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Ramday for judges’ right to appeal against dismissal
ISLAMABAD, May 24: Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday, who is heading a 13-member larger bench hearing identical petitions challenging a reference against Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, on Thursday suggested opening of...
Lal Masjid frees two policemen
ISLAMABAD, May 24: Lal Masjid students on Thursday freed the two security officials kidnapped on May 18, following the release of several of their colleagues as a result of ‘back channel’ negotiations between clerics of the mosque and the local administration....
Waziristan peace panel members resign
MIRAMSHAH, May 24: Government’s efforts to maintain the peace deal it has signed with militants in the restive North Waziristan Agency suffered a setback when 11 of the 15 members of...
DawnNews TV’s test transmission from today
KARACHI, May 24: DawnNews, Pakistan’s first English language TV news channel, will commence its test transmission on Friday (May 25) evening from its head office in Karachi....
KSE index at all-time high
KARACHI, May 24: Stocks at the Karachi share market got off to a storming start and the KSE-100 index closed at unprecedented 12,663 points on Thursday on massive foreign and institutional buying....
Eight missing persons reach home
PESHAWAR, May 24: Eight people allegedly picked up by intelligence agencies a few months ago from the city and other areas of the province resurfaced over the last one week....
President warns against giving ethnic colour to judicial issue
DERA GHAZI KHAN/ RAJANPUR, May 24: Bitterly criticising elements “who have politicised a judicial matter,” President General Pervez Musharraf warned on Thursday that any attempt to give the issue an ethnic colour would be dangerous for the country....
Export of gram suspended
ISLAMABAD, May 24: The government on Thursday suspended the export of gram with immediate effect to stabilise prices in the domestic market....
New bond raises $750m; more issues next year
ISLAMABAD, May 24: Pakistan on Thursday raised $750 million from international capital market through an oversubscribed issue of 10-year dollar bond that carries an interest rate of 6.875...
Hammad murder probe by HC judge
ISLAMABAD, May 24: The government on Thursday formed a judicial commission comprising Justice Abdul Shakoor Paracha of the Lahore High Court to probe into the murder of apex court’s additional registrar Syed Hammad Raza....
Report criticising rights abuse in Kashmir passed
LONDON, May 24: The European Parliament on Thursday passed with overwhelming majority the Baroness Emma Nicholson report on Kashmir criticising the human rights situation in the Pakistani side of Kashmir....
Lawyers, opposition hold rallies
ISLAMABAD, May 24: Thousands of President Gen Pervez Musharraf’s opponents rallied nationwide on Thursday, the first street protests since a burst of political violence in Karachi deepened a crisis clouding his plans to stay in power....
Balochistan Assembly opposes Sonmiani port
QUETTA, May 24: The Balochistan assembly adopted on Thursday an adjournment motion reflecting the government’s plan to build a seaport at Sonmiani....
Iran N-bomb likely in 3-8 years: IAEA chief
LUXEMBOURG, May 24: Iran could develop a nuclear weapon in three to eight years, the head of the UN atomic watchdog said on Thursday, while warning the West against military action to stop countries becoming nuclear powers....
Kandahar governor offers to mediate in Balochistan
CHAMAN, May 24: The governor of Kandahar has claimed that a number of Baloch nationalists have taken refuge in his province and offered to mediate between the `government of Pakistan and the Baloch people’....
India a role model for Pakistan: ambassador
WASHINGTON, May 24: India is a role model in economic development and democracy and Pakistan hopes to match its neighbour on these attributes one day, says Ambassador Mahmud Ali Durrani....
Attack on Kashmir peace bus foiled
NEW DELHI, May 24: Indian police on Thursday defused a powerful bomb they found on the road that the Kashmir peace bus — Karvan-i-Aman — was about to take, United News of India said....
ISPR rejects report
RAWALPINDI, May 24: The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Thursday dismissed as misleading a BBC report alleging that Pakistani peacekeeping troops traded gold for guns in Congo and armed the militia they were supposed to disarm....
Printing of draft electoral rolls completed
ISLAMABAD, May 24: The printing of the draft computerised electoral rolls has been completed and will be displayed soon for the general public....
Villagers beat up vaccinators
LANDI KOTAL (Khyber Agency), May 24: People of Fatemikhel village of Landi Kotal on Thursday beat up polio vaccinators and did not allow them to administer drops to their children....
ISLAMABAD, May 24: Lal Masjid students on Thursday freed the two security officials kidnapped on May 18, following the release of several of their colleagues as a result of ‘back channel’ negotiations between clerics of the mosque and the local administration....
NABLUS (West Bank), May 24: Israel seized 33 senior Hamas figures in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, including a minister, in the latest crackdown on the Islamists aimed at halting rocket fire from Gaza....
