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The appointment of JUI-F’s Abdul Ghafoor Haideri as the Senate opposition leader has triggered a new controversy, as the PML-N is not ready to...

Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Ijaz Butt has blasted the International Cricket Council president for reportedly planning to scrap the rotational policy for the ICC’s...

Following approval of $125 million from the World Bank, the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) is all set to start the second phase...

The majority of parties operating in Karachi have issued a shutter-down strike call for Friday against the treatment being meted out by the management...

The French Open has proved elusive for Russian Maria Sharapova. The 24-year-old won Wimbledon in 2004, the US Open in 2006 and the Australian...

The government has set the size of next fiscal year’s consolidated budget at Rs 3.85 trillion, as compared to Rs 3.39 trillion for the...

Just weeks after Amazon and Google unveiled their music offerings, Apple appears set to raise the bar. The Cupertino, California-based gadget-maker is expected to...

A group of Pakistani students has been short-listed for the Microsoft’s international software competition, the company announced in a statement issued on Monday. This...

After years of deliberations on the idea of utilising the Indus River’s waterways for freight forwarding, high fuel costs have forced the government to...

Responding to the Lahore High Court (LHC)’s verdict in the dual office case against President Asif Ali Zardari, the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) announced...

A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between the Punjab government and the Malaysian Peneng State Government for cooperation in halal meat industry at...

LAHORE - Austrian Ambassador Axel Wech has expressed hope that Pakistan is poised to receive GSS plus status in the next EU-Pakistan summit. The Generalised System of Preferences, or GSP, is a formal system of exemption from the broader rules of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The ambassador was speaking at the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI). The body's President Shahzad Ali Malik, Austrian Trade Commissioner Dr Wolfgang Penzais, Representative of Austrian Trade

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan is all set to harvest a bumper wheat crop of 24.4 million tonnes from the wheat crop sown over 8.8 million hectares acreage, says the second estimate of the crop issued by the provinces to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture. According to the report, Punjab would be producing 18.2 million tonnes of wheat from acreage of 6.68 million hectares, Sindh 4.2 million tonnes from 1.14 million hectares, Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa 1.1 million tonnes from 0.74 million hectares

KARACHI - The decision of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to further slash the rate of Access Promotion Contribution (APC) to zero cents per minute is believed to depress both revenue and earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA) for Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL). The regulator has already cut the APC from 5.5 US cents per minute to 2.75 US cents per minute, though a hearing against the decision is pending in the courts.

LOS ANGELES - Royal bride-to-be Kate Middleton is set to overtake Britain's Princess Diana as the most talked-about woman in the world's media, according to a study released on Sunday by the Global Language Monitor.
With two weeks to go before she marries Prince William in London's Westminster Abbey on April 29, Kate Middleton is already posting Diana-type numbers in terms of news worthiness and celebrity status on top global media sites as well as the Internet and social media,

KABUL - A joint Afghan-Pakistan commission would be established to promote peace and stability in the region, Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced on Saturday.
A brainchild of Islamabad, the commission would include the Pakistani prime minister, army chief and the Inter-Services Intelligence director-general, Karzai said.
Addressing a joint news conference with Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani, he said High Peace Council head Prof. Burhanuddin Rabbani would be part

PARIS - FC Porto led an Iberian lock-out of the Europea League semi-finals on Thursday, Jose Mourinho's former charges brushing aside Spartak Moscow. Under Mourinho, Porto captured the 2003 UEFA Cup and the Champions League the following year, and they edged closer to claiming Europe's second tier club competition again with a 5-2 drubbing of Spartak Moscow for a 10-3 aggregate win.
Porto, now in the care of Andre Villas-Boas, strolled into the last four with first half goals