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Opposition sees prospects of grand alliance
ISLAMABAD, Aug 25: Opposition leaders have criticized what they call flawed, mismanaged and rigged local body polls and said that it has brightened the chances of forging a grand opposition alliance to launch a country-wide movement against the government....
Abbasi spells out conditions for new dams: Report presented to PM
ISLAMABAD, Aug 25: Sufficient surplus water is currently available at present and construction of additional reservoirs was necessary, chairman of technical committee on water A.N.G. Abbasi said here on Thursday....
Inflation, other challenges to be met, says Aziz
ISLAMABAD, Aug 25: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Thursday said that Pakistan was faced with the challenges of controlling inflation, developing infrastructure, distributing growth benefits to common citizens and creating more employment opportunities....
ADB offers $3.2bn for new projects
ISLAMABAD, Aug 25: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has decided to offer Pakistan $3.2 billion during 2005-07 to help improve the country’s infrastructure and alleviate poverty....
Eradication of civil service corruption stressed
RAWALPINDI, Aug 25: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has stressed the need for ensuring that civil servants are well-equipped to meet the challenges of globalization, good governance and service delivery at the grass roots and strategic levels....
S. African men linked to Dr Khan network
JOHANNESBURG, Aug 25: Two men accused in South Africa of involvement in a global nuclear weapons black market face fresh charges after new evidence against them was uncovered linking them to Dr Qadeer Khan of Pakistan, prosecutors said on Thursday....
Hideout of Kazakhs razed: ISPR
PESHAWAR, Aug 25: Political authorities on Thursday demolished a hideout owned by a tribesman in Raghzai Killi of the North Waziristan Agency, on the charges of harbouring....
Dr Aftab Ahmed passes away
ISLAMABAD, Aug 25: Renowned intellectual Dr Aftab Ahmed died here on Thursday morning at the age of 81. He was suffering from chronic heart ailments. Dr Aftab leaves behind his wife,...
EC calls for reports on poll deaths
ISLAMABAD, Aug 25: Acting Chief Election Commissioner Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar has directed the Inspector-Generals of all the four provinces to submit detailed reports about violence during the second phase of elections....
Bush rejects calls for pullout from Iraq
WASHINGTON, Aug 25: President George W. Bush has rejected calls for the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq, saying that the troops will stay for as long as he is president....
17 held on charge of gun-running
BEIJING, Aug 25: Seventeen Chinese have been charged with running guns from Pakistan in one of the largest arms-smuggling cases in China’s history, state media said on Thursday....
Pakistani judge elected to UN tribunal
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 25: The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday elected Justice Ali Nawaz Chowhan of Pakistan as judge of the International Tribunal for the prosecution of persons responsible for...
PAF plane crashes
KARACHI, Aug 25: A Mirage fighter aircraft of Pakistan Air Force crashed near Badin on Thursday. This was stated in a press release of the Directorate of Public Relations, Pakistan Air Force here on Thursday....
India unveils design of thorium N-reactor
NEW DELHI, Aug 25: India on Thursday unveiled its design of “a thorium breeder reactor (ATBR)” that can produce 600mw electricity for two years “with no refuelling and practically no control manoeuvres,” news reports said quoting senior officials....
India, Pakistan meet on terrorism on 29th
NEW DELHI, Aug 25: The Indian government on Thursday approved the holding of a two-day India-Pakistan seminar on terrorism and drug trafficking here on Aug 29-30....
Pakistan, Guinea to boost relations
ISLAMABAD, Aug 25: Pakistan and Guinea on Thursday agreed to harmonize their
positions at the United Nations and other international fora while Islamabad
offered military training courses for Guinean personnel....
Muslims urged to unite against terrorism ISLAMABAD, Aug 25:
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Thursday said the Muslim world must stand united
to fight the scourge of global terrorism. Talking to the outgoing Bosnian
Ambassador Abdullah Hodzic here at the Prime Minister’s
....
ISLAMABAD, Aug 25: At least 29 people were killed and 120 injured in the violence-marred second phase of non-party local body elections in 54 districts of the four provinces of the government...
ISLAMABAD, Aug 25: Renowned intellectual Dr Aftab Ahmed died here on Thursday morning at the age of 81. He was suffering from chronic heart ailments. Dr Aftab leaves behind his wife,...
