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| September 19, 2008 | Friday | Ramazan 18, 1429 |
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PM assures NWFP of resolving hydel profit issue in 2 months
PESHAWAR, Sept 18: The federal government has agreed to settle out of court a dispute about payment of Rs110 billion net hydel profit to the NWFP by the Water and Power Development Authority.... 
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Nato chief calls for new approach to Fata problems
LONDON, Sept 18: All sides need to help bolster security along the Pakistan-Afghan border, where recent US incursions have strained US-Pakistan ties, Nato Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said on Thursday....
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Talks with Balochistan militants sought
QUETTA, Sept 18: Senator Talha Mahmood, chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Interior, has urged the government to end the military operation in Balochistan and initiate dialogue with militants....
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US will give $8.4m to avert food crisis
ISLAMABAD, Sept 18: The United States will give $8.4 million to Pakistan through the World Food Programme to provide approximately 11,000 metric tons of wheat for over 1,600,000 people, including students of 3,200 schools....
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PML-N urges Asif to quit PPP’s co-chairmanship
ISLAMABAD, Sept 18: The Pakistan Muslim League-N has called upon President Asif Ali Zardari to quit his party office before addressing the joint session of the parliament on Saturday....
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Arif Abbasi’s car attacked
KARACHI, Sept 18: The driver of Arif Abbasi, a former managing director of the Pakistan International Airlines and ex-chief executive of the Pakistan Cricket Board, was wounded when two men shot...
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SC order on CCP petition: clarification
ISLAMABAD, Sept 18: The Supreme Court has said that the Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) may carry on its functions except those agitated in its petition challenging the stay granted by...
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Lawyers clash over ‘locking up’ of courts
MULTAN, Sept 18: Two groups of lawyers clashed over the issues of ‘locking up’ of courts and suspending court proceeding here on Thursday....
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Minister concerned over Taliban threats to schools
ISLAMABAD, Sept 18: Federal Minister for Women Development Sherry Rehman has expressed her concern over the reports of threats by Taliban to administrations of various girls’ schools in Charsadda in NWFP...
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Disturbing past revisits SC grounds: Lawyers’ protest
ISLAMABAD, Sept 18: A panicky administration placed the Supreme Court under virtual siege here on Thursday in a botched attempt to block a handful of lawyers protesting briefly for “the...
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Women rights groups seek independent probe: Burying alive of women in Balochistan
ISLAMABAD, Sept 18: Women rights groups from across the country here on Thursday demanded the government to launch an independent probe into the alleged burying alive of five women in Balochistan...
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Deposed CJ to address lawyers convention on 24th
RAWALPINDI, Sept 18: Deposed chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry will address lawyers’ convention at Lahore high Court bar Association (LHCBA) Rawalpindi bench on September 24. Later, the bar association would host an Iftar party for the CJ and the lawyers....
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Sachal’s belief in pantheism made him immortal: scholars
KHAIRPUR, Sept 18: A National Adabi Conference was held on the last day of 187th Urs of renowned Sufi saint and poet Sachal Sarmast at Daraza Sharif on Wednesday....
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Dust storm, heavy rain hit upper part of Sindh
SUKKUR, Sept 18: A dust storm followed by torrential rain uprooted trees, signboards and hoardings in a number of towns and adjoining areas in the upper Sindh late on Wednesday night....
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Villagers accuse police of torturing boy to death
SANGHAR, Sept 18: An eight-year-old boy was killed and a woman was wounded after they were tortured by police in Moachhora village near Sarhari early on Thursday, villagers claimed....
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Seven killed as boiler explodes: Factory roof caves in
GUJRANWALA, Sept 18: Seven workers were killed while another 14 suffered injuries, two of them serious, when the roof of a factory collapsed on them as to the result of a boiler explosion at Kamoke in the early hours of Thursday....
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Police crack down on Wajahat Force
GUJRAT, Sept 18: Police during its crackdown on Wajahat Force arrested 20 activists on Thursday and registered a case against 162 people, including PML-Q MNA Chaudhry Wajahat Husain, the younger brother of Shujaat Husain....
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Lawyers turn their back on courts
BAHAWALPUR, Sept 18: Lawyers locked courts in various districts of south Punjab on Thursday to press for the reinstatement of deposed chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry and other judges....
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ATC grants bail to 11 seminary students: ‘Anti-govt mission’
TOBA TEK SINGH, Sept 18: A special anti-terrorism court of Faisalabad on Thursday set on bail 11 students of some Toba Tek Singh’s seminaries, who were arrested a month ago from a bus near Mianwali en route Waziristan as suspected terrorists....
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Govt cashes in on fresh oath offers, says Aitzaz
LAHORE, Sept 18: Supreme Court Bar Association President Aitzaz Ahsan said on Thursday the government had made substantial political gains by giving fresh oath to the judges....
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LBA cancels Khosa’s membership: Slams door on AG, Naek
LAHORE, Sept 18: The Lahore Bar Association (LBA) at its pre-rally general house meeting on Thursday cancelled the membership of Attorney-General Latif Khan Khosa and banned his entry into the bar along with that of Law Minister Farooq H....
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PML-N awaits Zardari’s address to parliament
LAHORE, Sept 18: The PML-N awaits President Asif Zardari’s address to the joint session of parliament tomorrow (Saturday) before deciding its future course of action viz-a-viz the Punjab politics....
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PML-Q MPs ask Sharifs to show flexibility
LAHORE, Sept 18: The Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-i-Azam) faces collapse if it does not immediately take side in the soon-to-unfold battle for supremacy in Punjab, say party insiders....
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Nawaz changes itinerary
LAHORE, Sept 18: PML-N patron Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif along with his wife Begum Kulsoom is reaching here from London in the early hours of Friday....
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Nepra can act on its own, LHC told: Tariff hike stay extended
LAHORE, Sept 18: In a reply submitted before the Lahore High Court here on Thursday, the Ministry of Water and Power and Wapda said the Nepra had rightly exercised its suo...
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Rich protocol for AJK’s ‘permanent’ state guest
MUZAFFARABAD, Sept 18: Believe it or not, a gentleman is enjoying the rare privilege of ‘state guest’ in Azad Jammu and Kashmir for nearly three months without a specific government order,...
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Demo against ‘out of merit’ appointments in schools
MUZAFFARABAD, Sept 18: Over a dozen women staged a demonstration in front of the prime minister''s secretariat here on Thursday to protest against alleged violation of merit in recent recruitment of primary teachers....
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HEC announces result of talent scholarships
ISLAMABAD, Sept 18: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has announced the results for award of scholarships to BSc/BSc (Hons) and MSc students under the Talent Farming Scheme....
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Committee to process out-of-turn allotment
ISLAMABAD, Sept 18: The Ministry of Housing and Works has constituted a committee to make out-of-turn allotment of official accommodation to government employees more transparent and on merit....
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Man shot dead
ISLAMABAD, Sept 18: A man was shot dead here on Thursday, police said. Shakeel Hussain, 27, was walking on a street near his house located in a residential area adjacent to...
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Carjackers strike twice on G.T. Road
GUJAR KHAN, Sept 18: A gang of carjackers struck twice on the G.T. Road during the last 36 hours and snatched two vehicles besides looting the occupants, the Gujar Khan police said on Thursday....
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Education failing to promote critical thinking
Whether it is private or public education, both sectors leave much to be desired. Public sector education is tragically inadequate for a number of reasons. Issues begin in the very conception of a good education....
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Pakistan, Argentina agree to expand ties
RAWALPINDI, Sept 18: Pakistan and Argentine have reiterated their desire to expand bilateral cooperation in divergent fields particularly in the areas of trade, economy and defence....
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Boy steals money to buy clothes for Eid
SANGHAR, Sept 18: Tando Adam police have arrested a 13-year-old boy, Ali, son of Hussain Bhatti, for stealing Rs3,000 from a bank counter....
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Police claim killing dacoit in ‘encounter’
SUKKUR, Sept 18: Ghotki police in an encounter claimed to have killed a dacoit and injuring another at Pir Bari Chowk in Khanpur Mahar police station’s limits on Thursday....
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TMA stands up to Fatyana’s audacity: TMO’s manhandling
TOBA TEK SINGH, Sept 18: The Kamalia Tehsil Municipal Administration staff on Thursday observed strike in protest against alleged manhandling of the TMO by PML-Q MNA Riaz Fatyana’s men....
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Three polio cases in Hafizabad
HAFIZABAD, Sept 18: Three polio cases have been detected in a month in Hafizabad....
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Pervaiz cries foul amid arrests in Gujrat
LAHORE, Sept 18: PML-Q leader Pervaiz Elahi on Thursday accused the Punjab government of resorting to political victimisation by arresting over 175 party workers from Gujrat....
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An institute without human capital
SIALKOT, Sept 18: How much the education authorities accord priority to the English language can be gauged from the fact that there is only one teacher for the subject for 2,200 students at the Government Boys Degree College, Daska....
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‘Elevated roads lead cities to nowhere’
LAHORE, Sept 18: The elevated expressway being mooted by the provincial government will be a ‘disastrous step’ for the city of Lahore, according to Enrique Penalosa, former mayor of Bogota, Columbia, and a renowned urban strategist....
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Five special Eid trains
LAHORE, Sept 18: Five special trains will be run during the ‘Eid operation’ starting on Sept 29....
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LCCI demands economic plan
LAHORE, Sept 18: The Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has urged the government to come up with an economic plan to check fast depletion of foreign exchange reserves, depreciation...
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Rain makes Weather pleasant
LAHORE, Sept 18: The deep monsoon depression in India moved westwards on Thursday and the meteorologists here expected it to generate heavy to very heavy rain over the catchments of rivers...
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