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NA oath-taking overshadowed by power struggle in PPP
ISLAMABAD, March 17: The new National Assembly gave Makhdoom Amin Fahim a big applause at its opening on Monday although his Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) remained undecided about his candidacy for...
Asif, Nawaz vow to eradicate last vestiges of dictatorship
ISLAMABAD, March 17: Leaders of the parties forming a coalition government at centre — Asif Zardari, Nawaz Sharif, Asfandyar Wali and Maulana Fazlur Rahman — pledged on Monday to work together...
PPP names Fahmida for post of NA speaker
ISLAMABAD, March 17: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) on Monday named Dr Fahmida Mirza and Faisal Karim Kundi as its candidates for the posts of speaker and deputy speaker of the...
CJ calls full-court meeting today
ISLAMABAD, March 17: Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar has convened a meeting of all 15 judges of the Supreme Court on Tuesday, setting off speculations about the purpose of the full-court session called only rarely....
Hopes and fears as new NA meets
THE oath-taking of the new National Assembly seemed more as the beginning of the new era than the end of the old politically controlled set-up....
US resolution seeks judges’ reinstatement
WASHINGTON, March 17: A new resolution moved in the US House of Representatives calls for the restoration of the Supreme Court of Pakistan to its pre-Nov 3 status and for the reinstatement of all judges dismissed during the emergency period....
Musharraf welcomes return of NA
ISLAMABAD, March 17: President Pervez Musharraf has termed the convening of the new National Assembly as historical event and expressed confidence that Pakistan will continue to move forward on the path of democracy and economic growth....
Intelligence Bureau chief removed
ISLAMABAD, March 17: The government has sacked the controversial Intelligence Bureau (IB) Director-General Brig (retd) Ijaz Shah. Brig Shah paid a farewell call on caretaker Prime Minister Mohammedmian Soomro....
Injured foreigners leave for home by special flights
RAWALPINDI/WASHINGTON, March 17: Five foreigners, who were injured in the bomb explosion in an Islamabad restaurant, were taken to their home countries by special flights on Monday....
Pakistan, US blamed for attack in S. Waziristan
WANA, March 17: A pro-government militant commander accused the Pakistani and US forces on Monday of carrying out Sunday’s missile attack on a compound of a house in the Shah Nawazkot area of South Waziristan....
Suicide attack in Swat kills two policemen
MINGORA, March, 17: Two policemen were killed and five others were injured when a suicide bomber blew himself in police barracks in Mingora on Monday....
Girls’ school building destroyed
DARRA ADAMKHEL, March 17: Militants blew up the building of a girls’ high school in Akhurwal area of Darra Adamkhel on Sunday night....
India claims killing militant
SRINAGAR, March 17: Indian army has claimed killing a Pakistani militant in a gunbattle in occupied Kashmir. Hafiz Nasir, the chief commander of Lashkar-i-Taiba, was killed on Sunday night near Sopore, an army spokesman told AFP....
Indian move to get spy’s execution stopped
NEW DELHI, March 17: Indian MPs, led by Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi, have opposed the planned execution of an alleged Indian spy in Lahore whose hanging is otherwise set for April 1, news reports said on Monday....
No mercy plea for Sarabjit: Burney
ISLAMABAD, March 17: Caretaker Minister for Human Rights Ansar Burney has said his ministry does not plan to submit a mercy petition for Sarabjit Singh, an Indian national condemned to death...
Karbala suicide blast kills 41
KARBALA, March 17: A suicide attack in Karbala near the shrine of Hazrat Imam Hussein killed 41 people on Monday....
Shujaat hopes new coalition will succeed
ISLAMABAD, March 17: Pakistan Muslim League-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain said on Monday he wished the PPP and PML-N coalition government success and hoped the two parties would continue their cooperation in the larger interest of the country....
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ISLAMABAD, March 17: The new National Assembly gave Makhdoom Amin Fahim a big applause at its opening on Monday although his Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) remained undecided about his candidacy for...
ISLAMABAD, March 17: Leaders of the parties forming a coalition government at centre — Asif Zardari, Nawaz Sharif, Asfandyar Wali and Maulana Fazlur Rahman — pledged on Monday to work together...
ISLAMABAD, March 17: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) on Monday named Dr Fahmida Mirza and Faisal Karim Kundi as its candidates for the posts of speaker and deputy speaker of the...
ISLAMABAD, March 17: The government has sacked the controversial Intelligence Bureau (IB) Director-General Brig (retd) Ijaz Shah. Brig Shah paid a farewell call on caretaker Prime Minister Mohammedmian Soomro....
