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Judges issue put on hold for another day
LONDON, May 9: Talks between PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari and PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif over the issue of reinstatement of judges, touted as make-or-break negotiations, remained inconclusive here on Friday...
Deadline difficult to meet: Naek
ISLAMABAD, May 9: Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Senator Farooq H. Naek is not optimistic about the National Assembly holding a session on May 12 to adopt a resolution for restoration of the pre-Nov 3, 2007, judiciary....
PML-N threatens to quit cabinet
ISLAMABAD, May 9: PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif has convened a joint meeting of the party’s Central Working Committee and parliamentary group on May 12....
Kayani briefs Gilani on Balochistan situation
ISLAMABAD, May 9: Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani briefed Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Friday on the security situation in Balochistan....
Dollar inflicts heavy blow on rupee
KARACHI, May 9: The oil-pegged US dollar cut the size of the rupee by another 3.5 per cent on Friday, the largest cut in a single day, pushing it down to close to Rs70....
Time for look-East policy, Qureshi tells Senate
ISLAMABAD, May 9: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi told the Senate on Friday it was time for Pakistan to follow a look-East policy while reassuring the West the new government would...
50 tribesmen held in crackdown
KHAR, May 9: The Bajaur political administration on Friday launched a crackdown on the Salarzai tribe and arrested over 50 people under the collective responsibility clause of the Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR)....
Oil surges to record $126.2
NEW YORK, May 9: Oil jumped to a new intraday record of $126.20 a barrel on Friday, extending gains to more than 11 per cent since the start of the month on fuel supply concerns and a rush of speculator buying....
Ministries to get funds only for ‘critical needs’
ISLAMABAD, May 9: The coalition government has stopped releasing funds to ministries and departments, citing the precarious position of the national exchequer....
Hezbollah routs pro-govt gunmen; controls W. Beirut
BEIRUT, May 9: Lebanon’s Hezbollah group took control of the Muslim half of Beirut on Friday in what the US-backed governing coalition described as “an armed and bloody coup”....
Cargo truck overturns, kills 14 in Pabbi
NOWHERA, May 9: At least 14 people were killed and 20 others injured when a speeding 16-wheel trailer overturned after colliding with a van on the GT Road in Pabbi on Friday....
US Muslims appreciate divorce verdict
WASHINGTON, May 9: A large number of Muslims living in the United States backed the decision of a US court which forced a Pakistani man to share half of his $2...
‘Mosque’ raid drill irks Muslims in US
SAN FRANCISCO, May 9: American Muslim civil rights groups have denounced an exercise by US security officials in which a place designated as a ‘mosque’ was stormed in Irving....
India will protest to Pakistan over LoC fight
SRINAGAR, May 9: India will lodge a protest with Pakistan after soldiers came under heavy cross-border fire while trying to stop a group of armed men from sneaking into occupied Kashmir, a security official claimed on Friday....
UN resuming Myanmar aid flights despite controversy
YANGON, May 9: The United Nations said it would resume aid flights to cyclone-struck Myanmar despite the military government’s seizure of food supplies on Friday, and Washington said Myanmar had approved one US aid flight....
UN rights forum to examine food crisis
GENEVA, May 9: The United Nations Human Rights Council would hold a special session on May 23 to examine how the world’s food crisis was undermining the right to food for millions of people, officials said on Friday....
S. Arabia likely to invest in Thailand rice farms
DUBAI, May 9: Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s top rice buyers, was likely to start investing in rice farms in Thailand by the end of 2008 in a move to...
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LONDON, May 9: Talks between PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari and PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif over the issue of reinstatement of judges, touted as make-or-break negotiations, remained inconclusive here on Friday...
KARACHI, May 9: Balochistan National Party-M chief Sardar Akhtar Mengal was released on Friday on a court order....
ISLAMABAD, May 9: Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani briefed Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Friday on the security situation in Balochistan....
BEIRUT, May 9: Lebanon’s Hezbollah group took control of the Muslim half of Beirut on Friday in what the US-backed governing coalition described as “an armed and bloody coup”....
