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CJ gets rousing welcome: 14-hour drive from Islamabad to Abbottabad
ABBOTTABAD, June 2: Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry was given an unprecedented welcome when he reached the Abbottabad Bar Club, the main venue of the lawyers’ convention, after a journey of 14 and a half hours from Islamabad....
Channels barred from airing shows on CJ issue
ISLAMABAD, June 2: Enraged by media coverage of the ongoing judicial crisis, the government on Saturday stopped satellite TV channels from telecasting programmes, including live talk shows and discussions, on the...
Tribal chief, journalist killed in bomb blast
KHAAR, June 2: Five people, including a tribal chief, a political tehsildar and a journalist were killed, when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in the Dara Khwar area on Saturday....
Budget outlay to touch Rs2tr mark, says adviser
LAHORE, June 2: Adviser to the Prime Minister on Finance Dr Salman Shah has said that the next federal budget would have a record outlay of Rs1.9...
ISPR statement slammed
ISLAMABAD/LAHORE, June 2: The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) statement concerning Friday’s meeting in which corps commanders endorsed dual offices for President Gen Musharraf has been condemned by various political parties....
Imran off to UK for case against MQM chief
ISLAMABAD, June 2: Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan left for London on Saturday to launch legal proceedings there against a political rival he blames for clashes in Karachi last month in which 40 people were killed....
Altaf not to talk on court matters
KARACHI, June 2: Chief of Muttahida Qaumi Movement Altaf Hussain has decided to speak on court matters only in a court of law, says a press release issued by MQM’s London secretariat on Saturday....
Cable operators to move against channels ridiculing army
KARACHI, June 2: Office-bearers of the Cable Operators Association of Pakistan (CAP) on Saturday warned that they would take any satellite TV channel off the air if its programmes went against the ‘armed forces, judiciary and the integrity of Pakistan’....
Kaaba Imam leads Zohar prayers at Aiwan-i-Sadr
ISLAMABAD, June 2: Imam-i-Kaaba Al-Sheikh Abdur Rehman Al-Sudais on Saturday led Zohar prayers at the Aiwan-i-Sadr mosque. President Gen Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan Muslim League president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, federal ministers and the Aiwan-i-Sadr staff attended the congregation....
India-US N-talks in the doldrums
NEW DELHI, June 2: High-level talks on a controversial civilian nuclear deal between India and the United States appeared to have hit the doldrums on Saturday with both sides looking at...
Protesters attack police at G8 rally
ROSTOCK (Germany), June 2: More than 140 police were injured in violent clashes with Molotov cocktail-throwing protestors here on Saturday at a demonstration ahead of next week’s G8 summit....
Talal says MI kidnapped his son
QUETTA, June 2: The Jamhoori Watan Party chief Nawabzada Talal Akbar Bugti accused the officials of Military Intelligence Quetta of kidnapping his son, Shahzain Bugti, in Karachi on Saturday....
Four arrested
QUETTA, June 2: Police arrested on Saturday four militants, including one of the commanders of Nawab Bugti, after heavy exchange of fire near Dera Bugti. According to reports, the encounter...
‘Woolmer was not murdered’
LONDON, June 2: Jamaican police are set to announce that Pakistan cricket team coach Bob Woolmer was not murdered, but died of natural causes, a British newspaper said on Saturday, citing a source close to the inquiry....
MQM, Sindh govt blamed for May 12 killings
LONDON, June 2: Most of the speakers at a seminar here on Friday held the MQM and the Sindh government responsible for the killings on May 12....
MQM MNA, 12 workers attacked
HYDERABAD, June 2: An MNA of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Mohammad Parvez Qureshi, and 12 party activists suffered injuries in an attack allegedly made by activists of Pakistan People’s Party in Hatri late on Friday night....
Crackdown begins against sub-tribe
WANA, June 2: The political administration of South Waziristan Agency have launched massive crackdown against Jalalkhel sub-tribe of the Mehsood tribe for their involvement in lifting of official vehicles....
ABBOTTABAD, June 2: Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry was given an unprecedented welcome when he reached the Abbottabad Bar Club, the main venue of the lawyers’ convention, after a journey of 14 and a half hours from Islamabad....
ROSTOCK (Germany), June 2: More than 140 police were injured in violent clashes with Molotov cocktail-throwing protestors here on Saturday at a demonstration ahead of next week’s G8 summit....
