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SC maintains stay on SJC proceedings
ISLAMABAD, May 15: The Supreme Court on Tuesday maintained the order of one of its benches under which the proceedings of the Supreme Judicial Council against Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry...
Musharraf shrugs off criticism over Karachi killings
ISLAMABAD, May 15: President Gen Pervez Musharraf at a meeting with parliamentarians of the ruling PML and its coalition partners on Tuesday showed defiance in the face of criticism over the...
Govt shies away from parliamentary debate on Karachi killings
ISLAMABAD, May 15: The government on Tuesday chose an easy way out of parliamentary protests against the weekend killings in Karachi by proroguing the National Assembly and having the Senate put...
Kabul says border clashes to harm relations
KABUL, May 15: Clashes between Afghan and Pakistani border guards that left more than a dozen dead will further strain ties between the two neighbours, Kabul said on Tuesday....
No link to Dadullah killing: govt
ISLAMABAD, May 15: The government on Tuesday announced that the Peshawar suicide attack that left at least 22 people dead was not linked to the recent killing of Taliban commander Mullah Dadullah by Nato forces in Afghanistan....
Budget to be pro-poor, claims prime minister
LAHORE, May 15: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Tuesday that the 2007-08 budget would have enough for the betterment of poor segments of society....
SC judges to supervise probe into Hammad’s murder
ISLAMABAD, May 15: The Supreme Court on Tuesday appointed two senior judges to supervise investigations by police and other agencies into the murder of apex court’s additional registrar Syed Hammad Amjad Raza....
Talks on Sir Creek tomorrow
RAWALPINDI, May 15: The two-day talks between Pakistan and India on Sir Creek will commence here tomorrow (Thursday)....
Radar overhauled indigenously
ATTOCK, May 15: The Avionics and Radar Factory of Pakistan Aeronautical Complex, Kamra, has successfully overhauled the first AN/TPS-43G Radar....
Pakistani says he was tortured
WASHINGTON, May 15: A Pakistani resident of the United States charged he has been “mentally tortured” by his jailors at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and attempted suicide by chewing on an artery, a transcript released on Tuesday said....
Police post in Tank attacked
TANK, May 15: Militants on Tuesday attacked a police post in Tank where authorities imposed a curfew after clashes between miscreants and security forces on Monday....
White House stands by embattled Wolfowitz
WASHINGTON, May 15: A World Bank committee has found bank President Paul Wolfowitz guilty of violating ethics rules but the White House said on Tuesday that this did not justify calls for Mr Wolfowitz’s resignation....
CJ’s counsel, lawyers begin hunger strike
ISLAMABAD, May 15: The lawyers and counsel of the Chief Justice of Pakistan observed a one-hour token hunger strike in front of the Pakistan Supreme Court, here on Tuesday, protesting against the presidential reference....
26 deported Pakistanis arrive from Turkey
RAWALPINDI, May 15: A batch of 26 Pakistani deported from Turkey arrived at the Islamabad International Airport on a scheduled flight, immigration authorities said here on Tuesday....
Three US troops die in Iraq
BAGHDAD: Three more US troops have been killed in Iraq, the military said on Tuesday, as the risks of a stepped up security operation kept the month on course to be one of the bloodiest since the 2003 invasion....
Khaleda, Hasina oppose EC plan
DHAKA: Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina, chairperson and president of Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Bangladesh Awami League respectively, separately opposed the Election Commission’s proposed plan to prepare voters rolls without paying door-to-door visit to the citizens....
OIC should be permanent member of UNSC: Attique
ISLAMABAD, May 15: Prime Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir Sardar Attique Ahmad Khan has called for making the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) a permanent member of the UN Security Council....
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PESHAWAR, May 15: Twenty-two people, including two women, were killed and 30 wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a restaurant in the congested part of the old city here on Tuesday, police and hospital officials said....
