'No move for govt change': PM conveys president's assurance to Qazi
ISLAMABAD, June 17: President Pervez Musharraf is not against Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali and assured the latter in a meeting on Thursday that there is no move to replace him.
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Opposition walks out of NA over murder
ISLAMABAD, June 17: The entire opposition, comprising ARD, MMA and other groups, staged a combined walk-out from the National Assembly on Thursday evening to protest at the targeted killing of PPP leader Munawar Hussain Suharwardy in Karachi and boycotted the rest of the session.
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'Nation wide protests planned'
ISLAMABAD, June 17: The opposition parties have announced that they would jointly hold peaceful protest demonstrations throughout the country over the next three days to condemn the murder of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) activist Munawwar Suharwardy in Karachi.
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Benazir demands judicial probe
LAHORE, June 17: Condemning in 'strongest terms' the murder of Mr Munawwar Suharwardy in Karachi, PPP Chairperson Benazir Bhutto demanded an inquiry by a commission comprising retired judges Nasir Aslam Zahid and Mamoon Kazi.
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Munawwar Suharwardy shot dead
KARACHI, June 17: Munawwar Suharwardy, Sindh PPP information secretary and a close confidant of Ms Benazir Bhutto, was shot dead in a targeted killing on Thursday afternoon near the busy Guru Mandir intersection.
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EC allows registration of new PPP
ISLAMABAD, June 17: The Election Commission (EC) on Thursday allowed the newly merged political entities headed by Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao and Rao Sikandar Iqbal Khan to be registered under the name of Pakistan People's Party.
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President meets more MNAs in chamber
ISLAMABAD, June 17: President General Pervez Musharraf on Thursday continued attending his chamber in parliament house for second day to establish direct interaction with the elected representatives in his chamber.
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Troops launch offensive against Al Qaeda hideout
WANA, June 17: Security troops and fighter jets swooped down on suspected Al Qaeda hideouts near the Afghan border on Thursday, launching their third offensive this year in a protracted campaign to rid the tribal region of Al Qaeda-linked militants.
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Al Qaeda leader escapes arrest
PESHAWAR, June 17: An intelligence agency and the crimes investigation department (CID) in a joint raid arrested two Afghan suspects from Qadirabad locality of Gulbahar No.2 here on late Wednesday night.
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Three more Jundullah activists arrested
KARACHI, June 17: Police arrested three militants of the newly surfaced jihadi outfit Jundullah, in a raid at a madressah in Orangi Town and seized weapons, it was learnt on Thursday.
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Rs180 billion 'relief budget' for Punjab: Record allocation for ADP
LAHORE, June 17: Punjab Finance Minister Sardar Hasnain Bahadur Dareshek on Thursday presented in the provincial assembly a revenue budget of Rs180.021 billion for 2004-05. It indicates a revenue expenditure of Rs141.884 billion and a gross surplus of Rs38.14 billion.
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Five-marla homes to be exempt from property tax
LAHORE, June 17: The Punjab government on Thursday proposed to exempt from property tax one house of five marlas used for residential purposes and falling under category D to G of the valuation in order to provide relief to the people in lower-income groups.
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Gwadar port to be ready before time, says chairman
GWADAR, June 17: Amid tight security provided by the Pakistan Navy, Chinese engineers and several hundred local workers are working round the clock to complete the first phase of the Gwadar Deep Sea Port ahead of schedule, a team of journalists touring the port were told on Thursday.
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Pakistan hails US decision
ISLAMABAD, June 17: Pakistan on Thursday welcomed a decision by US President George W. Bush to make it a "major non-NATO ally" in recognition of policies adopted by President Pervez Musharraf.
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Meeting with Natwar in China likely: Kasuri
KARACHI, June 17: Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri on Thursday said he was looking forward to meeting with his Indian counterpart Natwar Singh on the sidelines of the Asian Cooperation Dialogue in China for increasing the level of trust needed to address all issues
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India, Pakistan won't roll back N-plans: US
WASHINGTON, June 17: The United States understands that neither India nor Pakistan is going to roll back its nuclear programme but it is prepared to work with them to prevent further proliferation.
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41 die in Iraq car bomb attacks
BAGHDAD, June 17: Two car bomb attacks against Iraq's army and civil defence corps on Thursday killed 41 people and wounded 145 others as insurgents aimed to sow chaos ahead of the June 30 transfer of sovereignty.
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UN admits mistake in Iran report
VIENNA, June 17: The UN nuclear watchdog was forced to make an embarrassing admission on Thursday, that it had wrongly accused Iran of withholding information about imports of potentially weapons-related technology.
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