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The government’s recent directives to cellular mobile operators (CMOs) about sale of new SIMs and verification of customer data seem to have done the trick. The industry recorded a negative growth in mobile subscriptions in December 2012, according to statistics released by the Pakistan...

I am against increasing defence budget. We only need to spend minimum on defence budget to maintain nuclear arsenal. Spend enough to fight the TTP and all these terrorist organizations. Divert the funds towards education. Because lets be honest how many times and how many concerns are related...

Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf’s political party – the All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) – plans electoral alliances with three political parties, including the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) of Imran Khan. Musharraf will make a formal announcement about possible alliances next week...

Hungary is keen on expanding trade activities in Pakistan and is making efforts to further improve bilateral trade. Hungarian Ambassador in Pakistan Istvan Szabo made these remarks while addressing a meeting at the Islamabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry (ICCI) on Friday. He said that...

Stopping the load shedding is the government's work as well as the electricity providers.

Pakistan wins the toss and FIELDs. :hitwall: I like to watching batting, not a fan of bowling. Especially on the South African ODI flat tracks.

The Industrial Area Police Station (PS) here on Saturday arrested three officials of CIA (Crime Investigation Agency) Police on charges of taking bribe after formally registration of a first information report (FIR) on a private complaint.An officer of the PS Industrial Area said that the...

Tameez and respect of other religions is not being thought by some Mullahs. This needs to be corrected. People of other faith are not evil people.

Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Islam-F Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has said though political and religious parties have tasked a jirga to hold peace talks, the government is reluctant to take any decision in this regard. “The government will have to come out of its indecisive position and start meaningful...

Federal Minister for Finance and Economic Affairs Saleem H Mandviwalla said on Saturday the government would have a review for increasing the country's defence budget by Rs30billion in April for the ongoing financial year, 2012-2013. The defence expenditures are likely to go up by Rs30billion...

I am impressed by Kayani. Glad to have him as the COAS. I hope Kayani is still around as the U.S. Army leaves, the biggest challenge Pakistan will face when there will no one on the other side of the border to stop the raids against Pakistani check posts across.

At least eight militants from the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Ansarul Islam (AI) were killed during clashes between the two groups in the Tirah Valley of Khyber Agency on Friday. According to AI spokesperson Sadat Afridi, around 50 TTP militants attacked AI check-posts in the Tambo...

State Minister for Water and Power Tasnim Qureshi dropped a bombshell in Senate on Friday by revealing that a big and powerful mafia deprived the national exchequer of Rs 90 billion by stealing electricity. "A powerful mafia was involved in huge electricity theft. This mafia which consists of...

Pakistan`s Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani told American officials during a visit to Washington in 2010 that they would be "better off" negotiating an exit from Afghanistan with the Taliban, instead of trying to build up Afghan forces to 400,000 by 2014, according to a former senior...

29 Brigadiers promoted as Major Generals The Army promoted 29 brigadiers as major generals, including Sarfraz Sattar, M Naeem Ashraf, Humayun Aziz, Qazi Ikram Ahmad, Syed Shafqat, M Humayun, Bilal Akbar, Farhat Abbas, M Ajmal Iqbal, Anwarul Haq, M Afzal, Faheemul Aziz, Nadeem Raza, M Tayyab...

A hefty tax on sale of property in China has triggered a slew of divorces. Increasingly, Chinese couples are rushing to marriage registrars, seeking divorces to avoid the new restrictions about a family holding more than one residential property. Marriage registrars in Shanghai and towns in...

Osama bin Laden's son-in-law Sulaiman Abu Ghaith was seized by CIA agents and taken to the United States after Turkey deported him to Jordan this month, a Turkish newspaper reported on Thursday. Abu Ghaith, the former spokesman of the al-Qaida network, was seized last month at a luxury hotel in...

The bullet-riddled bodies of 16 Afghan soldiers killed by the Taliban in the north-eastern province of Badakhshan have been handed over to officials. Sunday's attack was one of the deadliest on Afghan National Army (ANA) forces in recent years. The insurgents have also freed seven soldiers...

WASHINGTON: Google says the FBI is monitoring the Web for potential terrorist activity. But it can't say how extensive the surveillance is. As part of the Google Transparency Report, the Internet giant this week released data on so-called National Security Letters -- official requests for...

Scanning a three-dimensional image has been possible for quite a while now. The challenge has been doing so quickly, easily and inexpensively. At Microsoft’s TechFest this week, the software maker is showing off several different methods, each of which is capable of producing a 3D scan of a...