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Committee discusses concurrent list issue
ISLAMABAD May 3: The 38-member Parliamentary Committee on Balochistan held a marathon session here on Tuesday and discussed in detail issues pertaining to provincial autonomy, concurrent and federal lists and possible amendments to the constitution....
Cattle import from India allowed
ISLAMABAD, May 3: Pakistan on Tuesday allowed duty- and tax-free import of four essential commodities and one million head of cattle per year from India at an estimated cost of more...
Corporate tax cut under study
ISLAMABAD, May 3: The government is considering a proposal to cut corporate tax by 10 per cent in the budget for 2005-06 to help avoid the burden of taxes on public...
Police crush journalists’ march in Islamabad
ISLAMABAD, May 3: Police crushed a journalists’ march near the parliament house on Tuesday, virtually turning a press freedom day into a police freedom day and provoking strong rebukes from the...
Six killed on LoC: India
JAMMU, May 3: Indian troops shot dead six “infiltrators” in a firefight along Line of Control (LoC) on Tuesday, the defence ministry said. “Indian border guards spotted six infiltrators having sneaked...
Efforts to woo Sami back into MMA fold
ISLAMABAD May 3: Fresh efforts are being made to bring Senator Maulana Samiul Haq, chief of his own faction of JUI, back into MMA’ fold. A delegation of JUI-S is reported...
Finance ministers may meet next week
LAHORE, May 3: The finance ministers of the four provinces are expected to meet here informally in a week’s time to sort out differences over distribution of resources from the divisible...
New proposals submitted: Security Council expansion
UNITED NTIONS, May 3: Italy and Pakistan came up with two new proposals on Monday for expanding the UN Security Council that would give regional groups more power to choose candidates...
India, Pakistan not better off with N-weapons: US
WASHINGTON, May 3: The United States said on Tuesday that it did not believe India and Pakistan were better off possessing nuclear weapons, but did not include the two South Asian...
Iran vows to continue nuclear plans
UNITED NATIONS, May 3: Iran declared on Tuesday that it is determined to pursue all legal areas of nuclear technology, including uranium enrichment asserting that it is the “inalienable right of...
Partial Iraqi cabinet sworn in
BAGHDAD, May 3: Members of Iraq’s new cabinet, led by Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari, were sworn in one by one on Tuesday after months of haggling over the government make-up. The...
Aziz leaves for Malaysia today
ISLAMABAD, May 3: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz will leave for Kuala Lumpur, capital city of Malaysia, on Wednesday night aboard a special aircraft on the first leg of his Southeast Asian...
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LAHORE, May 3: At least 29 people were killed and nine others injured when three two-storey buildings in the thickly-populated Allama Iqbal Town collapsed after gas cylinders stored in one of...
ISLAMABAD, May 3: Police crushed a journalists’ march near the parliament house on Tuesday, virtually turning a press freedom day into a police freedom day and provoking strong rebukes from the...
