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Shahbaz ‘asked to join national govt’
ISLAMABAD, Jan 12: Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) head Shahbaz Sharif dashed to Islamabad on Saturday and returned to Lahore in the evening after holding separate meetings with an aide of President...
Justice Iftikhar rejects eviction notice
ISLAMABAD, Jan 12: The government on Saturday served a notice on the deposed chief justice, Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, asking him to vacate the official residence, but he refused to entertain the letter, saying “I am not a retired judge”....
Musharraf rules out UN probe into Benazir murder
ISLAMABAD, Jan 12: President Pervez Musharraf ruled out a United Nations probe into the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in an interview with a French newspaper published on Saturday....
Bhagwandas put under ‘protective custody’
KARACHI, Jan 12: The former acting chief justice of Pakistan, Justice Rana Bhagwandas, was put under house arrest on Saturday, according to family sources....
No unilateral action in Pakistan: US
WASHINGTON, Jan 12: The US State Department and the Pentagon have both assured Pakistan that the United States has no plan to take unilateral military action inside its tribal territory....
PPP to approach United Nations for investigation
LARKANA, Jan 12: The Pakistan People’s Party will on its own send a request to the UN for setting up a commission to probe Benazir Bhutto’s assassination....
Rangers, FC to protect wheat supply
ISLAMABAD, Jan 12: The Federal Food Committee, constituted by President Pervez Musharraf on Friday night, sprang into action a day later by deputing Rangers and Frontier Constabulary personnel to escort wheat...
US journalist deported: ‘No explanation given by government’
ISLAMABAD, Jan 12: Pakistan has expelled a journalist for the New York Times Magazine who interviewed Taliban leaders and visited the Balochistan province on the Afghan border, a media watchdog said.The...
Islamabad denies claim
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani government claimed on Saturday that Nicholas Schmidle had not been deported and had left the country of his own volition....
Mukherjee confident Pakistanis will overcome crisis
NEW DELHI, Jan 12: Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Saturday that Pakistan was going through an unpredictable phase but he had faith in the people and the system to navigate the crisis....
Gas pipeline blown up
QUETTA, Jan 12: Gas supply was suspended to Mastung and Kalat districts of Balochistan on Saturday as some people blew up a pipeline near the Mian Ghundi area of Quetta....
Forty projects approved
ISLAMABAD, Jan 12: The Central Development Working Party of the Planning Commission on Saturday approved 40 development projects worth Rs69.3 billion....
Details of arrangement with British team released
ISLAMABAD, Jan 12: The interior ministry and the British High Commission on Saturday released the details of working arrangements agreed between the Pakistani law enforcement agencies and the Metropolitan Police Service...
Sabotage attempt foiled
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Jan 12: A sabotage attempt was foiled near here on Saturday when police disarmed three rocket launchers found under a bridge over river Indus....
Senate session called on 14th
ISLAMABAD, Jan 12: President Pervez Musharraf has approved the summary for summoning the winter session of the Senate beginning on Jan 14. The upper house of the parliament has been summoned...
US court gives go-ahead to Pakistani banker’s re-trial
NEW YORK, Jan 12: A US judge declined to throw out an insider-trading case against a former Credit Suisse investment banker, paving the way for his retrial next week....
Iraqi parliament okays law to rehabilitate Baathists
BAGHDAD, Jan 12: Iraq’s parliament adopted legislation on Saturday on the reinstatement of thousands of former Baath party supporters to government jobs, a key benchmark sought by the United States as a step towards national reconciliation....
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