The Federal Cabinet has decided to ensure uninterrupted gas supply to the domestic consumers in winter.
The cabinet meeting held under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani in Islamabad also decided that all government and public sector employees have to declare their assets. It decided to increase the monthly subsidy from 15 bil
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Minister for Information ad Broadcasting, Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan said that prudent policies and measures adopted by the government have resulted in the reduction of inflation to a single digit of nine percent.
Addressing a press conference after the Federal Cabinet meeting, the minister said that Sensitive Price Index (SPI), Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Wholesale Price Index (WPI) have registered decrease as compared to the same period of last year. Sh
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Federal Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan Mian Manzoor Ahmad Wattoo called on Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani here at Prime Minister House and discussed the current political situation in the country.
The Minister appreciated the speech of the Prime Minister that he delivered at the floor of the National Assembly the other day wherein he rejected the idea of head of PML-N regarding setting up military courts in Karachi. The Prime Minister said t
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Chairman Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (ERRA), Hamid Yar Hiraj called on Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani,
here at his Parliament House Chamber and apprised him about the pace of rehabilitation in the earthquake hit areas of Azad Kashmir and Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa. The Prime Minister directed the ERRA Chairman to prioritize the projects and complete only t
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Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar assured the National Assembly that Pakistan-Iran Gas Pipeline Project would not be affected by the UN sanctions on Iran and the project would go according to its schedule.
Replying to a question regarding future of Pak-Iran Gas pipeline Project after the UN sanctions on Iran, the minister said there were three kinds of sanctions - UN sanctions, US sanctions and European Union sanctions. However, she said that export
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EU member states have agreed in principle to ban imports of Iranian crude oil to put pressure on the country over its nuclear programme.
The move is expected to be announced formally at an EU foreign ministers' meeting at the end of January. The US, which recently imposed fresh sanctions on Iran, welcomed the news. Iran has dismissed the threat of new sanctions and denies Western cl
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At least 25 people have been killed and 100 more are missing after a landslide struck a mining village in the southern Philippines.
The landslide occurred at about 3:00 a.m. on Thursday morning in Pantukan, Compostela Valley province, on Mindanao island. A nearby village was also hit by a landslide last year that left 14 dead.
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Opposition activists in Syria have accused the government of deceiving Arab League monitors.
Military vehicles have been replaced to make it look as though the army has left city centres as required by an Arab League peace plan, activists said.
At least 12 people were killed across Syria on Wednesday, according to one activist network. Th
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At least 26 people have been killed in attacks by a Rwandan militia group in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the Congolese army says.
It says several remote villages in South Kivu province have been targeted since the start of January. An army spokesman blamed the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) - which has a history of attacking Congolese civilians.
The ar
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In Occupied Kashmir, APHC has said the U.N. Security council resolution passed in January 1949 is of immense importance as it provides legal basis for resolution of the Kashmir dispute.
In a statement issued in Srinagar, APHC maintained that the U.N. Resolution acknowledged the fundamental right of the Kashmiris that Jammu and Kashmir belonged to them and they were the masters of their fate.
The APHC urged the world body to play
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Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal eased through to the quarter-finals of the Qatar Open despite unusually windy conditions in Doha.
Defending champion Federer beat Slovenian qualifier Grega Zemlja 6-2 6-3 to set up a meeting with Italian Andreas Seppi. World number two Nadal beat Germany's Denis Gremelmayr, also a qualifier, 6-2 6-2 and will now meet Mikhail Youzhny. French see
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Australia were 482 for four in reply to India’s first innings 191 at the close on the second day of the second Test.
Skipper Michael Clarke was unbeaten on 251 with Mike Hussey not out 55. Clarke started the second day of the Test against India 47 not out, and still found himself in the middle by stumps with Australia 4-482 and the tourists without answers. Clark
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The eighty-fourth Birth Anniversary of Founder Chairman of Pakistan Peoples Party Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is being celebrated today.
Co-Chairman PPP President Asif Ali Zardari in his message on this occasion said the best tribute to Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is to follow his footsteps‚ strengthen democracy and empower the people by lifting them from hopelessness‚ poverty and
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