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US security team due for crucial talks
By Anwar Iqbal
A national security team, led by Gen James Jones, is visiting Pakistan for talks on the US strategy for defeating militants.

Wednesday, 10 Feb, 2010
Provision of justice not sole duty of courts: CJ
By Nasir Iqbal
It is a “wrong notion” that administration of justice is “the sole duty of courts or the legal fraternity”, said Justice Iftikhar.

Wednesday, 10 Feb, 2010
ISI chief, four commanders retiring this year
By Iftikhar A. Khan
Incumbent ISI chief Ahmad Shuja Pasha may get an extension ‘in the interest of continuity’, sources said.

Wednesday, 10 Feb, 2010
French firm gets liquefied natural gas contract
By Khaleeq Kiani
The decision was announced after a meeting of the ECC of the cabinet presided over by Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin.

Wednesday, 10 Feb, 2010
Pakistanis hit by rioting in South Africa
 
Pakistani and Indian shopkeepers have taken refuge near Balfour’s police station, local media reported.

Wednesday, 10 Feb, 2010
Piecemeal approach against militants can't work: Gates
By Our Correspondent
The US defence secretary indicated that militants are trying to destabilise Pakistan to gain access to the nuclear weapons.

Wednesday, 10 Feb, 2010
Five police officials sacked over violent Quetta protests
By Saleem Shahid
The five were seen in footages of protests recorded by cameras installed at the Chief Minister’s House and Governor’s House.

Wednesday, 10 Feb, 2010
Hakimullah dead, say US channels, newspapers
By Our Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Feb 9: Taliban are confirming TTP leader Hakimullah Mehsud’s death, US and diplomatic sources told Dawn.

Wednesday, 10 Feb, 2010
Bloodshed in Karachi: Foreign role not implausible, Malik tells NA
By Raja Asghar
ISLAMABAD, Feb 9: The government told the National Assembly at the end of a debate on Karachi violence that involvement of “foreign elements” in the massacres

Wednesday, 10 Feb, 2010
High-level meeting in Presidency on LG issue
 
ISLAMABAD, Feb 9: A high-level meeting held at the Presidency on Tuesday with President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani in the chair

Wednesday, 10 Feb, 2010
CAA reinstates 4177 sacked employees
By Our Reporter
Civil Aviation Authority's Director-General informed a cabinet sub-committee that 23 employees had not been regularised.

Wednesday, 10 Feb, 2010
$537m UN appeal for areas hit by militancy
By Amin Ahmed
ISLAMABAD, Feb 9: The United Nations launched here on Tuesday an appeal for $537 million to meet immediate humanitarian needs of the vulnerable and affected

Wednesday, 10 Feb, 2010
Extra security for new Shah Rukh Khan film
 
MUMBAI, Feb 9: Security will be increased at cinemas for the Indian release of the latest Shah Rukh Khan film after a row between the actor-producer and an

Wednesday, 10 Feb, 2010
PPP MNA quits standing committees
By Our Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD, Feb 9: Pakistan People’s Party’s MNA and former deputy speaker of the National Assembly Syed Zafar Ali Shah has resigned from NA’s standing

Wednesday, 10 Feb, 2010
Protests outside three EU embassies in Tehran
 
TEHRAN, Feb 9: Dozens of pro-regime militants demonstrated outside several EU embassies in Iran on Tuesday to protest Europe’s attitude towards Iran and its

Wednesday, 10 Feb, 2010
Taliban claim to have developed new bomb called ‘Omar’
 
KANDAHAR, Feb 9: The Taliban claimed on Tuesday to have developed a new bomb nicknamed ‘Omar’ after their leader and which they said was impossible for Western

Wednesday, 10 Feb, 2010
One killed in Kashmir police station attack
 
SRINAGAR, Feb 9: Suspected militants attacked a police station in occupied Kashmir on Tuesday, killing one policeman, an official said.

Wednesday, 10 Feb, 2010
Iran starts enriching uranium to 20 per cent
 
TEHRAN, Feb 9: Iran announced on Tuesday it has begun work to enrich uranium to 20 per cent, dismissing warnings of new sanctions from world powers who suspect

Wednesday, 10 Feb, 2010
Bill empowers SBP to change bank management
 
The State Bank can now impose losses on shareholders, intervene and take control of banks or even restructure them.

Tuesday, 09 Feb, 2010
Thousands attend Mohammad Ajmal Khattak’s funeral
Bureau Report
Poet, nationalist politician and religious scholar Ajmal Khattak was laid to rest on Monday in Akora Khattak.

Tuesday, 09 Feb, 2010
India agrees to provide Chenab flow data
By Ahmad Fraz Khan
The Pakistan Commissionerate plans to compare the Indian figures with its data and take up discrepancies.

Tuesday, 09 Feb, 2010
Three killed as gunmen attack election office: Sheikh Rashid defies death squad
By Mohammad Asghar
RAWALPINDI, Feb 8: Awami Muslim League chief Sheikh Rashid Ahmed was injured while three other people, including two bodyguards, were killed when gunmen opened

Tuesday, 09 Feb, 2010
Foreign Office counsels caution on India’s offer
By Baqir Sajjad Syed
Describing the talks offer as a ‘bait’, an official candidly accepted that ‘it had put the Foreign Ministry in a fix’.

Tuesday, 09 Feb, 2010
Plot to bomb Lahore PC foiled; 6 held
By Mohammad Faisal Ali
LAHORE, Feb 8: Police claimed on Monday to have arrested six suspected terrorists, including a would-be suicide bomber, and seized 26 hand-grenades, a suicide

Tuesday, 09 Feb, 2010
MQM pleads ‘Karachi’s case’ in NA
By Raja Asghar
'Karachi is like a cow which all want to milk but are not ready to give it fodder,' said MQM leader Haider Abbas Rizvi.

Tuesday, 09 Feb, 2010
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