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The European Union and Japan said Saturday they had agreed to work towards a multi-billion-euro free trade deal linking the world’s third biggest economy...

Advisor to Chief Minister and Lahore Transport Company (LTC) Chairman Khawaja Ahmed Hassan has said that citizens of more than 65 years of age...

Mohajir Qaumi Movement-Haqiqi leader Aamir Khan was released from Karachi Central Jail on Monday evening and shifted to his residence in Malir Cantonment amid...

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was due to be released on bail Friday, but it remained unclear exactly when or how he would escape...

Etihad Airways, national airline of the United Arab Emirates, has launched its latest ‘Complimentary Nights’ promotion, offering free stopovers at selected luxury hotels in...

Lahore High Court Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed sought reply from the Ministry Of Religious Affairs by May 19 on a petition challenging the performing...

KARACHI - Pakistan, all set to sign a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), would be at a disadvantage compared to the gulf countries which possess a huge economy. Pakistan must consider the weaker position of its own economy and should look to avoid repeating mistakes, the country had committed, during the FTA with China, sources told Pakistan Today. The country has exhibited a huge trade difference with China after signing of FTA, as there has been an

ISLAMABAD - As many as 15,682 WAPDA employees of BPS (1-21) and Chairman WAPDA have been allowed free of cost electricity, Minister for Water and Power informed National Assembly in a written reply.
It was said in response to a question that 2,922, employees of BPS1, 412 of BPS 2, 450 of BPS 3, 190 of BPS 4, 863 of BPS 5, 3174 of BPS 6, 1327 of BPS 7, 387 of BPS 8, 551 of BPS 9, 22 of BPS 10, 772 of BPS 11, 485 of BPS 12, 66 of BPS 13, 997 of BPS 14, 372 of BPS 15, 814 of BPS 16,

GUJRANWALA - The Individual-Land-Pakistan (IL-Pakistan), with the support of Friedrich-Naumann-Stifting, is striving to promote the concept of Free, Independent and Responsible Media (FIRM) in Pakistan.
The IL-Pakistan, as an active non-partisan group with a national foothold, along with FNF, is actively engaging with the media so that citizens and media could learn from one another. The media has come a long way and succeeded in its struggle to attain freedom as in the last

ABU DHABI - United Arab Emirates' special forces on Saturday freed an Abu Dhabi-owned ship seized by pirates east of Oman in the Arabian Sea, a military official told state news agency WAM. "A special counter-terrorism unit, backed by air force units and in coordination with the (Bahrain-based) US Fifth Fleet, stormed the ship. The hijackers subsequently surrendered," the official said. The UAE had said earlier that the special forces had moved to free the MV Arrilah-I which was

LAHORE - The Punjab Health Department has decided to provide free diagnostic facilities at all government hospitals, Punjab Health Director General Dr Aslam Chaudhry said on Thursday. He was addressing an awareness seminar on dengue fever at the Institute of Public Health (IPH). IPH Dean Dr Yaqoob Qazi, Punjab Chief Bacteriologist Dr Zarfishan Tahir and Professor Kokab Aslam also spoke on the occasion. Aslam said that the IPH is also providing diagnostic facility for this purpose.

Libya's rebel interim National Council said on Tuesday it would hold free and fair elections to ensure a transition to democracy if leader Muammar Gaddafi were forced from power.
The council, based in the rebel-held eastern city of Benghazi, said it aspired to create a "modern, free and united state" in a statement issued ahead of a meeting of foreign ministers in London to discuss the future of Libya.
The eight-point statement said the oil-producing north African nation's

LAHORE - A petition was filed in the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday seeking provision of free education to every citizen from five to 16 years of age under articles 9, 25 A and 37 of the constitution. Syed Feroz Shah filed the petition submitting that provision of free education was the right of every citizen, which had become a substantive part of the constitution after passage of the 18th Constitutional Amendment. Petitioner's counsel AK Dogar submitted that the federal and

LAHORE - Ch M Akram Teaching and Research Hospital Raiwind Road Lahore and Surrayya Azeem Teaching Hospital have arranged a four-day free camp from March 21 where ENT, orthopaedic and eye specialists are providing free of cost services to the patients. In this occasion, the chairman Superior Group of Colleges said the group would extend better health facilities to the people.

ISLAMABAD - Amid increasing criticism of the judiciary for releasing US national Raymond Davis and of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) for facilitating the process, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani supported the court verdict on Friday, saying that the entire leadership of the country was of the opinion that the matter should be left to the court.
The PM said it was inappropriate to hold any single institution responsible for the final outcome of the case. "In the Raymond

LAHORE - A simmering diplomatic standoff between Pakistan and the United States, which stretched the allies' already strained relations to near breaking point, ended on Wednesday as US national Raymond Davis was acquitted of two murder charges mere hours after his indictment when the victims' families dropped charges against him in exchange for "blood money".
Additional District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Yousaf Aoujla acquitted Davis of the double murder charges in a hearing at

ISLAMABAD - The Centre for Peace and Development initiatives (CPDI) has urged the government to immediately undertake appropriate legislative, administrative and legal initiatives to ensure that Article 25-A of the Constitution is implemented in letter and spirit. The said article says the state is required to provide free and compulsory education to all children of five to 16 years of age. According to a statement issued by the CPDI, the government schools across the country,