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Need stressed to deweaponise society
KARACHI, May 25: General Pervez Musharraf on Friday raised a big question of the need for deweaponising society and eliminating terrorism and extremism, but his team in Sindh felt it was a difficult task....
Opposition warns of civil disobedience: Extra-constitutional action
ISLAMABAD, May 25: Opposition leaders at a multi-party conference convened by the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) on Friday said they would launch a civil disobedience movement if President Pervez Musharraf took any...
Bench concerned with issues, not petitions: SC
ISLAMABAD, May 25: Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday, who is heading a 13-member larger bench of the Supreme Court hearing identical petitions challenging a reference against Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, on...
‘98 of 254 missing people traced’
ISLAMABAD, May 25: The Supreme Court was told on Friday that 98 missing people out of 254 had been traced and a majority of them had reached their homes....
SHC bars lawyers’ arrest
HYDERABAD, May 25: The Hyderabad circuit bench of the Sindh High Court on Friday restrained police from arresting any of the lawyers nominated in a sedition case....
Kidney trade: hospital owners, doctors held
LAHORE, May 25: Police on Friday detained two owners of private hospitals and some doctors in Lahore for their alleged involvement in illegal kidney trade, besides ‘recovering’ 10 victims (donors)....
Tariff on textile products may be cut
ISLAMABAD, May 25: The government is expected to rationalise tariff and duty drawbacks on textile products in the federal budget 2007-08 to enhance textile exports by at least 20 per cent next year....
Power, food secretaries transferred
ISLAMABAD, May 25: The government has transferred the secretaries of water and power and food and agriculture, the former for his failure to end load-shedding and the latter for creating a shortage of wheat crisis despite a surplus wheat production....
EU’s role as Kashmir peace broker questioned
ISLAMABAD, May 25: The European Parliament’s adoption of Baroness Emma Nicholson’s ‘Report on Kashmir: Present Situation and Future Prospects’ passed with an overwhelming majority on Thursday has drawn a sharp reaction from the Pakistan Foreign Office....
PML wins Jhang bypoll
ISLAMABAD, May 25: Federal Minister for Environment Makhdoom Faisal Saleh Hayat has said that the landslide victory of the PML candidate against PPP candidate in the May 24 by-elections for P-80...
Resignation by members of peace panel criticised
PESHAWAR, May 25: Tribal elders (Maliks) in the restive North Waziristan Agency on Friday condemned the resignation of two members of the tribal peace committee terming it a ‘betrayal’....
Peacekeepers destroy weapons
CAMP VICTORIA (Serbia), May 25: Nato-led peacekeepers and officials on Friday destroyed dozens of guns seized by military and police in the tense province of Kosovo....
Pakistan criticises Israeli atrocities
ISLAMABAD, May 25: Pakistan on Friday censured the escalation in Israeli atrocities against the Palestinian civilians in Gaza and urged the international community to step in to restore peace in the Palestinian territories....
PPP urges diplomats to protest killings
ISLAMABAD, May 25: The People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) has written a letter to diplomats based in Islamabad asking them to lodge protest with the government over the killing of over 40...
FC seizes drugs, arms in Chagai
QUETTA, May 25: The Frontier Corps on Friday seized a huge quantity of drugs and ammunition during raids conducted in the Chagai district of Balochistan. FC troops had moved into...
ISLAMABAD, May 25: Opposition leaders at a multi-party conference convened by the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) on Friday said they would launch a civil disobedience movement if President Pervez Musharraf took any...
KARACHI, May 25: President Pervez Musharraf on Friday described the media as the country’s first line of defence and assured of unhindered support for the freedom of expression, but at the...
CAMP VICTORIA (Serbia), May 25: Nato-led peacekeepers and officials on Friday destroyed dozens of guns seized by military and police in the tense province of Kosovo....
