Tag: Mulls

  Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) is considering blacklisting more than 100 air hostesses after one of their crew members slipped away in Canadian capital Toronto,...

TEL AVIV: The IDF Prosecution and Ahed Tamimi, the 16-year-old Palestinian girl who was videotaped slapping Israelis soldiers, continued the on-going battle on Monday...

The Indian government is considering setting up a container depot close to the Attari-Wagah border in order to facilitate trade between India and Pakistan,...

India's government is considering a rule change to allow cricket star Sachin Tendulkar to receive the country's highest civilian award -- for which sports...

Afghanistan’s election body has presented a 6-point plan to President Hamid Karzai in a bid to end a standoff between the incumbent and the...

After failing to amicably resolve outstanding dues of $800 million with the United Arab Emirates owned Etisalat, which controls the basic telephony giant, Pakistan...

Cricket’s governing body began its annual conference on Sunday with all eyes on controversial proposals to scrap its rotating presidency and bar non-Test playing...

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

The Pakistan cricket Board is considering releasing the suspended payment of controversial wicketkeeper Zulqarnain Haider, reported ESPN on Tuesday. The PCB had held up...

Pakistan is considering repatriating Osama Bin Laden’s Yemeni wife Amal Ahmed Abdel Fatteh to her home country, but there remains confusion among the ruling...

Moamer Gaddafi's government was mulling extending on Wednesday a deadline for rebels in Libya's third city Misrata to lay down their arms after the...

LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is negotiating with former skipper Javed Miandad to accept the post of the national team's batting coach. ODI skipper Shahid Afridi told reporters here after a meeting with PCB chief Ijaz Butt that the board was holding talks with Miandad.
"I have suggested having a batting coach with the team to work with the players and Miandad is one of the people the board is in touch with," Afridi said. It must be noted that Miandad, a veteran of 124

ISLAMABAD - Leader of the House in Senate, Syed Nayyar Hussain Bukhari on Saturday said that government was mulling to affiliate all federal colleges with Quaid-e-Azam University (QAU) for awarding degrees.
While addressing an Annual Sports Prize Distribution Ceremony 2010-11 arranged by the Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (FBISE), he said that federal institutes would be affiliated with the QAU so that the students could get degrees from QAU instead of the

LAHORE - As some Provincial Management Service (PMS) officers return to work from the ongoing strike, administrative secretaries have proposed the chief secretary take action against those PMS officers who have dug their heels in and refused to call off their strike, Pakistan Today has learnt. A majority of section officers belonging to PMS have been abstaining from work due to the ongoing strike. Sources in the Punjab government told Pakistan Today that the authorities were assessing

KARACHI - Differences among various factions of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP)-backed People's Unity of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Employees have reached a breaking point, with one of the factions mulling whether to quit the mother party altogether, Pakistan Today has learnt.
The People's Unity is currently divided into two main factions: one is led by Kamran Chaudhry and the other by Syed Ahmer Ali alias Amir Shah. Chaudhry's group is the one that led protests

ISLAMABAD - The government has directed the Sui Southern Gas Company Limited (SSGC) to complete the tendering process for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) imports by June 30 this year so that the actual supplies could start from March 2013. An official source at the Ministry of Petroleum said the instructions had been given to the SSGC considering the fact that the consumption was growing at a rate of seven percent per annum. "If steps for timely imports are not taken, the energy crisis

LAHORE - As the timeline for the implementation of the PML-N's 10-point agenda expires today (Thursday), party leaders have put their head together to devise a final strategy in the light of PPP's response to the charter of demands.
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani is likely to meet or call PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif to seek additional time for implementing the reform agenda.
PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday held talks with senior party leaders, including Punjab Chief