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MMA to accept SC decision: Durrani
WASHINGTON, July 17: NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani has said that he will accept any decision the Supreme Court of Pakistan may take about the controversial Hasba bill, denying reports...
Fazl says Islamisation process unstoppable
SWABI, July 17: Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly and Secretary-General of JUI, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, said on Sunday that after the passage of the Hasba bill nobody could stop the Islamisation process in the Frontier province....
PM seeks report in three days: Ghotki train crash
SUKKUR, July 17: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has directed the railways minister and chairman to submit report of inquiry into the triple-train accident at the Sarhad railway station within three days....
Intelligence agencies checking bomber’s phone list
ISLAMABAD, July 17: British authorities have given Pakistan a list of telephones calls made from the house of one of bombers in the attacks on London, intelligence officials said on Sunday....
One suicide bomber was cleared by MI5
LONDON, July 17: British intelligence officials opened a file on one of the suspected London suicide bombers last year but decided he posed no real risk, a report said on Sunday...
Chashma, Guddu to experience medium floods
ISLAMABAD, July 17: The flows in all the four major rivers have started receding but medium floods would be witnessed at Chashma and Guddu barrages in the next couple of days....
Singh seeks more N-tech help from Washington
WASHINGTON, July 17: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who arrived here on Sunday on his first state visit to the US, has said that he would persuade Washington to share more of its nuclear technology with New Delhi....
Nuclear talks with India next month
NEW DELHI, July 17: Indian and Pakistani experts will meet next month for a third round of talks aimed at building trust on military issues and avoiding the possibility of an accidental nuclear war, Indian officials said at the weekend....
Nomination paper filing begins today
KARACHI, July 17: The process of filing nomination papers by candidates will begin on Monday in all the 54 districts where local government elections are scheduled to be held on Aug 18 in the first phase....
Charges laid against Saddam Hussein
BAGHDAD, July 17: Iraq’s special tribunal has laid the first formal charges against Saddam Hussein for crimes committed during his 25-year rule and a date for his trial may be announced “within days”, the tribunal said on Sunday....
Iraq truck bomb toll rises to 98
MUSAYYIB (Iraq), July 17: Stricken townspeople swept away the wreckage of a fuel truck bomb that killed 98 people south of Baghdad as three more suicide car bombers struck the Iraqi capital on Sunday in a relentless new campaign....
TCP buys 100,000 tons of sugar from UAE firm
KARACHI, July 17: The Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) said on Sunday it had purchased 100,000 tons of sugar at $366 a ton C&F Karachi. TCP chairman Masood Alam Rizvi said...
Pay revision for Balochistan employees
QUETTA, July 17: The Accountant General of Balochistan has authorized all treasury officers in the province to revise pay and allowances of all government servants provisionally in accordance with the basic...
Ex-premier of UK Heath dies
LONDON, July 17: Former British prime minister Edward Heath, who took Britain into Europe during his period of office from 1970 to 1974, died on Sunday at age 89, his spokesman said....
PESHAWAR, July 17: Security forces killed 17 suspected foreign militants, four women and children among them...
LONDON, July 17: British intelligence officials opened a file on one of the suspected London suicide bombers last year but decided he posed no real risk, a report said on Sunday...
MUSAYYIB (Iraq), July 17: Stricken townspeople swept away the wreckage of a fuel truck bomb that killed 98 people south of Baghdad as three more suicide car bombers struck the Iraqi capital on Sunday in a relentless new campaign....
