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A French junior minister is targeted by a complaint lodged Wednesday, a prosecutor said, while refusing to confirm that it concerned alleged sexual harassment....

A southern minister in Sudan’s govt quit office on Tuesday alleging “war crimes” in Abyei, as the UN called for talks after northern troops...

Provincial Finance Minister Asim Kurd escaped an assassination attempt here in Mastung, Balochistan on Monday. According to a private television channel, some armed men...

A former British minister faced a week-long suspension from the House of Commons Thursday after lawmakers found him guilty of breaking rules on expenses...

Sindh government has revised service structure for nurses to meet the shortage of nursing staff in the government hospitals, said Sindh Minister for Health,...

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Agriculture Minister and senior leader of Awami National Party Arbab Mohammad Ayub Jan survived what seemed to be a botched attempt at...

The PML (Q) member of National Assembly Riaz Hussain Pirzada has been made Minister of Health. According to official sources, the change was made...

Former minister of state for railways has appealed to Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry to take suo motu notice of gross violation...

After the formation of a dissident bloc of five senators in the PML-Q, the Chaudhrys are likely to face another embarrassment as a number...

A court sentenced once feared Egyptian interior minister Habib al-Adly to 12 years for corruption on Thursday in the first trial of an official...

The Parliamentary Committee on Judges Appointment Tuesday summoned the law minister and secretary besides the Attorney General of Pakistan (AGP) today (Thursday) to review...

Turkey has closed its embassy in the Libyan capital Tripoli, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Monday following weekend attacks on British and Italian diplomatic...

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari Wednesday administered oath to Senator Maula Bakhsh Chandio as minister for Law and Justice at a ceremony held at the Aiwan-e-Sadr. The oath-taking ceremony was attended among others by Prime Minister Yusaf Raza Gilani, Chairman Senate Farook H Naek, deputy chairman senate, deputy speaker national assembly, attorney general, some federal ministers, ministers of state, parliamentarians, federal secretaries and other high officials.

KUWAIT - Pakistan will not be able to afford subsidies on fuel this summer and much of the rising oil price burden will have to be shifted to the consumer, Water and Power Minister Naveed Qamar told Reuters.
"Pakistan has not yet recovered from the 2008 oil price rise and we have no planned subsidies for the summer months because we can't afford it," Qamar told Reuters in an interview on the sidelines of a ministerial meeting in Kuwait.
Pakistan imports about 80 percent of

KARACHI - Senior Education Minister Pir Mazharul Haq has ordered the authorities concerned to rub out the dictatorial mindset from the National Textbooks and Learning Policy 2007. He gave the directives at a meeting held to review the work plan for improving the quality of textbooks at the office of Reform Support Unit of the Education Department on April 16.
Education and Literacy Department Secretary Naheed Shah Durrani, former-vice chancellor of the University of Sindh

CAIRO - Egypt will put on trial the former prime minister and his finance minister on charges of profiteering and squandering public funds, the public prosecutor's office said on Sunday. No date has yet been set for the trial.
But the military generals ruling Egypt since pro-democracy protests ousted president Hosni Mubarak in February are keen to show they are committed to holding to account members of the previous government, which many Egyptians saw as steeped in graft.