MMA’s demand on judges’ age issue accepted: Bill finalized; religious alliance okays all LFO provisions with slight modifications
 ISLAMABAD, Dec 21: The government has agreed to one-year extension to the retirement age of...
|
|
President emphasizes support to Kashmiris
RAWALPINDI, Dec 22: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Monday reaffirmed the primacy and centrality of the Kashmir dispute for durable peace in South Asia and underlined Pakistan’s firm and unwavering commitment...
|
|
Jirga delegates air grievances: Reconstruction of Afghanistan
KABUL, Dec 22: Delegates of the Constitutional Loya Jirga took a day off from constitution-making to air their grievances regarding the....
|
|
Pakistan probe reassuring: US
WASHINGTON, Dec 22: The United States said on Monday that Pakistan’s decision to investigate some scientists for their possible link to Iran’s nuclear programme was reassuring....
|
|
|
Musharraf to take trust vote within a month: MMA
LAHORE, Dec 22: President Pervez Musharraf will take the confidence vote from the electoral college within 30 days of the approval of the constitutional package, an MMA leader who negotiated the...
|
|
WB to offer $1bn for irrigation system
ISLAMABAD, Dec 22: The World Bank has agreed to offer $1 billion over a period of three year for rehabilitation of the irrigation system, says a senior official of the ministry...
|
|
|
Treasury members outshout opposition in Senate
ISLAMABAD, Dec 22: The ruling coalition outshouted opposition in the Senate on Monday as the government neared finalazing a deal with one of the two opposition alliances to settle the year-...
|
|
ARD disappointed at MMA’s briefing
ISLAMABAD, Dec 22: The MMA has briefed the ARD on its ongoing negotiations with the government on the proposed constitutional package, a source told Dawn on Monday....
|
|
|
Egyptian FM assaulted
 AL QUDS, Dec 22: Worshippers assaulted Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher in the Al Aqsa Mosque on Monday and he had to....
|
|
No restriction on Dr Qadeer, says FO
ISLAMABAD, Dec 22: Questions about reports of possible links between the Pakistani and Iranian nuclear programmes were being put to Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, the government said on Monday....
|
|
|
Superior court judges’ salary increased
ISLAMABAD, Dec 22: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has again increased the salaries and pensions of the Supreme Court and high...
|
|
12 die in Kashmir clashes
SRINAGAR, Dec 22: Twelve people were killed in clashes in occupied Kashmir and 14 injured in a grenade attack, police said on Monday....
|
|
|
Bush holds meeting after security alert
WASHINGTON, Dec 22: US President George Bush met his top anti-terror advisers on Monday, one day after the US government...
|
|
First Indian flight due on Jan 2
LAHORE, Dec 22: The first flight of Indian Airlines will land at Lahore airport on Jan 2, 2004 after a two-year-long break....
|
|
|
3 Pakistanis face trial in Russia over kidnapping
MOSCOW, Dec 22: Three Pakistanis will be tried in Moscow for allegedly kidnapping of nine Indian citizens last year, a judge said on Monday after postponing proceedings to allow for the...
|
|
Pakistan-India ties normalizing: envoy
LAHORE, Dec 22: The relations between Pakistan and India are heading towards normalization, Pakistan’s High Commissioner in New Delhi Aziz Ahmad Khan told reporters on his arrival at Wagah on Monday....
|
|
|
Jailed French journalists go on hunger strike
KARACHI, Dec 22: Two French journalists jailed on charges of violating their visa restrictions began a hunger strike on Monday in protest against their arrest, their lawyer said....
|
|
Two US troops killed in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Dec 22: A roadside bomb killed two US soldiers in Baghdad on Monday, hours after troops captured a former general in Saddam Hussein’s security services on charges of recruiting ex-soldiers...
|
|
|
