More cuts proposed in president’s powers; LGs may go
ISLAMABAD, May 31: People’s Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday approved a draft of the 18th Constitution Amendment Bill and, according to the law ministry, the modified document will now...
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SBP counsels cut in expenditure: Slowdown in economy forecast
KARACHI, May 31: The State Bank has advised the government to take “concrete steps” for resource generation and check expenditure in order to ensure that the economy retains the “high growth momentum” of recent years....
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Iftikhar alerts lawyers to ‘plot’: Tumultuous welcome in Peshawar
ATTOCK, May 31: Deposed chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry has said that a conspiracy is being hatched to create divisions among lawyers to foil their struggle for the supremacy of judiciary and the rule of law....
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Relief package for 5.8m households finalised
ISLAMABAD, May 31: The ministry of finance has finalised a plan to offer a “targeted subsidy” to 5.8 million households in the new budget to help them fight rising food prices....
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PML decides to defend Musharraf
LAHORE, May 31: The PML-Q has decided to launch a campaign to blunt what it calls the coalition partners’ attacks on President Pervez Musharraf and tell the people that both the...
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ANP, MQM leaders break the ice
KARACHI, May 31: After a series of backdoor contacts and intervention of what the two parties called ‘mutual friends’, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement and the Awami National Party held on Saturday...
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Pakistan-India commission on Indus holds meeting
LAHORE, May 31: Represen-tatives of India and Pakistan in the Permanent Indus Commis-sion of the two countries met here on Saturday and expressed satisfaction with the progress made by the two...
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‘Pakistan, US to enjoy close military ties’
SINGAPORE, May 31: Defen-ce ties between Pakistan and the United States will remain strong through the next administration despite tough talk from US presidential candidates looking to review the relationship, a top Pakistan military official said on Saturday....
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India regrets deporting Ansar Burney
NEW DELHI, May 31: India’s home ministry expressed regret on Saturday over the unceremonious deportation of Pakistan’s human rights campaigner Ansar Burney the previous night, insisting that he was in fact always welcome to visit the country....
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Strike against Quetta killings
QUETTA, May 31: A shutterdown strike was observed here on Saturday on a call given by the traders association in protest against the killing of six teenagers the previous day....
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FC man killed in attack on convoy
QUETTA, May 31: A security man was killed and three others were injured when militants attacked a convoy of Frontier Corps in the Karmo Wadh area of Kohlu district on Saturday....
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Clocks moved Forward by an hour
ISLAMABAD, May 31: All markets in the country will close at 9pm from Sunday in pursuance of the government’s energy conservation programme....
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Upbeat CIA assessment on Al Qaeda challenged
WASHINGTON, May 31: CIA director Michael Hayden came under stiff challenge for portraying Al Qaeda as on the defensive after global setbacks, even in its safe havens along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border....
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Convict gets 10 years in prison: Insider trading scam
NEW YORK, May 31: Hafiz Mohammed Zubair Naseem, the former Credit Suisse investment banker convicted of insider trading, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Friday despite pleas by defence...
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India reopens airbase
NEW DELHI, May 31: The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Saturday reopened after 43 years the old airbase of Dawaltbaigh Oldi in Ladakh region, north of Leh in occupied Kashmir and close to the Chinese border....
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Gyanendra to leave palace quietly
KATHMANDU, May 31: Nepal’s deposed monarch is willing to leave his palace quietly to begin life as a commoner but wants help finding new accommodation for himself and elderly members of his family, an official said on Saturday....
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PRCS sends 3,000 tents to China
ISLAMABAD, May 31: The Pakistan Red Crescent Society (PRCS) on Saturday handed over a second consignment of 3,000 all-weather family tents to Chinese Ambassador Luo Zhaohui for the earthquake affected people....
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US, Libya to settle Lockerbie claims
WASHINGTON, May 31: The United States and Libya have agreed to try to resolve compensation claims from the 1988 Lockerbie bombing and other incidents Washington views as acts of terrorism by Libya, the State Department said....
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