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No pressure over reinstatement: PM
SHARM EL-SHEIKH: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said there is no pressure on his government against reinstating the deposed judges and they will be restored as soon as the modalities are worked out....
Food and energy issues need urgent attention: minister
ISLAMABAD, May 19: Syed Naveed Qamar, who has been looking after the finance portfolio since the resignation of Ishaq Dar, has stressed the need for food security, overcoming the energy crisis and other issues affecting the common man....
Wasi Zafar says he acted cowardly: Reference against CJ
RAWALPINDI, May 19: Former federal law minister Muhammad Wasi Zafar has for the the first time distanced himself from the reference filed against deposed chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, and said it had been filed without his knowledge....
Bush urged Gilani, Karzai to combat terror jointly
WASHINGTON, May 19: The White House said on Tuesday that in his meetings with Afghan and Pakistani leaders in Egypt during the weekend, US President George W....
Three killed in Bajaur bomb explosion
KHAR, May 19: Three people were killed and two others injured when an improvised explosive device went off outside a mosque here at Dabar area on Monday night....
Zardari acquitted in drugs case
LAHORE, May 19: The last case against Pakistan People’s Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari came to an end here on Monday when an additional sessions judge cleared him of charges of drug trafficking....
NRO may be given protection, hints PML-N
LAHORE, May 19: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz on Monday flinched from extending an unqualified support for the constitutional package the People’s Party intended to table in the National Assembly for the reinstatement of judges....
Five hurt in attack on police team
QUETTA, May 19: Five people travelling in a van on the RCD Highway were injured when the District Police Officer of Lasbela and other police officers came under fire in Hub town....
India seeks flag meeting amid firing allegations
NEW DELHI, May 19: India has proposed a flag meeting with Pakistani commanders amid reports that troops from across the Line of Control opened “unprovoked firing” on an Indian post, killing...
Isaf tightens border surveillance
KABUL, May 19: Militants are crossing from Pakistan into Afghanistan hidden among hundreds of families that make the trip daily, an Isaf official said on Monday....
Food shortage, climate termed global crises
GENEVA, May 19: Insufficient food, climate change and pandemic flu are global crises which could unravel progress in public health, the World Health Organisation’s director-general said on Monday....
Five killed in Sibi and Qila Abdullah
QUETTA, May 19: Five people, a woman and a child among them, were killed and three others injured in incidents of firing in the Majak area of Qila Abdullah and Sibi on Monday....
APDM to convene ‘national conference’
ISLAMABAD, May 19: The All Parties Democratic Movement (APDM) has decided to convene a national conference on June 1 to work out a plan for achieving the objectives of restoration of...
