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Rs8.9bn deficit in Sindh budget
KARACHI, June 10: Sindh Finance Minister Syed Sardar Ahmad on Friday presented in the provincial assembly a Rs143 billion budget for 2005-06, showing a shortfall of Rs5.98 billion in the revenue expenditure and over Rs3 billion in the capital account budget, and leaving a big question ...
Triangular approach on Kashmir urged: Experts sceptical of CBMs
ISLAMABAD, June 10: There were more searching questions than answers, more concerns than confidence about the ongoing Pakistan-India dialogue process yielding positive results on the Kashmir dispute....
APHC seeks timeframe to complete dialogue
KARACHI, June 10: The visiting All-Parties Hurriyet Conference delegation has demanded an end to human rights violations in the Indian-occupied Kashmir and asked both India and Pakistan to set a timeframe...
Coalition partners support opposition’s NFC demand
ISLAMABAD, June 10: Some leading members of the ruling coalition joined voices with the opposition on Friday to demand early finalization of the National Finance Commission (NFC) Award on the second...
Treasury members criticize budget
ISLAMABAD, June 10: Some treasury members on Friday joined the opposition lawmakers in budget-bashing in the Senate, criticizing their own government for “giving incentives to business houses and elite class while...
Musharraf wants port ready by mid-2006
RAWALPINDI, June 10: President General Pervez Musharraf on Friday ordered simultaneous completion of the Gwadar Deep Seaport and related infrastructure facilities by June 2006 so that the country’s largest development project...
Peace process must go on, says Bush
WASHINGTON, June 10: United States President George W. Bush has said that the dispute over the proposed expansion of the Security Council should not be allowed to delay UN reforms....
Advani to stay on as BJP chief
New Delhi, June 10: Indian opposition leader Lal Kishan Advani took back his resignation as president of the Hindu revivalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday after his party issued a statement that appeared to reject his recent remarks ...
Court orders release of 13 accused: Mukhtaran Mai case
LAHORE, June 10: A three-member review board of the Lahore High Court on Friday declined a request by the Punjab government seeking extension in period of detention of 13 persons accused...
Mukhtaran on ECL
LAHORE, June 10: The interior ministry has placed Mukhtaran Mai’s name on the Exit Control List (ECL) Sources in the ministry told Dawn on Friday that Mukhtaran Mai had been scheduled to leave....
Five US marines killed in Iraq
BAGHDAD, June 10: Five US marines were killed in a bomb attack in western Iraq, the military said on Friday, while 17 unidentified bodies were discovered on the Syrian border....
India names airport after Buddhist priest
LEH, June 10: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made a rare visit on Friday to Buddhist-dominated Ladakh region of occupied Kashmir, the first leg of a trip to visit frontline troops...
‘Indian plane strayed into Pakistan’
LAHORE, June 10: An Indian passenger plane strayed into Pakistan, north of Lahore, last week, Dawn learnt on Friday....
Probe sought into document alteration
WASHINGTON, June 10: Two senior US lawmakers on Thursday called for a congressional probe into charges the White House altered government documents to cast doubt on the generally-accepted scientic consensus about...
Replacement of Aziz out of question, says Shujaat
ISLAMABAD, June 10: President Pakistan Muslim League Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has said replacement of Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz before 2007 general elections is out of question....
KARACHI, June 10: The All Parties Hurriyat Conference says the time has come for the Kashmiri leadership to take the centre-stage and have a free hand in seeking a solution of...
WASHINGTON, June 10: United States President George W. Bush has said that the dispute over the proposed expansion of the Security Council should not be allowed to delay UN reforms....
