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PML-N gets 21, PPP 13 cabinet posts in Punjab
LAHORE, April 5: The Pakistan People’s Party and the Pakistan Muslim League-N on Saturday agreed to follow the same power arrangement in Punjab that they had reached at the centre....
Sindh PA seeks apology over Bhutto ‘murder’: 158 MPAs take oath
KARACHI, April 5: The Sindh Assembly on Saturday called upon the federal government to declare the death of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto a judicial murder and order an inquiry by the United Nations into the assassination of Benazir Bhutto....
Package proposes clipping president’s powers
LAHORE, April 5: The new constitutional package to be introduced during the next session of the National Assembly will take away many crucial powers of the president, smoothen the functioning of...
MQM to support PPP in speaker’s election
KARACHI, April 5: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement on Saturday night announced that it would vote for candidates of the Pakistan People’s Party in elections for speaker and deputy speaker in the Sindh Assembly....
Three FC men among eight killed in clash
QUETTA, April 5: Three security personnel and five suspected militants were killed and six other people injured in a clash in Dalbandin, some 350km southwest of here in the Chagai district, on Saturday....
British home secretary to discuss policy on terrorism
ISLAMABAD, April 5: British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is arriving here on Monday on a two-day official visit to discuss ways of enhancing counter-terrorism cooperation between Pakistan and Britain....
Ministry sees new taxes as only way out of crisis
ISLAMABAD, April 5: At a time when the new government has yet to settle down, the finance ministry has been forced to propose taxes on agricultural and services sectors as the only way out of growing financial difficulties....
Five ex-govt members on militants’ hit list: official
ISLAMABAD, April 5: Militant organisations have included the names of five pro-Musharraf parliamentarians in a hit list, the interior secretary told a Senate body during a briefing on law and order on Saturday....
Nasirabad gas pipeline blown up
QUETTA, April 5: Gas supply to the Uch power plant near Dera Murad Jamali was suspended after a main pipeline was blown up by suspected saboteurs on Saturday....
Attack on convoy sparks clashes in Parachinar
PARACHINAR, April 5: Clashes broke out between rival factions in the restive Kurram tribal region after some assailants ambushed a convoy of passengers near Khar Kali on Saturday, witnesses and officials said....
Aziz admits energy policy was flawed
NEW YORK, April 5: Former prime minister Shaukat Aziz said that energy consumption in Pakistan had increased rapidly and his government could not foresee the huge demand to be created by the growing economy....
Kashmir strike against prison abuses
SRINAGAR, April 5: Police fired teargas to break up a protest by stone-throwing demonstrators against alleged prison abuses as a strike paralysed life in occupied Kashmir’s main city on Saturday....
US ambassador meets Altaf
KARACHI, April 5: US Ambassador Anne W. Patterson called on MQM chief Altaf Hussain in London and discussed issues relating to the political situation in the country....
G8 states urged to honour aid pledges
TOKYO, April 5: The Group of Eight industrialised nations on Saturday agreed to send a “strong message” to back growth in poor countries, and cautioned themselves to meet donation pledges, officials said....
Afghan lawmaker wants her seat back
KABUL, April 5: An outspoken Afghan lawmaker who was expelled from parliament after comparing her colleagues to a ‘stable full of animals’ said on Saturday she was trying to win her seat back....
Zimbabwe run-off election opposed
HARARE, April 5: Zimbabwe’s opposition leader accused President Robert Mugabe on Saturday of preparing a “war against the people,” with violence the most likely tool in a possible election runoff....
PN to hold wargames
BEIJING, April 5: Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Mohammad Afzal Tahir said on Saturday that Pakistan would host another naval exercise --- of the “Aman” (peace) series --- in March next year....
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KARACHI, April 5: The Sindh Assembly on Saturday called upon the federal government to declare the death of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto a judicial murder and order an inquiry by the United Nations into the assassination of Benazir Bhutto....
SRINAGAR, April 5: Police fired teargas to break up a protest by stone-throwing demonstrators against alleged prison abuses as a strike paralysed life in occupied Kashmir’s main city on Saturday....
KABUL, April 5: An outspoken Afghan lawmaker who was expelled from parliament after comparing her colleagues to a ‘stable full of animals’ said on Saturday she was trying to win her seat back....
