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Car blast outside Peshawar HC: One killed, nine injured
PESHAWAR, May 29: A court employee was killed and nine people were injured when a bomb planted in a car exploded outside the Peshawar High Court here on Tuesday morning....
Tahir Mirza passes away
KARACHI, May 29: Tahir Mirza, the former editor of Dawn, died peacefully in his sleep at the Aga Khan University Hospital here on Tuesday afternoon....
Shootout in Balochistan; four killed
QUETTA, May 29: Four people, one of them said to be a wanted tribal militant, were killed and seven others injured in a shootout between security personnel and armed men in...
Progress in peace process needed, says Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, May 29: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday told Indian Rajya Sabha member Ms Nirmala Deshpande, who also heads the Indian chapter of Pakistan-India friendship group in the parliament, that...
Warning over bogus Gwadar schemes
ISLAMABAD, May 29: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Tuesday warned the general public against making investments in 18 private housing schemes which have been declared ‘fake’ by the Gwadar Development Authority....
LHC seeks Punjab govt’s report on Imran’s petition
LAHORE, May 29: Justice Syed Shabbar Raza Rizvi of the Lahore High Court on Tuesday sought a report from the Punjab government on a petition of Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf Chairman Imran Khan...
Taliban resurgence worries India
NEW DELHI, May 29: India on Tuesday cautioned the international community about "serious clashes" between the border guards of Afghanistan and Pakistan, and said it was willing to work with both the countries to secure the region from terrorist groups....
Rs520bn planned for PSDP
ISLAMABAD, May 29: The government will present before the National Economic Council (NEC) on Thursday a Rs520 billion Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) for next financial year, which is 19.5...
IPI deal to be finalised in June: Iran
TEHRAN, May 29: Iran said on Tuesday it hopes to sign a final deal next month for a $7 billion pipeline that would transfer natural gas to India through Pakistan, Iranian media reported....
FIA disputes report on immigrants
ISLAMABAD, May 29: The Federal Investigation Agency has challenged reports about diplomatic dispatches from the Pakistan Embassy in Greece concerning presence of 10,000 Pakistani illegal immigrants in Turkey for onward travel to Europe....
SC urged to take notice of remarks at seminar
ISLAMABAD, May 29: The Ministry of Interior has requested the Supreme Court to take notice of “misbehaviour” of lawyers and “derogatory remarks” made against the government, departments and senior judges during...
Refugee camps to be closed by 2009
ISLAMABAD, May 29: The government has approved a comprehensive plan to repatriate an estimated three million Afghan refugees and close all refugee camps by 2009, official sources told Dawn on Tuesday....
Spanish court acquits 11 Pakistanis
MADRID, May 29: A Spanish court on Tuesday acquitted 11 Pakistanis accused of plotting to blow up buildings in Barcelona, but found five others guilty of lesser charges, including collaborating with a terrorist organisation....
Punjab CM, governor meet Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, May 29: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi and Punjab Governor Lt Gen (retd) Khalid Maqbool held separate meetings with President Pervez Musharraf on Monday and...
Bannu victims weren’t Taliban, say relatives
BANNU, May 29: Relatives of four people killed here by police on Monday have said that the four were neither Taliban nor miscreants and that they were gunned down in a fake police encounter....
60 held in Colombo
COLOMBO: At least 60 persons were arrested on Tuesday in Colombo and suburbs, Defence officials said, as troops searched all vehicles and persons entering the city, a day after a powerful...
PESHAWAR, May 29: A court employee was killed and nine people were injured when a bomb planted in a car exploded outside the Peshawar High Court here on Tuesday morning....
KARACHI, May 29: Tahir Mirza, the former editor of Dawn, died peacefully in his sleep at the Aga Khan University Hospital here on Tuesday afternoon....
