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PML hopes for grand opposition alliance: Crucial meeting today
ISLAMABAD, March 3: Chaudhry Wajahat Hussain, brother of PML-Q chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, and newly elected MNA from Gujrat, has said that a meeting has been convened on Tuesday for consultations...
Judges’ detention: Aitzaz to file FIR against Musharraf
LAHORE, March 3: President of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Aitzaz Ahsan has said he will file an FIR against President Pervez Musharraf and officials concerned for ‘illegally confining’ deposed...
Justice Iftikhar’s children ‘allowed’ to leave house
ISLAMABAD, March 3: The government on Monday decided in principle to relax some restrictions and allow the children of detained Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry to attend their educational institutions....
Asif’s statement irks Kashmiris
SRINAGAR, March 3: Kashmiris accused Pakistani political parties on Monday of turning their back on them and their struggle against Indian occupation after the Feb 18 elections....
Five militants killed in Mohmand
GHALANAI, March 3: Five ‘militants’ were killed in a clash with security forces at the Nakai checkpost in the Mohmand tribal region on Monday....
10 killed in clash after attack on shrine
PESHAWAR/LANDI KOTAL, March 3: In a bizarre development, the armed supporters of a militant organisation based in the Khyber tribal region attacked the Shaikhan village in the outskirts of the provincial capital on Monday, killing 10 people and injuring 15 others....
Kayani briefs Musharraf on operation
ISLAMABAD, March 3: Chief of the Army Staff Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani met President Pervez Musharraf on Monday and discussed with him the ongoing operation against militants with special reference to the domestic and regional situation....
Mukherjee briefs parliament on ties with Pakistan
NEW DELHI, March 3: Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee briefed parliament on Monday on his policies with China, Pakistan and others and expressed the hope that the Composite Dialogue with Islamabad...
Pakistan-EU talks to resume after over a decade
ISLAMABAD, March 3: The Pakistan-European Union Joint Commission is expected to meet within three months after remaining suspended for over a decade, sources in the Foreign Office said after a meeting of the Pak-EU Political Directors here on Monday....
Wheat procurement target unlikely to be met
The government has assessed that it is in no position to achieve its wheat procurement target this year because the official procurement rate for 40 kg wheat is at least Rs100 less than the market price....
New bench sought after ‘unpleasant’ remarks
ISLAMABAD, March 3: The Supreme Court on Monday referred an election challenge back to the chief justice for constitution of a new bench to hear it after some ‘unpleasant’ remarks were made during the hearing against a senior counsel....
UNSC slaps more sanctions on Iran
UNITED NATIONS, March 3: The United Nations Security Council on Monday adopted a third set of sanctions regime against Iran with a vote of 14-0 demanding that Tehran halt its uranium enrichment activities....
28 Al Qaeda suspects arrested in S. Arabia
RIYADH, March 3: Saudi Arabia said on Monday it had arrested 28 people suspected of seeking to regroup Al Qaeda’s wing in the oil rich kingdom to carry out a “terror campaign”....
The case of the ‘missing’ Qari
ISLAMABAD, March 3: After claiming to have re-arrested one of the country’s most mysterious militants, Qari Saifullah Akhtar, the interior ministry has started to backtrack on its earlier disclosure, with its...
Nawaz’s guard jailed in UK
LONDON, March 3: A man who described himself in the court as bodyguard of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif has been jailed in UK on charges of rape....
Man slaughters nephew
JEDDAH, March 3: Shoppers at a local supermarket were left reeling on Sunday, with some falling unconscious, after a Syrian man clinched a knife and decapitated his 15-month-old nephew in front...
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LAHORE, March 3: An Indian national, who had been languishing in prison for more than three decades, was released on Monday....
