Minority representation: Sikh assembly aspirant lays bare his ...

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Pediatrics Association has estimated that around 1,000 to 1,200 school-going children of six to 16-year age take up smoking every day in the country. According to a report of the association, besides the new smokers, ...

RAWALPINDI, May 20 (APP): Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani Monday said that the people of Pakistan not only courageously withstood the threat of terrorism, they also defied unfounded dictates of an insignificant and misguided ...

The protest was organized by Global Minorities Alliance, a Glasgow-based human rights organisation set up in January 2013. The Alliance had given a protest call outside Holyrood, the Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh, following the March 9, ...

Bills on accountability, freedom of information, and one aimed at increasing minority seats in the National and Provincial Assemblies failed to complete the legislative process. No domestic legislation to facilitate implementation of international ...

Reducing the budget deficit has traditionally been hard for Pakistan, given the country's problem with stagnant tax collection and unyielding public spending; it is only exacerbated by endemic corruption. Countries like Pakistan are unable to reduce ...

ISLAMABAD, May 21: The Accountant General of Pakistan Revenues (AGPR) has refused to revise the salaries of teachers promoted under the time scale formula (TSF), saying without creation of new posts the benefits cannot be given to the educators. It ...

Nawaz Sharief's election for an unprecedented third time as Pakistan's prime minister has been welcomed by the Afghan government. Afghan President Hamid Karzai congratulating Sharief called upon the new Pakistani government to enhance cooperation in ...

(The article was written before the May 11 elections.) Electioneering in Punjab is in full swing while elsewhere in Pakistan the campaign remains soaked in blood. The three secular political parties, the Awami National Party (ANP), Muttahida Qaumi ...

:41 am It has never been easy to predict results of an election and it is the same in Pakistan now where an extremely hot contest is clearly foreseen in the upcoming elections on May 11. The Punjab province will be the main battleground and while ...