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KARACHI: Chief Justice Sindh High Court Mushir Alam has said the judiciary is still better than all institutions of the state.
He said judiciary and democracy were interlinked and if courts would be respected, democracy would also be nourished. ...
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Wajid Ali Syed
WASHINGTON: MQM’s parliamentary leader Dr Farooq Sattar has hinted that a coalition with Pakistan’s Tehreek-e-Insaf would be quite possible in the next general elections.
Talking to media at a dinner meeting in Washington on Thursday, he denied ...
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Ansar Abbasi
ISLAMABAD: The Option II of the Supreme Court’s January 10, 2012, judgment is under process against Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani who, if convicted in the contempt of court case, would cease to be the chief executive of the country and might ...
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Asim Hussain
LAHORE: Commotion, altercation and indecent language once again ruled the Punjab Assembly proceedings when the session resumed on Friday after a gap of two days to debate the deaths of over 100 heart patients caused by reaction to drugs provided by ...
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ISLAMABAD: Minister for Interior Rehman Malik on Friday said the SHO of concerned police station would be suspended if any banned outfit organised a public rally in his area of jurisdiction.
Emphasising the need to improve laws to control the ...
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our correspondents
SADDA/PARACHINAR: Seven paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC) soldiers were killed and three others were injured in an attack on their checkpoint by militants in the Shaheedhano Dhand area of Kurram Agency near the border with North Waziristan early ...
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Mumtaz Alvi
ISLAMABAD: In complete disregard for the Supreme Court’s clear orders against reemployment of retired government employees, none other than former judges that head the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) have given a year’s extension to a retired ...
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Muhammad Anis & Tahir Khalil
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Friday asked the PPP leadership to accept four demands in exchange for its support for the passage of the 20th Amendment.
Voting on the bill was delayed for two days on Friday in order to ...
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Javed Aziz Khan
PESHAWAR: Four people were killed and two others injured in a huge bomb attack targeting the Hujra of a tribal elder on the Ring Road in Pishtakhara village here on Friday.
Another terror attack was thwarted a few hours earlier in Sarband where ...
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Nadeem Alvi
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has, in his letter to Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, demanded equality in gas and electricity loadshedding among all the units of the federation.
In the letter, the chief minister has also ...
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Agha Khalid
KARACHI: The decision taken by the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet, on the directive of the federal government, to write off loans given to flood-affected rice mills and small businesses in Sindh and Balochistan may potentially ...
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our correspondent
PESHAWAR: Different parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the tribal areas including the provincial capital received light rain early Friday besides reports of snowfall in the hilly areas that caused closure of roads and other means of ...
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Hanif Khalid
ISLAMABAD: Chairman Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Mehmood Alim said on Friday that sales tax on tractors would be reduced from 16 percent to 5 percent, thereby providing much-needed relief to the tractor industry. As a result the prices of ...
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KABUL: Sitting cross-legged on a blood-red Afghan carpet in a house perched on a Kabul hillside, the bearded man gazes out across the sprawling city where he was once one of the most feared men in town.
Now, Maulavi Qalamuddin, former chief of ...
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Khalid Mustafa
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and India will each get an additional 150 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd) of piped gas to be imported from Turkmenistan after Afghanistan halved its earlier agreed share of 0.5bcfd (billion cubic feet per day) in the contract ...
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LONDON: British energy minister Chris Huhne resigned on Friday after being told he will face criminal charges over allegations he dodged a speeding penalty.
Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer announced that Huhne and his ex-wife, ...
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Nazir Laghari
KARACHI: Tayyab Agha, Special Assistant to Mulla Omar, had begun talks with the United States with the mandate of the Taliban Shoora and after the acceptance of the Talibanís six conditions by the US; the talks now stand suspended.
The ...
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our correspondent
BARA: Three militants and a volunteer of the tribal lashkar were killed in fresh fighting between the outlawed Lashkar-e-Islam and the Zakhakhel tribe in Sherkhel area in Tirah Valley of Khyber Agency on Friday, tribal sources said.
The sources ...
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Usman Manzoor
ISLAMABAD: Yet another standoff between the PPP government and the army may be around the corner as it involves control of all cantonment boards and military lands throughout the country by civilians, while the army apparently wants to retain its ...
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our correspondent
LAHORE: Chief Minister Punjab Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif on Friday said the medicines which cause deaths were sent for analysis to laboratories of London and Switzerland which in their reports declared Isotab of Effroze Chemicals Karachi as ...
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BARA: Two soldiers and two militants were killed while six others sustained injuries in separate clashes in Bara subdivision in Khyber Agency, official sources said Friday. The sources said around two dozen militants, armed with rocket launchers ...
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our correspondent
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani announced a considerable raise in the salaries of health sector professionals including doctors and paramedical staff belonging to federal government hospitals here on Friday.
Making a policy ...
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our correspondent
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan Friday requested the Supreme Court to restrain the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) from holding by-elections being held on February 25 on the basis of polluted voters list.
He prayed ...
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Muhammad Saleh Zaafir
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has informally been warned by the World Health organization (WHO) to control spreading of the diseases including polio, HIV aides and hepatitis in the country on emergency basis otherwise it would be placed among the countries ...
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Shakeel Anjum
ISLAMABAD: The federal capital has received another threat from a terrorist outfit, a security agency source said Friday.
An intelligence agency warned the law enforcing agencies to be ON alert as a group of terrorists had reached Islamabad with ...
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our correspondent
PESHAWAR: A mere 2.8 percent of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s development funds for the financial year 2011-12 have been allocated to the under-developed southern districts of the province while Hazara division got 6.1 percent.
“The criteria for ...
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Bassam Javed
Afghanistan continues to be an overt or proxy ‘playing ground’ for diverse outside powers, both near (Russia) and far (US, West). The decade old US meddling after the failure of Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 has yielded more familiar ...
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RAWALPINDI: Intelligence agencies of Pakistan have warned the government that banned religious organisations have become active again due to provision of funds in local and foreign currency from Pakistan and abroad.
A secret report available to ...
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our correspondent
KARAK: An assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of KP Police and a proclaimed offender were killed in an encounter here on Friday, police sources said.
The sources said two groups of outlaws led by Rafique Zargar and Noor Jamal were exchanging fire in ...
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Ex-chairman Balochistan Bar escapes life attempt
MASTUNG: Former chairman Balochistan Bar Council Muhammad Ebrahim narrowly escaped an attempt on his life at the district court premises. Local officials said an armed men opened fire at Ebrahim ...
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