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ANP gets in touch with local Taliban
PESHAWAR, March 29: The Awami National Party and the local Taliban have formally made contacts to negotiate peace and find a solution to the growing militancy in the NWFP and tribal areas....
Fazl slams Abolition of FCR
ISLAMABAD, March 29: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Saturday expressed concern over Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani’s decision of abolishing the Frontier Crimes Regulations....
Implications of repealing FCR
PESHAWAR, March 29: The authors of the prime minister’s speech to the National Assembly on Saturday probably had no understanding of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) and the laws that govern it....
Ramday’s Islamabad Residence ransacked
ISLAMABAD/LAHORE, March 29: The Supreme Court’s staff on Saturday raided the house of deposed Justice Khalilur Rahman Ramday and took away some important files and documents, sources said....
Swat affectees to get compensation
PESHAWAR, March 29: The federal government has approved a Rs185 million compensation package for those affected by the Swat military operation....
Hijacked Friendship bus freed
LANDI KOTAL, March 29: A group of Sultankhel tribesmen on Saturday hijacked a Jalalabad-bound bus with 47 passengers on board for a second time in three days to press the Afghan government to release their seven fellow tribesmen....
Policeman gunned down in Quetta
QUETTA, March 29: A police constable was gunned down by unidentified men in the Shahbaz town area here on Saturday....
New power units to be set up
ISLAMABAD, March 29: The new government intends to produce 2,200 megawatts of electricity by establishing some new units this year in a bid to reduce load-shedding across the country....
Wheat stocks in Sindh not enough
ISLAMABAD, March 29: The Federal Food Committee (FFC) said on Saturday that the Sindh government’s wheat stocks had plummeted sharply and they were now sufficient only for seven days as the...
A show of unity or a Trojan horse?
Yusuf Raza Gilani, while romping to victory, became the country’s first prime minister to gain a unanimous vote of confidence from the National Assembly....
Bread-and-butter issues
ALTHOUGH the economic content of the prime minister’s speech was not overtly populist, it did contain some measures aiming to ameliorate the lot of the poor....
Lights go out to mark Earth Hour
SYDNEY/LONDON, March 29: People switched off lights across the world on Saturday, dimming buildings, hotels, restaurants and bars to show concern at global warming....
US willing to discuss militants’ issue: Rice
WASHINGTON, March 29: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said that the United States and Pakistan should hold discussions to decide how to tackle the problem of militancy in the tribal areas....
PA session soon: Magsi
QUETTA, March 29: The governor of Balochistan, Nawab Zulfiqar Ali Magsi has assured newly elected members of the provincial assembly that he will try to get the session of the assembly convened as soon as possible....
‘Anti-terror’ centre opens at Torkham
TORKHAM (Afghanistan), March 29: Afghan, Nato and Pakistan officials on Saturday opened the first of six intelligence-sharing centres to be dotted along the nations’ troubled border to boost anti-terrorism efforts....
MQM seeks complete provincial autonomy
ISLAMABAD, March 29: Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s Parliamentary Leader in the National Assembly Dr Farooq Sattar on Saturday called for a complete provincial autonomy to achieve the objective of streng-thening the federal democratic system in the country....
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ISLAMABAD, March 29: Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani on Saturday secured a historic unanimous trust vote from the National Assembly and then unveiled his coalition government’s priorities, including war on terrorism,...
