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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
News Desk
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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‘Al-Qaeda, Taliban leaders not in Pakistan’
ISLAMABAD: Strongly reacting to some of the reports of the presence of al-Qaeda and Taliban leadership in Pakistan by the US newspapers and some intelligence agencies, President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday said more |
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Mulla Omar in Karachi, claims WT
WASHINGTON: Mulla Muhammed Omar, the leader of the Afghan Taliban, has fled Quetta and found refuge from the potential US attacks in Karachi with the assistance of Pakistan’s intelligence, the Washington Times more |
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Will PM intervene or will robber barons kill CCP?
By Mehtab Haider
ISLAMABAD: The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) has warned that it will cease to exist and its actions will become invalid in case the government fails to re-promulgate the Competition Ordinance on or b more |
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Eight militants die in US drone attack
By our correspondent
MIRAMSHAH: Eight militants were killed and two others injured when a US drone hit a house in the Michikhel area in North Waziristan on Friday, the second such attack in less than 24 hours.
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19 militants killed in SWA, Khyber, Bajaur clashes
By our correspondents
WANA/BARA/KHAR: Nineteen militants were killed in clashes with security forces in South Waziristan, Khyber and Bajaur tribal regions on Friday.
Tribal and officials sources said five militants were kille more |
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Pakistan has nothing to fear from India: Singh
WASHINGTON: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said India is ready to resolve all outstanding issues with the country on the condition that it will not allow its territory to be used against its neighbour more |
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Qureshi wants result-oriented dialogue with India
MULTAN: Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mehmud Qureshi said on Friday Pakistan wanted meaningful and result-oriented bilateral negotiations with India.
Addressing a press conference at the airport here, h more |
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Only 15 pc believe Pakistan is going right
By Gibran Peshimam
KARACHI: Pakistan’s youths are losing confidence in the future and a mere 15 per cent believe that the country is heading in the right direction, while 72 per cent feel economically worse off than a year ago. O more |
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Mustafa Jatoi passes away
ISLAMABAD: Former caretaker prime minister Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi breathed his last at the St Marry Hospital in London on Friday after a protracted illness. He was 78.
He leaves behind six sons and three d more |
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Slaughter of animals, NRO beneficiaries begins on Eid
By Muhammad Ahmad Noorani
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) will soon announce its strategy to deal with the cases which are going to reopen on Nov 28, a NAB spokesman told The News on Friday.
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WFP, Rescue 15 attacks’ mastermind arrested
By Shakeel Anjum
ISLAMABAD: The Capital Police on Friday arrested the mastermind behind the attacks on the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and the Rescue 15 offices in Islamabad.
The terrorist, identified as Jamshed Ahmad more |
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Mushahid asks Karzai not to allow use of Afghan land against Pakistan
By our correspondent
ISLAMABAD: Secretary General Pakistan Muslim League-Q Mushahid Hussain Sayed on Friday asked President Hamid Karzai not to allow the use of Afghan land against Pakistan under Indian designs.
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No Indo-Pak FMs meeting: Nirupama
NEW DELHI: India on Friday said no meeting had been scheduled between foreign ministers of Pakistan and India in Port of Spain later this month on the sidelines of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting ( more |
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US to tighten control of Afghan contracts: Gates
HALIFAX: US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said on Friday that the United States must tighten control of Afghan development contracts as a first step towards stemming rampant corruption.
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China has stake in Kashmir: Mirwaiz
News Desk
HELD SRINAGAR: As he plans to visit China, Hurriyat Conference leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Friday kicked up a controversy by saying that Beijing has a “direct link” with the Kashmir issue, drawing strong obje more |
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Clinton favours Indo-Pak dialogue on Kashmir
WASHINGTON: The United States is encouraging Pakistan and India to resume their dialogue to address Kashmir and other outstanding disputes but any solution must come from the two countries, Secretary of State H more |
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Competition Commission forces PIA to fly fair
By our correspondent
ISLAMABAD: Silent prayers of many Hajis have apparently been answered as the Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) has ordered PIA to refund within 60 days the excessive fares charged from the passengers, wh more |
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Attack on policemen in Peshawar
By Javed Aziz Khan
PESHAWAR: The death toll in the bomb attack on police party in Yakatoot rose to three after a sub-inspector and another cop succumbed to injuries at the Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) on Friday as the city mourned more |
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‘Musharraf funnelling money to improve image’
ISLAMABAD: Former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf has reportedly funnelled a large amount of money to his former aides in the country in order to improve his image, as he is planning a return to the c more |
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Sen Lugar’s wife arrested, charged with drinking, hit-and-run
News Desk
WASHINGTON: The wife of Republican Senator Richard G Lugar was arrested in the suburb of McLean on Wednesday night after crashing into a parked car, and she was charged with drunk driving and hit-and-run, the F more |
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Bombers kill 23 in Afghanistan
HERAT: Bomb attacks on Friday killed 23 people in Afghanistan, a deadly start to President Hamid Karzai’s second term that underscored spiralling insecurity nine years into more |
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