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PM terms delay in re-instating judges biggest mistake
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani said his biggest mistake was not reinstating the judges at the beginning of his term in office.
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Rabbani panel close to consensus on 18th Amendment
By Asim Yasin
ISLAMABAD: In a landmark development, the parliamentary committee on constitutional reforms, headed by Senator Mian Raza Rabbani, has finished its task of evolving a consensus on amendments to the Constitution more |
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10 more killed in NWA drone attacks
By Mushtaq Yusufzai
PESHAWAR: Ten more militants were killed and two others sustained injuries in two separate US drone attacks on Hamzoni and Mezar villages in North Waziristan on Wednesday.
Official and tribal sources sai more |
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NAB preparing to write letter for Swiss cases
By Usman Manzoor
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) plans to write a letter to the Swiss government regarding the reopening of $60 million money laundering cases against President Asif Zardari before the next h more |
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VAT bill to be moved in assemblies
By our correspondent
ISLAMABAD: As the federal cabinet on Wednesday reiterated the determination to fight the menace of terrorism with full force to ensure peace and stability in the country, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani direc more |
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Five security men killed in check-post attack
By Javed Aziz Khan
PESHAWAR: Three Frontier Constabulary soldiers and two policemen were killed in a brazen attack by militants on a security check-post in Speen Qabar village on the boundary between the provincial metropolis and more |
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Arrests made in Spain, France
MADRID: A ransom for a five-year-old British boy kidnapped in Pakistan and freed this week was paid in Paris, Spain’s interior ministry said on Wednesday, adding five people had been detained.
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Traders decry acts of terrorism
RAWALPINDI: The increasing terrorist incidents in the country have not only badly affected the economy and business of Pakistan but also increased problems of the common man. It is need of the time that a “Busi more |
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From managing the Ambanis’ money to managing Pakistan’s finances, what a day!
By Mohammad Malick
Islamabad: Taking part in the virtually meaningless debate on Law and order, Makhdoom Faisal Saleh Hayat sounded more like the future senior leader of the Musharraf-funded, and Barrister Saif-founded, All Pakis more |
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Local newspaper editor given last chance to submit reply
News Desk
RAWALPINDI: The court of Civil Judge and Area Magistrate Malik Azmat Ullah Awan has given last chance to the editor of a local newspaper Shoaib Bhutta to submit reply in the petition filed by Jang Group of News more |
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Woman smuggler beaten up in Nowshera
By our correspondent
NOWSHERA: The personnel of Customs Squad beat up a woman smuggler of foreign cloth and injured her seriously here Wednesday.
Lodging a case with the Azakhel Police Station against two personnel of the Cu more |
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Woman dies as shell hits house
By our correspondent
BARA: A woman was killed while her two daughters injured when a mortar shell hit a house in Storikhel area of Tirah valley in Khyber Agency, tribal sources said Wednesday.
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Five Swati militants killed in Kohistan
By our correspondent
MANSEHRA: Five militants were killed and a police inspector sustained injuries during an operation in Palas area in Kohistan district on Wednesday, a police official said.
Mohammad Ilyas, District Police more |
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Zardari donates all body organs
By our correspondent
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday became the first president to donate all his body organs after signing a bill to enact a law to regulate transplant of human organs in the country.
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SC for inquiry into arms licences case in five days
By Sohail Khan
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the secretary Ministry of Interior and the director general FIA to conduct an investigation in the case of issuing fake arms licences and submit an inquiry rep more |
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PAC seeks FIR against directors of four telecom firms over tax evasion
ISLAMABAD: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the National Assembly has directed the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to lodge an FIR against directors of four telecom companies within 48 hours for tax evasio more |
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Petraeus urges sustained commitment to Pakistan security
WASHINGTON: Head of the US Central Command General David Petraeus has urged “substantial, sustained” commitment to Pakistan’s security and development as he highlighted the efficacy of the South Asian ally’s an more |
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Five die in Quetta violence
By Muhammad Ejaz Khan
QUETTA: Five people were killed and four personnel of the Frontier Corps (FC) sustained injuries in a fresh wave of violence in the provincial capital on Wednesday, police said.
The police said these inc more |
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Goal still to capture bin Laden alive: US military
WASHINGTON: The top US commander in Afghanistan said on Wednesday that it remains the goal of US troops to capture Osama bin Laden alive and bring him to justice.
The comment by General Stanley McChrysta more |
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No miracles expected in Indo-Pak talks: Antony
NEW DELHI: Indian Defence Minister AK Antony said on Wednesday that he was not expecting miracles in Indo-Pak talks.
Addressing a press conference in more |
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