KARACHI – After over two years of dillydallying, ...
WASHINGTON – The Republican-led House of ...
ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday ...
PESHAWAR - Pakistan allowed four containers of ...
KARACHI - Pakistan will test fire its new missile ...
ISLAMABAD: With the advent of social media in ...
KARACHI – After over two years of dillydallying, the provincial government has been ordered by the Sindh High Court to hold local bodies’ elections within 90 days. A two-member bench of the Sindh High Court (SHC) comprising Justice Faisal Arab and Justice Nadeem Akhtar Friday announced the decision on a petition regarding local bodies (LB) elections filed two years ago by former Sukkur Nazim Nasir Hussain Shah. The petitioner submitted that the ...
WASHINGTON – The Republican-led House of Representatives voted on Friday to authorise $642.5 billion in defence spending next year, defying a White House veto threat by adding several billion dollars to President Barack Obama’s Pentagon budget request. The House approved the annual National Defence Authorisation Act, which added nearly $4 billion to the president’s spending plan, in a 299-120 vote just days after moving to shield the defence ...
ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday left for Chicago to attend the 25th NATO Summit being held on May 20-21. President Zardari is visiting Chicago at the invitation of NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said Foreign Office spokesman in a statement. He said the decision to attend the summit was made after both the Defence Committee of Cabinet and Federal Cabinet had endorsed the invitation. The spokesman said in Chicago, ...
PESHAWAR - Pakistan allowed four containers of office supplies for the US embassy in Kabul to cross into Afghanistan for the first time following a six-month blockade, officials said on Friday. The trucks were permitted to cross as President Asif Ali Zardari prepares to meet Nato leaders at a key summit in Chicago, accepting a last-minute invitation after Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar indicated Pakistan was willing to call time on the ...
KARACHI - Pakistan will test fire its new missile Nasr by the end of this month and most likely on May 28th. The missile with 180 km range has a high degree of accuracy. According to sources, Pakistan Army has completed all its preparation to test fire the nuclear-capable, surface-to-surface ballistic missile Nasr. The name Nasr is an Arabic word meaning Victory. Nasr can carry nuclear warheads and can hit the target with high accuracy, it is ...
ISLAMABAD: With the advent of social media in Pakistan in recent years, parliamentarians are now also joining the bandwagon and creating a direct connection with their constituencies using platforms like Twitter and Facebook. Although the usage of Facebook has been more for personal reasons, Twitter has become the favorite amongst the different parliamentarians spoken to, for understanding public discourse. Be it the ruling regime – the PPP, ...