Jamali presides over PML meeting of factions today
ISLAMABAD May 9: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali will preside over a meeting of the five PML faction heads at the Prime Minister's House on Monday.
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ARD's plea to C'wealth
LAHORE, May 9: The ARD has urged the Commonwealth authorities not to allow re-entry of Pakistan into the association before ensuring supremacy of the Constitution and parliament in the country.
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'Shahbaz's return a courageous step'
ISLAMABAD May 9: The jailed president of ARD and acting president of PML-N, Makhdoom Javed Hashmi, has termed the decision of party president Shahbaz Sharif to return home a courageous one.
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'PML-N men to reach Lahore despite govt crackdown'
ISLAMABAD, May 9: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz vice- president, Mushahidullah Khan, has said despite government's massive crackdown on the party, the leaders and workers will reach Lahore airport on Tuesday (tomorrow) to receive their leader Shahbaz Sharif.
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TV channel fails to telecast Shahbaz's interview
ISLAMABAD, May 9: A private TV channel failed to telecast a live interview of Pakistan Muslim League-N president Mian Shahbaz Sharif on Sunday night without giving any specific reason leaving a large number of viewers in deep mystery as to why the interview was not telecast.
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MMA, MQM flex muscles; canvassing ends tonight
KARACHI, May 9: The electioneering process reached its peak on Sunday before coming to close on midnight between May 10 and May 11. The four main parties in the final run up to the bye-elections are the Muttahida Qaumi Movement
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'MMA interfering in district affairs'
MANSEHRA, May 9: The opposition leader in the NWFP Assembly, Shahzada Mohammad Gustasip Khan, said on Sunday that the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal leadership had failed to honour its promises made to the people.
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Qazi blames US for carnage
KARACHI, May 9: Acting president of the Muttahida Majlis-i- Amal Qazi Hussain Ahmad on Sunday condemned the Hyderi Mosque tragedy and accused America and its local agents within the government, whom he termed enemies of Ummah, for the heinous act.
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Mourners vow to foil US designs
KARACHI, May 9: Speakers addressing participants of a procession, emerging from the Mehfil Shah-i-Khurasan, near Purani Numaish, on Sunday afternoon demanded that instead of paying compensation for the casualties in the Hyderi mosque blast
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Ibad for fair TV coverage
KARACHI, May 9: Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad called upon the media on Sunday to give unbiased coverage to activities of the government and its coalition parties
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'Musharraf-Vajpayee meeting likely after August talks'
LAHORE, May 9: A meeting between Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and President Gen Pervez Musharraf is likely to be held after August this year after the first round of composite talks between senior officials of Islamabad and New Delhi
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Ponam calls for provincial autonomy to end crisis
QUETTA, May 9: Leader of the Pakistan Oppressed Nations' Movement (Ponam) said on Sunday that people's rights and provincial autonomy could end the constitutional crisis and political instability in the country.
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'Govt wants DPs to return with dignity'
PESHAWAR, May 9: States and Frontier Regions Minister Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao said on Sunday that Pakistan wanted to facilitate voluntary repatriation of Afghan refugees in a dignified manner.
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Wapda allowed four more power projects
ISLAMABAD, May 9: The federal government has allowed Wapda to undertake four more hydroelectric projects worth billions of rupees to meet the country's growing energy requirements.
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