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Fahim rejects offer to become president
ISLAMABAD, March 13: The crisis in the Pakistan People’s Party deepened on Thursday when co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari and senior vice-chairman Makhdoom Amin Fahim failed to resolve their differences on the choice of the party’s candidate for the prime minister’s post....
PML-N seeks ‘strategic’ ministries
ISLAMABAD, March 13: A committee of the Pakistan People’s Party and the Pakistan Muslim League-N discussed on Thursday allocation of cabinet positions among coalition partners at the centre and in Punjab....
Protest lodged over US firing
MIRAMSHAH, March 13: Pakistan lodged a protest with coalition forces in Afghanistan on Thursday after two Pakistani women and two children were killed by US fire from across the border, the army said....
PPP, PML-N working on plan to bring down prices
ISLAMABAD, March 13: The Pakistan People’s Party and the Pakistan Muslim League-N are working on a plan to bring down prices of essential commodities....
Taslim Arif dies at 54
KARACHI, March 13: Pakistan’s former Test wicketkeeper batsman and junior team selector Taslim Arif died in Karachi on Thursday night after a brief illness. He was 54....
Killing of civilians condemned
KHAR, March 13: Thousands of people demonstrated here on Thursday in protest against the killing of civilians in a clash between Bajaur Scouts and militants....
US experts to join probe into Lahore blasts
LAHORE, March 13: A team of forensic and technical experts from the United States is arriving here shortly to assist local officials investigating the twin blasts which rocked the city on Tuesday....
OIC wants Israelis tried for war crimes
DAKAR, March 13: The secretary-general of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, has called for Israelis to be tried by an international war crimes court for ‘heinous’ attacks against Palestinians....
India alleges deceased prisoner was a spy
ISLAMABAD, March 13: India has accused Khalid Mehmood, a Pakistani national who died in an Indian jail, of being a spy and has advised the Pakistan government and media against politicising his death....
HRCP demands probe
KARACHI, March 13: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan on Thursday called for a high-level inquiry into the death of a Pakistani in an Indian prison....
Pakistan seeks full report
ISLAMABAD, March 13: Pakistan, reacting to an Indian High Commission’s statement regarding the death of a Pakistani, Khalid Mehmood, in an Indian jail, again asked India on Thursday to provide full...
Pakistan warned of threat to food crops
ISLAMABAD, March 13: Environmentalists have warned Pakistan of threats to food security because of a staggering decline in the production of food crops due to water shortages, climate changes and natural calamities....
Unilateral US action in Pakistan opposed
WASHINGTON, March 13: A leading US expert on South Asia has warned that any unilateral US action to secure Pakistan’s nuclear weapons would be highly counter-productive and could make a bad situation infinitely worse....
Kabul suicide attack kills 6
KABUL, March 13: A suicide car bomber killed six Afghans and wounded 37 others, among them four American soldiers, in an attack on a US-led military convoy near Kabul airport on Thursday....
Coordination sought for success in Afghanistan
UNITED NATIONS, March 13: Pakistan has said that the key to success in Afghanistan imbroglio lies in pursuing a comprehensive approach with emphasis on building the country’s capacity to assume greater control and ownership on security, governance and development issues....
Traders in Balochistan observe strike
QUETTA, March 13: Traders in Quetta and several district towns observed a strike on Thursday in protest against detention of Sardar Akhtar Mengal and workers of the party....
Malik first UK minister to attend OIC summit
LONDON, March 13: Shahid Malik, the UK Minister for International Development, the first ever official UK representative to attend a summit of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) in its...
Lords block extradition of Briton to US
LONDON, March 13: The House of Lords brought to an abrupt but perhaps temporary halt Washington’s efforts to break up international cartels, by ruling on Wednesday that a British executive cannot...
Arrest warrants of AIG issued: Death in police custody
RAWALPINDI, March 13: The Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi Bench here on Thursday issued a non-bailable arrest warrants of an additional inspector general of police (AIG) for not appearing in the court in an inquiry into murder case despite repeated summons....
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Editor: Abbas Nasir
LAHORE, March 13: A team of forensic and technical experts from the United States is arriving here shortly to assist local officials investigating the twin blasts which rocked the city on Tuesday....
DAKAR, March 13: The secretary-general of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, has called for Israelis to be tried by an international war crimes court for ‘heinous’ attacks against Palestinians....
