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Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal, who survived a 1997 Israeli assassination bid, has confirmed he wants to step down after eight years in the post,...

Syria on Tuesday ruled out any deployment of Arab troops as proposed by Qatar to halt 10 months of deadly unrest, as army defectors...

The nuclear test ban treaty CTBT is one step closer to being implemented, following its ratification by key signatory Indonesia, the commission overseeing the...

Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said that Yellow Cab Scheme is a revolutionary step of the Punjab government which will not only...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged China, Russia and India to step up pressure on Syria's Bashar al-Assad, as his forces killed another...

A deadline for strongman Moamer Gaddafi to step down and remain in the country has expired, the chief of Libya’s rebel Transitional National...

Travelling overseas no longer means that you need to be out of contact with your loved ones at home. In this fast growing world...

One of the newest rage on TV, Usman Riaz strumming and slapping his guitar in a brilliant solo performance, Ramlal and their eccentric lyrics...

LAHORE - Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Secretary General Senator Jahangir Badr on Saturday said that PPP Co-chairman President Asif Ali Zardari would make a final decision on whether or not the PPP would attend the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM)'s meeting today (Sunday).
On Saturday, an MQM team led by Farooq Sattar met Jehangir Badr at his residence and invited the PPP to attend MQM's Istehkam-e-Pakistan rally today. Badr welcomed the call but made it clear that a final decision

KARACHI - Pakistan Towel Manufacturers Association of Pakistan (PTMA) Chairman Syed Usman Ali has urged the government to strongly lobby the European Union to access the trade concessions announced by EU for Pakistan.
The TMA chief, in an issued statement, said that EU had announced the provision of tariff relief for Pakistani goods in view of the devastation wreaked by floods last year. The value added textile (VAT) sector selected for the relief package encompasses the towel

COLOMBO - Veteran batsman Mahela Jayawardene quit as vice-captain and a three-member selection committee also resigned en masse in a major shake-up in Sri Lankan cricket following the team's World Cup defeat.
"I think it's time to move on, give the reins to someone younger in the team," said Jayawardene.
The resignations came a day after Kumar Sangakkara stepped down as one-day and Twenty20 captain.
Jayawardene, 33, was vice-captain for the World Cup, where Sri Lanka

SANAA - Yemeni soldiers who have sided with anti-regime protesters intervened on Monday to prevent police from taking on thousands of demonstrators camped at a square in central Sanaa, an AFP correspondent said.

KARACHI - By signing the reference to reopen the Zulfikar Ali Bhutto "judicial murder" case, President Asif Ali Zardari has taken a milestone step in the country's history that would promote justice discourage decisions that are made on the basis of pressure or prejudice, Pakistan People's Party Sindh Women Wing Information Secretary Sharmila Farooqui has said. In her statement issued on Saturday, she said that having sent the reference in accordance with Article 186 of the

SANAA - Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh told thousands of supporters in Sanaa on Friday that he was prepared to hand over power to save bloodshed but only to what he described as "safe hands".
"We don't want power, but we need to hand power over to safe hands, not to sick, resentful or corrupt hands ... We are ready to leave power but only for safe hands," Saleh said in the speech, which came as tens of thousands of his opponents protested in another part of the capital.