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Petitions dismissed by Supreme Court: 17th Amendment, dual office
ISLAMABAD, April 13: The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed all petitions challenging the 17th constitutional amendment and the dual office of President General Pervez Musharraf. However, a decision in a case...
Strategic ties to be deepened: Rumsfeld
RAWALPINDI, April 13: United States Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld called on President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday and reiterated US commitment to broadening and deepening its strategic relationship with Pakistan....
Cabinet okays law reforms: Provision of speedy justice aimed at
ISLAMABAD, April 13: The federal cabinet on Wednesday approved a law reforms package aimed at curtailing discretionary powers of police by introducing changes in civil and criminal statutes and removing procedural...
Sui-Dera Bugti road opens
QUETTA, April 13: Frontier Corps personnel and Bugti tribesmen reopened on Wednesday the road between Sui and Dera Bugti after both sides removed pickets that had been set up following bloody...
ADB says three-nation gas pipeline viable
ISLAMABAD, April 13: The Asian Development Bank has termed the long-delayed multi-billion dollar Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan gas pipeline project ‘viable and feasible’. This was announced by federal Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources...
‘Efforts for release of hostage under way’
ISLAMABAD, April 13: Pakistan on Wednesday said it was hopeful of early release of Malik Muhammad Javed, a staff member of its embassy in Baghdad, who was abducted on Sunday. Efforts...
Hurriyat leaders to meet Musharraf
NEW DELHI, April 13: A range of Kashmiri leaders are preparing to meet President Gen. Pervez Musharraf but a piquant problem has arisen over the request of some of them to...
Singh flags off train linking India with Kashmir
UDHAMPUR, April 13: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday flagged off the first train on a service that would eventually link occupied Kashmir with India. The train between Jammu and...
Pakistanis charged over Spanish plot
MADRID, April 13: Spanish authorities have charged 11 Pakistani nationals over suspected links with Al Qaeda sympathisers who carried out the Madrid train bombings a year ago, judicial sources said on...
Musharraf to start visit from Ajmer shrine
NEW DELHI, April 13: President Gen Pervez Musharraf will start his three-day tour to India on Saturday by visiting the shrine of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti at Ajmer before arriving in New...
Boy dies; poisonous water toll rises
LARKANA, April 13: More people suffering from abdominal ailments caused by poisonous water were brought to the Chandka Medical College Hospital in Larkana and Taluka hospital in Warah from the ‘Kaacho’...
All efforts being made for hostage release: FM
ISLAMABAD, April 13: Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri on Wednesday said the government was making every effort to secure a safe release of Malik Mohammad Javed, a Pakistan embassy official kidnapped...
Suppression of N-terror treaty approved by UN
UNITED NATIONS, April 13: The UN General Assembly approved a nuclear terrorism treaty on Wednesday that would oblige governments to prosecute those who illegally possess atomic devices or radioactive materials. The...
BD, India plan joint border patrolling
DHAKA, April 13: Bangladesh and India are likely to begin coordinated frontier patrolling to contain cross border smuggling of drugs and arms across the borders of the two neighbouring countries. “The...
Girls suspected as suicide bombers
NEW YORK, April 13: Immigrants and Muslim communities watched with concern on Wednesday as the US government prepared a case against two local teenage girls detained on immigration charges amid reports...
Lebanon PM resigns
BEIRUT, April 13: Lebanon’s pro-Syrian prime minister stepped down on Wednesday, abandoning efforts to form a government to lead the country to general elections, but said there was still time to...
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