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ISLAMABAD: Minister for Federal Education and Professional Training Muhammad Baligh-ur-Rehman informed the Senate on Friday that out of 228 plagiarism cases in research publications...

State Minister for Defence Sardar Saleem Haider has disclosed that former prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani was provided with Air Force transportation for PPP’s...

Islamabad Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Muhammad Yousaf Malik has told police officials to take effective steps to control crime in the city and...

To ensure proper follow up of the Ramazan Package 2011, Sindh Chief Secretary Raja Muhammad Abbas directed the commissioners of the province on Wednesday to...

President Asif Ali Zardari asked the United States on Saturday to take Pakistan along in its efforts for peace and reconciliation in Afghanistan and...

During hearing of the petitions filed by the Religious Affairs Ministry and a number of private tour operators challenging the Lahore High Court’s (LHC)...

Construction work on Iran-Pakistan Gas Pipeline Project is underway and 1,100 kilometres of gas pipeline have been completed on the Iranian side and the...

The Balochistan government on Tuesday informed the Supreme Court that it had paid a total of Rs 456.417 million to legal heirs of all...

The Upper House of parliament was told on Thursday about the successful agreements to import electricity from Iran on low rates. Senators Lashker Raisani and...

Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry on Wednesday directed National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to receive the claim for the recovery of...

The Punjab government has set up a high-level commission, headed by Justice (r) Saeedur Rehman Farrukh, to fix responsibility for the loss of precious...

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Monday directed the defence secretary to ask army chief General Ashfaq Kayani to present the GHQ’s inquiry report...

The fate of ongoing developmental schemes in Sindh worth Rs270 billion is now at stake, with the Federal government pulling the plug on funds...

The government wants the Thar Coal and Energy Board (TCEB) to accelerate the pace of work for power generation, which is essential for the...

ISLAMABAD - The Public Accounts Committee was informed on Wednesday that Karachi Port Trust (KPT) sold its precious land at the throwaway price of 10 paisa per square yard to the cooperative housing society in 1980s. The committee, which met here with Yasmeen Rehman in the chair to review audit reports of the ministry of ports and shipping, was informed by the audit authorities that KPT in 1980s sold 400 acres of its precious land in Karachi at the throwaway price of 10 paisa per

ASTANA - The United States government has never told the Indian government directly that it does not want the Iran-Pakistan-India natural gas pipeline to be built. "They have said it isn't a good thing in public," Hindustan Times quoted high level sources as saying Sunday.
"But never to us directly - possibly because they know the answer they would get."
India is still interested in the Iran-Pakistan pipeline, said the sources. The barriers to its creation lie in the region

ISLAMABAD - In negation of his own directives to impose ban on issuance of new arms licenses at the start of 2010, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has approved the same for 339 weapons so far.
This was part of Interior Minister Rehman Malik's written reply to queries raised by lawmakers during the Question-Answer Hour session on Friday. He said that 339 new arms licenses, included 239 for prohibited weapons, had been issued since January 2010 after the prime minister's