Political parties pledge to fight corruption
 ISLAMABAD, Sept 19: Political parties of different shades on Thursday pledged to implement an effective anti-corruption package after the election....
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Musharraf asks India to shun bilateralism
ISLAMABAD, Sept 19: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Thursday advised India to give up the bogy of bilateralism and engage itself in multilateralism or Saarc-based resolutions of disputes in South Asia....
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Britain opposes isolating Pakistan
NEW DELHI, Sept 19: Attempting a delicate balance in South Asia on Thursday, the world’s leading architects of the anti- terror war ruled out any move to isolate Pakistan in the...
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60 Nazimeen in NWFP resign
 PESHAWAR, Sept 19: Sixty of the 92 union council Nazimeen of the district and three women councillors on Thursday resigned in protest against the murder of Pishtkhara UC Nazim Fiyyaz Khalil....
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US, UK work on draft resolution against Iraq
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 19: Despite opposition to a war against Iraq by majority of the UN Security Council members, the United States and Britain began work on a tough resolution which...
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Judiciary has ceased to be independent, says SCBA
ISLAMABAD, Sept 19: The Supreme Court Bar Association, and other representative bodies of the lawyers, will not approach any court on any constitutional issue as the members of the bar were...
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Rs17.28 tax levied on every litre of petrol, LHC told
LAHORE, Sept 19: The government taxes constitute more than 50 per cent of the petrol and over 33 per cent of the High Speed Diesel retail prices....
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PPP, PML-N plans on seat adjustment off
ISLAMABAD, Sept 19: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz group) are new allies against the military rule but are unwilling to share each other’s votes, shattering their...
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Rejection of Shahbaz papers challenged
LAHORE, Sept 19: The revised petitions challenging disqualification of PML-N president Shahbaz Sharif and Kulsoom Nawaz from the forthcoming elections were filed on Thursday before the Lahore High Court after the...
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Musharraf advises people to elect honest candidates
ISLAMABAD, Sept 19: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Thursday appealed to the nation to elect honest and dedicated candidates in the October elections in order to have clean leadership which should...
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Suspect knew 9/11 plan, says prosecutor
BUFFALO, NY, Sept 19: At least one of the six suspected members of an Al-Qaeda-trained sleeper cell in upstate New York had prior knowledge of the Sept 11 terrorist attacks, a...
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Lasi barred from election race
QUETTA, Sept 19: A full bench of the Balochistan High Court, headed by Chief Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed, has upheld the election tribunal’s decision disallowing Ghulam Akbar Lasi from contesting the...
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Suicide bomber kills 5 in Tel Aviv
 TEL AVIV, Sept 19: A Palestinian bomber on Thursday killed himself and five others on a Tel Aviv bus and wounded more than 60, a day after another kamikaze killed an...
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Petroleum prices raised by 34 paisa
KARACHI, Sept 19: The Oil Companies Advisory Committee (OCAC) on Thursday increased the prices of oil products by 20 to 34 paisa per litre after putting on hold the price revision for four days...
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‘Prestigious’ seats in Punjab
LAHORE, Sept 19: The National Assembly seats being contested by the heads of the PML(QA), the Millat Party, the PML(N), the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf, the Pakistan Awami Tehrik, the PML(Z) and the...
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EU reduces number of observers
ISLAMABAD, Sept 19: European Union on Thursday announced it will not deploy the same number of observers it had originally planed for the forthcoming general elections due to Pakistan’s “reluctance to...
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Super-7 aircraft’s trial set for June
KARACHI, Sept 16: The prototype of the Super-7 high-tech aircraft, being developed in collaboration with China, will commence trial operations in June next year....
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Five troops killed in Valley
JAMMU, Sept 19: Five Indian soldiers and two civilians helping them track down freedom fighters in thick forests in occupied Kashmir have been killed in a fierce firefight, police sources said...
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