- North Korea fired three short-range missiles from its east coast on Saturday, South Korea’s Defence Ministry said, prompting Western powers to urge Pyongyang to exercise restraint. Launches by the North of short-range missiles are not uncommon but, after recent warnings from [...]
ISLAMABAD: Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Fakhrudin G Ibrahim has expressed dissatisfaction on the current security plan for the upcoming general elections on May 11 and termed it insufficient, Geo News reported. In a letter to Chief of Army Staff (COAS) [...]
Election Results 2013 Contesting Parties National Assembly Sindh Assembly Punjab Assembly KPK Assembly Balochistan Assembly Summary 235/272 68/130 288/297 76/99 19/51 PML(N) 107 1 206 10 5 PTI 32 1 22 25 0 PPPP 28 44 5 2 0 [...]
Toppled in a 1999 military coup, jailed and exiled, Pakistan’s Nawaz Sharif has made a triumphant election comeback and looks set to form a stable government capable of implementing reforms needed to rescue the fragile economy. Sharif may not win [...]
mubashar majeed with abdul hameed butt PP 108 in karianwala
The United States was not given any warning before air strikes in Syria against what Western and Israeli officials say were weapons headed for Hezbollah militants, a U.S. intelligence official said on Sunday. Without confirming that Israel was behind the [...]
The United States said on Saturday thatChina had agreed to help rid North Korea of its nuclear capability by peaceful means, but Beijing made no specific commitment in public to pressure its long-time ally to change its ways. U.S. Secretary of [...]
North Korea’s explicit threats this week to strike the United States with nuclear weapons are rhetorical bluster, as the isolated nation does not yet have the means to make good on them, Western officials and security experts say. Pyongyang has [...]
India’s top court dismissed Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG’s attempt to win patent protection for its cancer drug Glivec, a blow to Western pharmaceutical firms targeting India to drive sales and a victory for local makers of cheap generics. The decision [...]
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan has received nomination papers from more than 7,000 candidates by the end of the extended deadline (12:00 AM April 1, 2013) as against 15,000 filed in year 2008, Geo News reported. According to the [...]
