ISLAMABAD: The Government has changed the formula to disburse Zakat resources among the provinces on population basis. This was recommended in a meeting of the sub-committee constituted by the Cabinet to review the Zakat …

LAHORE: The Lahore Registry of the Supreme Court of Pakistan Friday rejected a petition seeking President Pervez Musharraf to vacate the Army House. The petition was filed by General Secretary of “Adliya Bachao Committee” Mian …

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has directed provincial governments to make only necessary security arrangements and bare minimum protocol for him so as to spare the people of the inconvenience caused by …

ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister, Syed Naveed Qamar chaired an Inter-Ministerial Committee Meeting to devise strategy for immediate relief to needy household families in Finance Division on Friday. Earlier the ECC of the Cabinet in its meeting …

Investigations against Dr AQ Khan have proven that the renowned nuclear scientist had no links with al-Qaeda and that he helped Iran and Libya to divert the US focus from the Pakistani nuclear programme.
ISLAMABAD: …

Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar has constituted an 11-member special larger bench of the Supreme Court for next week to hear on June 2 the pending case of manhandling last year of …

34 Convicted in Display At U.S. Supreme Court Protesters Had Decried Guantanamo
On Friday, 30 May 2008, four people from Iowa were sentenced to jail for their non-violent resistance against Gitmo.
Christine Gaunt – 10 days. …

LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party meeting of the central and provincial parliamentary boards was called here on Friday to discuss constitutional package given by Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP). Current political situation, nominations of party …

ISLAMABAD: The World Bank has launched a one point two billion dollars programme to fight the global food crisis including two hundred million dollars in grants to poor countries facing the most dire need. Reports …

ISLAMABAD: The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) certified 18 district health and population managers from Sindh and Balochistan “to emerge as leading voices to encourage birth spacing” in their respective districts. “Infant and …