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Eminent lawyers expressed dismay on Wednesday over the content and the language of President Asif Ali Zardari’s tirade against Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief...

The United Nations unanimously elected Ban Ki-moon to a second term on Tuesday as its leader with the major powers hailing his work in...

The UN General Assembly will on Tuesday elect South Korean Ban Ki-moon to a second term as UN leader after he was backed by...

President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday added to the uncertainty surrounding Russia’s 2012 presidential polls, saying he wanted a second term but would not stand...

The UN Security Council on Friday threw its crucial support behind Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s bid for a second term at the head of the...

In a clear violation of the Supreme Court’s directives, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Justice (r) Hamid Ali Mirza has extended the contract of Provincial...

US President Barack Obama supports UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s bid for a second term and believes he has made important reforms at an institution...

LAHORE - Former Pakistan great Wasim Akram has called on the Pakistan Cricket Board to repose faith in Shahid Afridi by appointing him captain of the national team on a long-term basis. "I think Afridi should be made captain for a long term so that he gains more confidence because he is developing into a good captain," Akram said.
He also backed the all-rounder's demand for a batting coach. "I agree; the team needs a batting coach. Every team now has a full-time specialist

ISLAMABAD - Under pressure from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for "violation of human rights", the government has asked the top military and civil administration in all four provinces to avoid using the term "war on terror" to describe the situation in the troubled areas of the country, particularly Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, as it may cause the application of international humanitarian laws or a United Nations censure.
In a letter recently sent by the Foreign

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari remitted the remaining jail sentence of Indian convict Gopal Das detained in jail for the past 27 years on humanitarian grounds.
Spokesperson to the President Farhatullah Babar said that the remission was granted on the advice of the prime minister to honour the appeal of the Supreme Court of India to the Government of Pakistan.
He said that several Indian newspapers recently reported that in an unusual step the Supreme Court of India

ISLAMABAD - Hearing a joint petition against the Parliamentary Committee's (PC) rejection of one year extension in the service of four additional judges of the Lahore High Court (LHC), the Supreme Court on Thursday expressed dismay and warned the committee of ex-parte proceedings, when it came to know that no representative of the committee had turned up to pursue the matter.
The four-member bench of Justice Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui, Justice Jawwad S Khawaja, Justice Khilji

LAHORE - Government College University (GCU) Vice Chancellor (VC) Dr Khalid Aftab's 18-year tenure officially ends today and Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif has ruled out the chance of any extension in his tenure. University officials and educationists are wondering who will be given the charge of GCU's additional VC, in Dr Aftab's absence.
GCU sources said Dr Aftab was reluctant to hand over the charge to anybody till the formal appointment of a VC, for which the

LAHORE: The Ijaz Butt-led management of the Pakistan Cricket Board on Friday launched efforts to seek support of the country's cricket fraternity in a bid to prolong its stay in the office.
Very much like the political set up in the country, the PCB management is facing widespread criticism for its handling of a number of issues including the recent spot-fixing scandal.
It has been learnt that the timeframe given to the PCB chairman for his stay in office ends soon after

SANAA - Yemeni leader Ali Abdullah Saleh, facing demands that he quit on Wednesday said he will freeze constitutional changes that would allow him to be president for life and put off a controversial April poll.
"I will not extend my mandate and I am against hereditary rule," Saleh said during an emergency session of parliament and the consultative council ahead of a "day of rage" civil society groups and opposition leaders have called for Thursday. Saleh, who has been president

CAIRO - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said on Tuesday he would not leave Egypt although he would step down from the Presidency at the end of his term, due to end when the country holds a presidential election in September.
He also said pledged to implement a series of reforms, including calling on the judiciary to combat corruption, adding that he would seek changes to the constitution. However, TV channels reported that the protesters reiterated their demands that President

KARACHI - The government is likely to suffer a potential revenue loss of Rs 28.9 billion in the second half of financial year 2011 if oil prices sustained current levels. The government had to slash Petroleum Levy (PL) on different products in order to keep petroleum prices stagnant.
Market analysts lamented that the government's decision to withdraw an increase in petroleum products prices will only be a short-term relief. However, in the long-run it has far reaching

ASTANA - Kazakhstan's strongman President Nursultan Nazarbayev on Friday rejected the idea of extending his term until 2020 through a national referendum that has been flatly denounced by the United States.
The country's first and only post-Soviet leader did not explain why he was overruling his entire political and business elite in a decision that received almost no attention from state media outlets.
The three-sentence presidential decree said only that Nazarbayev - who