Special courts to try adulterators: Cabinet okays 25-year jail term
ISLAMABAD, Sept 1: The federal cabinet on Monday decided to establish special courts to punish those found guilty of adulterating food and drugs with up to 25 years imprisonment....
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No in-house change in the offing: Shujaat: Negotiations with MMA soon
ISLAMABAD, Sept 1: PML-Q president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Monday debunked reports that Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali would soon be replaced through an in-house change and said these rumours...
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Opposition shouts thru NA sitting
ISLAMABAD, Sept 1: The opposition shouted anti-LFO protest through the National Assembly proceedings on Monday as tensions mounted after the treasury benches sought a debate over a recent Swiss court verdict...
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India asked to resume talks
ISLAMABAD, Sept 1: Pakistan on Monday again called upon India to immediately resume the long-delayed talks on issues of mutual concern on the basis of sovereign equality and after shunning the...
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LFO tug-of-war to lead to anarchy — Nasrullah
LAHORE, Sept 1: ARD president Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan says the status of Gen Pervez Musharraf is like that of the viceroy in pre-partition India, whose orders were binding but not recognized...
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MMA may scrap dialogue
ISLAMABAD, Sept 1: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) may decide to scrap its dialogue with the government or give a “final deadline” for the finalisation of the talks process....
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Tasman Spirit: PNSC seeks $1bn in damages
KARACHI, Sept 1: Port authorities on Monday brought a suit against the Pakistan National Shipping Corporation claiming damages of up to $1 billion while the PNSC has in turn sued the...
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‘Osama may be in tribal areas’
ISLAMABAD, Sept 1: Pakistan conceded on Monday that Osama bin Laden might be hiding in its tribal belt bordering Afghanistan....
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25-man Iraqi cabinet appointed
BAGHDAD, Sept 1: Iraq got its first post-war cabinet on Monday as the funeral march for Ayatollah Mohammad Baqer al-Hakim, killed in the Najaf car bomb massacre, continued its three-day journey...
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Ministry told to implement Police Order by 30th
ISLAMABAD, Sept 1: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has directed interior minister Makhdoom Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat to ensure the implementation on the Police Order 2002 in the country before Sept 30,...
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Mumbai blasts: Muslim family faces charge
MUMBAI, Sept 1: Indian police on Monday charged four Muslims, including a man and wife and their 17-year-old daughter, for the twin car bombings in Bombay a week ago which killed...
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11 Afghans killed in Taliban attack
KABUL, Sept 1: At least 11 Afghans, two of them guards for a US company, were killed overnight by suspected Taliban guerillas as US forces launched a fresh assault on hundreds...
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Hamas man killed in Israeli strike
 GAZA CITY, Sept 1: A Hamas activist was killed and 17 people were injured in the latest Israeli air strike against the hardine group here on Monday as the European Union’s...
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ARD wants debate on arrest of armymen
ISLAMABAD, Sept 1: The Alliance for Restoration of Democracy has submitted an adjournment motion to the National Assembly Secretariat seeking debate on the issue of the arrest of armymen for their...
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Shahbaz may move to Dubai soon
NEW YORK, Sept 1: Pakistan Muslim League-N president Shahbaz Sharif on Monday reaffirmed his intention to return to Pakistan soon, saying he would be moving to Dubai from New York within...
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10 die in Kashmir violence
SRINAGAR, Sept 1: Ten people were killed in occupied Kashmir on Monday in a wave of violence which police said was in revenge for the killing by Indian troops two days...
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Bush-Jamali meeting next month
WASHINGTON, Sept 1: US President George W. Bush would meet Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali in the first week of October at the White House, diplomatic sources here said....
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Kenya hotel ablaze
MOMBASA, Sept 1: Hundreds of German and Swiss tourists were evacuated as fire tore through a hotel complex on Monday at the Kenyan coastal resort of Mombasa, police and hotel workers...
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