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NA approves 170 demands: Grants of charged expenditure
ISLAMABAD, June 16: The National Assembly on Thursday approved 170 demands for grants pertaining to other than charged expenditure in the next fiscal budget 2005-2006, following a two-day marathon...
MPA’s arrest referred to rights committee
ISLAMABAD, June 16: The Senate on Thursday referred to its standing committee on human rights the issue of cases registered against opposition lawmakers of the Sindh Assembly...
Dr Khan under intensive care
ISLAMABAD, June 16: The founder of the country’s nuclear programme, Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, was provided intensive medical care on Thursday after he suffered some cardiac problems,...
Iran pipeline plan a mistake: US
NEW DELHI, June 16: The US tersely told India on Thursday it would be a mistake to proceed with the proposed gas pipeline from Iran via Pakistan as it could attract...
US invites Mukhtaran Mai
WASHINGTON, June 16: The United States has officially informed Pakistan that gang-rape victim Mukhtaran Mai has been invited to visit the country and has also urged the Pakistan Embassy...
Musharraf arrives in New Zealand
AUCKLAND, June 16: President Gen Pervez Musharraf was accorded a warm welcome Thursday when he arrived here for a three-day visit to New Zealand. He was received by Prime Minister Helen...
Speaker imposes 15-day ban on two MPAs
LAHORE, June 16: The Punjab Assembly speaker on Thursday banned for 15 days entry of PML-N parliamentary leader Rana Sanaullah and another MPA of the party into the house which adopted...
US ambassador says Osama not in Afghanistan
KABUL, June 16: Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar are not in Afghanistan, the US ambassador said on Thursday, a day after a top Taliban...
Six US troops among 12 killed in Iraq
BAGHDAD, June 16: Six US servicemen and six Iraqi policemen were killed amid a spate of violence in Iraq that left more than 40 people dead in two days. Five marines...
Iran polls may be close
TEHRAN, June 16: Iran’s presidential campaign ended on Thursday with moderate Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in front, but unlikely to win in the first round of voting....
Army to monitor work on Mangla
LAHORE, June 16: The army has decided to directly monitor pace of work on the Mangla Dam Raising Project. According to sources in Wapda, the engineering crop of the army...
2 Frenchmen, Pakistani convicted
PARIS, June 16: A Pakistani and two Frenchmen were on Thursday given three-to-five-year prison sentences by a Paris court which found them guilty of aiding convicted “shoe-bomber” Richard Reid, who tried...
Near-collision in mid-air: probe begins
ISLAMABAD, June 16: A Pakistani International Airlines (PIA) aircraft carrying 266 people came close to colliding with a domestic airliner, an official said on Thursday, the second near miss over southern...
Malik recovered from stroke: JKLF
ISLAMABAD, June 16: Yasin Malik, a Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) leader, had recovered from a stroke before he left for the occupied Kashmir on Thursday, an official of his party...
