Pakistan has started assembling of the first Pakistani-built JF-17 Thunder multirole combat aircraft on Tuesday. Chief of the air staff, Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman inaugurated the construction in a ceremony at Kamra. Top military and civilian officials of Pakistan and China attended the ceremony. This success will enhance Pakistan’s air power in the region and at international scale, Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman said. He lauded the efforts of the engineers and technicians in the making of the aircraft. He also commended the Chinese cooperation and said that the ...

Federal Minister for Interior Rehman Malik met with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Chief Altaf Hussain at MQM's International Secretariat in London. Besides other issues of vital importance, current energy crisis, political affairs as well as prevailing situation in the country and that is in Balochistan also came under discussion during the meeting between Altaf and the Federal Minister, said a statement issued by MQM here on Wednesday. Speaking on the occasion, Altaf Hussain said that the whole nation salutes the personnel of security forces for their sacrifices ...

Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Ali Ahmed Kurd on Saturday repeated that they did not recognise the judges who took oath under the Provisional Constitution Order (PCO), promulgated by Pervez Musharraf. “We have the potential to once again take the people to the street. However, we are waiting for the responsible people to take notice of the PCO judges, as many petitions against them are pending before the apex court,” Kurd told reporters after presiding over a meeting here in the Supreme Court. He said an independent judiciary ...

Renowned classical and ghazal singer, Mehnaz says that her entire family is very artistic in one way or the other and had she not been a singer, she would most certainly have been pursuing some other art-related profession. It is not surprising therefore, that in whatever free time Mehnaz has, she does fabric painting. However, even today, when she sings mostly for pleasure, Mehnaz spends so much time doing rayaz and research of Hazrat Amir Khusro’s kalaam that she doesn’t have the time to do ...

Pakistan Cricket Board has refused to sign the new Future Tours Programme which spans from 2012 to 2020 unless the Indian board revises the draft. Sources in the PCB confirmed that officials had voiced strong objections at the International Cricket Council meetings held last week in London when they learnt that the Indian board had not scheduled a single bilateral series with Pakistan in their proposed draft of the new FTP. The Indian officials came up with the justification that they couldn't schedule any bilateral series with Pakistan because ...

Oil prices recovered modestly but remained below 70 dollars in Asian trade Thursday after overnight losses on US energy demand concerns, analysts said. New York's main contract, light sweet crude for August delivery was 14 cents firmer at 69.45 dollars. Brent North Sea crude for August delivery rose 10 cents to 68.89 dollars a barrel. Crude fell at the close of US trading Wednesday as investors focused on weak American gasoline demand indicated by the latest government data which showed petrol stocks rising by 2.3 million barrels in the ...