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Monday, October 26, 2009
Clocks to be turned back by an hour from Nov 1
ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to restore the previous time by moving the clocks backward by one hour from Nov 1, Geo News reported on Sunday. The channel, citing the interior ministry, reported the clocks would be put back by one hour at midnight of October 31. The government had decided to advance the clocks by one hour at the onset of summer on the request of the Water and Power Ministry with the aim to save energy.
Naek fetes Turkish premier
ISLAMABAD: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan attended a luncheon reception hosted by Chairman Senate, Farooq H Naek and his wife for the visiting premier, his wife and members of his entourage here on Sunday.
Sindh, Balochistan jolted
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QUETTA: A 5.5-magnitude earthquake jolted some areas of Sindh and Balochistan, Geo News reported on Sunday. Tremors were felt in Dalbadin, Kharan, Mustang, Mach, Naseerabad, Jafarabad, Qambar-Shahdadkot and Quetta. According to the Meteorological Department, the intensity of the tremor was 5.5 at the Richter scale, adding the epicenter of the quake is near the Pak-Afghan border.
Turkish PM’s spouse calls on Begum Gilani
By our correspondent
ISLAMABAD: Spouse of the Turkish Prime Minister, Ms Emine Erdogan, held a meeting with First Lady Begum Fauzia Gilani at the Prime Ministerís House here on Sunday. Fauzia Gilani emphasized the need for frequent visits of women parliamentarians and women delegations to each other’s countries at various levels and hoped that this would open up new vistas of cooperation between the two countries. Daughter of the Prime Minster Ms Fiza Batool Gilani, wife of Minister for Communication and MNA Mrs Asma Arbab Alamgir and wives of senior government officials were also present during the meeting.
Protest rally against kidnapping
By our correspondent
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: A complete shutter down strike was observed on Sunday in Bhiria Road town against the kidnapping of Dr Aslam Araeen, who was abducted two days ago by unknown dacoits from his village. The main market and business centres remained closed in protest and a rally was taken out by the Araeen community, supported by shopkeepers and residents of Bhiria Road.
Militants’ posters displayed in Mingora
By our correspondent
MINGORA: The district police on Sunday pasted posters of wanted militants at various places in Mingora city. The sources said the posters bore the names of those militants who were still at large after security forces’ operation Rah-i-Rast against Fazlullah-led militants. The list of the wanted militants included the names of Ismail, Salman Khan, Mumtaz Khan, Bakht Sardar and Faridul Haq, all belonging to Swat.
70 more illegal aliens arrested
KASHMORE: Police and Rangers in their joint operation have arrested 35 foreigners, including eight women and 20 children, at inter-provincial border of the Punjab and the NWFP. Police and Rangers, in a joint operation, conducted a raid on a coach at Dera More arriving from Peshawar, and arrested 15 Afghans including a woman and six children. —APP
Houses of two militants demolished
By our correspondent
DAGGAR: Security forces demolished the houses of two militants at Deengan village in Gadezai area of Buner district on Sunday.
Several killed in Afghanistan
KABUL: A US soldier and several Taliban were killed at the weekend in the latest deadly violence to hit insurgency-hit Afghanistan, Nato and Afghan authorities said Sunday. The US soldier was killed on Saturday, the third American to lose his life since Friday. A Danish soldier also attached to the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was killed on Friday.
Seven mines defused near Peshawar airport
By Javed Aziz Khan
PESHAWAR: A major sabotage bid was foiled near the Peshawar International Airport on Sunday morning when the bomb disposal unit (BDU) officials recovered and defused seven Russian-made anti-personnel mines on the Canal Road near the Pawaka village. The patrolling cops of the Pishtakhara Police Station were tipped off about the landmines planted under a bridge close to the Peshawar International Airport. Police called the BDU personnel, who defused the mines. BDU officials said each explosive device weighed around one pound and was enough to blow up a vehicle or kill a human being passing through the area.
Akram’s wife dies, aged 42
CHENNAI: Huma Akram, the wife of former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram, died on Sunday after developing heart and kidney complications. She was admitted to the Apollo Hospital in Chennai last Tuesday after her condition deteriorated on board an air ambulance flying from Lahore to Singapore, where she was due to be treated at the Mount Elizabeth Hospital. She breathed her last around 9:45 am, hospital sources said.
Karzai says run-off must be held
KABUL: The Afghan president said on Sunday a run-off presidential election must be held as planned next month, despite talk of a power-sharing deal with his challenger to avoid a second vote. President Hamid Karzai said the second-round ballot “has to be held,” otherwise “we’ll be insulting democracy.” He made the comment on CNN’s ‘Fareed Zakaria - GPS’ programme, which aired Sunday. The run-off was ordered after a UN-backed panel voided enough of Karzai’s August votes.
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Three killed as Sh Rashid escapes attempt on life
By Shakeel Anjum
RAWALPINDI: Awami Muslim League (AML) Chief and a candidate for NA-55 (Rawalpindi) by-election Sheikh Rashid Ahmad was wounded, while three people — a guard and two party workers — were killed when four gunmen more |
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12 soldiers killed in South Waziristan
ISLAMABAD: Twelve soldiers embraced martyrdom while two others were injured in a clash with militants during the ongoing operation Rah-e-Nijat in South Waziristan Agency (SWA), the ISPR said on Monday.
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Plan to attack five-star hotel foiled
By our correspondent
LAHORE: The CIA police here on Monday claimed to have foiled an attack on Americans staying at a five-star hotel and arrested six terrorists, including a suicide bomber.
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Govt taking court for a ride
By Ansar Abbasi
ISLAMABAD: She fought her case in the media. She won her battle in the judicial forum too. But still the government is bent on making an example out of her for refusing to follow the illegal dictates of her min more |
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Pakistan against arms race: Gilani
By Azeem Samar
KARACHI: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday said Pakistan does not want to be engaged in an arms race with any country.
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Punjab-Sindh water row Centre’s intervention sought
By our correspondent
ISLAMABAD: Tension between Punjab and Sindh over opening of the Chashma-Jhelum and Taunsa-Punjnad link canals has touched a new high as the former has sought the Centre’s intervention.
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French, Dutch fight over giving LNG to Pakistan
By Khalid Mustafa
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin and his team is all set to thwart the attempt of an unscrupulous combine of oil industry heavyweights and some functionaries of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Re more |
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Nine killed as no let-up in rains
By Nisar Mahmood
PESHAWAR: Nine people were killed and scores of others injured as heavy rains and snowfall lashed various parts of the country for the fourth consecutive day on Monday.
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Malik orders NUML closure as protest enters 5ht day
ISLAMABAD: The protest of the students of the National University of Modern Languages (NUML) against thrashing of Professor Malik Tahir by Registrar Brigadier (R) Obaidullah Ranjha entered its fifth consecutive more |
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Malik insists no Blackwater in Pakistan
By Muhammad Anis
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rehman Malik while responding to an accusation from a PML-N parliamentarian told the National Assembly that Blackwater was not providing security to the president and the prime mini more |
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FBR gets list of properties rented out to foreigners
By Hanif Khalid
ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has received list of properties from Foreign Office, which were in use of foreigners in Islamabad, Karachi, Peshawar and Lahore, but these were not shown in annual tax more |
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Repealing of 17th Amendment
By our correspondent
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has begun efforts to create consensus on repealing the 17th Amendment before presidential address to the joint sitting of the parliament.
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Three suspects held in Mohmand
By our correspondent
GHALLANAI: The security forces arrested three suspected persons during search operation in Safi subdivision of Mohmand Agency, official sources said Monday. The sources said the security forces carried out sear more |
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No presence of Blackwater, DynCorp in Pakistan, NA body told
ISLAMABAD: Secretary Interior Qamar Zaman again negated on Monday the presence of Blackwater, DynCorp or any other foreign security agency in the country. “Neither the Blackwater and the DynCorp nor any other s more |
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Govt urged to take up water issue with India
By Asim Yasin
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Q, Parliamentary leader in the National Assembly, Makhdoom Faisal Saleh Hayat while urging the government to take up the issue of ‘water terrorism’ with New Delhi, has question more |
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Avalanche kills 17 Indian soldiers in held Kashmir
HELD SRINAGAR: Seventeen Indian soldiers were killed on Monday in an avalanche that slammed into a group of 70 combat troops at a high-altitude warfare training camp in Kashmir, the army said on Monday.
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Taliban defiant as Afghans flee ahead of assault
KANDAHAR: The Nato commanders urged the Taliban to surrender as troops dug in on Monday for a major assault on their key stronghold in southern Afghanistan, sending thousands of residents fleeing.
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Plea to freeze foreign accounts
By our correspondent
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday ordered the federal government to submit a reply within four weeks on a petition seeking freezing of accounts in foreign banks and recovery of illegal assets accumu more |
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Attack on Sh Rashid
RAWALPINDI: The PML-N candidate for by-polls from NA-55, Malik Shakil Awan, has announced suspension of electioneering for a day to mourn the death of those killed in the attack on the office of his rival, Shei more |
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Indian forces to halt Kashmir rally outside UN office
HELD SRINAGAR: The held Kashmir authorities deployed thousands of police and troops on Monday to prevent a protest outside the UN office here over the recent killing of two teenage boys by Indian security force more |
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20 die in Afghan floods, avalanches
KANDAHAR: Twenty people have died in floods and avalanches triggered by some of the heaviest rain and snow in Afghanistan for 50 years, an official said on Monday. At more |
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