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Aziz wants divisible pool size increased
KARACHI, May 22: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that the size of the divisible pool will have to be increased to give each province its due share in the National Finance Commission (NFC) award. He was talking to editors of Sindhi newspapers...
Centre rejects provinces’ plea for bank borrowing
ISLAMABAD, May 22: The federal government is reported to have turned down the provinces’ request to be allowed to borrow from the market to pay back Rs137 billion development loans they owe to the federation....
Functional League to approach EC today: Use of PML nomenclature
LAHORE, May 22: Ruling PML president Chaudhry Shujaat Husain does not give importance to former Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali meeting Pir Pagara or the spiritual leader’s decision to move the...
MMA announces plan for anti-US protests
ISLAMABAD, May 22: A largely attended anti-US convention on Sunday announced a series of protest demonstrations in the country and across world after observing the May 27 international protest day against...
Army gets work on Mangla restarted
LAHORE, May 22: Intervention by the ‘army authorities’ has helped restart work on the raising of Mangla Dam, which remained suspended for six months due to a dispute on cost of...
US copter attack in Waziristan kills 5
MIRAMSHAH (North Waziristan), May 22: Five tribesmen were killed in an attack by US helicopters in the Lawara Mandai area of the North Waziristan agency on Saturday night, officials said. Another...
12 killed in Afghanistan
KABUL, May 22: Twelve suspected militants were killed in a clash with US forces on Saturday night in south-eastern Afghanistan that also left one US soldier wounded, a US military official...
UN seat: India fails to woo US
WASHINGTON, May 22: Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran, who left for home this weekend after a four-day visit to the United States, failed to win over US support for India’s bid...
Blasts rock Delhi cinemas; one dead
NEW DELHI, May 22: One person was killed and 49 were wounded Sunday when blasts rocked two cinemas in New Delhi screening a controversial film condemned by Sikhs, police said,...
Meeting on 27th to discuss NFC award
KOHAT, May 22: NWFP Senior Minister Sirajul Haq has said that the finance ministers of three provinces will meet on May 27 to work out a solution to the issue of distribution of resources based on the formula mentioned in the 1973 constitution. They would meet under a special NFC award committee...
Sindh formula to benefit all provinces, says minister
KARACHI, May 22: Sindh’s Senior Minister for Finance Syed Sardar Ahmed said on Sunday that all the provinces would get substantial increase in their shares if they accepted the formula proposed...
Pakistan beat West Indies by 22 runs
GROS ISLET (St. Lucia), May 22: Pakistan beat West Indies by 22 runs in the third and final one-day international, winning the three-match series by 3-0. Sent in to bat by...
OIC calls for adequate Muslim world’s representation
UNITED NATIONS, May 22: The OIC has called for adequate representation of the Muslim world in an expanded UN Security Council which could expand from 15 to 26 members as proposed...
Schroeder proposes early election
DUESSELDORF (Germany), May 22: German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder proposed an early general election for late this year after his Social Democrats lost control of a key state on Sunday....
Kalri — another Manchhar in the making?
KARACHI: Senior officials in the Sindh irrigation department have taken much credit in recent days for the relative calm this year in Hyderabad and adjoining areas even after the release of...
Ex-prisoner confirms Quran desecration
ISLAMABAD, May 22: A Kohistani, Mohammad Saghir, who was released from the Guantanamo Bay prison last year, said on Sunday that he had witnessed American investigation and prison officials desecrating the...
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Editor: Tahir Mirza
NEW DELHI, May 22: One person was killed and 49 were wounded Sunday when blasts rocked two cinemas in New Delhi screening a controversial film condemned by Sikhs, police said,...
