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‘Good news’ soon: Asif: Consensus government
ISLAMABAD, Feb 28: The Pakistan People’s Party, which has emerged as the largest parliamentary group in the National Assembly in the Feb 18 elections, on Thursday formally invited a fractured Muttahida...
PML-Q, allies launch ‘save president’ campaign
ISLAMABAD, Feb 28: The Pakistan Muslim League-Q and its allies have started a campaign to muster support for President Pervez Musharraf both inside and outside parliament in the face of other parties’ demand for his resignation....
PPP, MQM agree to continue talks
KARACHI, Feb 28: A delegation of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) held talks with Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leaders here on Thursday. The talks did not result in working out a...
JUI-F sets terms for backing coalition
ISLAMABAD, Feb 28: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam chief Maulana Fazlur Rahman has demanded immediate resignation of President Pervez Musharraf to allow the new coalition government to work smoothly for the wellbeing of the nation....
Militants’ houses destroyed
DARRA ADAMKHEL: Security forces on Thursday destroyed four houses which belonged to suspected militant commanders in the Mazeedkhel area of the Darra town....
FFC likely to be wound up
ISLAMABAD, Feb 28: The Federal Food Committee, which was formed last month and which claims to have brought down wheat and flour prices from more than Rs30 to Rs16 per kg...
Undo emergency first
VARIOUS sections of society are laying down priorities for the government-in-making but the top item on the nation’s agenda is withdrawal of the extra-constitutional measures announced under the cloak of ‘emergency’....
Musharraf down but not out — and why
ISLAMABAD and its twin city Rawalpindi continue to remain in the grip of frenzied political activities with various power-brokers on both sides of the divide being involved either in last-minute wheeling-dealing...
Prince Harry fighting Taliban: UK
LONDON, Feb 28: Prince Harry, the youngest son of Prince Charles and the late princess Diana, has been fighting the Taliban on the front line in Afghanistan, the defence ministry in London disclosed on Thursday....
US warship to deploy near Lebanon
WASHINGTON, Feb 28: Deeply concerned about Lebanon’s political impasse, the United States has sped its USS Cole warship off the country’s coast in a “show of support for regional stability”, a top US official said on Thursday....
Kamran Rasool is new PIA chairman
ISLAMABAD, Feb 28: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) on Thursday reverted to its former system of management with powers shared by the chairman and the managing director in a bid to revive the sagging fortunes of the national carrier....
Election tribunals for Punjab set up
ISLAMABAD, Feb 28: Chief Election Commissioner Justice (retd) Qazi Muhammad Farooq has appointed 12 judges of the Lahore High Court to act as election tribunals for hearing poll petitions relating to the Punjab....
Lawyers boycott courts in Quetta
QUETTA, Feb 28: On a call of Pakistan Bar Council, lawyers boycotted court proceedings here on Thursday....
Turkey ignores US calls for early exit from Iraq
ANKARA, Feb 28: Turkey insisted on Thursday that its offensive against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq would continue “as long as necessary”, while US President George Bush mounted pressure on Ankara to wrap up its incursion quickly....
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WANA, Feb 28: Eight suspected militants, four of them Arabs and two from Central Asian states, were killed and three others wounded in a missile attack on a house in Kalosha area of South Waziristan after Wednesday midnight....
