Referendum no substitute for democracy: PPP
KOHAT, April 13: NWFP People’s Party president Khwaja Mohammad Khan Hoti said on Friday that his party will not allow the government to usurp the constitutional rights of the people by holding referendum...
ANP wants to woo SQM leaders
SWABI, April 13: The leadership of Awami National Party wanted to bring back all the Swabi Qaumi Mahaz leaders into their party fold and also some distinguished leaders of PML(N) as...
Case against Sherpao put off till 19th
PESHAWAR, April 13: An investigation officer deposed before an accountability court on Saturday that successive chief ministers in the NWFP had allotted plots to different people from their discretionary quotas....
PML (QA) supports reforms
MARDAN, April 13: The president of the NWFP Pakistan Muslim League (QA), Salim Saifullah Khan, has announced support of his party for the referendum to be held on April 30 by...
Drive against polio from 16th
LAKKI MARWAT, April 13: Around 150,000 children of up to five years of age will be administered polio and Vitamin-A drops in a three-day anti-polio campaign, which is scheduled to begin...
Five arrested
LANDI KOTAL, April 13: Bara Khyber Agency’s authorities arrested five suspects in Alamgudar on Friday night in connection with the kidnapping of Dr Inayat Roghani....
Police quick on impounding vehicles
LAHORE, April 13: Commuters faced great difficulty on Saturday when the city administration and police impounded hundreds of vehicles to transport people to Faisalabad to attend President Gen Musharraf’s public meeting...
Stage set for President Musharraf’s meeting
FAISALABAD, April 13: Arrangements have been finalized for holding President Gen Pervez Musharraf’s public meeting at Iqbal Stadium on Sunday (today)....
Minor boy burnt alive
KASUR, April 13: A minor boy was burnt alive while his brother suffered critical burn wounds at a nearby Nathey Wala village here on Saturday....
Maqbool reviews arrangements
FAISALABAD, April 13: Punjab Governor Khalid Maqbool reviewed on Saturday the arrangements being made for Gen Pervez Musharraf’s public meeting at Iqbal Stadium....
Arrested for speaking against referendum
SIALKOT, April 13: The Daska city police on Saturday night arrested Maulana Feroze Khan, the naib amir of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (Samiul Haq group), from Darul Aloom Madnia, Daska Kalan, for speaking...
Police chief urged to book Gojra ASI
TOBA TEK SINGH, April 13: The district council has urged the local police chief to register a case against Gojra ASI who allegedly received Rs45,000 as a bribe in a murder...
NAB begins probe against 17 officials: Illegal cutting of forest
SUKKUR, April 13: The National Accountability Bureau has initiated an enquiry against 17 officials of Sindh forest department, including its secretary and three conservators, for their alleged involvement in corruption, mismanagement,...
Payment of stipends delayed
MITHI, April 13: The deserving people of Mithi taluka, particularly the women and elderly, are facing difficulties in getting third instalment of their stipends under the Food Support Programme from local...
One dies as police, protesters clash
DADU, April 13: One villager of Bhit Jabal was killed and two others were injured seriously by the police while 10 policemen were injured when a clash took place between the...
Nazim to lead caravan
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, April 13: Naushahro Feroze District Nazim Masroor Jatoi will lead a caravan, with the Nazims and Naib Nazims of four talukas and 31 union councils out of 51 of...
Three killed in tribal clash
SUKKUR, April 13: Three people were killed in a clash between Mahers and Jatois in Budh village, near Chak, some 15 kilometres away from here, on Saturday....
Matli growers protest against water theft
HYDERABAD, April 13: The tail-end growers of Bawali Shakh held a protest demonstration in Matli before the office of the SDO, irrigation, on Friday, to protest against the acute shortage of...
Boycott
NAWABSHAH, April 13: Elected Nazims of the Jamat-i-Islami would not participate in the coming referendum. This was stated by Moulana Asadullah Bhutto, Amir Jamat-i-Islami, Sindh, while talking to newsmen here on Saturday....
Musharraf suffering from Bhutto phobia: PPP leader
ISLAMABAD, April 13: Syed Khursheed Shah, senior leader of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), has said the government is suffering from Bhutto phobia and termed President Gen Pervez Musharraf’s announcement to...
Immunity sought for officials: Draft Police Ordinance 2002
ISLAMABAD, April 13: The National Reconstruction Bureau (NRB) has proposed to give immunity to police officers from prosecution and civil suits for their acts under the draft Police Ordinance 2002 in...
Voting procedure thru postal ballot announced
ISLAMABAD, April 13: The Election Commission of Pakistan on Saturday announced the procedure of casting vote through postal ballot in the referendum, and asked willing voters to apply for this by...
PMDC asks AIMS to fulfil requirements
MUZAFFARABAD, April 13: The Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) has asked the administration of the Abbas Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS), Muzaffarabad, to fulfil requirements to process its case for...
President advised not to increase prices
ISLAMABAD, April 13: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has been advised by his well wishers in the government “not” to allow increase in the prices of various utilities, especially petroleum and electricity,...
Construction on state land opposed
MUZAFFARABAD, April 13: The AJK Local Government and Rural Development Department (LG&RD) has strictly told the Special Communications Organization (SCO) to refrain from making any construction on its land in a...
Manzoor Wattoo disqualified
LAHORE, April 13: Accountability court judge Rana Abdul Ghaffar Khan disqualified on Saturday former Punjab chief minister Manzoor Ahmad Wattoo from holding any public office....
Changes in laws to implement NHP urged
ISLAMABAD, April 13: The minister for housing and works, Abbas Sarfraz Khan, has asked the provincial governments to make necessary amendments in the relevant laws to implement the National Housing Policy...
10 killed in Kashmir violence
SRINAGAR, April 13: Ten people were killed and four wounded in explosions and shootouts in occupied Kashmir, police said on Saturday....
Five killed in accidents
QUETTA, April 13: Four persons were killed and several others injured, two of them seriously, when two passenger wagons collided near Bakhtirabad, some 240km from here on Saturday, police sources said....
Buddhist varsity site to be opened
GILGIT, April 13: The archaeological site of the most ancient Buddhist University Phoughch, Darel, will be opened for foreign tourists....
$50,000 raised for cancer hospital
WASHINGTON, April 13: A Pakistani organization has raised $50,000 for Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital in Lahore, including a $1,000 donation from former US vice-president Al Gore....
Tajikstan for cooperation
ISLAMABAD, April 13: Tajikstan President Emomali Rakhmanov emphasized the need for greater cooperation between his country and Pakistan, in support of the implementation of the Bonn Agreement.—Staff Reporter...