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Pakistan and India will hold foreign secretary-level talks on Kashmir and peace and security, the two top issues in the recently revived Indo-Pak peace...

The Senate Standing Committee on Finance was informed on Thursday that the government was forced to provide a subsidy of Rs 295.8 billion on...

The special audit report on KESC’s privatization reveals that the Government of Pakistan has failed to achieve its objectives of reduction in transmission and...

Lahore Transport Company (LTC) has come up with a scheme to provide ‘Student Discount Card’ for traveling through public transport in the city, Pakistan...

Provincial Doctors Association (PDA) Monday called off its strike after two weeks of protest on Monday. The doctors had been demanding perks equal to...

Defence experts on Monday demanded the security establishment broaden its definition of security by taking into account the security of citizens. They also...

A committee would be formed to discuss the row between the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) management and workers and come up with a...

Tour de France champion Alberto Contador will find out before the end of June whether he is to face sanctions for a positive doping...

LAHORE - WAPDA ended Army's hegemony in the 43rd National Athletics Championship being held here at the Punjab Stadium. By the time this report was filed, WAPDA pocketed 13 gold medals as against seven of Army. By the evening, WAPDA won gold medals through Azhar Abbas, Razia Sultana, Rabia Ashiq and Ali Muhammad in hammer throw, 1500m (Women) and 800 metres races while Mohammad Sajjad of PAF won gold medal in 110 mertres hurdles race. Army got its gold medals on the day in discus

KABUL - Afghan President Hamid Karzai urged a visiting United States (US) delegation on Tuesday to scale back night raids and military operations causing civilian casualties. The call came as he met John Boehner, US House Speaker, who is leading a six-member delegation from the House of Representatives that also visited Pakistan this week.
"The Afghanistan president said the people of Afghanistan highly appreciate the assistance given by the US in past 10 years but they want the

ISLAMABAD - Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said blame game between Pakistan and India has ended following the successful meeting between the prime ministers of the two countries.
He said this while talking to media men here Tuesday after his meeting with Qasim Zia, president Pakistan Hockey Federation and secretary general Asif Bajwa.
Indian hockey team should visit Pakistan unhesitatingly, he said adding every possible security would be provided to them. Restoration

HAFIZABAD - Punjab Food Secretary Irfan Elahi, who is also project director, land record management information system, has said the government is spending a huge amount on the computerisation of land record to eradicate traditional patwari culture from the province, curb corruption in the revenue department and provide relief to landowners as well as the common man.
Addressing a meeting at District Complex Hafizabad, he said in this modern age, information could not be concealed

ISLAMABAD - Bilal Satti, Secretary Pakistan Blind Cricket Council (PBCC), said on Saturday that as the entire nation is working to improve Pakistan-India relations, PBCC is not lagging behind. He told APP that PBCC is likely to host a bilateral Pak-India series at the end of this year in Dubai.
"We will be playing three ODIs and three Twenty-20s in the series," he
said.
He said that on May 12 there is a meeting of World Blind Cricket Council (WBCC) in which he will

KARACHI - The common people who rush to disaster sites for helping victims, instead create problems for the rescue workers in shifting the injured to hospitals, said renowned philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi.
He said this while talking with Pakistan Today after delivering his speech at a lecture session titled 'Emergency Medical Care During Disasters' organised by the Aga Khan University Hospital on Thursday.
"In case of any disaster, most people rush to the site and want to

KARACHI - Petroleum Secretary Imtiaz H Kazi on Thursday assured that load shedding for compressed natural gas (CNG) will end by the next month.
He said this while talking to a delegation led by CNG Station Owners Association Chairman Malik Khuda Baksh, which had called on Kazi and Gas Director General Mohammad Azam for discussing the problems being faced by CNG retailers and consumers due to the ongoing gas load shedding.
Kazi and Azam explained that due to annual repair and

LAHORE - The 133rd annual athletics meet of the Punjab University Law College concluded here on Wednesday with Umar Hameed Khan of LLB Honours claiming the best athlete award. Ume Nousheen was declared the best female player. Former Olympian Justice (R) Aftab Farrukh was the chief guest and distributed the prizes among the winners. He praised the efforts of Principal Prof Samee Uzair Khan and Farhat Saddique, secretary sports committee.

KARACHI - The Pakistani rupee gained on Tuesday to end near an eleven-month high, amid a lack of import payments and continuous healthy dollar inflows, dealers said.
The rupee closed at 84.43/53 to the dollar, compared with Monday's close of 84.72/78, its highest close since May last year.
"There were no oil payments, therefore there was less demand for the dollar," said a dealer at a foreign bank, adding that oil payments may start from next week.
Officials and