Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Usman Manzoor
ISLAMABAD: Majority of the candidates of PML-N for National Assembly seats from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh and Balochistan have lost their security deposits because they have failed to obtain the required number of votes. However, ...

Saturday, May 11, 2013
Usman Manzoor
ISLAMABAD: Only once in the 66-year national history, the voter turnout in general elections had crossed 60 percent and this high turnout resulted in the unexpected victory of a new political party, whose candidates were not known ...

Saturday, May 11, 2013
Usman Manzoor
Islamabad May 11 polls are rightly being dubbed as ‘youth elections’ as according to National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) more than 48 percent of the voters are below the age of 35, of whom majority lives in rural ...

Friday, May 10, 2013
Usman Manzoor
ISLAMABAD: The May 11 polls are rightly being dubbed as ‘youth elections’ as according to the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra), more than 48 percent of voters are below the age of 35, of whom the majority lives in ...

Thursday, May 09, 2013
Usman Manzoor & Khalid Mustafa
ISLAMABAD: The caretakers are showing their ‘might’ by sending the defiant heads of state-owned enterprises who have refused to bow before the illegal orders of their ministers. The latest case is that of Oil and Gas Development ...

Tuesday, May 07, 2013
Usman Manzoor
ISLAMABAD: Additional secretary Ministry of Communications who had refused to sack two employees on the orders of the caretaker minister has been transferred from his post without giving any reason, ‘The News’ has learnt. The ...

Saturday, May 04, 2013
Usman Manzoor
Islamabad Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso has chaired a meeting to consider grant of Rs16 billion to Pakistan Steel Mills which has been facing losses since July 2008. Well-placed sources in the Finance Division told ‘The ...

Saturday, May 04, 2013
Usman Manzoor
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso has chaired a meeting to consider grant of Rs16 billion to Pakistan Steel Mills which has been facing losses since July 2008. Well-placed sources in the Finance Division told ‘The News’ ...

Wednesday, May 01, 2013
Usman Manzoor
ISLAMABAD: Facts and figures show that less people have been killed in terrorist attacks after the caretakers assumed charge of the country than in the preceding months. According to data compiled by the Conflict Monitoring ...

Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Usman Manzoor
ISLAMABAD: In a strange coincidence following protests by lawyers against Pervez Musharraf on his appearances in Rawalpindi courts, at least two senior lawyers have been picked up by ‘unknown’ men, who beat them black and blue and ...