UN envoy said the council would take "whatever measures we consider necessary to respond to events on the ground."
The 192-member assembly passed a suspension resolution by consensus, without a vote, after UN

UNITED NATIONS - The UN Security Council has imposed sanctions against Moamer Gaddafi in a new bid to halt the bloodshed in Libya while ordering a crimes against humanity investigation into his crackdown on opponents. A vote by the 15-nation body at a solemn Saturday night meeting called for a travel ban and assets freeze against Gaddafi and his family and associates and an arms embargo against Libya, where the UN says more than 1,000 people have been killed.
The council united

GENEVA - The UN rights chief decried Moamer Gaddafi regime's "callous disregard" for Libyans during a special Human Rights Council session on the crisis on Friday, amid calls for an international probe into the violence. Western nations also led a call for the country to be excluded from the council, but Cuba opposed the move while China and Russia expressed reservations.
Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, warned the 47 member council that thousands may have been

LAHORE: A meeting of the general council of the Pakistan Olympic Association will be held on February 12 (today) at 11:00 a.m. at Avari Hotel here under the chairmanship of Lt Gen (Retd) Syed Arif Hasan HI (M).
President POA Lt Gen (retd) will address the press conference at about 2.00 p.m. at the venue and brief the media about the decisions taken in the meeting.

LAHORE - The Pakistan Medical Association Punjab chapter provincial council meeting unanimously agreed on Wednesday that the Punjab government needs to announce a special salary package for doctors urgently to stop the brain drain of doctors.
The PMA provincial council meeting was held at PMA House under the chairmanship of Professor M Ashraf Nizami. The office bearers of PMA Lahore, PMA Multan, PMA Gujranwala, PMA Mianwali, PMA Hafizabad, PMA Toba Tek Sing, PMA Faisalabad, PMA

LAHORE - Punjab Seed Council has approved for general cultivation eighteen new varieties of various crops including one wheat variety ARRI-10, one sugarcane variety CPF-246 and one paddy variety Basmati-515.
The approval of these varieties was accorded in 40th meeting of Punjab Seed Council held at Agriculture House chaired by Malik Ahmad Ali Aulakh, Minister for Agriculture, Punjab. Mr. Ameer Khatak Additional Secretary Agriculture Punjab, Muzafar Mahmood Managing Director