President Dr Arif Alvi has urged the need to take effective steps for enrolling out-of-school children as human resource development was the lynchpin to the socioeconomic development of any country.   He was talking to the Chairman of the National Commission for Human Development Col retired Dr Amirullah Marwat, who

The National Assembly resumed its session at the Parliament House in Islamabad on Monday evening with Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf in the chair.   PPP leaders Syed Ali Musa Gillani and Abdul Hakeem Baloch took oath as Members of the National Assembly.   Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf administered the oath.

Pakistan and Iran have agreed to strengthen bilateral cooperation in the fields of economy, trade, culture and people-to-people contacts.   This understanding came during a meeting between Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb and Iranian Culture Minister Mohammad Mehdi Esmaeili in Istanbul.   Speaking on the occasion, Marriyum Aurangzeb

Cyclone Sitrang slammed into densely populated, low-lying Bangladesh late Monday, killing at least five people as authorities fearing heavy rain and storm surge rushed to move hundreds of thousands out of the system’s path.   Sitrang, packing winds of 80 kilometers (50 miles) per hour, made landfall along the Chittagong-Barisal