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Five-year plan for 7m jobs: NSC reviews steps to check prices
ISLAMABAD, June 8: The National Security Council was informed on Wednesday that the Medium-Term Development Framework (MTDF) 2005-10 would be implemented in next five years with an objective of generating seven...
Four Pakistanis held in US for running Al Qaeda cell
SAN FRANCISCO, June 8: The FBI has arrested two Pakistani Americans and two Pakistani nationals in the city of Lodi, about 80 miles south of here, for allegedly operating an Al...
Ex-BJP ministers lock horns over Advani
NEW DELHI, June 8: India’s main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) voted on Wednesday to turn down the resignation of party president Lal Kishan Advani, but its two senior leaders, both...
NSC mulls legal course against MMA members
ISLAMABAD June 8: The National Security Council, which met here on Wednesday with President General Pervez Musahrraf in the chair, took exception to the continued absence from its meetings of its...
Rich man’s budget: opposition
ISLAMABAD, June 8: Opposition parties denounced what they called “rich man’s budget” on Wednesday when the Senate began debate on the federal budget for fiscal 2005-06. Opposition leader Raza Rabbani, while...
Rumours about PM resignation quashed
ISLAMABAD, June 8: Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Wednesday described as baseless rumours about Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz’s resignation which led to a slide by 250 points of Karachi Stock...
PTCL staff resume strike
ISLAMABAD, June 8: Hundreds of protesters stormed the PTCL headquarters here on Wednesday as they resumed their countrywide strike that they had put off five days ago under an agreement with...
New passports must for Saudi visa: embassy
ISLAMABAD, June 8: The Embassy of Saudi Arabia has urged applicants to present the new machine-readable passports when applying for visa to travel to the kingdom. The embassy...
22 Iraqi troops abducted
BAGHDAD, June 8: Twenty-two Iraqi soldiers were kidnapped near the Syrian border, an Iraqi military source said on Wednesday as four US soldiers were killed in less than 24 hours in...
Iraq’s Sunnis set terms for cooperation
BAGHDAD, June 8: Leaders of Iraq’s Sunnis set terms on Wednesday for their involvement in drafting a constitution, indicating they wanted about a third of the seats on the body that...
UNSC aspirants drop veto right
UNITED NATIONS, June 8: Germany, Japan, Brazil and India on Wednesday dropped the right to a veto for new permanent UN Security Council members in their revised draft resolution to expand...
Woman raped by 12 men
GUJRANWALA, June 8: A woman was alleged raped by 12 people people in the Small Industrial Estate here on Wednesday. The woman told police that Shahid Butt and accomplices had...
Khokhrapar rail link likely this year: Aiyar
KARACHI, June 8: The Indian Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources, Mani Shankar Aiyar, has said that the Indian consulate in Karachi and the Khokhrapar-Monabao rail route will hopefully be made...
Technical report on dams delayed
ISLAMABAD, June 8: The technical report on construction of big dams has been further delayed as President General Pervez Musharraf has asked chairman of Technical Committee on Water Resources ANG Abbasi...
Kasuri may meet Bush
WASHINGTON, June 8: Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri, who arrives here on Wednesday evening, may also meet President George W. Bush during his two-day stay in the US capital, diplomatic sources...
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NEW DELHI, June 8: India’s main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) voted on Wednesday to turn down the resignation of party president Lal Kishan Advani, but its two senior leaders, both...
