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Budget to be based on ’96 NFC award
ISLAMABAD, June 2: The federal government has decided to announce next year’s budget on the basis of the 1996 NFC Award and has asked the provinces to do the same. The budget will be presented in the National Assembly on June 6. “The federal government has prepared the budget on the basis of the existing award....
Kishanganga dam: no headway in talks
NEW DELHI, June 2: Talks between India and Pakistan to resolve differences over a dam New Delhi is building in disputed Kashmir ended inconclusively on Thursday with Islamabad saying its concerns were not addressed. The talks ended a day before schedule,...
N-capability guarantees security: Aziz
ANKARA, June 2: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Thursday that Pakistan adhered to a doctrine of minimum nuclear deterrence as a guarantee of its security and had a strong command and control system to protect its strategic assets....
Bank scam accused arrested, handed over to NAB
ISLAMABAD, June 2: The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to register a corruption reference against the head of the Islamic Investment Bank Ltd (IIBL),...
Tribal elder shot dead in Waziristan
MIRAMSHAH (North Waziristan), June 2: A tribal elder was shot dead in the Lawara Mandi area of North Waziristan Agency on Thursday, sources said. They said that Sakhi Marjan was sitting at a shop in Datakhel near the Afghan border...
Pakistan may import 1.5m ton of wheat
LAHORE, June 2: Pakistan is likely to import around 1.5 million ton of wheat to meet shortfall in the official procurement target this year. According to sources in the ministry of food,...
33 killed in Iraq violence
BAGHDAD, June 2: At least 33 people were killed in a wave of violence that swept over northern Iraq on Thursday, as Baghdad vowed that all groups in the fragmented country...
Palestinians celebrate release of 400 inmates
GAZA, June 2: Palestinian militants welcomed Jamil al-Aqra back to the fold on his release with hundreds of other prisoners freed by Israel on Thursday, carrying him off on their shoulders...
Trilateral cooperation for regional security
VLADIVOSTOK (Russia), June 2: China, India and Russia will join forces to regional stability and energy supplies, foreign ministers of the three countries declared on Thursday at the outset of a...
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MUZAFFARABAD, June 2: Moderate leaders from occupied Kashmir said on Thursday that they must be part of the Pakistan-India dialogue as they began a landmark visit to Azad Kashmir...
