What is Gujrat police up to?: Drive against illegal arms
GUJRAT, Sept 28: The Gujrat police have allegedly implicated hundreds of innocent people in false cases of illicit arms possession to show efficiency in the arms recovery drive, according to inside...
Rape case: rally held against police
FAISALABAD, Sept 28: Residents of Khurrianwala staged a sit-in on Saturday in front of the offices of district police officer here against police failure to register a gang-rape case....
Imran terms governor’s visit pre-poll rigging
MIANWALI, Sept 28: The government will not be able to achieve its objectives despite supporting turncoats and plunderers of the national exchequer....
MMA to resist bid to rig elections
FAISALABAD, Sept 28: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal will resist attempts to rig the forthcoming general elections....
Gujranwala Chamber officials
GUJRANWALA, Sept 28: Khwaja Tahir Hasan, Ehsanullah Chughtai and Muhammad Shafiq were elected unopposed president, senior vice-president and vice-president of the Gujranwala Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Saturday....
FCCI elections
FAISALABAD, Sept 28: Mian Amjad Saeed was elected president of the Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Saturday....
Three escape from lock-up
NANKANA SAHIB, Sept 28: Three under-trial accused fled from the judicial lock-up by carving out a hole in its wall on Saturday....
Gen Beg warns of agitation
BAHAWALPUR, Sept 28: A countrywide protest movement will be launched against the government if the king’s party is brought to power through rigging....
Unfeasible projects funded under SRSP
PESHAWAR, Sept 28: Development funds of the Sarhad Rural Support Programme, allocated for the improvement and rehabilitation of water sources and community water supply schemes in Karak district, have been released for failed and...
Problems of tribesmen to be solved, says MMA
MIRANSHAH, Sept 28: Mutahidda Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) candidate for NA-40, North Waziristan Agency, Maulvi Nek Zaman Haqqani, has said that if voted to power the religious parties’ alliance would utilize all the...
Ghinwa demands provincial autonomy
CHITRAL, Sept 28: The head of PPP(SB), Ghinwa Bhutto, has said that her party is in favour of greater provincial autonomy and do not favour the strengthening of the centre at...
Appointment of teachers approved
MINGORA, Sept 28 : The principal of Saidu Medical College, Professor Dr Peer Muhammad Khan, has said the provincial government has solved the problems of the college and given approval for...
Books donated to bar associations
PEHSHAWAR, Sept 28: NWFP Minister for Law and Local Government Athar Minallah has said that the lawyers community has always raised their voice for the supremacy of law of the land....
Internet cafes being misused
PESHAWAR, Sept 28: The number of the Internet cafes in the city is on the increase as thousands visit them, specially teenagers, most of them for chatting and other indecent purposes,...
ANP leader threatens to boycott polls
SWABI, Sept 28: Former MNA and district president of Awami National Party Haji Rehmanullah has threatened that he would boycott the Oct 10 elections if the government failed to prevent the...
MMA chief warns against rigging
SUKKUR, Sept 28: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal believes that after the Oct elections, Gen Pervez Musharraf must adopt the constitutional process for remaining the president....
Inquiry into irregularity ordered
THATTA, Sept 28: The district monitoring team instituted an inquiry on Saturday into the alleged misappropriation in awarding 32 development schemes’ contracts. The irregularities surfaced after 36 contractors submitted their tenders...
Governor for success of govt supporters
KHAIRPUR, Sept 28: Sindh Governor Mohammedmian Soomro has urged the people to vote for the supporters of the government for the continuity of its policies....
EU team meets candidates
NAWABSHAH, Sept 28: The two-member European Union election observers group, comprising Easter Robert Jordan and Manival Sanche, on Saturday met several candidates of various political parties here....
Govt accused of violating EC rules
LARKANA, Sept 28: The president of the Pakistan People’s Party (Sindh) Nisar Ahmed Khuhro on Friday expressed doubts over the transparency of the upcoming election....
Nazim slams Soomro’s visit
SUKKUR, Sept 28: The district Nazim Khairpur, Nafisa Shah, on Saturday criticised the Sindh Governor’s earlier visit to the district....
Real democracy will prevail: President
ISLAMABAD, Sept 28: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Saturday said that the genuine democracy his government is going to establish will prevail and “we will continue with it.”...
RAW’s hand can’t be ruled out: Moin: Christians’ murder
ISLAMABAD, Sept 28: Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider has said that RAW’s (Indian Secret Service) hand cannot be ruled out in killings of seven members of Christian community in Karachi....
Musharraf blamed for Karachi killings
WASHINGTON, Sept 28: US-based Pakistani Christians on Friday accused President, Pervez Musharraf, of allowing Muslim fanatics to kill minorities because, they said, “he fears that interfering with the groups could destabilize...
Jamali vying for NA-259 against Agha
QUETTA, Sept 28: Despite being component parties of the Grand National Alliance many candidates of the Millat Party and the Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-i-Azam) are contesting the Oct 10 general election...
— accepts gift from Chinese firm
ISLAMABAD, Sept 28: President Gen Pervez Musharraf accepted a gift of 5,000 GSM lines and the associated ‘Intelligent Net Work’ here on Saturday, from the president of ZTE Corporation of China,...
Shahida opens EPA building in Quetta
QUETTA, Sept 28: Federal Minister for Environment, Local Bodies and Rural Development Barrister Shahida Jameel has said environment protection has become an important pillar of sustainable economic and industrial uplift the...
Train service restored
QUETTA, Sept 28: Train service between Quetta and rest of the country was restored on Saturday after repairing the damaged railway tack between Sibi and Jacobabad....