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Fazlullah’s home destroyed; ‘arms and liquor seized’
MINGORA, Dec 6: Security forces on Thursday demolished houses of Maulana Fazlullah and his spokesman Maulana Sirajuddin in Imam Dehri village, but left the radical cleric’s seminary intact....
Nawaz stopped from going to ex-CJ’s house
ISLAMABAD, Dec 6: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday made a futile attempt to go to the residence of Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry in the Judges Colony....
Govt must not get excuse to delay poll: Benazir
ISLAMABAD, Dec 6: Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto has said that opposition parties should forcefully put their demands before the government but, at the same time, prepare for the Jan...
12,443 candidates’ papers accepted
ISLAMABAD, Dec 6: Out of 13,490 nomination papers submitted by candidates for general and reserved seats for the Jan 8 polls, returning officers across the country have accepted 12,443....
Talks with India today on Kashmir, Siachen
NEW DELHI, Dec 6: Caretaker Foreign Minister Inamul Haq, here to attend a Saarc ministerial conference, said he would meet his Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee on Friday for a customary bilateral...
PHC releases notification about judges’ removal
PESHAWAR, Dec 6: The Peshawar High Court on Thursday released two notifications issued by the federal law department regarding removal of Chief Justice Tariq Pervez Khan and senior judge Justice Shahjehan Khan on Nov 3....
US asks N. Korea to clarify Pakistan N-link
BEIJING, Dec 6: North Korea must come clean on any efforts to enrich uranium with Pakistani help, a US envoy said on Thursday, while South Korea suggested the North may miss a year-end deadline for disclosing nuclear activities....
Judges ceased to hold office, says minister
ISLAMABAD, Dec 6: Caretaker Law Minister Syed Afzal Haider said on Thursday that superior court judges who had not been offered or who had not taken the oath under the Provisional...
Two ‘Baloch activists’ arrested in Britain
LONDON, Dec 6: British police have arrested two supporters of an outlawed separatist movement, a human rights campaigner said here on Thursday....
Clash in Delhi marks Babri mosque anniversary
NEW DELHI, Dec 6: Hindu extremists and Muslim protesters clashed here on Thursday, throwing rocks and beating each other with bamboo flag poles as both groups gathered to mark the anniversary of destruction of the Babri mosque....
Expired passport: Benazir misses flight
ISLAMABAD, Dec 6: Immigration officers at the Islamabad airport stopped PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto from boarding a flight to Dubai on Thursday because she was carrying an expired passport....
Over 30pc paid bribe for services in ’07: survey
RAWALPINDI, Dec 6: The Global Corruption Barometer 2007 survey report released by Transparency International on Thursday says that people in Pakistan who paid bribe for obtaining services in 2007 increased to...
FC man killed
QUETTA, Dec 6: A security man was killed and six others were injured when a bomb exploded on the Sangsilla-Dera Bugti road on Thursday. Sources said a convoy of Frontier Corps...
India tests interceptor missile
BHUBANESWAR (India), Dec 6: India staged a successful missile intercept test over the Bay of Bengal on Thursday after thousands of people were evacuated ahead of the exercise, a defence official said....
150 students booked
ISLAMABAD, Dec 6: City police have booked about 100 to 150 students of colleges and universities for pelting stones at police personnel and damaging an official vehicle during a protest rally on Wednesday....
House attacked with grenade
QUETTA, Dec 6: A house was attacked with a hand-grenade in the Chandni Chowk area of Khuzdar on Thursday night....
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