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$4bn peace plan for NWFP
PESHAWAR, May 1: Chief Minister of NWFP Ameer Haider Khan Hoti will unveil a $4 billion peace plan that envisages a 30 per cent reduction in militancy within three years, retrieval...
17 injured in mosque suicide attack
LANDI KOTAL, May 1: Seventeen people were injured, three of them seriously, when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a mosque in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency on Thursday morning....
Power shortage rises to 3,000MW
LAHORE, May 1: Power shortage in the country increased to 3,000 megawatts on Thursday as supply dropped to about 11,500MW against a demand of 14,500MW....
May Day labour welfare package
ISLAMABAD, May 1: Federal Minister for Labour, Manpower and Overseas Pakistanis Syed Khursheed Shah announced on Thursday a 12-point welfare package for workers and promised to repeal all anti-labour laws....
Fazl comes out with grouse against Iftikhar
PESHAWAR, May 1: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has accused both Pakistan People’s Party and Pakistan Muslim League-N of deviating from the Charter of Democracy on the issue of judges...
Peace activist Nirmala Deshpande dies
NEW DELHI, May 1: Gandhian peace activist Nirmala Deshpande, known to her countless friends in Pakistan and elsewhere as...
Kayani, Baitullah on Time’s list of 100 influential people
NEW YORK, May 1: Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani made the final list of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world, which includes luminaries like...
Border town blasts leave 3 Pakistanis, 6 Afghans dead
QUETTA, May 1: Three Pakistanis were among nine people killed in two explosions in Spin Buldak, an Afghan town near the Pakistani border town of Chaman on Thursday....
No let-up in polio cases
KARACHI, May 1: There has been no let-up in polio cases in the country as a 27-month-old girl, a resident of Mirpurkhas district, Sindh, was confirmed as suffering from the disease on Thursday....
Kashmiris fighting a new battle
SRINAGAR, May 1: Violence has fallen in Kashmir, but people are starting to show signs of serious trauma after nearly 20 years of struggle against New Delhi’s occupation, according to interviews with doctors....
China opens world’s longest sea bridge
SHANGHAI, May 1: China opened the world’s longest cross-sea bridge on Thursday, linking the financial hub of Shanghai to the booming port city of Ningbo, the official Xinhua news agency said....
Ethanol seen behind high corn prices
WASHINGTON, May 1: The chief economist of the US Agriculture Department told Congress on Thursday that prices for corn and other food commodities would remain at ‘historically high levels’ so long as the US ethanol industry continued to grow....
Protest plans cause cracks within PBC: Judges’ issue
ISLAMABAD, May 1: Anticipating that the Pakistan Bar Council’s executive committee would signal the launch of a fresh lawyers’ movement to keep up the pressure for the reinstatement of deposed judges,...
Nine killed as tourist coach catches fire in Egypt
CAIRO, May 1: Nine people were killed and at least 29 injured when a coach bearing European and North American tourists overturned and caught fire in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula on Thursday, a security official said....
Mine kills two police commandos in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO, May 1: Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels on Thursday set off a roadside mine in Sri Lanka, killing two police commandos, as violence raged on across the north, the defence ministry said....
Israel minister rejects Gaza truce
JERUSALEM, May 1: A senior Israeli minister rejected on Thursday a proposed truce in the Gaza Strip, as the air force killed a Hamas commander suspected of involvement in the 2006 capture of an Israeli soldier....
Two teachers killed in Zimbabwe
HARARE: Two schoolteachers have been beaten to death in the latest wave of violence following Zimbabwe’s general elections, the head of the country’s main trade union federation said on Thursday....
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Editor: Abbas Nasir
ISLAMABAD, May 1: Federal Minister for Labour, Manpower and Overseas Pakistanis Syed Khursheed Shah announced on Thursday a 12-point welfare package for workers and promised to repeal all anti-labour laws....
NEW DELHI, May 1: Gandhian peace activist Nirmala Deshpande, known to her countless friends in Pakistan and elsewhere as...
