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Row over amended Constitution likely: Inaugural NA session
ISLAMABAD / LAHORE, Feb 23: Controversy lies in store for the opening session of the new National Assembly as the interim government’s legal experts have decided to get printed a fresh...
No deal with PML-Q in Punjab, NWFP: PPP
ISLAMABAD, Feb 23: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has dismissed the idea of forming provincial governments with the help of the Pakistan Muslim League-Q (PML-Q) in either Punjab or the NWFP....
Amin Fahim rules out impeachment, for now
ISLAMABAD, Feb 23: PPP Vice-Chairman Makhdoom Amin Fahim, a strong candidate for the post of prime minister, said on Saturday there was no need at the moment to impeach President Pervez Musharraf....
Another US endorsement for Musharraf
WASHINGTON, Feb 23: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has backed President Pervez Musharraf in the strongest possible term, calling him the man the United States has been dealing with as the president and wants to continue to do so....
Aitzaz puts PML-N, PPP on notice
LAHORE / HYDERABAD, Feb 23: The legal community kept up the momentum in their ongoing campaign for the reinstatement of deposed judges by using different events of their bar associations held on Saturday to spotlight their demands....
US aid cut will affect economy, say officials
ISLAMABAD, Feb 23: Pakistani officialdom is viewing aspersions being cast by the United States media over disbursements to Pakistan from the Coalition Support Fund (CSF) as political blackmail “through managed media leaks”....
A.Q. Khan did not transfer technology, say North Koreans
PALO ALTO (California), Feb 23: Four years after Pakistan’s top nuclear scientist confessed to leaking weapons technology to N. Korea, the North Koreans have denied receiving any such help, an American researcher said....
Indian general sees talks with new govt
NEW DELHI, Feb 23: Pakistani troops have been too preoccupied with their campaigns on the western border to pose problems for India in the foreseeable future and, moreover, Chief of Army...
‘Kosovo move a boon to Kashmiris’
SRINAGAR, Feb 23: Freedom fighters in occupied Kashmir said on Saturday that Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence had bolstered their resolve to achieve the same status for the disputed territory....
Avian virus confirmed in Malir
KARACHI: As test results confirmed the presence of the Avian Influenza (AI) virus in a Malir farm on Saturday evening — the third outbreak in Karachi since Jan 1 — government...
Security man, militant killed in Swat
MINGORA, Feb 23: A security man and a militant were killed, and eight suspects were arrested in Swat’s Gul Jabba, Nawakalley and Watke areas on Saturday....
ASP taken hostage, freed after four hours
QUETTA, Feb 23: A police officer, his two guards and driver were taken hostage for hours by armed tribesmen in the Qila Abdullah area on Saturday....
Nine Afghans die in attacks
ASADABAD, Feb 23: A mine blast killed seven guards in Afghanistan on Saturday, while two civilians were killed in separate incidents, officials said....
Canada welcomes elections
OTTAWA, Feb 23: Welcoming the completion of the election process in Pakistan, Canadian Foreign Minister Maxime Bernier said that Ottawa was looking forward to working with the new government in Islamabad to advance democratic development....
PML-Q to sit on opposition benches
ISLAMABAD, Feb 23: The Pakistan Muslim League (PML-Q) on Saturday unanimously decided not to join a national government and to sit on the opposition benches in the National Assembly and to form government in Balochistan....
Turkish troops kill 35 Kurds
CIZRE (Turkey), Feb 23: Turkish troops killed 35 Kurd militants and destroyed rebel hideouts in northern Iraq on Saturday, as Iraq’s foreign minister warned the three-day-old offensive risked destabilising the region....
Israeli missile kills three Palestinians
GAZA CITY, Feb 23: An Israeli missile strike in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanun killed three Palestinians near the border fence with Israel on Saturday, a Palestinian hospital official said....
Lawyers protest heats up
RAWALPINDI, Feb 23: Lawyers’ post-election protest for reinstatement of the deposed judges seems to gain momentum as they once again marched towards the camp office of President Pervez Musharraf in a...
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Editor: Abbas Nasir
LAHORE / HYDERABAD, Feb 23: The legal community kept up the momentum in their ongoing campaign for the reinstatement of deposed judges by using different events of their bar associations held on Saturday to spotlight their demands....
