TORONTO, Canada: Match referee of the Toronto T20 cricket tournament, Jeff Crowe, has praised the arrangements of holding the event in a successful ma

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PESHAWAR: The NWFP Chief Minister, Ameer Haider Khan Hoti has said that anti-state elements wanted to push the country and society into instability by sowing the seeds of hatred and differences among different religious sects for serving their own nefarious designs. “It is need of the hour to promote and strike harmony, unity and understanding among followers of different religious sects for foiling such conspiracies,” he said while talking to Shiite Muslim leader Allama Syed Fakhrul Hassam Kararvi at his office on Monday.Allama Fakhrul Hassan Kararvi expressed his deep grief and sorrow over Charsadda incident and sympathized with the leadership of the Awami National Party.Speaking on the occasion, Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti said that due to wrong policies of the past regimes, the Pakhtun nation was passing through a critical period of their history. He said that through terrorism and creating violence among different religious sects, conspiracies were being hatched against the nation. He urged the followers of all sects and cross sections of society to maintain unity among their ranks against the conspirators. “Utmost vigilance should be kept over such elements who want unrest and violence for their own vested interests,” the chief minister said. The chief minister expressed the hope that like the past, the nation would emerge successful from all the challenges and hardships it was facing today. He further said that the force was no solution to any problem and every issue could be resolved through talks and negotiations. The chief minister also exchanged his views with Allama Kararvi regarding power load shedding, wheat shortage and soaring price hike. He said that due to less production of wheat last year on national level, the country faced acute shortage of wheat flour. He further said that unfortunately in Punjab province, the wheat crop was also produced at low level which created problem for the people of frontier province. Ameer Haider Hoti said that both the federal and provincial governments were trying to overcome the crisis of energy, which was the main reason behind prolong load-shedding in the country.

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ISLAMABAD: Di-ammonium phosphate (DAP) price has increased by 46.27 per cent (or Rs1,433) to Rs4,530 a bag in only a week which ended on October 9.br

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NEW YORK: US stocks surged more than 11 percent on Monday, with the Dow index registering its biggest point gain ever. The Dow Jones Industrial Average showed a rise of 938 points, or 11.11 percent, to 9,390.08 points, at the closing bell.

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Karachi The dispute between the Sindh government and the Port Qasim Authority (PQA) over the land surrounding the port and its charges has not

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ISLAMABAD: Chief executives and senior executives of top banks are set to appear on major television networks and trade forums to float the packages o

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BERLIN: Governments across Europe on Monday unlocked more than one trillion euros in rescue funds for the stumbling banking sector, as world stocks so

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ISLAMABAD: The Planning Commission of Pakistan has formed a task force on climate change to address the challenges related to the phenomenon of climat

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TORONTO, Canada: Left-handed opener Shoaib Khan slammed a maiden half-century and Fawad Alam grabbed three top wickets as Pakistan topped the Quadrang

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ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Chairman Ahmad Waqar has called for concerted efforts coupled with innovative steps to broaden the tax base

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