|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| December 30, 2006 | Saturday | Zilhaj 08, 1427 |
Welcome to DAWN, Pakistan's most widely circulated English language newspaper
Updated round-the-clock, with a major update before 10:00 PST (05:00 GMT)
|
|
|
|
|
Saddam in the jaws of death
BAGHDAD, Dec 29: Saddam Hussein could be hanged within hours, a senior Iraqi source told Reuters late on Friday after Saddam''s lawyer said US forces had handed over the former military dictator to Iraqi authorities for execution.... 
|
|
Nation told to brace itself for power cuts
LAHORE, Dec 29: The nation braced itself on Friday for an unseasonable loadshedding as the power authorities played the blame game over a shortfall of 1,800mw....
|
|
|
||
|
Gen Musharraf’s election opposed
ISLAMABAD, Dec 29: The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has decided to mobilise public opinion against what it called the government plans to get General Pervez Musharraf re-elected as president by the present assemblies....
|
|
Over 2 million perform Haj-i-Akbar
MAKKAH, Dec 29: More than two million pilgrims performed prayers on Mount Arafat on Friday during one of the high points of the Haj. “I am here in response to your call, Lord, I am here...”...
|
|
|
||
|
|
||
CJ tells IG to explain illegal detention
KARACHI, Dec 29: Acting Chief Justice Rana Bhagwandas directed the Punjab inspector-general of prisons and the superintendent of Central Jail, Lahore, on Friday to show cause why action should not be...
|
|
Relatives of missing again stage rally
RAWALPINDI, Dec 29: Family members of the missing people on Friday mounted a protest demonstration in front of the Lal Masjid, Islamabad, to demand release of their loved ones....
|
Please Visit our Sponsor (Ads open in separate window) |
|
Oct 12 takeover made part of SSC curriculum
ISLAMABAD, Dec 29: The changes introduced into the Pakistan Studies curriculum for IX and X classes include events that led Gen Pervez Musharraf to power in Oct 12, 1999, his philosophy...
|
|
PML, PPP-P hammer out poll understanding
ISLAMABAD, Dec 29: Pakistan Muslim League president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Pakistan People’s Party-Patriot chief Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao held a meeting here on Friday and agreed in principle to forge an electoral alliance in Punjab and the NWFP....
|
|
|
||
|
Fresh military operations in Dera Bugti
QUETTA, Dec 29: Security forces on Friday launched a fresh operation in some areas of the Dera Bugti district, using helicopter gunships and targeting camps of tribal militants....
|
|
Afghan stoned to death on jirga’s orders
GHALANAI (Mohmand Agency), Dec 29: An Afghan refugee was stoned to death on Friday on the charges of attempted robbery and murder. The man was sentenced by a tribal jirga in the Bedamnai area....
|
|
|
||
|
Partition history to be taught in UK schools
LONDON, Dec 29: How the legacy of partition -- with the formation of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) and West Pakistan -- still influences the Indian subcontinent today will be...
|
|
Ireland-like approach needed: Mirwaiz
NEW DELHI, Dec 29: Kashmiri leader Mirwaiz UmarFarooq urged India and Pakistan on Friday to consider the mechanism for durable peace in place in Ireland as an inspiration if not necessarily as a model for a solution to the Kashmir dispute....
|
|
|
||
|
Shiv Sena’s anti-Muslim tirade
ISLAMABAD, Dec 29: Worried over the prospects of being thrashed in the forthcoming civic elections in Indian state of Maharashtra, the Shiv Sena extremist body has launched a tirade against the alleged appeasement of Muslims....
|
|
Mulla Omar opposes efforts for jirgas
PESHAWAR, Dec 29: Taliban supreme commander Mulla Mohammed Omar has rejected efforts for constituting jirgas to stem growing insurgency in Afghanistan and said these were part of a plan by occupation powers to “entangle the people in their devious trap”....
|
|
|
||
|
| ||
|
Musharraf meets US general
ISLAMABAD, Dec 29: President General Pervez Musharraf met the US Army''s Chief of Staff, Gen Peter J. Schoomaker, on Friday to discuss military cooperation, a senior Pakistani army official said....
|
|
Detention of Rashid Rauf challenged
ISLAMABAD, Dec 29: A relative of London terror plot accused Rashid Rauf on Friday moved a petition in the Supreme Court, challenging the 90-day extension in his detention....
|
 Please Visit our Sponsor (Ads open in separate window) |
||
|
NRB asked to devise institutional reforms
ISLAMABAD, Dec 29: President Gen Pervez Musharraf, dissatisfied with the performance of the government and semi-government organisations, has asked the National Reconstruction Bureau (NRB) to devise broad institutional reforms in public sector organisations....
|
|
UK pays its last instalment on WW-II debt
LONDON, Dec 29: Britain paid the last instalment of its World War II-era debt to the United States and Canada on Friday, making its final $100 million payment to its allies....
|
Please Visit our Sponsor (Ads open in separate window)
Founder: Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah
Editor: Abbas Nasir
The DAWN Group of Newspapers
Haroon House, Dr. Ziauddin Ahmed Road, Karachi 74200, Pakistan.
Phone:+92 (21) 111-444-777 Fax: +92 (21) 569-3995
webmaster@dawn.com
Contributions
For Marketing: mktg@dawn.com
Make sure to reload these pages so you're viewing the current version.
