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Senior officials from Pakistan, Afghanistan and the United States will meet early next week at a trilateral meeting in Kabul to discuss peace and...

PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif is ready to return to Pakistan during the current week after winding up his over two-month-long stay abroad. During his...

Following the killing of al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, Gen Ashfaq Kayani has started methodical and extensive consultations with army commanders, and summoned...

Misbah-ul-Haq’s match winning performance against the West Indies has enabled him to retain the Cricket World Player of the Week title. The Pakistan’s vice...

Final buyout bids for Warner Music Group are due on Monday and the company could be sold by the end of the week in...

ISLAMABAD - The chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff will visit Islamabad this week for talks with Pakistani leaders as relations between the allies flounder amid a series of diplomatic rows.
Admiral Mike Mullen's visit is the latest shuttle diplomacy mission after a fatal shooting by a CIA contractor in January enflamed a row over intelligence sharing and heightened tensions over the controversial US drone war.
Mullen, the top US military official, is to visit for

KARACHI - Pakistan and China are time-tested friends and this bond would only get stronger with the passage of time, Sindh Culture Minister Sassui Palijo said on Saturday.
"The foundation of this friendship was laid by Pakistan People's Party founding chairman Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and the relations were further strengthened by Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto," she said at the 'China Cultural Week' event held in connection with 60-year celebrations of Pak-China friendship.
The event,

COLOMBO - Sri Lanka is all set to get a new cricket captain next week, after Kumar Sangakkara stepped down, following the team`s runners-up finish at the World Cup. "The selectors need to discuss the issue with the interim committee members of Sri Lanka Cricket. This meeting will take place next week after the current New Year holiday period," Chairman of the selectors Duleep Mendis, who took over after the resignation of Aravinda de Silva, told the local media here.
Sangakkara,

LAHORE - L'Oreal Paris and Pakistan Fashion Design Council (PFDC) announced their partnership in a press conference on Thursday with regards to the PFDC-L'Oreal Paris Bridal Week 2011 to be held in Lahore in September/October 2011. The bride's outfit, color palette, make up, accessories and overall look is important in Pakistani fashion therefore bridal fashion remains the most influential and primary form of fashion and style within Pakistan.
For this, the PFDC-L'Oreal Paris

NICOSIA - Syria was bracing on Tuesday for a series of demonstrations organised by a Facebook group to mark "Martyrs Week" as the southern town of Daraa held a general strike. "Martyrs Week" is a series of rallies in honour of those killed in security crackdowns on anti-regime demonstrations and is organised by a group calling itself Syrian Revolution 2011.
"We announced (the protests) as peaceful and insist on that," said a spokesman for the group, which has garnered more than

LAHORE - The third-edition of the PFDC-Sunsilk Fashion Week here definitely had a few shining stars, but lagged on the business-to-business element as wear-ability is always an issue for the local market and international buyers don't purchase in bulk.
The four-day event, organised by the Pakistan Fashion Design Council (PFDC), concluded Friday. It saw 26 designers showcasing their collections at the Expo centre. What impressed audiences the most was the artistic aesthetics and

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is likely to announce plans next week to run for re-election and file campaign papers with the Federal Election Commission as early as Monday, Democratic officials said on Saturday.
Filing with the FEC would allow Obama, a Democrat, to start raising money for the 2012 campaign that is expected to shatter records in political spending.
Two Democratic officials said no final decision has been made about the timing of an announcement or

ISLAMABAD - In order to avoid political backlash in the urban areas due to the unprecedented increase in POL prices, the government is swiftly working on launching a subsidised fuel card scheme for the benefit of bikers and rickshaw owners in next few days. An official source at the Ministry of Finance said the prime minister had directed immediate finalisation of the fuel card scheme, which was conceived in December last year after the unprecedented increase in POL prices in the

LAHORE - Cricket or fashion? It's no contest in Lahore - cricket has bowled all the model-maidens over. The second day of Pakistan Sunsilk Fashion Week was cancelled because of the Cricket World Cup semi-finals match between Pakistan and India.
The crucial game, nicknamed 'clash of the titans' struck a body-blow to the city's premier fashion event. On the same day, six of Pakistan's leading designers were due to present their luxury ready-to-wear collections on the Lahore

LAHORE - With the PFDC Sunsilk Fashion Week in the evening today for its third week in Pakistan, it is important to highlight what the PFDC & Sunsilk achieve as a collaborative platform and to exclusively present the pioneering vision of the people behind the scenes of this massive event which entails four days of high fashion and media frenzy. As a platform, he PFDC Sunsilk Fashion Week has built itself as an institution for designers, retailers and now textile houses to showcase

LAHORE - Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice (CJ) Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry on Saturday constituted five division benches (DB) and 11 single benches (SB) for hearing cases at the Principal Seat, Lahore in the week starting from March 28. For the next week, the LHC CJ will sit at the Rawalpindi Bench for hearing matters in division benches as well as single benches.
According to a notification issued by the office of LHC additional registrar (Judicial) the DBs are: DB-I Justice

LONDON - A week into military strikes on Libya, foreign powers may be at the beginning of a long war with little agreement on whether they should be protecting civilians from Muammar Gaddafi or ousting the leader himself.
While British, French and US attacks have saved the opposition in Benghazi, Gaddafi remains in power in Tripoli and is still bombarding rebels in the western city of Misrata. Part of the issue, some analysts say, is that neither Libya's rulers nor the opposition