Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira said the media should promote unity and solidarity among the people to enable them face the flood situation in the country.
He was addressing a consultative meeting with the senior columnists and anchors at a local hotel .Kaira termed the current flood the worst recorded of Pakistan’s history and added that the whole nation alongwith government and media should make j
-
More
|
Iran will stand by the people of Pakistan in the hour of need and will do everything possible to help Pakistan in the reconstruction phase.
This was stated by Iranian interior minister Mustafa Muhammad Najar who called on President Asif Ali Zardari in Karachi. President Zardari highly appreciated the goodwill gesture and immediate response from the Iranian government to help Pakistan.
-
More
|
A candidate of Pakistan Peoples Party Khadija Aamir Yar Varan has unofficially been declared successful in by-election of NA-184 Bahawalpur-II.
She got 75,410 votes while Mian Najibud Din Awaisi of PML(N) got 49,003 votes.
-
More
|
In Sindh, floodwaters have inundated several areas of Daddu and a warning has been issued to the residents of Johi and Mehrr after a flood tide entered tehsil headquarter Khairpur Nathan Shah due to the Torri bund breach.
According to PTV correspondent, floodwaters have also entered some areas of Mehrr, K.N.Shah and Johi following breaches in M.N.V. drain, Khudawa and Johi embankments. And in Thatta, breach in S.M.Bund, has inundated many areas of shah Bandar beside
-
More
|
Pakistan Army troops are relentlessly carrying out rescue and relief operations in flood-hit areas across the country.
According to ISPR army is actively busy in rescue operations at Dadu, Shikarpur, Shadadkot and Thatta. It has established a Tent city at Shikarpur and two relief camps each Qamber and Nasirabad for flood-affected people of Sindh and Balochistan.
A
-
More
|
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has announced that he had set up a council to pursue peace talks with the Taliban.
A statement from Karzai's office said the formation of the high peace council was "a significant step towards peace talks. Karzai's plan to create the high peace council was approved in June at a "Peace Jirga" in Kabul attended by community, tribal
-
More
|
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has urged Israel and the Palestinians to overcome the final obstacles to peace, saying their new talks may be a last chance to end the conflict.
In an interview in Washington she said that skepticism and suspicion cannot be allowed to derail the talks as has happened so many times in the past. Clinton said that both sides accept the need for a "two-state solution" to establish an independen
-
More
|
At least two Palestinians were injured in Israeli air strike that hit targets in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.
The cross-border violence was the first since Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in Washington to re-launch peace negotiations and was a stark reminder of the obstacles both leaders face. Israeli a
-
More
|
Thousands of people have attended rallies in Paris and 130 other French towns to protest at the government's policy of deporting Roma people.
Police say turnout across France was slightly more than 77,000 while organisers put the figure nearer 100,000. With polls suggesting at least 65% of French people back the policy, the government played down the protests. The EU parliament is to deb
-
More
|
In Yemen, two policemen were killed and four others wounded in clashes in Lahij province.
The clashes broke out after the troops killed at least one militant at a checkpoint outside Habilayn city.
-
More
|
Pakistan take on England in the first twenty-20 match of the two matches series at Cardiff, today.
The second match will be contested on 7th of September before the five-match one-day series starts from 10th of September.
Pakistan Cricket Board's legal adviser Tafazzul Rizvi has said “the three Pakistan players suspended over allegations of f
-
More
|
Five-time US Open champion Roger Federer cruised into the fourth round with a 6-4 6-3 6-3 win over Frenchman Paul-Henri Mathieu in New York.
Federer, 29, did not have to be at his best as he reached the last 16 in total control at Flushing Meadows. Third seed Novak Djokovic proved too strong for crowd favourite James Blake as he secured a 6-1 7-6 (7-4) 6-3 win. The pair were joined in
-
More
|
Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said a meeting of the council of common interests has been summoned on tomorrow to finalize the rehabilitation and reconstruction policy in consultation with the federating units.
In a policy statement about flood situation in the National Assembly he said an all parties conference will also be summoned in consultation with the political parties to discuss the flood situation and government’s plan for relief, rehabilitation
-
More
|
|
|
