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Lahore, Sep.17 (ANI): A Pakistani woman has filed a petition in the Lahore High Court (LHC) seeking Pakistani citizenship for her Indian husband.

Justice Mian Saqib Nisar admitted the petition filed by one Shazia Zia, and referred the matter to the High Court [...]

London, Sep 1 (ANI): The resurfacing of the 20-year-old scandal of Nawaz Sharif accepting millions from the ISI for political shenanigans has thrown a fresh lifeline to besieged former President Pervez Musharraf, who feels that now the PML-N chief could end up in a dock for committing a crime against democracy.

A top aide of Musharraf [...]

Washington, Aug 25 (ANI): In a new study, researchers at George Mason University and Oklahoma State University showed that apologizing for negative outcomes could lead to more favourable verdicts for auditors in court.

Assistant accounting professors Rick Warne of Mason and Robert Cornell of OSU found that remedial tactics such as apologizing or first-person justification can [...]

Lahore, Aug 24(ANI): Pakistani journalist and Chairman Nazria Pakistan Trust (NPT) Majid Nizami has urged teachers in Pakistan to indoctrinate the new generation with the idea that Hindus and Muslims belong to two separate nations.

Nizam said the practice could only be defended by the two-nation theory.

Addressing the eighth ideological workshop for teachers organised by the [...]

Washington, Aug.21 (ANI): The first secretary of homeland security, Tom Ridge, has asserted in a new book that he was pressured by top advisers to President George W. Bush to raise the national threat level just before the [...]

Melbourne, July 5 (ANI): Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith has maintained that the Australian parliamentary delegation’s decision to meet the Dalai Lama in India was entirely appropriate despite Chinese condemnation.

“This is a reflection of Australia’s democratic strengths. It is entirely appropriate for a parliamentary delegation to visit India and entirely appropriate for a parliamentary delegation [...]

New Delhi, June 28 (ANI): Various political leaders and other VIPs who have been enjoying security cover for unjustified reasons for a long time may find it tough to avail this government facility any longer, as they Government is going to keep a check on it.

Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta is carrying out the review [...]

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The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) Chairman, C B Bhave on Thursday approved the concept of anchor investor (AI). The new entity will be allowed to take part in the public offers to give the required [...]

Islamabad, May 9 (ANI): Last week a conservative schoolteacher in Rawalpindi hailed a cab to get to work in the morning. She wore a gown and had covered her head with a ‘dupatta’.

A few minutes into the journey the bearded taxi driver asked her if she was Muslim. She said she was. Then why [...]

Lahore, Apr.29 (ANI): Infuriated by the military operation against the Taliban in which 70 extremists have been killed so far, the Tehreek-e-Nifaaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM) has warned of launching a ’storm’ across Pakistan.

TNSM chief Sufi Mohammad’s son Rizwanullah Farooq said the peace accord between the government and the TNSM is on the verge of collapse, and if [...]

Washington, Apr 28 (ANI): While most Hollywood stars strongly advocate a woman’s right to choose whether to terminate a pregnancy or not, former model Kathy Ireland has decided to make a stand against it.

Ireland, 46, has decided to take a stand against pro-choice, [...]

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Washington, Apr.27 (ANI): US President Barack Obama has emerged more popular than any of his recent predecessors in his first 100 days in office, according to opinion polls./pp
Barack Obama currently has a 63 per cent job approval rating, reports The Telegraph./pp
Two major opinion polls showed on Sunday that Obama remains as popular as the day [...]

Washington, Apr.25 (ANI): Jordan’s King Abdullah II has said in an American TV interview that there is enough evidence available to suggest that the United States had engaged in torture, a topic that has turned into a political firestorm since the release last week of Bush-era interrogation memos.

Abdullah, when asked in an interview [...]

London, April 12 (ANI): Bjorn Ulvaeus, who co-wrote the Abba songs on which Mamma Mia! is based, has become embroiled in an extremely awkward dispute with his fellow producers over whether such a sequel of the musical should be made.

At a party at the Café de Paris to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the [...]

New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) The Supreme Court Thursday issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh government seeking justification for detaining Bharatiya Janata Party leader Varun Gandhi under the National Security Act (NSA).
A bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan and Justice P. Sathasivam, after issuing the notice to the state government, adjourned the matter to April [...]

Lahore, Mar 18 (ANI): Pakistan Muslim League-N chief Nawaz Sharif has said that Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani has been conveyed that 17th Amendment should be abolished.

Speaking to reporters here on Wednesday, he said that supremacy of law, elimination of poverty and [...]

New Delhi, Feb 25 (ANI): The Supreme Court has asked the Tamil Nadu Government to justify the entry of police into the Madras High Court premises on February 19.

It has directed the State Government to assess the damage done to the lawyers’ cars and the high court building in the police-lawyers clash and announce compensation [...]

London, Feb.17 (ANI): Dame Stella Rimington, the former head of MI5, has warned that the fear of terrorism is being exploited by the Government to erode civil liberties and the country risks becoming a police state.

“Since I have retired, I feel more at liberty [...]

Lahore, Feb.6 (ANI): As Pakistan celebrated Kashmir Day on Thursday (Feb.5) to showcase its ’solidarity’ with the so-called ongoing self-determination struggle in Kashmir, a commentator has questioned the usefulness of observing the event in the leading Pakistan Daily-The News.

In an article titled “Hit and Run” on the Op-ed page of The News, Shakir Husain [...]

Islamabad, Jan 21 (ANI): A hefty amount of Rs 281 million from the funds of district governments was spent on former president Pervez Musharraf’s 32 visits to Pakistan’s Punjab province during his last three years 2005-07 in office.

During this period, the then Punjab Chief Minister’s visits cost the public exchequer Rs 36.78 million.

However, a [...]