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The residents of Shanti Nagar area of Sindhi Mohalla have claimed that police are reluctant to act against target killers, extortionists and drug dealers...

The Sindh Enterprise Development Fund (SEDF) has approved seven important projects that would be assisted through provision of subsidy on its finances.“It is only...

The Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) is not paying proper attention towards transformers, which is causing long hours of electricity closure in the city. LESCO...

The people of Sindh bid farewell to the outgoing information officer of the US Consulate in Karachi, Andie DeArment, and welcomed her successor, Amanda...

Finally, after 9 years, Nawaz Sharif is set to become the president of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), the top spot in the party’s...

Pakistan captain Misbahul Haq has said that he would keep his position in the team as skipper as long as the Pakistan Cricket Board...

“Distribution of cash is not a viable long-term solution for eradicating poverty from Pakistan. The Rs 1, 000 a month given to the head...

New Zealand’s Michael Long and Australian Scott Laycock used their vast experience to take a share of the third round lead in the Nanshan...

Veteran Michael Long rekindled some of the magic of his past to take the second round lead in the $1 million Nanshan China Masters...

Patty Schnyder on Saturday called time on a 17-year career which brought 11 titles, 59 Grand Slam appearances and a family split caused by...

KARACHI - A hefty trade deficit of Pakistan had eroded the inflow of remittances and the impact of growth in exports in nine months of the current financial year. From July 2010 to March 2011, the country had sustained a trade deficit of $11.21 billion with exports amounting to $17.80 billion while imports expanded to $29.01 billion.
In the nine months of the current fiscal period, the country had received $6.54 billion remittances ($900 million more than the corresponding

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders claim that the party is playing the role of a real opposition and are not hand-in-glove with the PPP government. Its actions speak otherwise. Case in point is the party's recently-aborted plan of releasing white paper on the government's three-year performance.
The PML-N has not only withheld a caustic white paper on the government's wrongdoings and failures but has also backtracked from its public stances to save the

CHISHTIAN - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Sunday said that Pakistan could not develop until the scourge of terrorism from the country was not eradicated and the practice of taking foreign loans was not stopped.
Addressing opening ceremony of the Danish School here, he said that no nation could make progress by begging and taking loan in the world. The chief minister said that how long the country would depend on foreign aid, adding, "we can make progress and make the

TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said on Friday he was ready for a long fight to bring a quake-hit nuclear plant under control but was convinced Japan would overcome the world's worst nuclear crisis since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.
"I am prepared for a long-term battle over the Fukushima nuclear plant and to win this battle," he said in a nationally broadcast news conference as the country marked three weeks since a massive earthquake and tsunami triggered the

KARACHI - Faseeh Saleem's previous artworks have been based on a self journey inspired by his childhood playthings and experiences, particularly his family's army background and his short stint as a civil engineering cadet. "I try to critically analyse how far this variety of backgrounds contributed towards the evolution of my personality," says Saleem. "One tends to carry the load of his background for a long time; however, the mental development and outlook on various aspects of

KARACHI - Awami Jamhoori Party (AJP) President Abrar Kazi and other office-bearers including Hussain Bux Narejo and Wishno Mal have condemned the "brutal" police shelling on peasants who were staging a march for ownership of lands in Punjab. In a statement issued on Monday, the AJP leaders said that the PML-N government in Punjab is turning a civilian set up into

COLOMBO - Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara admitted that cricket's international schedule wears down players and appealed for more support in the light of Michael Yardy's depression-enforced World Cup exit.
England all-rounder Yardy pulled out of the World Cup on Thursday, just two days before the quarter-final against Sri Lanka, citing depression as the reason. "I think every side going forward will place more and more attention on to the psychological aspects of players and