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States cannot survive under dictatorship: CJ
LAHORE, May 6: Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry said on Sunday that history showed that nations and states could not survive under dictatorship....
Talk of emergency at PM’s press conference
ISLAMABAD, May 6: Declining to rule out chances of imposition of emergency in the country, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said here on Sunday that the Constitution allowed the option but its...
PPP leader Qamar Abbas shot dead
PESHAWAR, May 6: Syed Qamar Abbas, a former provincial minister and senior vice-president of the People’s Party Parliamentarians, NWFP, was shot dead here on Sunday....
Right-winger Sarkozy new French president
PARIS, May 6: Right-winger Nicolas Sarkozy scored an emphatic victory in the French presidential election on Sunday, trouncing Socialist rival Segolene Royal to win a clear mandate for his tough economic and social reforms....
Taliban dismiss joint jirga
KANDAHAR, May 6: Taliban dismissed on Sunday a planned traditional gathering between Afghanistan and Pakistan on the insurgency, saying it was an attempt to ‘deceive’ ordinary Afghans....
Reshuffle in foreign ministry on cards
ISLAMABAD, May 6: A number of senior officials at the foreign affairs ministry will receive intimation of their international assignments in the coming weeks, it is learnt....
Preparations under way for 2008 census
ISLAMABAD, May 6: The Population Census Organisation (PCO) is gearing up to hold a population and housing census in 2008 and is likely to declare rural localities with 10,000 or more...
Five soldiers injured in attack
QUETTA, May 6: At least five security personnel were injured in a mortar attack in Tartani area of Kohlu district on Sunday....
People have stood for rule of law: Nawaz
LONDON, May 6: Former prime minister and PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif has said that after Sindh and the NWFP, the historic reception accorded to Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry by the...
18 die as coach falls into ravine
MANSEHRA, May 6: At least 18 people were feared dead and nine others injured when a Lahore-bound coach fell into a deep ravine in the Gilyat area, some 65km from here, on Sunday night, police said....
Guess who came for dinner and waited till breakfast
WHAT happened in Lahore on Saturday night and on Sunday morning and all along the highway from Islamabad to the Punjab capital over 24 hours has no precedent in Pakistan’s history....
Gul withdraws candidacy
ANKARA, May 6: The sole candidate in Turkey’s presidential election, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, withdrew his name on Sunday after parliament failed for a second time to vote him into office....
Fire hits Dubai’s Palm island building
DUBAI, May 6: A large fire broke out on Sunday at a construction site on a giant man-made palm-shaped island off the coast of the booming emirate of Dubai....
‘Musharraf’s efforts backfiring’
WASHINGTON, May 6: The recent events in Pakistan are having an impact on how the US views the government in Islamabad but policy-makers in Washington believe that it is still the...
Explosives, weapons destroyed by blast
KOHAT, May 6: A blast in the Kohat police lines on Sunday destroyed a store of seized explosives and damaged guns brought for repair....
Action against TV channels criticised
KARACHI, May 6: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed concern at the ‘forced closure’ on Saturday of three private television channels in Karachi....
Govt mulling proposal to enhance retirement age
ISLAMABAD, May 6: The National Commission on Government Reforms has started assessing the social, psychological and economic impacts of a proposal to enhance the retirement age of civil servants from the present 60 years to 62....
Kenyan plane wreckage found
NAIROBI, May 6: Kenya Airways confirmed on Sunday that the wreckage of a Kenyan Airways plane carrying 114 people was found in swampland in southwest Cameroon more than 36 hours after it went missing....
PARIS, May 6: Right-winger Nicolas Sarkozy scored an emphatic victory in the French presidential election on Sunday, trouncing Socialist rival Segolene Royal to win a clear mandate for his tough economic and social reforms....
LONDON, May 6: Former prime minister and PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif has said that after Sindh and the NWFP, the historic reception accorded to Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry by the...
