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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will receive 42 million euros in humanitarian aid from the European Commission this year. The aid announced in Brussels on Thursday is part of 661m euros assistance the EC has allocated for 2013. As in previous years, part of the budget is dedicated to forgotten crises...

President Asif Ali Zardari shakes hands with Bakir Izetbegovic, President of Bosnia and Herzegovina before their official meeting at the Presidency in Islamabad on Tuesday. – Photo by INP ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Bosnia on Tuesday agreed to enhance their bilateral ties in different fields...

Palestine cancel tour to Pakistan KARACHI: Palestine’s tour to Pakistan for two friendly football matches has been cancelled, a Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) press release issued on Sunday confirmed. The Palestine national team were set to play two friendly matches between October...

BRUSSELS: The European Commission said Thursday it will release another 15 million euros in aid ($19 million) to Pakistan where tens of thousands of people are affected by flood and unrest. The money takes the 2012 total for Pakistan to 70 million and will be targeted at help for those...

Christian girl sees Christian girl sees ’copter drama after release I seriouosly sometimes doubt DAWN as Pakistani medi? Title is so negative to me making Pakistan impression so down...:( muje kabi lgta hi kay DAWn ny paisy khaye hen ya sirf sustee publicity kaylye...OMG....when...

I've listend a number of time....generally I'm no fan of peotry...first peoty I've heard about national cause on terrorism. Saraiki Poetry on Terrorism - YouTube Only poetry can describe the pain and agony of the nation whilst asking important question to the nation on terrorism. Sorry I'm no...

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira on Tuesday night said that Pakistan Muslim League–Nawaz (PML-N) was creating hurdles in the creation of new provinces in Punjab. Talking to APP, he said that PML-N was not serious in creation of new provinces...

Pak-US ties should be mutually cooperative: Sherry Rehman WASHINGTON: Pakistan wants its relationship with the United States to be based on realistic expectations, mutual respect for sovereignty and appreciation of each other’s legitimate security interests, Islamabad’s envoy in...

Pakistanis Become Refugees in Own Country PESHAWAR – Once home of thousands of refugees from neighboring Afghanistan, the sprawling Jalozai camp has now become a home of thousands of Pakistanis displaced by fighting in the country's troubled tribal belt. "We have become a shuttlecock...

The brave Muslim women of GujaratComments (40) Noorjehan says she was beaten up by her husband for working in the relief camps Thirty-eight-year-old Noorjehan Abdul Hamid Dewan is an unlikely rebel. She grew up in a large family surrounded by the hum of prayers and "religious men with long...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has spelt out in no uncertain terms that US drone aircraft strikes against militants inside its territory must stop, but Washington is not listening, the country’s foreign minister said. “On drones, the language is clear: a clear cessation of drone strikes,” Hina Rabbani...

Chief Reporter NEW DELHI: India on Friday snubbed Iran over remarks made by Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Kashmir. New Delhi on Friday summoned Iran’s Charge D’ Affairs Reza Alaei and expressed India’s “deep disappointment and regret” over the...

QUETTA: Central leader of the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) Javed Hashmi on Saturday urged Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif to support creation of new provinces and decentralisation of powers. Hashmi was addressing a news conference here at the Press Club. “If Nawaz...

QUETTA: Central leader of the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) Javed Hashmi on Saturday urged Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif to support creation of new provinces and decentralisation of powers. Hashmi was addressing a news conference here at the Press Club. “If Nawaz...

Security was not real issue: Sarfraz 23 April, 2012 LAHORE: Our Sources of the postponement of the Bangladesh tour to Pakistan may have been overshadowed by the tragic events in Islamabad, but questions continue to be asked about the impact on the immediate future of International cricket...

Lahore: Separatist leader Yasin Malik has said his Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front will make efforts to get the Kashmir issue resolved "without the help of Pakistan". "We will step up our efforts to resolve the Kashmir issue if Pakistan, India and other international stakeholders continue...

Returning last week from an instructive three weeks in Pakistan, I was detained briefly at Islamabad’s chaotic airport after an X-ray machine showed two highly suspicious music CDs and a USB memory stick in my check- in bag. The music was of Mehdi Hassan, my favorite singer in South Asia...

Sri Lankan govt asks trustees to relocate mosque after 60 years COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s government has advised the trustees of a 60-year-old Muslim mosque north of the capital to relocate the structure after angry protests by Buddhist monks. Prime Minister D.M. Jayaratne reacted after...

A policewoman escorts civil rights activist, Irom Sharmila Chanu also known as the “Iron Lady of Manipur” or “Mengoubi” (meaning “the fair one”) is flanked by escorting police personnel as she sits inside an ambulance after attending a hearing at The Magistrate's Court in Imphal.—AFP Photo...

China has restricted internal movement in various ways. Official efforts to limit free migration between villages and cities began as early as 1952 with a series of measures designed to prevent individuals without special permission from moving to cities to take advantage of the generally higher...