Tag: Release

After a delay in the release of $300 million from the US under the head of the Coalition Support Fund (CSF), the government is...

Some five Pakistani children who were apprehended in an Indian jail for last eleven years reached Karachi on Thursday. As per details, some five children,...

Sri Lanka Cricket Tuesday said it would hold talks with its Indian counterparts in a bid to reverse a ban on a dozen players...

Indian government would release seven Pakistanis tomorrow (Wednesday), as they have completed their imprisonment duration of 10 to 12 years in India. According to a...

At least four Pakistani hostages among other 22 kept in captivity of Somali pirates were released on Monday after payment of huge ransom and...

Dozens of employees of schools run by National Commission for Human Development (NCHD) in the Mirpurkhas district held a demonstration in front of the...

Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Monday took suo motu notice of the release of actress Atiqa Odho despite recovering two wine...

Dozens of Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) Youth Wing activists staged a protest outside the Lahore Press Club on Thursday against the detention of Moonis...

A seven-member delegation of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), headed by Raza Farrukh, has expressed satisfaction over the ongoing rehabilitation of the Indus bunds...

The Lahore High Court on Wednesday sought the record of official correspondence by the Government Pakistan with the authorities at Bagram Theatre Internment Camp...

The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has not so far released the funds approved by in 2007 for upgrading Marghzar Zoo, owing to which 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...

Having conquered the e-reader market with the Kindle, Amazon is now about to unveil a tablet to rival Apple's iPad. The e-commerce giant has...

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court's inspection team member (MIT) sent on Thursday an application to the chief justice, seeking proceedings against Additional District and Sessions judge Muhammad Yousaf Aojla for releasing CIA contractor Raymond Davis in double murder of two Pakistanis.
The MIT referred the case to chief justice in response to an application filed by Barrister Javed Iqbal Jaffrey who accused AD&SJ Aojla of acquitting Davis in an unusual manner and against the rules.

ISLAMABAD - Opposition leader in the National Assembly Nisar Ali Khan on Monday linked the release of CIA contractor Raymond Davis to the extension in the service granted to ISI Director General Ahmed Shuja Pasha.
Opening the debate on the presidential address to the joint session of parliament, the PML-N leader said, "I think we need to focus who got extension (in employment) after three days of the release of Raymond Davis... the nation needs to know who played what part in his

ISLAMABAD - In what appears to be a damage-control move amidst criticism over the devolution of HEC by certain quarters, the Finance Ministry on Saturday assured HEC of releasing Rs 7.7 billion soon, a day after refusing to do so.
A senior official at HEC said the Finance Ministry assured HEC that the ministry had decided to release withheld Rs 7.7 billion of HEC and the commission would receive the fund in the next two days. The funds were earlier withheld by the ministry in

TOKYO - A Japanese power company executive apologised on Saturday for spreading radiation into the air and sea as regulators said the pumping of radioactive water into waters off Japan from a crippled nuclear plant would end one day later than planned.
The apology from Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) came a day after China and South Korea expressed concern at the discharge of contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi plant smashed by last month's earthquake, reflecting