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Opposition stages walkout from Senate over Haideri nomination

Opposition parties on Tuesday staged a walkout from the Senate session debating the budget, demanding reversal of Chairman Farook Naik’s decision of nominating JUI-F’s...

100 policemen withdrawn from VIPs’ security

The Lahore Police, on the Punjab government’s directions, withdrew on Tuesday around 100 policemen including 63 staffers of the Elite Force (EF) deployed for...

CDA fails to recover outstanding dues from Nomad Art Gallery

Despite objection of the federal audit authorities over non recovery of Rs. 1650240 from Nomad Centre and Art Gallery, which is due from 2008...

NBP Open Ranking Tennis from 10th

The NBP Open Ranking Tennis Championship will start at the Modern Club Karachi from June 10. The Sindh Tennis Association, in collaboration with the...

US mulls larger troop pullout from Afghanistan: report

Top White House national security advisers are considering much more significant troop reductions in Afghanistan than those discussed even a few weeks ago, The...

Afridi back from London to deal with PCB issues

Shahid Afridi is due to return here on Sunday from London where he met Bilawal Zardari Bhutto to sort out his cricketing problems after...

Swimmers’ trials from June 7

Trials for selecting the Punjab Swimming Team will be held on June 7, here at the Iqbal Park Sports Complex’s swimming pool at 5:30pm....

Teaching at Benazir Bhutto University to start from September

The process of teaching at the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University in Lyari is expected to commence from September this year, Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel...

Summer vacations from today, but some schools to operate till 15th

Sindh Chief Minister (CM) Qaim Ali Shah had announced that summer vacations in all schools of the province will start from June 1 (today),...

NATO should not rush from Afghanistan: UK general

Britain's senior commander in Afghanistan has said hasty withdrawals of foreign soldiers could undermine recent successes there against the insurgency, a newspaper said on...

The Rs 32bn KESC has been hiding from govt

The perennially-trapped-in-circular-debt Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) has been collecting Television License (TVL) Fee and General Sales Tax (GST) since October 2008, but not...

LHC bars accountability court judge from work

A Lahore High Court (LHC) division bench on Monday barred Lahore Accountability Court-III Judge Syed Ali Hassan Rizvi from working as a petition has...

Murtaza Khar acquitted from Rs 611m default case

An accountability court on Monday acquitted Ghulam Muhammad Murtaza Khar, younger brother of former Punjab governor Ghulam Mustafa Khar, in a reference of willful...

SC to hear petition against OGRA chairman from June 1

Supreme Court Saturday fixed a petition, challenging the appointment of Tauqir Sadiq as the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) chairman, for hearing...

5-rupee banknotes to be void from next year

The five-rupee banknote would cease to exist as a legal tender from January 1, 2012 onwards in conjunction with the federal government’s notification issued...

Bribery claims first from FIFA insider

The latest allegations about corruption and bribery levelled at FIFA’s hierarchy are explosive because for the first time they have been made by an...

Brand deported from Japan

Funnyman Russell Brand was deported from Japan on Sunday because of his previous convictions, according to his pop star wife Katy Perry. The ‘Forgetting...