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Ministers barred from poll stations
ISLAMABAD, Aug 16: The Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday barred federal and provincial ministers, ministers of state, advisers, chairmen of parliamentary committees, senators and members of the national or provincial assemblies...
$10bn sought for power projects, dams
ISLAMABAD, Aug 16: Pakistan has sought $10 billion assistance from the World Bank for hydropower projects and large dams to meet future energy needs of its growing economy, Dawn has learnt....
Registration to be completed by Nov: President issues ordinance
ISLAMABAD, Aug 16: President General Musharraf has promulgated an ordinance amending the Societies Registration Act, 1860, requiring the 11,882 seminaries in the country to get registered with the government....
Women’s vote issue hots up
ISLAMABAD/PESHAWAR: The federal government has taken serious notice of decisions taken by jirgas of Peshawar’s Sheikhan, Bhana Mari and Hazar Khani union councils not to allow women to cast votes in the local elections to be held on Thursday....
MMA alleges govt meddling in polls
ISLAMABAD Aug 16: Criticizing what it called ‘unjustified’ arrests of Jamaat-i-Islami and Islami Jamiat Tulaba workers in Karachi, the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) has said that the MQM government sensing the ‘clear...
US drops terror charges against 3 Pakistanis
WASHINGTON, Aug 16: United States authorities have dropped terrorism charges against three Pakistani nationals after they agreed to be deported to their home country. The three initially faced charges of terrorism...
Islamabad against dual citizenship: Delhi
NEW DELHI, Aug 16: Minister of State for Home Affairs Shriprakash Jaiswal has said that Pakistan is opposed to an agreement to grant people of both countries dual citizenship....
Criteria set for sanad acceptance
LAHORE, Aug 16: The Supreme Court on Tuesday laid down the criteria for the acceptance of seminaries’ sanads for the purpose of the local government elections....
Powerful quake hits northern Japan
TOKYO, Aug 16: A major earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 jolted northern Japan on Tuesday, injuring at least 59 people,
US terms ties with India ‘best in history’
WASHINGTON, Aug 16: The United States has described its relationship with India as “the best it has been in the history of the two countries” but has also admitted that there are some ‘issues’ with both India and Pakistan....
Minister barred from entering Nowshera
NOWSHERA, Aug 16: District Returning Officer (DRO) Salim Khan Minakhel, who is the district and sessions judge, has barred NWFP Senior Minister Sirajul Haq from entering or holding public meetings in Nowshera district till Aug 18....
Demonstrators in Iran vow to protect N-plan
ISFAHAN, Aug 16: Some 500 Iranian demonstrators formed a human chain on Tuesday at a key nuclear plant at the centre of a dispute between Tehran and the international community....
Diehard settlers refuse to leave
GAZA CITY, Aug 16: Hundreds of Israeli troops and police piled into the main Gaza settlement on Tuesday as they prepared to evict diehard settlers who have refused to leave of their own accord....
17 Spanish troops die in Afghan crash
KABUL, Aug 16: Seventeen Spanish troops with the Nato-led peacekeeping operation in Afghanistan were killed on Tuesday in a helicopter crash during an exercise near the western city of Herat....
UN reforms without more permanent members urged
ISLAMABAD Aug 16: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Tuesday said that Pakistan supported United Nations reforms based on equality, democracy and justice. Talking to the country’s Permanent Representative to the UN,...
TOKYO, Aug 16: A major earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 jolted northern Japan on Tuesday, injuring at least 59 people,
ISFAHAN, Aug 16: Some 500 Iranian demonstrators formed a human chain on Tuesday at a key nuclear plant at the centre of a dispute between Tehran and the international community....
