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Local polls in 54 districts today: 30.5m voters, 108,273 candidates
ISLAMABAD, Aug 24: The second phase of the local body polls will be held on Thursday for 3,016 union councils in 54 districts of the country. According to the original schedule, polling was to be held in 56 districts...
Fresh polls ordered in women vote ban areas
ISLAMABAD, Aug 24: The Election Commission on Wednesday ordered fresh polls in seven polling stations of Nowshera and Swabi districts after cancelling elections held in the first phase of the local government elections for not allowing women to caste their votes....
‘Dr AQ Khan provided centrifuges to N. Korea’
ISLAMABAD, Aug 24: President General Pervez Musharraf has denied the allegations that transfers of centrifuge designs to North Korea by Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan helped N. Korea in acquiring nuclear weapons....
Registration of seminaries begins
ISLAMABAD Aug 24: The work on registering madressahs started on Wednesday in the federal capital and the four provinces amid confusion about the exact number of schools volunteering to get on...
Nuclear hotline in September: India
NEW DELHI, Aug 24: The foreign secretaries of Indian and Pakistan would be on a hotline from September to help avert mutual misunderstandings that could otherwise trigger nuclear tensions between the...
Musharraf to decide fate of Indian spy: Kasuri
ISLAMABAD, Aug 24: Foreign Minister Khursheed Mehmood Kasuri said on Wednesday it was up to President Pervez Musharraf to decide whether to pardon an Indian man facing execution for spying and involvement in bomb attacks....
Campaign in India to save spy
NEW DELHI, Aug 24: Television networks, members of parliament, children, film actors and war widows rallied on Wednesday behind a growing campaign to save an Indian sentenced to hang in Pakistan on charges of espionage....
UK unveils guidelines to deport suspect foreigners
LONDON, Aug 24: Britain published guidelines on Wednesday for barring foreigners the government believes inspire terrorism, as part of a broad crackdown on Muslim preachers after last month’s deadly bombings in London....
UK advised to restrict deportation policy
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 24: A United Nations human rights expert on Tuesday asked the United Kingdom not to deport anybody under its new anti-terrorism law to a country where there is...
Pakistan criticizes anti-peace moves in Afghanistan
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 24: Pakistan on Tuesday told the international community that apart from Afghanistan itself, no other country had a more vital stake in the establishment of peace, security and prosperity in that country than Pakistan....
Federal govt offices, banks open today
ISLAMABAD, Aug 24: The federal government has clarified that its offices will not be closed for the local body polls on Thursday. However, it said, employees would be free to cast votes during the polling hours....
Jamshed Ansari passes away
KARACHI, Aug 24: Leading performer Jamshed Ansari, whose light-hearted role of Hasnat Bhai catapulted him to stardom, died on Wednesday morning after a long battle with brain tumour. He was 60....
Pilgrims personal expenses increased
ISLAMABAD, Aug 24: The expenses of the intending Haj pilgrims has been doubled to enable them to meet expenditures during their stay in Saudi Arabia, Ministry of Religious Affairs’ Joint Secretary Mohammad Ilyas Khan said on Wednesday....
No woman will cast vote in Paikhel
MIANWALI, Aug 24: Rival candidates in Paikhel union council, a remote area of the district, are reported to have resolved that no woman will cast her vote as per customs of the village....
Israel agrees on deployment of Egyptian guards
AL QUDS, Aug 24: Israel and Egypt have reached an agreement on the deployment of Egyptian border guards along the southern border of the Gaza Strip, an Israeli official announced on Wednesday....
Kidnapped Pakistanis yet to reach Kuwait
KUWAIT CITY, Aug 24: A group of Pakistanis, who were kidnapped and freed in Iraq in last week, has still to reach Kuwait as they were held up in completing some formalities, according to the Pakistan embassy here....
Communists press for talks with Hurriyat
NEW DELHI, Aug 24: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) blamed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s government for the stalled dialogue between New Delhi and Kashmir’s APHC and said it would strongly raise the issue with the ruling coalition....
Rail traffic suspended for one hour
LAHORE, Aug 24: Rail traffic on the main line connecting Karachi with the rest of the country remained suspended near Shahdadpur for an hour on Tuesday night....
Australia to monitor mosque sermons
CANBERRA, Aug 24: Prime Minister John Howard angered some Australian Muslims on Wednesday by saying he supported spies monitoring the nation’s mosques. He was speaking just hours before bidding farewell to a unit of Australian....
Pakistan wants peace with all nations: PM
ISLAMABAD, Aug 24: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Wednesday said Pakistan wanted peace with all nations, specially its neighbours, and claimed that efforts were being made to improve the living standard of the people by attracting foreign investment.....
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Editor: Tahir Mirza
ISLAMABAD Aug 24: The work on registering madressahs started on Wednesday in the federal capital and the four provinces amid confusion about the exact number of schools volunteering to get on...
KARACHI, Aug 24: Leading performer Jamshed Ansari, whose light-hearted role of Hasnat Bhai catapulted him to stardom, died on Wednesday morning after a long battle with brain tumour. He was 60....
