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Spotlight back on Fahim for premiership
ISLAMABAD, March 5: After going adrift for a while, focus seems to have reverted to Makhdoom Amin Fahim before the parliamentary group of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) meets on Thursday...
PPP, PML-N ‘poles apart’ on judges issue
LAHORE, March 5: The PPP and the PML-N remain “poles apart” on the issue of reinstatement of the deposed judges of superior courts and ties with President Pervez Musharraf, notwithstanding their...
Asif cleared in five corruption cases
RAWALPINDI, March 5: Two accountability courts dismissed five corruption cases against PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari here on Wednesday, clearing the way for him to hold government office....
War college attack; 13 arrested
LAHORE, March 5: Police have taken into custody over a dozen people after tracing the chassis number of the motorcycle used in Tuesday’s suicide attack on the Naval War College....
Pakistan in no hurry to join C’wealth
ISLAMABAD, March 5: The Foreign Office said on Wednesday that Pakistan was in no hurry to return to the Commonwealth....
Inam says dialogue with India to resume soon
ISLAMABAD, March 5: The India-Pakistan peace process is likely to gain full momentum once the new government is in place and starts the fifth round of composite dialogue with India....
Singh sees ‘ray of hope’ from new leadership: Peace process with Pakistan
NEW DELHI, March 5: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday expressed the hope that Pakistan’s new leadership would work with him in putting the past behind for enduring peace and collective prosperity of the two countries....
Dr A.Q. Khan hospitalised
ISLAMABAD, March 5: Nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan was hospitalised on Wednesday morning for medical check-up after having developed an infection....
Two-thirds majority not needed to restore judges: Aitzaz
ISLAMABAD, March 5: President Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Aitzaz Ahsan said on Wednesday that two-thirds majority in parliament was not required for reinstating the deposed judges, including chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry....
‘Forget May 12 mayhem’
KARACHI, March 5: SCBA president Aitzaz Ahsan on Wednesday advised lawyers to forget the bloody incident of May 12 in which dozens of people were killed on the occasion of a visit to Karachi by deposed chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry....
Magsi briefs Musharraf on govt formation
ISLAMABAD, March 5: Balochistan Governor Nawab Zulfikar Ali Magsi met President Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday and discussed with him the political situation in the province....
KARACHI: US diplomat killer sentenced to death
KARACHI, March 5: An anti-terrorism court on Wednesday sentenced to death an Al Qaeda militant in a 2006 suicide attack that killed a US diplomat near the consulate....
Hillary halts Obama, McCain wins Republican nomination
WASHINGTON, March 5: Senator Hillary Clinton on Wednesday hinted at the possibility of sharing the Democratic presidential ticket with Barack Obama after three straight wins against her rival....
Sikh extremists still active, says Manmohan
AMRITSAR, March 5: Remnants of Sikh rebel groups abroad are helping attempts to revive an insurgency in India’s northern state of Punjab, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh warned in a letter obtained on Wednesday....
Two bombs defused
QUETTA, March 5: Security forces on Wednesday foiled an attempt to blow up two bridges linking Dera Bugti with other areas....
FAO warning over virulent wheat fungus
RAWALPINDI, March 5: The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations has asked the authorities of Pakistan and five other wheat-producing countries, located east of Iran, to be on...
‘Fit for trial’ complaints sought by EC
ISLAMABAD, March 5: The Election Commission on Wednesday asked candidates who lost the elections to file complaints within 45 days of the gazette notification....
‘PPP-S senators attended allies meeting’
ISLAMABAD, March 5: The PPP-S said on Wednesday that its two senators, Shujaul Mulk and Haji Ghufran, had attended the get-together hosted by the PML-Q on Tuesday....
China vows reforms for more equal society
BEIJING, March 5: Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao pledged on Wednesday a more equal society and streamlined government, as he vowed to address a vast array of problems tarnishing the nation’s remarkable modernisation drive....
Eight wounded in gunfight
TAXILA, March 5: Eight persons were injured, two of them critically, in a gunfight between two groups of Afghans reportedly over a petty dispute, the Cantonment police said on Wednesday....
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Editor: Abbas Nasir
WASHINGTON, March 5: Senator Hillary Clinton on Wednesday hinted at the possibility of sharing the Democratic presidential ticket with Barack Obama after three straight wins against her rival....
BEIJING, March 5: Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao pledged on Wednesday a more equal society and streamlined government, as he vowed to address a vast array of problems tarnishing the nation’s remarkable modernisation drive....
