No information about Shahbaz's return: Fahim
ISLAMABAD, April 30: Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy (ARD) chairman Makhdoom Amin Fahim has said that the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) has not yet informed other component parties of the alliance about the final programme
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Delayed service of notice to Zardari: PPP seeks apology
ISLAMABAD, April 30: Pakistan People's Party (PPP) has sought an apology and explanation from the military regime as to why the service of a legal notice issued by a Swiss magistrate to Asif Ali Zardari was kept secret for three weeks.
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JI for cooperation among all parties
LAHORE, April 30: The Jamaat-i-Islami will hold a three-day grand assembly of some three million people in Lahore in October to monitor the developments expected to take place during the month
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Resolution on WMDs termed a 'death trap'
ISLAMABAD, April 30: The deputy parliamentary leader of Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) in the National Assembly, Hafiz Hussain Ahmed, has taken serious exception to Pakistan's support to the latest UN resolution
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'BNP-A not consulted over NA-PML merger'
QUETTA, April 30: Balochistan National Party (Awami) Patron-in-Chief Senator Moheem Khan Baloch claimed on Thursday that Millat Party chief Sardar Farooq Ahmed Leghari had not taken his party into confidence
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Baton-charging of students condemned
ISLAMABAD, April 30: The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) deputy secretary general, Senator Raza Rabbani, has strongly condemned baton charging of students in Karachi, who had been holding demonstrations for their educational rights.
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Turkish minister meets president
RAWALPINDI, April 30: The visiting Turkish minister for national defence, Vecdi Gonul, called on President Gen Pervez Musharraf at the General Headquarters on Friday.
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President, PM vow to uphold labour rights
ISLAMABAD, April 30: President Gen Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali have reaffirmed their commitment to ending exploitation of labourers
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Envoy pledges US aid for backward regions
PESHAWAR, April 30: US Ambassador Nancy Powell has said that Washington would provide assistance for the development of Kala Dhaka, Mansehra's hilly areas
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Jica signs Rs713m accord with Pims
ISLAMABAD, April 30: The Japan International Corporation Agency (Jica) has signed a Rs713 million agreement with the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) under which the agency would provide manpower and funds to the hospital
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Foreign firms depleting Pakistan's fish stocks
LAHORE, April 30: Fishing practices by multinational companies of the industrialized countries are detrimental to the developing countries, especially Pakistan.
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Country has weak patent system: Ata
ISLAMABAD, April 30: Pakistan stands nowhere on the innovative scene as characterized by a weak patent system, the Higher Education Commission chairman, Dr Attaur Rehman, said here on Friday.
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S. Arabia to cut job visas
RIYADH, April 30: The new Saudi minister for labour has announced that the number of new employment visas to be issued by the kingdom would be reduced by at least 10 per cent over that in previous years.
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Indian children spend busy day
KARACHI, April 30: The visiting Indian children, after concluding their three-day stay in the city, left here for Lahore by train on Friday evening.
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