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PML-N vetoes candidature of Fahim
ISLAMABAD, March 10: While the Pakistan People’s Party was still undecided about its nominee for the post of prime minister, its coalition ally Pakistan Muslim League-N on Monday came out openly...
Fahim says CEC should decide PM candidate
LAHORE, March 10: Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians leader Makhdoom Amin Fahim says that a decision about who should be the party’s candidate for the office of prime minister should be taken...
Musharraf advised on moves to avert judges’ restoration
ISLAMABAD, March 10: President Pervez Musharraf held consultations with his legal and constitutional aides on Monday on the PPP-PML-N declaration pledging reinstatement of deposed judges within 30 days of formation of the federal government....
Transition process set in motion
ISLAMABAD, March 10: Amid demands for an early session of the newly elected National Assembly, the caretaker government on Monday advised President Pervez Musharraf to summon the lower house, setting in...
Riyadh offers $300m to offset effects of high oil cost
ISLAMABAD, March 10: Saudi Arabia has offered a one-time $300 million budgetary support to Pakistan to help bridge the fiscal gap caused by constantly rising oil prices....
‘Tortured’ prisoner’s body arrives from India
LAHORE, March 10: The body of a Pakistani man who had died in Indian police custody allegedly because of torture was handed over to Pakistan at Wagah on Monday....
Trade deficit soars to $12.43bn in 8 months
ISLAMABAD, March 10: Pakistan’s trade deficit ballooned to $12.433 billion in the first eight months of the current fiscal year, up by 39.05 per cent over $8.942...
Fata woman receives courage award
WASHINGTON, March 10: Dr Begum Jan, who received the international women of courage award from US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Monday, believes that the military might alone cannot subdue the tribes of Waziristan....
Girl among eight injured in three explosions
QUETTA, March 10: Eight people, a six-year-old girl among them, were injured in explosions in Dera Murad Jamali, Quetta and Khuzdar on Monday....
US to work with ‘whichever govt is formed’ in Pakistan
WASHINGTON, March 10: The White House said on Monday that the United States was willing to work with whichever government was formed in Pakistan but did not have a position on who should or should not be included in this government....
Warrants for Baitullah, four others issued
RAWALPINDI, March 10: An anti-terrorism court issued here on Monday non-bailable arrest warrants for Baithullah Mehsud, the self-styled leader of the militant Taliban Movement, and his four associates for their alleged...
Six ‘militants’ arrested
ISLAMABAD, March 10: The Pakistan army says six suspected militants have been arrested in areas where troops have battled pro-Taliban fighters in recent months. The arrests were made on Sunday in the town of Tank and in Swat....
US manipulation to backfire: Kissinger
WASHINGTON, March 10: Any US attempt to manipulate the political process in Pakistan will backfire, warns former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger....
8,600kgs flour seized
CHAMAN, March 10: Frontier Corps personnel seized on Monday 8,600 kilograms of flour during a raid near the Afghan border in Balochistan....
Not difficult for Zardari to become PM: Mukhtar
ISLAMABAD, March 10: Senior PPP leader Ahmed Mukhtar on Monday said it was not difficult for Asif Ali Zardari to get elected from a constituency vacated by a party member and become the prime minister....
Taliban can seize nukes, warns Turkish general
ANKARA, March 10: Turkey’s military chief on Monday warned that Pakistan’s political turmoil and violence by extremists could open the way for the Taliban to seize control of the country and its nuclear weapons....
Musharraf unlikely to quit, says Azeem
ISLAMABAD, March 10: It “does not look like” President Pervez Musharraf will quit if the incoming coalition restores the deposed judges, former minister of state for information Tariq Azeem has said....
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LAHORE, March 10: The body of a Pakistani man who had died in Indian police custody allegedly because of torture was handed over to Pakistan at Wagah on Monday....
WASHINGTON, March 10: Dr Begum Jan, who received the international women of courage award from US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Monday, believes that the military might alone cannot subdue the tribes of Waziristan....
