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An Indian politician writes to his son My dear son, When you went abroad to study, it was with a clear understanding that once you finish...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad warned the West his nation would not tolerate any outside interference, saying that anti-government unrest sweeping the country had become...

PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif has urged the international community not to ignore the tremendous sacrifices rendered by the people of Pakistan in the war...

LAHORE - Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi has defended his decision of quitting Test cricket, saying he does not have the temperament to play the traditional format of the game. However, Afridi believes that he should not have ended his Test career without completing the series against Australia in England last year. "My decision was absolutely the right one. I don't think I am a Test-temperament player, hence it's best that instead of me, players more suited to Test cricket are

TOKYO - The Japanese government on Tuesday urged "heartless" people, local authorities and businesses not to discriminate against evacuees from the area around the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. The call came after some evacuation centres demanded radiation-free certificates from people who lived near the plant, and following reports that hotels have turned them away and their children have been bullied.
"I cannot stress enough how regrettable it is that some heartless people

ASTANA - The United States government has never told the Indian government directly that it does not want the Iran-Pakistan-India natural gas pipeline to be built. "They have said it isn't a good thing in public," Hindustan Times quoted high level sources as saying Sunday.
"But never to us directly - possibly because they know the answer they would get."
India is still interested in the Iran-Pakistan pipeline, said the sources. The barriers to its creation lie in the region

KARACHI - Aklima Clinical Research (ACR), an independent subsidiary of Organon BioSciences (OBS group of companies), has introduced innovative diagnostic kits that can be easily used to carry out home-based tests for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), malaria, tuberculosis, typhoid, dengue and hepatitis B/C infections. Addressing a press conference on Wednesday, ACR Managing Director Amjad Moinuddin mentioned that heart attack, HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, typhoid, dengue and

LAHORE - "Sister of a Tory, rich twat and according to some, more socialite than socialist, I know some NS readers will be irked. Judge the issue, not me." So wrote - on Twitter - Jemima Khan, heiress, campaigner, occasional writer and now political interviewer. Call her anything in fact, just not a socialite.
"It's such a lazy way for journalists to undermine me," she says, according to a report in The Guardian. Jemima's latest contribution to journalism came when she not only

BAGHDAD - Iraq's fiery anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr will "escalate military resistance" and unleash his Mehdi Army militia if US troops fail to leave Iraq as scheduled this year, his aides said on Saturday.
On the 8th anniversary of the day US forces toppled Saddam Hussein's statue in Baghdad, senior Sadr aide Hazem al-Araji told tens of thousands of followers: "We say to the Black House (White House), 'we are all time bombs and the detonators are at the hands of Moqtada

BAGHDAD - Iraq's fiery anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr will "escalate military resistance" and unleash his Mehdi Army militia if U.S. troops fail to leave Iraq as scheduled this year, his aides said on Saturday.
On the 8th anniversary of the day U.S. forces toppled Saddam Hussein's statue in Baghdad, senior Sadr aide Hazem al-Araji told tens of thousands of followers: "We say to the Black House (White House), 'we are all time bombs and the detonators are at the hands of

KARACHI - Many traders of the MA Jinnah Road have stopped doing business in cash in response to the increasing robberies in the markets. The commercial centre of the MA Jinnah Road is under threat from robbers, who loot traders on gunpoint. Instead of relying on the law enforcement agencies, the traders have started adopting precautionary measures to protect their earnings on their own. Some traders told Pakistan Today that they have stopped wholesale dealing in cash and are demanding

ISLAMABAD - In a rare show of anger by one of the most trusted friends of Pakistan, the Saudi envoy on Monday expressed his displeasure over the out of context involvement of his country in the release of Raymond Davis, the killer of two Pakistanis. During a meeting on Monday, Ambassador Abdul Aziz bin Ibrahim Al-Ghadeer told Senator Mohammad Ali Durrani that his country had no role whatsoever in Davis' release episode. "Saudi Arabia did not play any role in getting Raymond Davis

KARACHI - Ad-hoc lecturers will be appointed in place of teachers associated with the Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association (SPLA) if the "rotten eggs" do not return to their classes, threatened Sindh Education Minister Pir Mazharul Haq on Wednesday at the floor of the Sindh Assembly.
Responding to a point of order raised by MPA Nusrat Saher Abbasi about the government's highhandedness against lecturers and professors of the SPLA, Haq argued that all demands of the

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the government to take immediate steps for the removal of all civil servants, including FIA Director General Waseem Ahmed, who retired after attaining the age of superannuation but were re-employed on permanent posts in violation of Section 14 of the Civil Servant Act 1973, asking the government to submit a progress report.
A four-member bench, comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice

ISLAMABAD - Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Major General Athar Abbas told a private TV channel on Sunday that the usage of funds in civilian departments should be streamlined instead of criticising the defence budget.
Abbas said that misleading propaganda was being spread under well-planned conspiracies about the expenses of the army. The conspirators were saying that the defence funds could be used for the prosperity of the country, he said.
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KARACHI - The Sindh government has extended the contractual services of the senior member of the Board of Revenue, who also holds the additional charge of acting chief secretary (CS), for an indefinite period, in violation of the apex court's orders.
The provincial government removed a number of contract employees from various departments last month in compliance with the Supreme Court's orders. However, the appointment of a senior member of the Board of Revenue, Ghulam Ali Shah

PALLEKELE - Coach Waqar Younis admitted dropped catches by wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal cost Pakistan the match against New Zealand but praised Ross Taylor for the innings of a lifetime. Taylor, who benefited from two astonishing let-offs by Kamran, hit a career-best unbeaten 131 to fire his side to 302-7 before New Zealand dismissed Pakistan for 192 in a key Group A match at Pallekele stadium.
Waqar admitted the catches -- both off paceman Shoaib Akhtar, with Taylor on nought and