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PML-Q and allies field Sattar for top office
ISLAMABAD, March 16: The Pakistan Muslim League-Q and its allies have decided to field Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s parliamentary leader Farooq Sattar as their candidate for the post of prime minister....
New govt will act as strong ally, hopes US
WASHINGTON, March 16: As the new parliament prepares to meet in Islamabad, policy-makers in Washington hope that the new set-up in Pakistan will retain the country’s position as a strong US ally in the ‘war against terror’....
Woman shot dead in Swat
ISLAMABAD, March 16 Troops shot dead a woman on Sunday after opening fire on a vehicle when it failed to stop at a checkpost in a curfew-hit northwestern region, the army said....
Three Saudis extradited
RIYADH, March 16: Pakistan has extradited to Saudi Arabia three Saudi nationals suspected of being militants, according to an Interior Ministry statement on Sunday....
Probe team groping around in the dark: Islamabad blast
ISLAMABAD, March 16: Unlike other recent terrorist attacks in which suicide bombers were involved, the explosion in a restaurant here on Saturday was caused by locally made ‘timed device’....
Coastguard killed
QUETTA, March 16: Gunmen riding motorcycles shot dead a coastguard and injured two others in Balochistan, police said on Sunday....
Kashmir part of India, OIC told
NEW DELHI, March 16: India on Sunday rejected observations by the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) summit in Dakar that Kashmir issue should be resolved according to UN resolutions, saying the...
Experts see no legal hitch in deposed judges’ restoration
ISLAMABAD, March 16: Prominent constitutional experts on Sunday said there was no constitutional hitch in the restoration of pre-November 3 judiciary, observing that removal of senior judges under the emergency decree was unconstitutional....
Raisani to attend PPP’s meeting with JUI-F
QUETTA, March 16: PPP’s candidate for the post of Balochistan chief minister Nawab Mohammad Aslam Raisani has said he will attend a meeting between his party and the JUI-F in Islamabad on Monday for formation of provincial government....
Demand for treatment of Akhtar Mengal abroad
QUETTA, March 16: The Balochistan National Party (Mengal) has demanded that its chief and former chief minister Sardar Akhtar Mengal, who is under detention in Karachi, should be sent abroad for treatment....
Anniversary of My Lai massacre observed
MY LAI (Vietnam), March 16: Japanese survivors of atomic bombs and American war veterans calling for peace joined hundreds of villagers on Sunday in prayers to mark 40 years since the worst US atrocity of the Vietnam War....
Iranian conservatives set to retain majority
TEHRAN, March 16: Conser-vatives appeared to be winning a majority in Iran’s parliament, showing Iranians’ defiance of the West, state television said on Sunday. The United States and Europe called the...
Presidential hopeful McCain visits Baghdad
BAGHDAD, March 16: Senator John McCain arrived in Baghdad on Sunday for an unexpected meeting with Iraqi and Amercian diplomatic and military officials, a US government official said....
Tibetan rioters told to surrender or face punishment
BEIJING, March 16: The authorities in Lhasa, the capital of China’s Tibet region, on Sunday warned rioters to hand themselves over to police by Monday midnight and gain possible clemency, or face harsh punishment....
Indian convict to be executed on April 1
LAHORE, March 16: An Indian man convicted over a bombing that killed four people in Pakistan will be hanged on April 1, prison officials said on Sunday....
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ISLAMABAD, March 16: The new National Assembly opens on Monday under tight security to herald a promised spring of a democracy despite a bruising power struggle over the next prime minister,...
ISLAMABAD, March 16: Prominent constitutional experts on Sunday said there was no constitutional hitch in the restoration of pre-November 3 judiciary, observing that removal of senior judges under the emergency decree was unconstitutional....
MY LAI (Vietnam), March 16: Japanese survivors of atomic bombs and American war veterans calling for peace joined hundreds of villagers on Sunday in prayers to mark 40 years since the worst US atrocity of the Vietnam War....
