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Caretaker govt hikes power tariff, petroleum prices
ISLAMABAD, Feb 29: The caretaker government on Friday took a much delayed but crucial decision to increase power tariff and petroleum prices which will help the new government to the extent...
Race on as Fahim’s star sinks
ISLAMABAD, Feb 29: The Pakistan People’s Party, the largest party in the newly elected National Assembly, is still undecided about its candidate for the office of the prime minister and sources...
ANP names Amir Hoti for Frontier CM post
PESHAWAR, Feb 29: The Awami National Party on Friday nominated Bacha Khan’s great grandson Amir Haidar Khan Hoti for the post of chief minister in a coalition government with the PPP in the NWFP....
PML-Q facing problems in forming Balochistan govt
QUETTA, Feb 29: Pakistan Muslim League-Q which has emerged as the largest single party in the Balochistan assembly is facing problems in nominating the leader of its parliamentary party....
Judges’ issue to tax legal brains for long
ISLAMABAD, Feb 29: The fate of the present chief justice if deposed chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry is reinstated has become a top judicial issue with many solutions on offer but a way out appearing hard to find....
US silence on judges’ reinstatement questioned
WASHINGTON, Feb 29: The US backs restoration of an independent judiciary in Pakistan, but has no position on whether the sacked judges should be reinstated....
Unilateral US action in Fata harmful: Negroponte
WASHINGTON, Feb 29: The talk of direct US military action in Pakistan is harmful, says a senior American official, adding that the United States must consult Islamabad before taking any action against militants in the tribal area....
India raises defence spending, writes off $15bn farmers’ loans
NEW DELHI, Feb 29: India’s Finance Minister P. Chidambaram unveiled a populist budget on Friday that failed to enthuse markets but signalled a possible early election otherwise not due till May next year....
Plea against Zardari withdrawn: counsel
KARACHI, Feb 29: The federal government has withdrawn its plea against Pakistan People’s Party co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari, his counsel informed the Sindh High Court on Friday....
Turkey pulls out troops from northern Iraq
ANKARA, Feb 29: Turkey pulled its troops out of northern Iraq on Friday, ending a major offensive against Kurdish PKK rebels that Washington feared could spread conflict through the region....
One killed in Colombo explosion
COLOMBO, Feb 29: At least one person was killed and seven others were injured in a suicide blast near the harbour on Friday morning....
UK calling back Prince Harry from Afghanistan
LONDON, Feb 29: Britain’s Prince Harry is being withdrawn from Afghanistan immediately, the defence ministry said on Friday, after news leaked on the Internet that he had been secretly fighting on the front lines for 10 weeks....
Rs1.8bn for rebuilding in Muzaffarabad
ISLAMABAD, Feb 29: The Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (Erra) will provide a sum of Rs1.8 billion, out of the Presidential Relief Fund, to the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) government for the implementation of the Muzaffarabad City Development Plan....
EC rejects Shujaat’s plea
ISLAMABAD, Feb 29: The Election Commission rejected on Friday the Pakistan Muslim League-Q’s plea on ‘electoral anomalies’....
Philippines Senate honours Benazir
ISLAMABAD, Feb 29: The Senate of Philippines has honoured the achievements of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and condemned her assassination....
Asmatullah reelected HCBA Pindi president
RAWALPINDI, Feb 29: Sardar Asmatullah advocate was on Friday reelected president of the High Court Bar Association (HCBA) Rawalpindi for 2008 on Friday....
Charge-sheet in Benazir case submitted
RAWALPINDI, Feb 29: The police team investigating the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto is reported to have submitted on Friday an ‘incomplete’ charge-sheet of the case in an anti-terrorist...
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Editor: Abbas Nasir
MINGORA / LAKKI MARWAT, Feb 29: At least 38 people lost their lives when a suicide attacker blew himself up in Mingora on Friday during the funeral of a senior police officer who had been killed hours earlier in Lakki Marwat....
