Lahore, Pakistan News

VEHARI: Senior PTI leader Ishaq Khan Khakwani has lost to a PML-N candidate after vote re-count on National Assembly seat NA-168 on Friday.

LAHORE A majority view in PPP's Punjab Executive Committee meeting on Friday was that BISP funds if spent to generate electricity could have averted party's defeat in the recent elections.

Gov. Mike Pence today pulled the plug on state incentives for a proposed $.18 billion fertilizer plant in southern Indiana, citing security concerns about the Pakistan-based owners.

Minister for Information and Broadcasting Arif Nizami on Friday hoped that the new upcoming government will be sworn in before 1st June.

Lahore, May 16 : Legal representatives of Google Inc. are expected to appear before the Lahore High Court on Thursday to explain the company's position in the YouTube case.

Lahore High Court Rawalpindi bench on Friday revoked Election Commission's decision regarding recounting of votes in NA-57 constituency of Attock.

Lahore, May 16 : Awais Sheikh, the lawyer of Sarabjit Singh, who was kidnapped in Lahore on Wednesday along with his son, has now been freed.

The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a political thriller that follows the story of a young Pakistani man chasing corporate success on Wall Street, who ultimately finds himself embroiled in a conflict between his American dream, a hostage crisis and the enduring call of his family's homeland.

Can't Pakistani voters tell the difference between a world-famous, charismatic leader and a mere politician who refers to himself in the third person? Supporters of Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-N party celebrate their party's victory in the parliamentary elections.

LAHORE: The Pakistan Sugar Mills Association has appreciated the PML-N chief Mian Nawaz Sharif over his overwhelming victory in the elections 2013 in centre as well as in Punjab, hoping the new government will work for increasing exports particularly of sugar, which has great potential in the country.

Over a decade ago, the man now set to become Pakistan's next prime minister stood at this border crossing with archenemy India to inaugurate a "friendship" bus service connecting the two countries as cheering supporters waved flags and tossed rose petals.

Lahore: The new government of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz will divert gas supply from fertilizer plants to power sector as a short-term solution to lessen electricity loadshedding in the country especially in Punjab as the province has been experiencing worse power breakdowns and industries have been suffering the most.

NEWS As the United States and Russia work to organize peace talks next month between the Syrian government and its opponents, the ever more extreme carnage of combat makes the prospect of reconciliation seem more remote.

New Delhi, May 14: BJP president Rajnath Singh today congratulated Pakistan Prime Minister-elect Nawaz Sharif and termed his statements on rebuilding relations as "a positive sign", the call contrasting with party mascot Narendra Modi's shrill anti-Islamabad pitch.

And how many rains must fall before the stains are washed clean? This question, posed by Pakistani poet Salima Hashmi , is at the heart of Imran Quereshi 's latest work, created for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's roof garden .

LAHORE/ISLAMABAD OUR STAFF REPORTERS The US Ambassador to Pakistan Richard Olson on Tuesday called on PML-N chief Mian Nawaz Sharif at Raiwind and congratulated him on his party's success in the elections.

KARACHI PR The Awards office of the 12th Annual LUX Style Awards announced nominations in 22 categories in the field of television, music and fashion late on Tuesday.

LAHORE: Bedridden Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan on Monday held meetings with his party's leaders in hospital and decided to sit on opposition benches in the National Assembly and form government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Pakistan's incoming prime minister Nawaz Sharif Tuesday pledged to work with his rival Imran Khan for the good of the country as he visited the cricketer-turned-politician in hospital.

Lahore: May 14, 2013. Growing persecution in Pakistan and Muslim Extremists intrusion into the Christian faith and Church affairs is posing a serious threat to Church autonomy and our most Consitutional right religious freedom.