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LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Punjab president Mian Shahbaz Sharif has alleged that the caretaker Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso, under the influence of President Asif Zardari, was making transfers and postings in the federal ...
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ISLAMABAD: Dispelling the rumours, presidential spokesperson Senator Farhatullah Babar on Friday announced that President Asif Ali Zardari will not be resigning any time soon.Babar’s remarks came after rumours that President Zardari was planning to ...
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LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Mian Nawaz Sharif said on Friday that he would bend over backwards to serve the people.
In an interview, Nawaz Sharif said that steering the country out of crises and ensuring sustainable ...
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WASHINGTON: A senior Defense Department official said on Thursday that the Pentagon sees no need to change the broad Congressional authorisation under which the military conducts lethal drone strikes against terrorist targets and estimated that the ...
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News Desk
RAWALPINDI: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) has increased the electricity tariff by Rs5.8 per unit for domestic and commercial consumers.
According to a notification issued on Friday, Nepra has permitted power ...
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Mumtaz Alvi
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Friday dismissed a plea by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) for re-election in NA-250, Karachi, instead of re-polling at only 43 polling stations.
The commission asked for deployment of ...
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M Waqar Bhatti
KARACHI: After Chief Election Commissioner Fakhruddin G Ebrahim’s meeting with Chief of the Army Staff Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani at the GHQ in Rawalpindi the other day, the Inter-Services Public Relations on Friday said troops will be deployed in ...
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KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has decided to boycott the scheduled May 19 re-polling in the NA-250 constituency, in protest against the Election Commission’s decision to conduct re-polling at only 43 polling stations and not in the ...
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Ansar Abbasi
ISLAMABAD: The caretaker government of Mir Hazar Khan Khoso is getting into extremely shady businesses as it has started hiring and firing key officers on the basis of favourtism and also punishing those who don’t dance to the tunes of a few top ...
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Muhammad Ejaz Khan
QUETTA: The leadership of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Friday succeeded in gaining the support of two major nationalist groups — the Pashtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) and National Party (NP) — to form a PML-N-led government in ...
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Asim Yasin
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has recovered Rs25 billion through Voluntary Return (VR) and Plea Bargain (PB) during one year.
The Bureau Friday released its annual report for the year 2012 that covers NAB achievements, ...
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Muhammad Saleh Zaafir
ISLAMABAD: The Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Essa Abdullah Al-Basha Al-Noaimi had separate meetings with president of Pakistan Muslim League (N) Nawaz Sharif and chairman Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan in Lahore on Friday. ...
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Syed Bukhar Shah
PESHAWAR: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa President Anwar Saifullah Khan has appointed provincial senior vice-president Azam Afridi as acting president in his absence.
Addressing a meeting of the divisional presidents, members ...
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Rana Ghulam Qadir
ISLAMABAD: Session of the newly-elected National Assembly will be held in the last week of May but the issue of accommodation of the new members has fallen prey to administrative and financial mismanagement.
In the 358 family suites of the ...
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LAHORE: Three men drowned in the Ravi while beating the heat near Suggian Bridge, police and rescue workers said on Friday.They were identified as Teto, 28, Shahid, 35, and Nadeem, 25. Locals told police the three friends were taking a dip in the ...
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LAHORE: Caretaker Information Minister Arif Nizami has expressed a great sense of satisfaction and relief over the recent electoral exercise and added that Mian Nawaz Sharif and his team would steer the country out of the present ...
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Delawar Jan
PESHAWAR: Chief Minister-designate Pervez Khattak on Friday said his party chief Imran Khan would contact Nawaz Sharif to discuss how to bring about peace to the country, particularly in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
In a recent Nawaz-Imran meeting, ...
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Murtaza Ali Shah
LONDON: Legal experts are of the opinion that the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Altaf Hussain’s threatening and provocative words may not necessarily lead to a criminal prosecution despite complaints made by thousands of people to the ...
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KABUL: Two bombs hidden in a motorcycle and a car exploded inside an elite gated community linked to the family of Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Friday evening, killing at least nine people and wounding more than 70 near the southern city of ...
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KARACHI: The chief justice of the Sindh High Court (SHC) said on Friday the law and order situation in Karachi could not be improved until a single institution was given the responsibility to control the lawlessness in the city.
“Giving such a ...
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Mushtaq Paracha
NOWSHERA: The police and law enforcement agencies on Friday arrested the kingpin of a gang suspected of kidnapping Ali Haider Gilani, the son of former prime minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, during an operation in the Charsadda district.
Sources ...
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Obaid Abrar Khan
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday suspended the orders to send the executive director of Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) back to the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), directing the Pemra chairman ...
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ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday summoned the session of the Senate to meet on May 23 at 10:00am at the Parliament House in Islamabad.Spokesperson to the president said that the Senate session will be addressed by the visiting ...
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RAWALPINDI: Former prime minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf on Friday recorded his statement in the Rental Power case before the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) team.Ashraf rejected all allegations and said that he was being defamed through baseless ...
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PESHAWAR: The Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) chief Aftab Sherpao on Friday expressed concern over the unannounced and unscheduled loadshedding in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.He was addressing a function held at the QWP central secretariat here.
The QWP ...
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