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NA passes budget amid criticism
ISLAMABAD, June 17: The National Assembly passed the budget on Friday with some amendments in the finance bill for 2005-06. The opposition, which took part in the first reading, boycotted the two other readings, criticizing the indirect taxation policy which, said, was making the rich richer and poor poorer.
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Pipeline not to draw sanctions, hints Rice
WASHINGTON, June 17: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has indicated that the United States would not use the threat of sanctions to make India and Pakistan abandon the Iranian gas...
15-day ban on seven more Punjab legislators
LAHORE, June 17: Punjab Assembly Speaker Afzal Sahi on Friday barred another seven MPAs from ‘sitting’ in the house for two weeks, triggering a noisy protest and walkout by the opposition....
Run-off poll seen likely in Iran
TEHRAN, June 17: Iranians voted for a new president on Friday, with moderate cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani seen just ahead in an unusually tight poll that Washington has dismissed as a...
Senate ratifies appointments made since ’03
ISLAMABAD, June 17: The Senate on Friday passed the Federal Public Service Commission (Second Amendment) Bill 2005, as opposition senators objected to giving a legal cover to what they said illegal...
Walkout in NA over ‘victimization’
ISLAMABAD, June 17: The combined opposition walked out of the National Assembly session on Friday when the government failed to assure them that it would talk steps to end political victimization...
3 foreign firms vie for PTCL
ISLAMABAD, June 17: The Privatisation Commission holds on Saturday bidding for 26 per cent shares with management control of the country’s most profitable entity, the Pakistan Telecommunication Company....
PIA flight grounded for 30 hours at Manchester
KARACHI, June 17: A PIA Jumbo 747, flying from New York to Karachi, was grounded for over 30 hours after one of its engine covers fell off as it landed at Manchester Airport. A PIA spokesman said the PK-722, carrying 289 passengers and two dead bodies,...
$1bn from donors expected
ISLAMABAD, June 17: International donor agencies and other creditors have agreed to provide additional $1 billion to help alleviate poverty from the country. Official sources told Dawn that positive negotiations had...
53 died in March fire on PN ship, Senate told
ISLAMABAD, June 17: Minister of State for Defence Zahid Hamid informed the Senate on Friday that 53 persons lost their lives and 59 suffered critical injuries when Pakistan Navy’s ship, PNS...
Al Jazeera airs new Zawahiri tape
DUBAI, June 17: Al Jazeera television on Friday aired excerpts of a new videotape of Al Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri in which it said he “criticized the US concept of...
Dr Qadeer’s reports clear, says ISPR
ISLAMABAD, June 17: Nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan underwent angiography on Friday and all medical reports were clear, Inter Services Public Relation Director-General Maj-Gen Shaukat Sultan told Dawn....
US move on UN reforms setback for G-4
UNITED NATIONS, June 17: The G-4 plan to expand the UN Security Council has received a major setback, following Washington’s statement on Thursday that it wanted the Council expanded by two...
India tests new missile
NEW DELHI, June 17: India on Friday test-fired a surface-to-air missile from a range in the eastern state of Orissa, defence ministry officials here said. The missile Akash was fired at 2:30pm (0200pm PST) from the Chandipur-on-sea testing site,...
Musharraf for solution of Kashmiris’ choice: Mirwaiz
SRINAGAR, June 17: Fresh bloodletting left 14 people dead as a top separatist on his return from a historic visit to Pakistan on Friday said Islamabad would agree to any solution...
AUCKLAND, June 17: Pakistan and New Zealand on Friday agreed to identify economic synergies for their mutual benefit as President Gen Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Helen Clark declared to build...
TEHRAN, June 17: Iranians voted for a new president on Friday, with moderate cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani seen just ahead in an unusually tight poll that Washington has dismissed as a...
