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Rift widens over premiership
ISLAMABAD, March 9: The Sunday’s landmark summit between the Pakistan People’s Party and Pakistan Muslim League-N in Murree brought the two arch rivals of the past close to the formation of...
President to get advice for NA session today
ISLAMABAD, March 9: Caretaker Prime Minister Mohammedmian Soomro will send an advice to President Pervez Musharraf on Monday for summoning the first session of the newly-elected National Assembly....
Restoration pledge must be met, warns Aitzaz
LAHORE, March 9: Supreme Court Bar Association president Aitzaz Ahsan has expressed the hope that PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari and PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif will fulfil their promise to reinstate...
Moment of truth for President Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, March 9: A vow by the Pakistan People’s Party and Pakistan Muslim League-N on Sunday to restore about 60 deposed judges of the superior courts through a parliamentary resolution poses...
Helicopters pound militant positions
GHALANAI, March 9: Security forces backed by helicopter gunships pounded suspected militant positions in Mohmand Agency on Sunday, killing one person and wounding two women and four children....
Free judiciary and Musharraf can’t co-exist, say lawyers
QUETTA, March 9: Lawyers across the country launched a “black flag week” to press their demand for reinstatement of deposed chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry and other judges....
Indian doctor in biggest US malpractice scandal
NEW YORK, March 9: As many as 40,000 people may have been infected with the deadly hepatitis C virus or HIV from a Las Vegas clinic, owned by Dr Dipak Desai,...
Terrorist plot to target Olympics thwarted
BEIJING, March 9: Chinese police broke up a terror plot targeting the Beijing Olympics, and a flight crew foiled an apparent attempt to crash a Chinese jetliner in a separate case, officials said on Sunday....
Malaysian coalition suffers poll setback
KUALA LUMPUR, March 9: Malaysia’s political landscape was dramatically transformed on Sunday after the government slumped to its worst-ever election results, losing its two-thirds majority and four states to a buoyant opposition....
Spain’s ruling Socialists forging ahead
MADRID, March 9: Spain’s ruling Socialists won general elections on Sunday but may be just short of an absolute majority, exit polls showed, after a campaign focused on the slowing economy and rising immigration....
Cargo rocket takes off
KOUROU, March 9: An unmanned Ariane rocket successfully put a cargo vessel into orbit on Sunday in Europe’s first mission to carry supplies to the International Space Station (ISS), space officials said....
Pakistan among 10 most unpopular countries in US: poll
WASHINGTON, March 9: Pakistan and Afghanistan are among the 10 most unpopular countries in the United States despite their close ties to the US administration, says a recent survey by Gallup, USA....
Taliban blame Musharraf for turmoil
KHAR, March 9: Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leader Maulana Faqir Mohammad has said that the United States is the “number one terrorist” and the entire Muslim Ummah, in particular Pakistan, has been suffering because of its hegemonic policies....
Dr Khan recuperating
ISLAMABAD, March 9: Nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, who was admitted to a hospital on Wednesday with symptoms of low blood pressure, was discharged on Sunday....
‘Black flag week’ protest held in London
LONDON, March 9: A group of 100-strong protesters held a vociferous two-hour demonstration in front of the Pakistan High Commission here on Sunday in solidarity with the black flag week being...
92 handed over to Afghanistan
CHAMAN, March 9: Chaman police on Sunday handed over 92 Afghan nationals to Afghan authorities at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border....
Smuggling of wheat, flour to Afghanistan foiled
TAXILA, March 9: Food department with the assistance of the Rangers foiled a bid to smuggle huge quantity of flour and wheat from Punjab to Afghanistan via NWFP and seized 2,520...
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BHURBAN, March 9: The Pakistan People’s Party and Pakistan Muslim League-N -- two major winners of the Feb 18 elections -- on Sunday signed a landmark declaration to form coalition governments...
LAHORE, March 9: Supreme Court Bar Association president Aitzaz Ahsan has expressed the hope that PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari and PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif will fulfil their promise to reinstate...
MADRID, March 9: Spain’s ruling Socialists won general elections on Sunday but may be just short of an absolute majority, exit polls showed, after a campaign focused on the slowing economy and rising immigration....
