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Monday, June 15, 2009
Heirs of PC victims get cheques
By our correspondent
MANSEHRA: Provincial Minister for Food Shujah Salim Khan Sunday distributed cheques to the families of United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) employees killed in PC hotel bombing. Shuja Salim Khan distributed Rs100,000 cheques among the families of Mohammad Miskin and Mohammad Tahir, officials of the UNFPA.
Lashkar kidnaps three militants in Darra
By our correspondent
KOHAT: The Darra Adamkhel-based armed Lashkar kidnapped three accomplices of a militant commander in the area on Sunday. Sources said the members of the anti-Taliban Lashkar organised by Momin Khan Afridi picked the three close aides of Tariq Manikhel, commander of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Darra Adamkhel chapter. One of the kidnapped militants was identified as Anzar Gul while the names of the other two could not be ascertained. Sources said two members of the Lashkar were killed by the militants in the Akhorwal area few days ago. Meanwhile, security forces dismantled a hideout of the militants in Tor Chappar area of Darra Adamkhel.
JI Jirga urges shooting down drones
By Muhammad Anis
ISLAMABAD: A national Jirga organised by the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) has demanded of the government to issue directives for shooting down the US drones violating the country’s airspace and immediately stopping the military operation going on in different parts of the country. The Jirga was attended by JI Central Amir Syed Munawwar Hasan, ex-Amir Qazi Hussain Ahmad, Secretary General Liaquat Baloch, Naib Amirs and Senators Prof Muhammad Ibrahim and Prof Khurshid Ahmad and around 100 JI leaders from all over the country.
20 Taliban killed in Afghanistan
HERAT: Military operations by Afghan and foreign forces in western Afghanistan have killed 20 Taliban rebels, Abdul Bashir Ghori, the army spokesman said on Sunday. He said that two civilians were also killed. Afghan army, police and Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) troops launched coordinated operations overnight in the provinces of Farah and Badghis. The joint forces attacked insurgent positions in Gulistan district of Farah, killing 15 Taliban militants, Ghori said.
Two Afghans held, heroin recovered
By our correspondent
LANDIKOTAL: Security forces foiled a bid to smuggle heroin and arrested two Afghan nationals at the Torkham border on Sunday. Official sources said they recovered four kilogrammes of heroin from the luggage of an Afghan national, Khanmadar. The heroin was concealed in a ghee tin and was being smuggled into Pakistan via Torkham border, the sources said. Political administrations detained Khanmadar and Eman Jan (13) and sent them to the Landikotal lock up for investigation.
Women protest arrests in DI Khan
By our correspondent
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: A group of women on Sunday protested outside the City Police Station against the arrest of what they said were 59 innocent citizens. They said police were arresting and harassing innocent people in the name of search operation. The women said the police kept the arrested persons in unlawful custody for a few days and then released them while the unabated crimes were on the rise in the city.
Family robbed at Khairpur Railway Station
By our correspondent
KHAIRPUR: A family was robbed at the Khairpur Railway Station here on Sunday. The family of Matloob Hussain Korai was waiting at the railway station for a train to go to Karachi. In the meantime, armed men arrived and made them hostage at gunpoint. They deprived the family of gold, cash, mobile phones and other valuables.
Bomb defused in Peshawar
By our correspondent
PESHAWAR: An explosive device, planted by unidentified militants on main Indus Highway near Matani, was defused by the bomb disposal squad on Sunday. The explosive was connected with a remote control device. Some passers-by informed the police after spotting the explosives.
Al-Qaeda financier arrested in Yemen
SANAA: Yemeni authorities have arrested the financier of al-Qaeda operations in the country and in neighbouring Saudi Arabia, an official said on Sunday, as cited on the defence ministry news website. “The arrested man is named Hassan Hussein bin Alwan, a Saudi national, and he is the financier for attacks launched by al-Qaeda organisation in Yemen and Saudi Arabia,” the unnamed security official told September Net website. “He is considered one of the most dangerous members of al-Qaeda,” he added.
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CJ says good governance being compromised
By Sohail Khan
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry said on Tuesday that good governance is being compromised as it is believed that the administration of justice is the sole duty of courts or the legal fratern more |
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Hakimullah dies of wounds in Multan?
By Mushtaq Yusufzai
PESHAWAR: Reports about the death of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Hakimullah Mehsud once again started circulating on Tuesday and this time it was being reported that the militant commander had succumb more |
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MNAs seek solution to Sindh-Punjab water rift
ISLAMABAD: Members of the National Assembly on Tuesday urged for the resolution of the water crisis between Punjab and Sindh, failing which would lead to serious repercussions for the country.
Yousuf Tal more |
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Good governance hinges on change in national behaviour: PM
By our correspondent
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that change in the collective behaviour of the nation is necessary for the promotion of good governance. He said that his government believed in streng more |
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NIC made mandatory to get sugar from USC outlets
ISLAMABAD: The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet on Tuesday made it mandatory to produce national identity cards to get a pack of 2kg sugar from the USC outlets.
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Three provinces to hold LG polls in four months
By Hanif Khalid & Asim Yasin
ISLAMABAD: A high level meeting here on Tuesday at the Aiwan-e-Sadr decided that the chief ministers of Sindh, NWFP and Balochistan would hold local government elections in four months.
President Asif Al more |
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Senators condemn attack on Sh Rashid
By our correspondent
ISLAMABAD: Senators on Tuesday strongly condemned the murder attempt on Awami Muslim League (AML) chief Sheikh Rashid Ahmed. Meanwhile, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) members advised Sheikh Rashid to stop more |
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PIA obliges religiously; latest being religious minister
By Rauf Klasra
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), facing a mind-boggling loss of about Rs70billion, has quietly upgraded two seats of Federal Minister for Religious Affairs Hamid Saeed Kazmi and his wife fr more |
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A brigadier without brigade has a history of thrashing
By Umar Cheema
ISLAMABAD: The basher-brigadier of the National University of Modern Languages (NUML), who assaulted his professor colleague late Thursday, has a long list of such incidents on his credit as his resume is sprin more |
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PAC settles drought money misuse
By Rauf Klasra
ISLAMABAD: A special committee of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) probing misuse of drought funds worth million of rupees on Tuesday conveniently settled majority of charges against deputy auditor general o more |
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NA-55 by-polls
By our correspondent
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has urged all the political parties, including the PML-N, to withdraw from the NA-55 by-polls in favour of Sheikh Rashid.
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Point scoring be avoided in Rashid attack case: Shahbaz
By our correspondent
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said the Rawalpindi incident on Monday had grieved every Pakistani.
He said a joint investigation team comprising federal and provincial agencies including I more |
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SC moved against delay in judges’ appointment
By our correspondent
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court was moved on Tuesday against the government’s delay in the appointment of judges in the apex court and was prayed for directing the government to perform its constitutional duty by more |
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‘74 killed in Bajaur operation’
By Hasbanullah Khan
KHAR: Security forces claimed to have killed 74 militants and injured 54 others and wrested the strategically important hilltops and areas from the insurgents during the weeklong military operation in the Mamon more |
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Afghan unrest kills US, French soldiers
KABUL: A US and French soldiers were killed in attacks in southern and eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, the alliance said.
The US service member was killed in an improvised bomb blast in southern Afghanis more |
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Army called in for today’s Lakki by-election
By our correspondent
PESHAWAR: The government has requisitioned the services of the Pakistan Army to augment the police and civil security forces for conducting the NWFP Assembly by-election on PF-75 Lakki Marwat for which polling more |
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Meeting discusses political issues
ISLAMABAD: A meeting held here at the presidency on Tuesday and presided over jointly by President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani discussed political and development issues in the N more |
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Rashid accuses PML-N of promoting criminal culture
ISLAMABAD: Head of Awami Muslim League, Sheikh Rashid, on Tuesday criticised the PML-N-led Punjab government for promoting criminal culture in Rawalpindi and the province.
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Over 64 dead in Afghan avalanches
KABUL: At least 24 bodies have been recovered and 40 other people are feared dead after avalanches swept vehicles into a ravine and trapped cars in a mountain pass overn more |
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