KARACHI, Aug 1 (APP): Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on Thursday said a comprehensive counter-terrorism policy would be devised based on the feedback of provinces on the issue of militancy. Talking to media persons after his visit to the Quaid’s mausoleum, the Prime Minister said he had directed all the four Chief Ministers to workout the issue of terrorism within the domain of their provinces.He said ...

ISLAMABAD, Aug 1 (APP): Pakistan and the United States of America Thursday agreed on resumption of the Strategic Dialogue process, stalled since Oct 2010 to build a comprehensive sustainable partnership.US Secretary of State John Kerry and Prime Minister’s Advisor on Foreign Policy Sartaj Aziz addressing a joint press stake out here at the PM House, made the announcement at the conclusion of talks between t ...

SYDNEY: Mickey Arthur has reached a settlement with Cricket Australia in his claim of unfair dismissal as national team coach. After conciliation talks lasting more than 13 hours and involving two sittings at the Fair Work Commission in Sydney, Arthur and Cricket Australia reached a confidential agreement late Wednesday. Arthur was seeking $4 million or his job back after he was fired last month and replace ...

In this social media age, professional athletes continue to embrace various platforms such as Facebook and Twitter as a means to share information with their fans. Tennis pros such as Serena Williams and Rafael Nadal are among the most followed players on Twitter worldwide. But this easy means of two-way communication is not always a good experience. Many who compete on both the ATP and WTA tours continue t ...

A secret surveillance system known as XKeyscore allows US intelligence to monitor "nearly everything a typical user does on the internet," according to leaked documents published on Wednesday. Citing classified documents provided by fugitive intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, British daily the Guardian said the program was the most wide-reaching operated by the National Security Agency (NSA). The paper ...

By Tiffany Madison Edward Snowden’s NSA leaks confirmed what critics long suspected: the United States is now a spy-state with federal agencies conducting secret, illegal domestic surveillance on virtually every American. These eerie revelations have many considering how their privacy expectations are subverted by emerging technology. While the reality that low-level intelligence agents have virtually unche ...

By Usman Khalid Pakistan has elected a new President – Mamnoun Hussain. Memnun is a Turkish word which means ‘grateful’. Memnun Oldum is ‘Thank You” in Turkish. But memnun is more than a word; it describes a personality. I served in CENTO in Turkey for more than three years (1966-70) and was inspired by the Turkish institution of ‘gratitude’. During the First World War, the Muslims in India were the subject ...

By Zaheerul Hassan  Pakistan PM has presided high level military-civil meeting in connection with John Kerry visit who arrived in Islamabad on 31 July 2013. US Sectary of State John Kerry has arrived in Pakistan for two days visit on 31 July, 2013. He is the most senior first US official is visiting the country since Nawaz Sharif was sworn in as Pakistan as new prime minister after May elections. During his ...