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Proposals for committees on FCR, judges submitted to PM
ISLAMABAD, April 1: The law ministry on Tuesday submitted summaries to the Prime Minister’s Secretariat for the formation of parliamentary committees for repealing the Frontier Crimes Regulations (FCR) and reinstating deposed judges....
Peace, but not at cost of people’s lives: Hoti
PESHAWAR, April 1: NWFP Chief Minister Amir Haider Khan Hoti said on Tuesday his government would adopt peaceful means to restore peace in the violence-hit province....
Shoaib back in news, with a ban
KARACHI, April 1: Fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar was banned for five years by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Tuesday for repeated disciplinary violations....
Couple stoned to death in Fata
GHALANAI, April 1: A man and a woman were stoned to death by militants in Khwezai-Baezai area on Monday after a ‘qazi court’ found them guilty of adultery....
Call for OIC action to avert food, water crisis
ISLAMABAD, April 1: President Pervez Musharraf has urged the Muslim world to focus its energy on averting a looming crisis in the energy, water and food sectors....
Commission working on new privatisation plan
ISLAMABAD, April 1: The Privatisation Commission will finalise in 10 days a plan to sell a number of state sector enterprises, including banks and power companies, by June 30....
Two tribal elders killed in attack
MINGORA, April 1: Two tribal elders were killed and seven other people suffered injuries in an attack on vehicles of some members of a jirga in Swat on Tuesday....
Arabs, Muslims battle West over free speech at UN
GENEVA, April 1: Arab and Muslim countries defended on Tuesday a resolution they pushed through at the United Nations to have the body’s expert on free speech to report on individuals and news media for negative comments on Islam....
Two foreign aid workers kidnapped in Somalia
MOGADISHU, April 1: A Briton and a Kenyan initially identified as UN aid workers were kidnapped by armed men on Tuesday in southern Somalia in the latest in a string of attacks targeting humanitarian operations....
Poor nations fear being left in cold on global warming
BANGKOK, April 1: Outraged poor nations bearing the brunt of global warming have become increasingly bold in UN-led climate talks, but some worry that recent trysts of large countries are leaving them out in the cold....
Turkish police detain 45 Al Qaeda suspects
ISTANBUL, April 1: Turkish anti-terror police on Tuesday detained 45 people on suspicion of belonging to the Al Qaeda extremist network and planning attacks, Anatolia news agency reported....
British PM hopeful of progress on Palestinian state
LONDON, April 1: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is “optimistic” that he can move things forward on the proposed Palestinian state and, according to him, Condoleezza Rice and Tony Blair “are working hard for peace”....
Suspect released
AMSTERDAM, April 1: Dutch prosecutors say they have released a 26-year-old Pakistani man arrested last month on terrorism suspicions due to a lack of evidence....
April Fool jokes a laughing matter for world media
LONDON, April 1: Media around the world regaled their audiences with stories of stretched French presidents and bisexual James Bonds on Tuesday, proving that the tradition of April Fool’s jokes was alive and kicking....
Accord signed for 525MW power project
ISLAMABAD, April 1: Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday reiterated his government’s decision to provide an additional 2,200 megawatts of electricity within a year....
Three of a family killed as jeep falls into ditch
TAXILA, April 1: Three members of a family, including two women, were killed and another person was critically injured when a jeep fell into a ditch along the Taxila-Khanpur road on Tuesday, police said....
Minister vows to make defence impregnable
ISLAMABAD, April 1: Federal Minister for Defence Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar said on Tuesday that armed forces would be strengthened in terms of resources and equipment to make the country’s defence impregnable....
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Editor: Abbas Nasir
KARACHI, April 1: Fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar was banned for five years by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Tuesday for repeated disciplinary violations....
WASHINGTON, April 1: At the Nato summit, which begins in Bucharest on Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to offer an alternative route for supplying US and Nato troops in Afghanistan....
