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Globally, more than 350,000 women die every year from preventable complications related to pregnancy and child birth. Pakistan ranks third highest in the world in the maternal deaths, behind India and Nigeria. These alarming facts were shared by the speakers of the meeting of MNCH steering...

Aman exercise commences today The multinational exercise Aman- 13 will be conducted from March 4 to 8, in which navy forces of 34 countries including Pakistan Navy (PN) are participating. This was stated by Commander Pakistan Fleet, Rear Admiral Khan Hasham Bin Siddique, at a media briefing...

Monday, March 04, 2013 - Islamabad—An international energy solutions company based in Europe is gearing up to help the local business community by offering latest and low cost energy solutions in Pakistan. Saeed Zuberi CEO of Tameer Energy, a group company of Tameer Foundation said on his...

Considering what Pakistan has been able to do. This is a great achievement.

An US soldier was shot injured by South Korean police after a dramatic car chase through the capital Seoul early Sunday, media reports said. The 23-year-old Private First Class, who was not named, was shot in the shoulder shortly after midnight, Yonhap news agency said. The agency and several...

Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Sunday said his ministry had provided a list of 734 Lashkar-e-Jhangvi activists to the Punjab government for their immediate arrest. “The Punjab being the headquarters of the LeJ is a fact no one can deny,” the minister said while talking to the mediapersons...

Former president Pervez Musharraf, living in self-imposed exile for the last four years, says he will be returning to Pakistan within a week of the installation of a caretaker setup, which ministers say will be in place on March 16, the day on which the present National Assembly serves out its...

A ban on armed wings of political parties, deweaponisation and political tolerance are essential to restore peace to the city, said speakers on the opening day of a two-day peace conference on Saturday. Representatives of political parties, civil society, lawyers, labour unions and minority...

This is what India does after we freed numerous fishermen of India and in the end every single fishermen that came to Pakistani waters for fishing?

There is no party in Pakistan with which Imran Khan is ready for an alliance. This guy is insane. What is he expecting? Dominating the elections?

No, i don't pay taxes. I am a student. What about you?

Former Azad Jammu and Kashmir chief justice Syed Manzoor Hussain Gallani said it was need of the hour to give Azad Jammu and Kashmir due facilities at par with the provinces of Pakistan without making it (AJK) a formal province of the country. Talking to newsmen at the Kashmir Press Club, he...

TTP awaits army ‘positive’ response Taliban have welcomed the five-point declaration of an All Parties Conference (APC) organised by JUI-F, which calls for steps to restore peace in tribal areas. “The political parties have sent a positive message by excluding the word...

Deputy Director of Alternative Energy Development Board (AEDB) Naeem Memon said here that another wind power project of 56MW has completed at Jhimpir. He was briefing the media persons during a visit to the project at Jhimpir, some 120 kilometres north east of Karachi, on Saturday. Memon said...

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Saturday made it clear that his party would not enter into an election alliance either with Muttahidda Qaumi Movement (MQM) or with General Musharraf’s All Pakistan Muslim League (APML). In a statement issued here, Imran categorically said...

Finance Minister Saleem Mandviwalla said on Saturday around 1.5 million people have the national tax number (NTN) out of which only 0.9 million pay their taxes. According to a private TV channel, the minister, while talking about terminating the requirement of NTN while purchasing a car, said...

Pakistani fishermen came under attack from the Indian navy within the sea limits of Pakistan on Saturday, leaving a fisherman injured and others escaped by jumping into water. According to details, Indian navy personnel opened indiscriminate firing on the fishermen, fishing on the Pakistani side...

PESHAWAR - Taliban have threatened to bomb a mobile phone market in Peshawar for the ‘shameless’ selling of video clips, ring tones and accessories, officials said Saturday. Some 60 shopkeepers received letters in the post ordering them to burn the offending stock, including memory cards and...

I am on my seventh trip to India since I first visited the country in 1976. Nothing is the same. The essential Indian narrative has gone from timelessness to disruption; the national icon from the lumbering elephant to the call centre to the high-tech entrepreneur. The Delhi that I first knew...

Most of the members support the top hierarchy, just in a hope to get power.