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Asif to host ‘show of strength’ party today
ISLAMABAD, Feb 26: The first show of strength by three major parties -- Pakistan People’s Party, Pakistan Muslim League-N and Awami National Party -- which emerged victorious in the Feb 18...
Wind of change blows in Senate
ISLAMABAD, Feb 26: A wind of change blew in the Senate on Tuesday as a swift consequence of last week’s general elections with a mini revolt in the former ruling coalition...
‘Forward bloc’ in Senate deals blow to PML-Q
ISLAMABAD, Feb 26: In what is being termed the first major blow to the erstwhile coalition led by Pakistan Muslim League-Q, six of its senators announced on Tuesday that they had...
Parties forming new govt given breather: APDM ‘judges day’ on March 9
ISLAMABAD, Feb 26: The All Parties Democratic Alliance (APDM) demanded that President Pervez Musharraf should resign because his policies as well as his political allies were rejected by the people in the Feb 18 elections....
Clues found to Pindi suicide attack, claims ministry
ISLAMABAD, Feb 26: A number of people suspected to have links with Monday’s suicide blast in Rawalpindi that killed the army’s surgeon-general and seven other people, have been arrested, according to interior ministry spokesman Brig (retd) Javed Iqbal Cheema....
SCBA ready to extend long march deadline
LAHORE, Feb 26: The Supreme Court Bar Association is ready to extend the March 9 deadline for the long march to give an opportunity to parliament to restore the deposed judges....
EC stopped from declaring result of NA-202
KARACHI, Feb 26: Chief Justice Mohammad Afzal Soomro of the Sindh High Court has restrained the Election Commission from announcing the official election result of NA-202 (Shikarpur) till Feb 28 when...
Suspect in Oct 18 bombing arrested
ISLAMABAD, Feb 26: A suspected Al Qaeda militant has been arrested in connection with the October 18 suicide bombing in Karachi that narrowly missed former prime minister Benazir Bhutto but killed about 150 others, a top official said on Wednesday....
KSE stays above 15,000
KARACHI, Feb 26: Tuesday marked the third session of trading at the Karachi Stock Exchange when the KSE-100 index crossed the coveted 15,000 points level, but it was for the first...
Ministry wants new govt to raise prices
ISLAMABAD, Feb 26: The ministry of finance has prepared a brief for the coming government suggesting increase in oil prices and electricity tariff in order to retain the broad budgetary projections for 2007-8 which faces a Rs197 billion gap....
Parachinar candidate survives new attack
PARACHINAR, Feb 26: Pakistan People’s Party-backed candidate for NA-37 (Upper Kurram tribal region) Dr Syed Riaz Hussain and three others were wounded in a bomb blast near Sadda town on Tuesday morning....
Fazlullah’s aides held
MINGORA, Feb 26: Three close associates of Swat’s hardline cleric Maulana Fazlullah were arrested on Tuesday....
NGOs stop work in quake zone
MANSEHRA, Feb 26: Several national and international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have suspended their work in quake-hit areas following a terrorist attack on the office of an international NGO here....
Frozen garden of Eden!
LONGYEARBYEN (Norway), Feb 26: A vault carved into the Arctic permafrost and filled with samples of the world’s most important seeds was inaugurated on Tuesday providing a Noah’s Ark of food crops in the event of a global catastrophe....
FIA to look into organ trade
ISLAMABAD, Feb 26: The health ministry has been informed that unethical trade in human organs was continuing despite a ban and now the investigation into the scam is being handed over to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA)....
Pentagon chief in India
NEW DELHI, Feb 26: US Defence Secretary Robert Gates, starting his first visit to India on Tuesday, said he was hopeful that India would clear the civil nuclear deal paving the way for Washington to take it forward....
Three DSPs, five SHOs reshuffled
ISLAMABAD, Feb 26: Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP) Shahid Nadeem Balooch reshuffled three deputy superintendents of police (DSPs) and five station house officers (SHOs) on Tuesday, an official source said....
Two shot dead in Noshki
QUETTA, Feb 26: Armed men gunned down two persons in Noshki area on Tuesday evening....
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LONGYEARBYEN (Norway), Feb 26: A vault carved into the Arctic permafrost and filled with samples of the world’s most important seeds was inaugurated on Tuesday providing a Noah’s Ark of food crops in the event of a global catastrophe....
