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Major reshuffle in army
ISLAMABAD, March 24: In a significant reshuffle in the army’s hierarchy, Lt-Gen Ijaz Ahmad Bakshi and Lt-Gen Nadeem Ahmed have been posted as Corps Commanders of Lahore and Mangla, respectively....
Top US officials arriving today
WASHINGTON, March 24: Two senior US officials arrive in Islamabad on Tuesday for talks with the new government in Pakistan while officials in Washington take a cautious approach to the new prime minister’s first order of releasing the judges....
Frontier assembly to meet on March 28
PESHAWAR, March 24: NWFP Governor Owais Ahmed Ghani on Monday advanced the date of the Frontier assembly’s opening session from April 2 to March 28....
Businessmen call for strategic socio-economic plan
KARACHI, March 24: The business community, for a change, chose to share the popular democratic sentiment and joined the people in celebrating the election of Makhdoom Yusuf Raza Gilani as the new prime minister on Monday....
ADB initiative to revive TAP gas pipeline project
ISLAMABAD, March 24: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is ‘regrouping’ officials of Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan in the third week of April to revive the TAP gas pipeline project in view of the energy shortage in the region....
Azad hopes new govt will bolster peace move
NEW DELHI, March 24: Ghulam Nabi Azad, the head of the occupied Kashmir government, has expressed a hope that the new government in Pakistan would take forward the peace and friendship initiative launched four years ago....
Olympic torch ceremony marred by protest
ANCIENT OLYMPIA (Greece), March 24: Human rights demonstrators breached tight security and tried to hijack the Beijing Olympic torch lighting ceremony and relay in ancient Olympia on Monday....
Opposition keeps quiet as Musharraf comes under fire
ISLAMABAD, March 24: The eight and a half year long rule of President Pervez Musharraf came under fire in the National Assembly on Monday as members of the new ruling coalition...
Asif phones Altaf to thank for support
KARACHI, March 24: Pakistan People’s Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari called the Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain on Monday and thanked him for MQM’s unconditional support for Makhdoom Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani....
Party heads to stay away from PM’s swearing-in
ISLAMABAD, March 24: Heads of parties in the new ruling coalition and most of their senior leaders are likely to stay away from the oath-taking ceremony of Prime Minister-elect Yusuf Raza Gilani to be held at the Aiwan-i-Sadr on Tuesday....
Asif wins acquittal in Nizam murder case
KARACHI, March 24: A district court on Monday acquitted Pakistan People’s Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari in the Justice Nizam murder case....
People to decide judges’ fate, says Ramday
LAHORE, March 24: Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday has said people will decided the fate of the judges removed after the `imposition of Nov 3 martial law’....
PPP condemns sacking of PIA engineers
ISLAMABAD, March 24: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has condemned the sacking of a number of flight engineers by the Pakistan International Airline and its decision to ground six Boeing 747-367s and two Boeing 747-240 Combi aircraft without any technical justification....
PM-elect arrives in Karachi
KARACHI, March 24: Prime Minister-elect Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani arrived here on Monday night from Islamabad to attend the wedding ceremony of his son Abdul Qadir Gilani who was married to...
PIA flight diverted
KARACHI, March 24: PIA’s flight PK 759 from Lahore to Jeddah was diverted to Karachi after a bomb threat on Monday night, a PIA spokesman said. The fight landed safely at 11.15pm,...
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Editor: Abbas Nasir
ISLAMABAD, March 24: The new National Assembly on Monday elected Makhdoom Yusuf Raza Gilani prime minister by more than two-thirds majority to put a rainbow coalition of President Pervez Musharraf’s opponents...
ANCIENT OLYMPIA (Greece), March 24: Human rights demonstrators breached tight security and tried to hijack the Beijing Olympic torch lighting ceremony and relay in ancient Olympia on Monday....
LAHORE, March 24: Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday has said people will decided the fate of the judges removed after the `imposition of Nov 3 martial law’....
