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| November 30, 2007 | Friday | Ziqa’ad 19, 1428 |
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13,490 file papers for NA, PA seats
ISLAMABAD, Nov 29: The Election Commission has received 13,490 nomination papers from candidates for 265 National Assembly and 566 provincial assembly (general) seats for the coming elections.... 
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PML-N calls Musharraf ‘civilian martial law administrator’
ISLAMABAD, Nov 29: The Pakistan Muslim League (N) said on Thursday that Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf had taken the oath as a ‘civilian martial law administrator’ and not president....
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Confidential air crash inquiry report submitted to SHC
KARACHI, Nov 29: A confidential air crash inquiry report was submitted in a sealed cover to the Sindh High Court on Thursday. The court asked its registrar to keep it in safe custody without unsealing it till further orders....
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Geo to resume broadcasts from Dubai
DUBAI, Nov 29: Media authorities in Dubai said on Thursday they had allowed the Geo TV channel to resume broadcasts....
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Benazir briefs EU envoys on political situation
ISLAMABAD, Nov 29: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairperson Benazir Bhutto on Thursday met the ambassadors of European Union (EU) countries in Islamabad and asked them to send observers from their respective countries to monitor the forthcoming general elections in the country....
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Candidates shun PML(Q) tickets
SWABI, Nov 29: Several candidates awarded tickets by the PML(Q) have refused to contest the elections from the party’s platform....
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NGOs accused of misusing quake funds : Protest held in Mansehra
MANSEHRA, Nov 29: Hundreds of people held a protest demonstration in the Jabory area on Thursday against non-governmental organisations which, they alleged, had plundered the funds meant for earthquake survivors and...
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LHC judge suspends lawyer’s licence
LAHORE, Nov 29: In a first case of its kind, Justice M Bilal Khan of the Lahore High Court has suspended the licence of Jaranwala Bar Association President BK Tabish for violating the “decorum” of the court....
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Imran likely to be among students again
LAHORE, Nov 29: Two major student events are planned for Friday (today) to protest the imposition of emergency, with Imran Khan slated to make an appearance at the second....
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On way home after 17 long years
LAHORE, Nov 29: An Indian woman who has spent 17 long years in Pakistan will finally board a plane on Friday to reunite with her family in Indian state of Andhra Pradesh....
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All About Lifestyles Expo opens tomorrow
ISLAMABAD, Nov 29: Profiling industrial progress, social changes and celebrating art and inventions, the All About Lifestyles Exhibition 2007 will open at the Convention Centre here on Saturday....
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Arrested American bailed out
RAWALPINDI, Nov 29: A US national booked on Wednesday by the Civil Lines police on the charge of violating the Official Secrets Act, was granted bail by the court of a special judicial magistrate on Thursday, police said....
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Conference on media freedom today
ISLAMABAD, Nov 29: Leaders of mainstream political parties and leading figures in print and electronic media are expected to attend a two-day conference on ‘Media Freedom, Security and Laws’ which begins...
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Justice Tariq sees another March 9 simmering
LAHORE, Nov 29: One of the private rooms at Services Hospital in Lahore is declared a sub-jail. Guarded by alert policemen, not letting anyone in without proper identification, inside the sub-jail...
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Four air commodores promoted as AVMs
LAHORE, Nov 29: Four air commodores were promoted to the rank of air vice-marshals on Thursday....
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Musharraf urged to restore Constitution
PESHAWAR, Nov 29: The provincial chief of Jamaat-i-Islami, Sirajul Haq, said on Thursday the nation hoped that Gen Pervez Musharraf would be restoring the Constitution as one of the first jobs after taking the oath as the civilian president....
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Oath taking termed mockery of law
QUETTA, Nov 29: Nawabzada Talal Akbar Bugti, chief of his own faction of the Jamhoori Watan Party, has said that President Pervez Musharraf is unacceptable even as a civilian president....
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PML’s Zehri group revived
QUETTA, Nov 29: Mir Zarak Khan Zehri has announced the revival of Zehri faction of the Pakistan Muslim League which was formed by his grandfather Mir Qadir Bux Zehri in 1933....
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First winter rain
PESHAWAR, Nov 29: Several areas in the NWFP and the tribal region received the first rain of the winter season on Thursday evening, breaking a long dry spell, local meteorological office said....
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