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Parties finally clinch deal on key ministries
ISLAMABAD, March 28: The ruling coalition partners have finally agreed on the distribution of ministries and a formal announcement is expected ‘in a couple of days’....
PM without cabinet seeks trust vote
ISLAMABAD: A cabinet-less Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani will take an early but mandatory trust vote from the National Assembly and announce a 100-day relief programme on Saturday....
New leadership sees militants as enemy, says White House
WASHINGTON, March 28: The new Pakistani leaders understand that terrorists hiding in the tribal belt are a threat to them as well and are willing to fight them, says the White House....
Balochistan PA session sought by April 1
QUETTA, March 28: All parliamentary groups in Balochistan have demanded that the provincial assembly be convened before April 7 to allay ‘apprehensions’ of the newly elected legislators....
Protest against anti-Islam film lodged with Netherlands
ISLAMABAD, March 28: The Netherlands has assured Pakistan that it will launch a criminal investigation into the release on the internet of an anti-Islam film by Dutch parliament member Geert Wilder....
Anti-Islam film assailed widely
UNITED NATIONS, March 28: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday “condemned in strongest terms” the airing of Dutch film-maker Geert Wilders’ offensively anti-Islamic film....
Hopes for Kashmir rekindled: Mehbooba
ISLAMABAD, March 28: Mehbooba Mufti, the chief of Occupied Kashmir’s People’s Democratic Party and member of the Indian parliament, said on Friday that stability in Pakistani politics had rejuvenated hopes for a settlement of the Kashmir issue....
1,000 nameless graves found in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, March 28: Human rights workers have found the graves of nearly 1,000 unidentified people scattered in cemeteries across an isolated region of occupied Kashmir, a prominent human rights group said...
Explanation sought on Asif’s cases
KARACHI, March 28: The Sindh High Court asked the National Accountability Bureau chairman on Friday to personally explain on April 10 why two proceedings against Pakistan People’s Party co-chairman Asif Ali...
Govt mulling hike in wheat support price
KARACHI, March 28: The government is actively considering a proposal to increase the support price of wheat to Rs600 per 40kg from Rs510 fixed by the last government....
‘Network’ carried out Hariri’s killing: UN
UNITED NATIONS, March 28: A network of individuals was responsible for the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik al Hariri in 2005 and was linked to other political murders in Lebanon, UN investigators said on Friday....
Policeman shot near Manmohan’s office
NEW DELHI, March 28: A Delhi police commando was injured in a firing incident outside the high-security office of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here on Friday, a TV channel reported....
‘Militants’ held
SRINAGAR, March 28: Police in occupied Kashmir arrested three suspected militants over a bombing that killed one person and injured 23 others in the region’s main city, officials said on Friday....
Aitzaz to contest for NA-55 seat
ISLAMABAD, March 28: Supreme Court Bar Association president Aitzaz Ahsan announced on Friday that he would contest the by-election for the NA-55 seat, Rawalpindi, on a PPP ticket....
Army, Navy chiefs call on PM
ISLAMABAD, March 28: Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani and Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Mohammad Afzal Tahir separately called on Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani...
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ISLAMABAD, March 28: The ruling coalition partners have finally agreed on the distribution of ministries and a formal announcement is expected ‘in a couple of days’....
PESHAWAR, March 28: One hundred and sixteen newly-elected lawmakers were sworn in as members of the NWFP assembly on Friday....
