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Hearing put off in envoy’s plea against NRO list
By Our Reporter
RAWALPINDI, Nov 26: A division bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday put off the preliminary hearing in a petition filed by Pakistan’s Ambassador to
Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
Reinstated OPF workers await salary
ISLAMABAD, 26: The Overseas Pakistanis Foundation seems reluctant to implement the Sacked Employees Reinstatement Ordinance in its totality as all 42 workers
Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
Six arrested for alleged terror plans acquitted
By Our Reporter
RAWALPINDI, Nov 26: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) here on Thursday acquitted six men arrested for allegedly possessing explosives and suicide vests from the
Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
Over hundred join PPAJK
MUZAFFARABAD, Nov 26: More than a hundred political workers joined the main opposition Peoples Party Azad Kashmir (PPAJK) while expressing trust in the party’s
Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
Seven killed as bus falls off bridge
TAXILA, Nov 26: Seven people were killed and 35 others injured when a bus fell off a bridge on the G.T. Road early Thursday, the Wah Cantonment police said.
Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
Customers puzzled over sugar classification
By Amin Ahmed
ISLAMABAD, Nov 26: The prevailing sugar crisis has not only raised the price of the commodity, making it beyond the reach of the citizen, but also given two new
Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
Broadband internet penetration slow
By Our Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD, Nov 26: Participants at a discussion on Thursday said the government’s broadband policy approved in 2004 envisaging wider penetration of “always on”
Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
PAL awards go to Benazir, Sweden’s Peter Curman
By Jonaid Iqbal
ISLAMABAD, Nov 26: Pakistan on Thursday moved to centre stage in the diplomatic as well as academic world as two international awards were conferred on former
Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
Clerks to protest on Eid day
LAHORE, Nov 26: Clerks will not celebrate Eid and set up camps in the provincial metropolis and divisional headquarters to protest against implication in false
Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
‘Pak-Indian media acted hysterically’
By Our Staff Reporter
LAHORE, Nov 26: South Asian free Media School director Khaled Ahmed has said the Indian media highlighted and emphasized the outrage aspect of the public
Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
Triple murder accused ‘killed’
By Our Staff Reporter
LAHORE, Nov 26: The police killed an alleged murderer on Thursday in, what it claimed, an ‘encounter’ near Furniture Market in Nawankot.
Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
Shahbaz for land record automation
LAHORE, Nov 26: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has directed expeditious and transparent completion of land record computerisation project.
Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
LHC orders probe into torture of media men
By Our Staff Reporter
LAHORE, Nov 26: The Lahore High Court registrar has directed the Lahore district and sessions judge to submit a report after holding an inquiry into lawyers’
Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
Mismanagement at art institute
By Shoaib Ahmed
LAHORE Nov 26: The shortage of funds and mismanagement has been affecting the Punjab Institute of Language Art and Culture (PILAC) for the last many years,
Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
PML-N to back Gilani if he faces wrath of ‘boss’
By Amjad Mahmood
LAHORE, Nov 26: The Pakistan Muslim League-N will side with Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani in case any ‘undemocratic’ step is taken against him, says party’s
Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
Sobho sees light at end of tunnel
By Our Correspondent
LARKANA, Nov 26: Veteran communist leader Sobho Gianchandani says he still sees light at the end of tunnel and reiterates his resolve that he will never leave
Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
Mumtaz calls for mid-term polls
By Our Correspondent
SHIKARPUR, Nov 26: Sindh National Front chief Mumtaz Ali Bhutto said on Thursday that political crisis had deepened and lawlessness had become the order of the
Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
Teachers boycott classes
By Our Correspondent
DADU, Nov 26: Primary school teachers boycotted classes in Dadu, Mehar, Khairpur Nathan Shah and Johi and took out a rally here on Thursday, which terminated in
Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
Badin nazim imposes section 144
By Our Correspondent
BADIN, Nov 26: District Nazim Ali Anwar Halepoto has under section 144 prohibited entry of outsiders into Lowari Sharif village within a radius of five
Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
23 Thar villages still in dark
By Our Correspondent
MITHI, Nov 26: Residents of 23 villages of Thar have appealed to the president, prime minister and provincial chief minister to direct the Hyderabad Electric
Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
Sacrificial animals beyond reach of average buyer
By Mohammad Hussain Khan
HYDERABAD, Nov 26: The unregulated trade of sacrificial animals and Livestock Department and district government’s silence are unnecessarily overburdening poor
Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
‘ Pakistan lags behind in rice cultivation’
By Our Correspondent
LARKANA, Nov 26: Pakistan is lagging far behind in paddy cultivation as it was harvesting only 23 varieties out of the total 100.
Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
Bill submitted on forced disappearances
By Our Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD, Nov 26: Three lawmakers belonging to the Jamaat-i-Islami have submitted a bill on missing persons to the Senate.
Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
Sindh CM rules out curbs on media
By Habib Khan Ghauri
KARACHI, Nov 26: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah said on Thursday there was no move to impose restrictions on the media because the government was not
Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
Two of a family killed in helicopter attack
By Abdul Sami Paracha
KOHAT, Nov 26: Two people were killed and eight injured when a vehicle carrying a family displaced by clashes in lower Orakzai Agency came under a helicopter
Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
SHO among three injured in Peshawar blast
PESHAWAR, Nov 26: Three people, two among them policemen, were injured when a roadside bomb exploded in the Rasheedabad village in the suburbs of Peshawar on
Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
Sugar crisis deepens
By Our Correspondent
GUJRANWALA, Nov 26: The sugar crisis has worsened in the city as whatever little supply was continuing has been stopped by the mills to dealers.
Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
Experts’ advice to tomato growers
MULTAN, Nov 26: Agriculture experts have urged growers to plant tomato nursery in production fields by the end of November to get good yield from the third crop
Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
Salaries of BMP, BL enhanced
DERA GHAZI KHAN, Nov 26: The Punjab home department has enhanced salary package of Border Military Police (BMP) and Baloch Levy (BL) to reward these forces for
Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
Factory owner robbed of Rs2m
By Our Correspondent
SHEIKHUPURA, Nov 26: Two bandits snatched Rs2 million in cash, a cell phone and other valuables from a factory owner and his gunman near Kot Abdul Maalik on
Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
Growers turn to ‘gur’
By Our Correspondent
TOBA TEK SINGH: A number of sugarcane growers are turning to ‘gur and shakkar making’ which they find more rewarding in these days of sugar crisis.
Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
Forces capture training camp, recover bodies
Dawn Report
PARACHINAR, Nov 26: Security forces have captured a training facility of militants and retrieved bodies of kidnapped persons from their hideouts in Shaho area
Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
Death term
SIALKOT, Nov 26: A murder convict was sentenced to death and seven years in jail by Additional District and Sessions Judge Altaf Mahar.
Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
Kala Dhaka tribe wants curbs lifted
By Nisar Ahmad Khan
MANSEHRA, Nov 26: The Basikhel tribe of Kala Dhaka on Thursday demanded that the government should lift restrictions imposed on them because they had blocked
Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
Haj operator convicted of Rs40m fraud
PESHAWAR, Nov 26: An accountability court here on Thursday convicted owner of a travelling agency, Abdul Aqeel, and sentenced him to seven years rigorous
Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
Child pornography to become penal offence
Bureau Report
PESHAWAR, Nov 26: The NWFP government intends to declare child pornography a penal offence and prescribe punishment for the persons found involved in it.
Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
Banks closed for poor security
By Our Correspondent
TOBA TEK SINGH, Nov 26: The Kamalia administration sealed four bank branches on Thursday for improper security arrangements in Kamalia.
Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
Unanimous Eid a far cry
By Our Correspondent
GHALANAI, Nov 26: Eidul Azha will be celebrated in Mohmand and Bajaur tribal regions on Friday as clerics in Ghalanai and Khar have announced to celebrate Eid
Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
Photo exhibition on world heritage in Japan opens
By Our Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD, Nov 25: Visitors to an exhibition on world heritage in Japan which opened at the National Art Gallery here on Wednesday found themselves immersed in
Thursday, 26 Nov, 2009
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