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The United Nations unanimously elected Ban Ki-moon to a second term on Tuesday as its leader with the major powers hailing his work in...

Tehseen Anwar Shah has been appointed as the new director general of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), Pakistan Today learnt reliably on Sunday. Tehseen,...

The Pakistani leadership assured Afghan President Hamid Karzai during his recent visit to Islamabad that it would try its best to persuade the Haqqani...

Lahore Development Authority (LDA) Estate Management Directorate-II staff on Saturday retrieved five plots in Gujjarpura after a crackdown on land grabbers. The plots included...

Abdul Salam Soomro, the cameraman of a local Sindhi TV channel who captured the on-spot footage of Rangers killing Sarfaraz Shah, has been receiving...

General Khalid Shameem Wynne, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) along with senior officers of Pakistan Armed Forces on Monday visited the National...

The Pakistan Cricket Board has given fast bowler Wahab Riaz the clearance to play for the English County Club Kent this summer. At a time...

The Punjab Environment Protection Department (EPD) will commemorate World Environment Day (WED) today (Sunday) to create awareness about the use of natural resources and...

Canadian country pop diva Shania Twain has been honored with a star on Hollywood's storied Walk of Fame, and voiced surprise that she had...

The Pakistan Cricket Board has privately got support from the powers that be to proceed with their disciplinary action against Shahid Afridi despite the...

Simon Fuller, the British creator of hit TV show "American Idol," received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Monday surrounded by...

The camp for youth under-14 boys athletes started here at the Punjab Stadium, Lahore with 24 athletes from different divisions taking part. In the...

Angelina Jolie's directorial debut - a controversial movie set in wartime Bosnia - has a name and a release date. ‘In the Land of Blood...

Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho has been given a five-match touchline ban in European competition for his sending off and verbal outburst at the...

LAHORE - President Lahore City Cricket Association Khawaja Nadeem Ahmad inaugurated the Punjab Chief Minister's Summer Cricket League today. Nadeem was of the view that the league will help in identifying talented player besides formulating performance-based criteria for the selection of Lahore's team to take part in PCB's domestic tournaments. "We have picked 15 grounds for the event in order to revive club cricket on the pattern of summer leagues of yester years," said Nadeem. He

MOSCOW - World number three Vera Zvonareva put Russia 1-0 up against Italy in their Fed Cup semi-final clash here Saturday, beating Sara Errani 6-0, 6-2. The 26-year-old Zvonareva notched her fourth win over Errani in as many meetings, winning in 56 minutes on the hardcourts of Moscow's Megasport indoor arena.
Last year's Wimbledon and US Open runner-up looked in complete command from the start breaking her opponent's serve three times to take the opening set at love in just 25

ISLAMABAD - Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Friday reshuffled the Army's top brass and appointed Major General Ashfaq as Director General of Military Operations (DGMO). He will replace recently-promoted Lt-Gen Javed Iqbal who has been appointed Adjutant General (AG).
Javed will take over the charge from Lt-Gen Nadeem Taj who is retiring in the last week of this month. Similarly, Lt-Gen Muhammad Asif has been appointed Director General at Joint Staff