Seventeen people including activists and politicians were arrested in Kuala Lumpur for illegal assembly Saturday in a protest against alleged police brutality and abuse of power.
PML-Q Vice-President and Senator, Tahira Latif said here on Saturday that the government is taking all necessary measures for the uplift of rural women and urged them to come forward and realise their rights.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR wants to re-launch Afghan Refugees Repatriation programme from Pakistan to Afghanistan from March 2.
Pakistan Army and police organised a flag-march in Multan on Saturday for maintaining peace and tranquillity during the 10th of Muharram when Shias take out processions and beat their chests to commemorate the incident of Karbala.
Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) has termed President Musharraf as a threat to democracy and democratic institutions of the country and he would not allow democracy to flourish in the country to save his own skin.
Representatives of some prominent Chinese business companies from various sectors attended a business seminar held here on Saturday and showed keen interest in taking part in investment activities in Pakistan.
Component political parties of Alliance for Restoration of Democracy (ARD) Sindh on Saturday staged a massive protest demonstration at Karachi Press Club (KPC) against killings of two minor girls by police personnel in Gadap Town a few days back.
The First Women Bank Limited (FWBL) would soon be linked with MCB switch, enabling its customers to use MCB's Automated Transaction Machines (ATMs), besides its own ATMs in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad.
Interior Minister Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat has said that allegation in the US State Department's annual report regarding alleged excesses of police's extra-judicial killings and victimisation of political opponents was not based on facts.
Justice Mushir Alam of Sindh High Court issued notices to Advocate General Sindh, provincial secretary of land utilisation department and others for March 17, 2004 on lawsuit for injunction in respect of property in Trans-Lyari Phase-II Karachi.
Eminent writers and literary luminaries from India would visit Pakistan to participate in the first-ever-weeklong Writers Conference, commencing from March 11 in Pakistan.
Gandhara University has organised a three days primary trauma care course workshop from March 3, 2004 with the technical assistance of Primary Trauma Care Foundation, UK.
During the 4th Session of Pak-Yemen JEC Ministerial Meeting scheduled for March 2-3, 2004, in Sana'a, a Protocol of Economic Co-operation between the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) and Federation of Yemen Chambers of Comm
Major General Muhammad Ashraf Saleem, GOC 4 Army Air Defence Division, has observed that the positive efforts of the KESC engineers and recovery officers have finally put the Corporation on road to profitability.
The protest lodged by the All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (Aptma) over the holding of meeting on Saturday (February 28) by the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) to discuss the all important question of exports of cotton yarn, bypassing the powerful bod
The Pakistan Bedwear Exporters Association (PBEA) has requested the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) to convene a meeting of stakeholders to discuss the serious issue of shutting out of export containers at Qasim International Container Terminal (QICT) of Po
Haroon Rashid, Chairman, Pakistan-Canada Business Council of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI), and his Canadian counterpart Andy Merchant have agreed to plan Pakistan's trade delegation to Canada in early October this y
A bench of High Court of Sindh (SHC) comprising Justice Sarmad Jalal Osmany on Friday ordered official assignee (OA) of the court to inspect the godowns of Sindh Food Department and to take stock of wheat storage, if any, and to seal them in case godowns
Nearly twenty Pakistani nationals imprisoned at the American naval base at Guantanamo Bay have already returned and around 38 or 40 were still there, disclosed Foreign Minister Khurshid M Kasuri here on Saturday.
Major General Shaukat Sultan, ISPR director-general, has categorically denied reports regarding arrest of Osama bin Laden from the Pakistani territory.
Tehsil Nazim and Chairman Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) Hamid Nawaz Raja has turned down the termination orders of 100 employees of Water and Sewerage Agency (Wasa) and reinstated all the sacked employees with immediate effect.
Police has been put on high alert in the city and all mosques and imambargahs have been notified as sensitive spots till the end of 10th of Muharram, it was learnt on Saturday.
A group of elderly politicians on Saturday claimed that general elections held in Pakistan so far were rigged and illegitimate. It demanded free, fair and transparent elections in the country and to bring unhealthy practice of maligning people to an end.
Iran's First Vice-President Dr Mohammad Reza Aref will pay a two-day visit to Pakistan next week as a follow-up of recent visit to Tehran of Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali.
Sindh Minister for Works and Services Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim held a meeting here, at District Nazim Secretariat, which was attended by Sukkur District Nazim Nasir Hussain Shah, representatives of various Taluka/local councils, notables and technical expert
Naimatullah Phul-poto, Judge, Anti-Terrorism Court-III, Sukkur and Larkana Divisions, at Sukkur, on Friday convicted and sentenced three accused to two times life imprisonment and ordered forfeiture of their movable and immovable property.
Chief Minister Punjab Chaudhry Pervaiz Ellahi has directed the law enforcing agencies to adopt effective security measures to maintain law and order during the month of Muharram-ul-Haram.
National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Punjab on Saturday has arrested Abul Hassan Shah son of Mahmood Ali Shah resident of Chak No 201/JB, Faisalabad, on the charges of corruption.
Member of the Federal Parliament of Germany, Klaus Werner Jonas, has called upon the Pakistan government to sign investment protection agreement pending between the two countries since last October.
Representatives of sugar mills and sugarcane growers and sugarcane experts have called for using fertiliser in a balanced way so as to improve 'sugar recovery' as well as sugarcane production.
The District Nazim Lahore Mian Amer Mahmood on Saturday inspected the route of main Zuljinnah procession in Lahore and directed the authorities concerned to adopt foolproof arrangements for maintaining peace on Ashura.
Justice Muhammad Ghani of the Lahore High Court (LHC), while dismissing an appeal filed by Mashreq Bank, has observed that a bank waived its right in invoking the penalty clause in the deed of compromise if it failed to exercise the same at appropriate ti
The present government is focussing on poverty alleviation and community welfare projects as no governmental efforts towards strengthening of economy could succeed without improving the living standard of people.
President and Administrator of Institution of Engineers Pakistan (IEP) Engineer Aftab Islam Agha has claimed that he has unearthed embezzlement of millions of rupees in the accounts of the association at the hands of its previous management.
As many as 12 division benches and 28 single benches will work at principal seat of the Lahore High Court (LHC) during the week commencing from Monday, March 1.
Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) Chairman Mian Muhammad Javed has said that about 30 TV channels would start its transmissions by the end of this year.
Finance Minister Punjab Sardar Hasnain Bahadur Dareshek on Saturday inaugurated the Lahore Book Fair organised by the Pakistan Publishers and Book Sellers Association in collaboration with Lahore Arts Council.
The Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan, Dr Ishrat Husain, addressing the 53rd Annual General Meeting of the Institute of Bankers Pakistan, in Karachi on February 21, discussed the impact of the past four years of financial sector reforms on the effort
According to the Federal Minister for Investment and Privatisation, Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, who addressed a press conference in Islamabad on February 20, the initial public offering of 5 percent govt holdings of the Sui Southern Gas Company Limited, evoke
Allama Iqbal, the thinker of Pakistan, underscored the relationship between economic activity and human psychology and raised the question of the effect that it would have on a man's body and mind which would affect his human soul very deeply.
Efforts in Indonesia to ease chronic traffic jams in the teeming capital Jakarta are boosting one of the city's more curious professions - car jockeys.
Now-a-days, the practice has become very common that during the VVIPs visits, the security personnel stop the traffic long before the arrival of the important person, to just secure him from any terror attack and to make his visit hindrance-free.
Flag of any country represents the country itself the world over. Soldiers die for its dignity and pride. A raised flag means there is peace and harmony in the country. Its position on different occasions signals the feelings experienced by the nation as
The provincial chief minister's 'cheap atta scheme' is at stake following complaints lodged by a number of local government representatives, including Tehsil Nazim, against the purity of 'atta' bags and the scheme is facing serious crisis in the district,
National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) will open two more branches in Afghanistan in next three to four months to support the growing trade between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Deutsche Welle (DW) Radio head of Asian programmes, Dr Friedemann Schlender, on Saturday said that development of private electronic media in Pakistan is a positive development.
Pakistan has a potential to export its items worth 4 billion dollars to India, while short-term export is of 700 million dollars. However, it can't say about India's expectation, said Tariq Ikram Chairman of Export Promotion Bureau (EPB).
The British government said on Saturday it would not disclose a key report on the legality of the Iraq war, as requested by the opposition and anti-war militants, citing a "long-standing convention that advice to governments in office is not disclosed".
Embattled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide called on Saturday for an end to looting and violence after many of his armed loyalists terrorised residents of Haiti's capital as rebels advanced on the city.
Six-party talks on the North Korean nuclear crisis ended on Saturday without a breakthrough but a senior US official said the meetings had advanced Washington's agenda of disarming Pyongyang.
Tens of thousands of teachers, students and trades unionists marched through the centre of Rome on Saturday to protest at planned education reforms by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's conservative government.
Former chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix said on Saturday he suspected the United States bugged his office and home in the run-up to the Iraq war, but had no hard evidence.
Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian and up to two million of his supporters formed a human chain down the length of the island on Saturday in its biggest ever protest against China.
Presidents and top officials from African Union (AU) countries on Saturday formally ended a two-day AU summit in Libya agreeing to work together to tackle the crucial issues of water and agriculture and politely dismissing their host's idea of a creating
The informant who helped lead the US military to ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's two sons has been paid most of a $30 million reward for the tip-off, the State Department said on Saturday.
The Ugandan army said on Saturday it killed 30 Lord's Resistance Army rebels this week, including 15 believed to be behind one the east African nation's worst massacres in years.
Milk powder and raw rubber had a few changes in Milko Veg down Rs 50 to Rs 3650, sweetened Comella up Rs 20 to Rs 1650. Raw rubber Ceylon's RSSV up Rs 2 to Rs 43.50.
Ivory Coast coffee bean exports totalled 31,236 tonnes from October to January of the 2003-2004 season, down about 15 percent from the same period last year, port data showed on Friday.
Spinners took advantage of low prices of cotton at home despite world rate showing sharply upward edge and lifted modest quantity ahead of long Muharram holidays.
The March vaida opened unchanged at Rs 433.50 and ws incidentally highest also at the same amount. Later trading depressed and it was shown lowest at Rs 433 and closing was also seen at the same level.
Wheat futures at the Chicago Board of Trade closed lower on Friday on pressure from the delivery market and from forecasts for showers in the US Plains winter wheat-growing region, traders said.
US President George W. Bush reshuffled his advisory council on cloning and related medical issues on Friday, adding a prominent neurosurgeon known for his work on conjoined twins and two conservatives who have spoken out strongly against cloning.
Bad weather, human error or technical failure may have caused the air crash that killed Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski, but foul play can be ruled out, officials said on Saturday.
A meeting of foreign ministers of the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) opened here on Saturday with a call to help Iraqis chose their government and to prepare to reform the Arab League.
Venezuela's opposition planned further protests Saturday, a day after demonstrations in favour of a referendum on recalling President Hugo Chavez turned deadly, with two people killed and 54 injured just outside the summit of the Group of 15 developing na
Sudan's government and main rebel group signed a one-month truce extension on Saturday amid hopes the extra time would help them resolve two issues blocking a final agreement on ending Africa's longest civil war.
Two people were killed and 10 others injured when the dome of a mosque under construction collapsed in the western Turkish city of Usak on Saturday, a local official said.
A brother of al Qaeda terror network number two, Ayman al-Zawahri, already sentenced to death in absentia by an Egyptian court, will be re-tried here, a court official said Saturday.
Italy opposes using armed guards on transatlantic flights, preferring tough pre-boarding measures instead, the interior minister said in an interview published on Saturday.
Police detained 11 young Russian communists in Saint Petersburg on Saturday who staged a demonstration wearing masks of President Vladimir Putin and compared him and his officials to the robots who repeatedly replicate themselves in the science-fiction mo
A former US national security adviser who served in the administration of the first president Bush, warned on Saturday that the war in Iraq threatens to grind on for years like the Vietnam conflict.
Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels must let opposing ethnic Tamil politicians campaign freely for an April election and all parties must work to keep the poll peaceful, Amnesty International said on Saturday.
Modern Terminals Ltd (MTL), the port operating arm of Wharf (Holdings), said on Friday it would take 70 percent of a four billion yuan (US$483.09 million) container terminal project in the Chinese city of Suzhou.
The Karachi Port handled 75,660 tonnes of cargo including 52,557 tonnes import and 23,103 tonnes export cargo during last 24 hours ending at 0700 hours on Saturday.
French carmaker Renault has no plans to merge with Japanese partner Nissan or increase its stake in the company, Renault's chairman was quoted as saying in a German paper on Saturday.
The United States and the European Union said they had signed an agreement on Friday aimed at boosting trade in marine safety equipment, such as life rafts and echo-sounding equipment, across the Atlantic.
Crisis-hit Italian food group Parmalat will present a much-awaited recovery plan within days, Industry Minister Antonio Marzano, who is due to evaluate the plan, said on Saturday.
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said on Friday strong economic growth should soon produce more jobs but he warned US manufacturers they should not count on a Chinese currency revaluation being a major boon for them.
Iraq said on Saturday it had won assurances for a 60 percent cut in the $120 billion it owes and urged the world community to back its recovery with $4 billion in funding for key projects over the next 12 months.
Air Arabia, which bills itself as the Middle East's first low-cost airline, has taken delivery of the first of three new Airbus A320 to be leased this year to keep up with an expanding network, the company announced Saturday.
The bird flu crisis engulfing Asia will cost the region at least half-a-billion dollars and the bulk of that will be borne by individual countries, experts at a UN-backed conference said Saturday.
The United States will consult with key Arab states next week as it seeks to defuse growing opposition to a sweeping plan for economic, political and cultural reform in the Middle East that has become a central feature of President George W. Bush's foreig
Corruption and government inefficiency cost impoverished Bangladesh up to $450 million a year, and slowed economic growth and the relief of poverty, the country's key donor, the World Bank, said in a report.
Martha Stewart escaped the most serious charge in her trial on Friday when a federal judge threw out a securities fraud count that could have landed the lifestyle trendsetter in prison for 10 years.
Washington is chiding Opec for pushing oil prices too high but top world exporter Saudi Arabia is happy to feed the price boom as long as rocketing US and Chinese demand proves consumers aren't bothered, analysts said on Friday.