Technology helps make Pakistan polls fair

LAHORE, May 6: Syed Abbas Ather — a journalist, a poet and a columnist — died here on Monday morning, leaving behind his wife, three daughters and two sons. He was 78. Also among the mourners are countless young journalists whom he encouraged ...

LAHORE, April 28: The National Coalition against Bonded Labour (NCABL) on Sunday called upon all political parties to make clear commitments for the eradication of all slavery-like practices in the country. This general body meeting of the NCABL ...

LAHORE: A memorial service for FE Chaudhry, the legendary photo-journalist, was held at the Sacred Heart Cathedral here on Saturday. Chaudhry was truthful, simple and special, said Father Andrew Nisari in his sermon. Nisari said during the ...

REGARDLESS of its success, for several years the army saw the defence of the country's territorial integrity as its primary job and didn't see itself as the guardian of its ideology. Even then a succession of military leaders demonstrated so much ...

Less than three weeks away from the scheduled date of polling, doubts persist on whether elections will be held at all though the stakeholders are busy preparing for the day of reckoning. With the newly empowered Election Commission of Pakistan ...

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's contradictory statements on Pakistan make one wonder exactly what course he proposes to follow hereafter. On January 18, he elevated two local incidents of beheading on the Line of Control, on January 6 and 8, as a ...

KARACHI, April 18: Parween was able to evolve into the person that we all know because she had some inbuilt qualities, one of which was feeling people's pain, said architect, town planner and researcher Arif Hasan at a reference and tribute for ...

ISLAMABAD, April 16: Intolerance is not an incidental problem in Pakistan. With the passage of time, our whole system has become intolerant and has started discrimination of law. Without giving equal rights to every person, we can not resolve the ...

(Australian Journal of Crop Science Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Abstract Salinity is one of the major constraints to wheat production. Salt affected soils can be better utilized by developing and growing salt tolerant wheat varieties. Genetic ...