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Gilani serves notice on NRO-tainted cabinet members |
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By Rauf Klasra
ISLAMABAD: The emotional and unexpected outburst of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to resign in case it was established that his wife was one of the beneficiaries of the NRO, is said to have stained all those top guns of the PPP government, who are facing the looming threat of reopening of their
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Jang Economic Session |
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News Desk
RAWALPINNDI: The participants of the Jang Economic Session have asked the government to evolve at least a five-year economic roadmap that would help boost the foreign exchange reserves of the country.
Investment incentives may also be offered to the overseas Pakistanis. A sincere leader, well
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Murree villagers protest supply of gas to Shahbaz’s residence |
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By Raja Abdul Rahman
MURREE: Hundreds of villagers from different rural communities of Murree held a protest meeting against the natural gas pipeline to the bungalow of Hamza Shahbaz Sharif, MPA, at Donga Gali.
The project, now under way to provide Sui gas to the house of Hamza Shahbaz, has angered the villagers
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PC hotel refutes employees’ termination charges |
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ISLAMABAD: The management of the Pearl Continental Hotel Rawalpindi (PCHR) strongly condemns and rebuts the allegations appeared in a section of the press that they have terminated 31 employees and plan to terminate the services of certain other employees in due course of time.
The spokesman
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Haqqani never sought relief under NRO |
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News Desk
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani never applied for any benefit under National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) in any alleged case against him, said his lawyer Sohail Hassan Qaiser, senior advocate of Akhtar Awan Law Associates.
Haqqani’s lawyer stated that National Acc
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25th death anniversary of Faiz observed |
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ISLAMABAD: Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s 25th death anniversary was observed on Friday. He was one of the most loved poets of Urdu language. He passed away 25 years ago on Nov 20. He is the most-read poet of Urdu language after Dr Allama Mohammad Iqbal.
Faiz was born on Feb 13, 1911 in Sialkot. He achiev
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Zardari for inclusion of satellite imaging in Fata schemes |
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By Asim Yasin
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday directed that a provision for satellite imaging of the development projects in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) be included in PC-1 proposals in future for effective implementation and monitoring of various development projects undertaken
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FPSC sits on the fate of 1,775 would-be officers |
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By Dilshad Azeem
ISLAMABAD: At least 1,775 appointment cases are pending before the Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC), which is functioning without a chairman since last March, The News has learnt.
“These applicants from throughout the country are waiting for interviews, including those pending for the
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SC directs gender-based registration of eunuchs |
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By Sohail Khan
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday directed the government to register eunuchs after determining their gender by medical check-up besides giving them the right to vote and inheritance.
A three-member bench of the apex court, comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Ch
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Father of mysterious air crash victim to move SC |
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By Usman Manzoor
ISLAMABAD: The family of a Pakistani pilot, who disappeared in a mysterious crash of a Kabul-Bagram flight in Afghanistan in November 2005, has decided to knock at the doors of the Supreme Court after failing to get any information about is whereabouts.
The crash was reported by the western
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Sindh donates 50 trucks of relief goods for SWA IDPs |
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PESHAWAR: The Sindh government handed over on Friday 50 trucks containing food items to the government of the NWFP in Islamabad for onward distribution among the IDPs of South Waziristan (SW).
NWFP Minister for Prisons Mian Nisar Gul Kakakhel received the trucks carrying 10,000 food packets
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75 anti-social elements held in Khairpur |
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By our correspondent
KHAIRPUR: District Police Officer, Khairpur, Pir Muhammad Shah, has stated in his monthly performance report that in the month of October, 2009, in preventive actions the district police arrested 75 anti-social elements, five vagabonds and two harbourers of criminals.
The recoveries of illi
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