Spring Festival makes its way to NUML
IslamabadWith air filled with joy and cheer, youngsters in their sheer happiness welcomed the spring season by enthusiastically indulging them
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Pakistan, China sign MoUs on trade, agriculture
WUHAN: Pakistan and China on Saturday signed various Memorandums of Understanding in trade and agriculture sectors.The Memorandum of Understan
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Locally manufactured plant being installed at PSM
KARACHI: A locally manufactured special plant is being installed at Pakistan Steels Mills, which will likely to increase profit, by 75 million dollars.Chairman Pakistan Steel Mills Moin Aftab Shaikh told media, the new plant will make hard blocks of spare soil (smeared with minor steel pieces) which is left during manufacturing of other steel items.He said that this plant will help increase export materials costing 75 million dollars. He further added Pakistan Steel Mills has commenced the process of utilizing local iron with coal, which will be improved in future.
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Cabinet Division to probe SZH affairs
LAHOREON THE directions of the prime minister, a team of Cabinet Division, Islamabad, is scheduled to arrive at the Sheikh Zayed Hospital on S
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Obama stepping up Pakistan drone strikes (UPI)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 21 (UPI) — The United States has expanded a covert war in Pakistan targeting Islamic militants seeking to topple Islamabad, The New York Times reported Saturday.
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Taliban, Pakistan make permanent truce in volatile valley (CNN)
The Taliban and the government of North West Frontier Province in Pakistan have agreed to a permanent cease-fire in the nation’s volatile Swat Valley, an official said.
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Pakistan Taliban say will review ceasefire in Swat (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Taliban fighters said on Saturday they would review their unilateral 10-day ceasefire in Pakistan’s northwestern valley of Swat when it runs out next week, casting doubt over government talk of a permanent truce.
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Pakistan says truce agreed with Taliban in Swat (AP via Yahoo! News)
Pakistan has agreed to an open-ended cease-fire with Taliban militants in the Swat Valley, government officials said Saturday, extending a truce as the country pursues broader, much-criticized talks aimed at calming a large swathe of its northwestern region bordering Afghanistan.
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Sri Lanka flay Pakistan in first cricket Test (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Mahela Jayawardene and Thilan Samaraweera hit punishing hundreds to lead Sri Lanka’s run charge against Pakistan on the opening day of the first Test here on Saturday as the tourists reached 406-3.
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CE ICC meeting BCCI, ICL officials on Monday
DUBAI: International Cricket Council (ICC) president David Morgan and chief executive Haroon Lorgat will meet on Monday the officials of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and the Indian Cricket League (ICL) in an attempt to an agreement in the long-running dispute between the BCCI and the ICL. The ICC president hopes that the dispute between the two parties would be resolved. “I”ve long regarded it as a priority to bring together the BCCI and the owners of the ICL and I”m pleased to say we have fixed a meeting to take place in Johannesburg on Monday,” said Morgan.The meeting between the officials of the controversial ICC and the BCCI will be held on Monday in Johannesburg and chief executive ICC Haroon Lorgat will also attend the meeting.The ICL is not recognised by the BCCI or the ICC, unlike the Indian Premier League (IPL) which has paid fantastic sums to lure players to its tournament.”I hope we might be successful in coming to a mutually acceptable conclusion. I can”t be certain that will be the case but I hope we can at least make a start in bringing about a settlement,” added Morgan.Earlier this week, a Pakistani court lifted domestic bans on the country’’s last six active players who had joined the ICL.
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