ISLAMABAD: The recent paediatrics paper of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan (CPSP) confused students who wondered if questions asked a year ago can be repeated...
The students, who took the exam of the Fellow of College of Physicians and Surgeons (FCPS-II) paediatrics Paper-I, were surprised to see that exactly the same questions had been asked in the February 2015 paper...
GUJRAT: PML-N’s supreme leader and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, taking strong exception to his party’s defeat in Gujranwala division’s cantonment boards elections, has asked its president Shehbaz Sharif to conduct a probe into the matter...
He was speaking to party officials, lawmakers and former ticket-holders belonging to the Gujranwala division at a party workers’ convention held in Islamabad at the farmhouse of MNA Tariq...
The First Anglo-Afghan War set up a pattern that would be followed in subsequent invasions of Afghanistan...
The pattern has four phases:First, swift invasion and occupation of Afghanistan without much resistance; second, resistance to foreign forces increases with the passage of time; third, the war is condemned to a stalemate; fourth, withdrawal (or retreat) of foreign troops...
LAHORE: Both the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and its arch rival Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) may witness a change in the voting pattern in NA-120, Lahore III, by-poll, mainly because of realignments and entry of new aspirants in the race for the National Assembly slot...
DADU: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that the leaderships of both the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) and Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) are following the pattern of politics set by MQM founder leader Altaf Hussain...
“They have stopped praising him but doing their politics on the very pattern set by the MQM-London chief without using his name, the chief minister observed while speaking to reporters at his...
Six years on, including a three-year hiatus between 2010 and 2013, and six meetings later, the strategic dialogue has settled into a pattern...
That pattern is of signalling stability in the broader Pakistan-US relationship — including incremental progress on soft-power items and projects — in order to focus on the security aspects of the relationship...
ISLAMABAD: The food consumption pattern in the Asia-Pacific region has been changing, driven mainly by rising income and urbanisation...
The region displays the usual pattern of structural transformation in which labour productivity in agriculture is lower than it is in other sectors of the economy, rendering the declining share of agriculture in GDP lower than the labour share...
Despite being the backbone of the economy, the share of agriculture in GDP growth declined from 25pc in 2000-01 to 20pc in 2014-15...
Its domestic production during 2014-15 was around 7m tonnes...
FIFA general secretary Jerome Valcke was suspended in October in the wake of the biggest crisis in football’s world governing body after misconduct allegations surrounding tickets for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil...
”PFF’s audit report for 2014 doesn’t, however, particularly show that surcharge amount from the sale of tickets as sponsorship...
The reserves, piled up in the past decade due to high crude prices, dropped from $732bn at the end of 2014 to $683bn at the end of April, Saudi firm Jadwa Research said in a report...
ISLAMABAD: Eleven Pakistani members of the Ahmadi religious minority were murdered for their faith in 2014 and authorities failed to apprehend any of the killers, a report said Monday, highlighting growing intolerance toward the sect...
In the worst case of violence last year, an angry mob torched an Ahmadi neighbourhood in the eastern city of Gujranwala, killing a woman and two girls after a 17-year-old Ahmadi boy allegedly posted a...
PESHAWAR: A Peshawar High Court bench has summoned the counter-terrorism department’s DSP (investigation) along with the relevant records over a plea of the father of a student martyred in the 2014 Peshawar Army Public School carnage that his statement be recorded by the agency probing the killings...
Meanwhile, the bench also adjourned hearing into another petition filed by slain APS student Asfand Khan’s father, advocate Ajun Khan,...
An Anti-Terrorism court (ATC) in Islamabad on Friday ordered Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan to record his statement in four cases — including the Asmatullah Junejo assault case — registered after the PTI's months-long 2014 dharna which left the capital city paralysed...
"Referring to this 2014 dharna, Khan claimed the sit-in was "politically driven"...
A new full bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday started hearing multiple petitions concerning the 2014 Model Town tragedy after a previously-constituted bench recused itself from hearing the case over "personal reasons"...
KARACHI: Banking industry’s pre-tax profit surged by 52 per cent to an all-time high of Rs247 billion in 2014 thanks to their huge investments in government securities, the State Bank said on Thursday...
In its quarterly report ‘Performance of Banking Industry’ for Oct-Dec 2014, the SBP said, “Banks holding of government securities surged to Rs4...