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Massive show of support for CJ
LAHORE, May 5: Mass arrests, road blockades and baton-charges and teargas shelling by police failed to stop lawyers, political activists and the general public from welcoming Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry...
16 LHC judges wait for CJ
LAHORE: Braving heat and police blockades, thousands of people, including lawyers, political workers and human rights activists, gathered at the Lahore High Court on Saturday evening to receive Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry....
It’s a purely judicial issue, says president
NAUKOT (Tharparkar), May 5: President General Pervez Musharraf said on Saturday that lawyers must stop using the reference against Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry for political gains and allow the Supreme...
Three TV channels off air for hours
KARACHI, May 5: Three television news channels went off the air on Saturday afternoon, depriving viewers in Karachi and southern Sindh of the live coverage of the caravan of Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry proceeding to Lahore from Islamabad....
CJ denies leading political rallies
ISLAMABAD, May 5: Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry in a statement submitted to the Supreme Court on Saturday denied a government claim that addressing bar councils and associations by him amounted to leading political rallies or making political speeches....
Contempt petition filed against opposition leaders
ISLAMABAD, May 5: A contempt petition has been filed in the Supreme Court against some opposition leaders and legislators for “obstructing the process of the court” by staging protests outside the...
PML’s ‘show of strength’
LAHORE, May 5: A few thousand people — a majority of them teachers and other low-ranking employees of the Lahore City District Government and the Punjab Horticulture Authority — took part...
Armed men on the rampage in Bajaur areas
KHAR, May 5: A group of self-proclaimed mujahideen set up on Saturday morning checkpoints on roads in different parts of the Bajaur Agency and removed tape recorders and audio-cassettes from many vehicles....
114 feared dead in plane crash
YAOUNDE, May 5: Cameroonian authorities said late on Saturday that they had called off until daybreak their search for a missing Kenyan airline with 114 people on board feared crashed in dense forest....
Ties with Pakistan to be widened, says Nato chief
BRUSSELS, May 5: Nato and Pakistan are set to strengthen and widen relations to establish a “mature political dialogue”, Nato Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said ahead of a ground-breaking visit to Islamabad, starting on Monday....
Banker denied bail by US court
NEW YORK, May 5: Hafiz Muhammad Zubair Naseem, a Pakistani citizen who was arrested on Friday and charged with heading an insider trading ring from April 2006 to February 2007, was denied bail by a federal court in Manhattan....
Indian minister says Pakistan must reveal positions on Siachen
NEW DELHI, May 5: India said on Saturday it will not agree on the withdrawal of troops from a glacier in Kashmir until Islamabad reveals its positions there, the Press Trust of India reported....
Armed men demolish Khasadar post
LANDI KOTAL (Khyber Agency), May 5: Students and armed activists of the Lashkar-i-Islam demolished a Khasadar checkpoint in Bara on Saturday. Official sources said dozens of protesting students, backed by armed...
Man killed in D.I. Khan
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, May 5: Suspected sectarian militants killed a man here on Saturday, police said. Two masked men on a bicycle shot the man on the outskirts of the town and fled, a police official said....
Rs30bn needed for road maintenance
RAWALPINDI, May 5: The government needs at least Rs30 billion a year for at least five years for maintenance of roads at national and provincial levels, according to a new Asian Development Bank study....
Murree dual carriageway to be opened by December
ISLAMABAD, May 5: The Islamabad-Murree dual carriageway (IMDC) being built at a cost of Rs8 billion will be opened for traffic by the end of the current calendar year....
Bangladeshi team visits AIOU, PAL
ISLAMABAD, May 5: A six-member Bangaldeshi educationists headed by Chittagong university vice-chancellor Prof M Badehul Alam visited Allama Iqbal Open University on Saturday....
LAHORE, May 5: Mass arrests, road blockades and baton-charges and teargas shelling by police failed to stop lawyers, political activists and the general public from welcoming Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry...
BRUSSELS, May 5: Nato and Pakistan are set to strengthen and widen relations to establish a “mature political dialogue”, Nato Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said ahead of a ground-breaking visit to Islamabad, starting on Monday....
