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Islamabad, Dec 26 (IANS) After a gap of four years, Pakistan and India Monday began two-day talks on conventional and nuclear confidence building measures (CBMs). Geo News said that the talks Monday were being held at the Pakistan Foreign Office on conventional CBMs, while the talks on nuclear CBMs will be held Tuesday. The talks are the first formal engagement [...]
Islamabad, Dec 26 (IANS) Pakistan is facing an acute electricity shortage this winter, with cities bearing 10 hours of power outages. The electricity shortfall surged Saturday to over 40 percent for common consumers, hitting a new winter peak, Dawn reported. Power generation went down to 8,500 MW while demand soared to 12,500 MW, leaving a 4,000 MW deficit. Prime Minister [...]
Islamabad, Dec 26 (IANS) Two teenaged girls suffered horrific burns after a man threw acid at them in Pakistan’s Karachi city. Kamran threw acid at Zarin, 19, and Irum, 18, in Surjani area. The two teenagers were friends and their families had been former neighbours, Dawn reported. Pakistani parliament’s upper house, the Senate, Dec 12 unanimously passed two landmark bills [...]
London, Dec 26 (IANS) The Al Qaeda leadership, which has been weakened in Pakistan following the killing of many of its senior members — including Osama bin Laden — in drone strikes, is now suspected to be shifting to north Africa, a media report said Monday. British officials believe that a ‘last push’ in 2012 may destroy Al Qaeda’s remaining [...]
Islamabad, Dec 26 (IANS) The big turn out at Imran Khan’s rally in Karachi has cemented his status as a rising star in Pakistani politics and made his party a force to reckon with in the coming days, a leading English daily said Monday. Imran Khan had held a mammoth rally Oct 30 in Lahore and his next massive rally [...]
Islamabad, Dec 26 (IANS) An international manhunt has been launched for two killers of Pakistani minorities minister Shahbaz Bhatti who had been seeking to reform the country’s controvesial blasphemy law. Interior Minister Rehman Malik said Sunday that red warrants had been issued against the assassins of Shahbaz Bhatti and they would soon be brought to justice, Associated Press of Pakistan [...]
Islamabad, Dec 26 (IANS) Twenty-eight peasants, includng 11 children, have been freed from a private prison run by a landlord in Pakistan’s Sindh province. The police conducted a raid in Badin and found the 28 peasants, including 11 children and 13 women, in the illegal captivity of the local landlord, Geo News reported Monday. Police said the raid was conducted [...]
Islamabad, Dec 25 (IANS) Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Sunday expressed his government’s commitment to ensure the rights of minorities as enshrined in Pakistan’s constitution. Felicitating the Christian community on Christmas, Gilani reiterated his government’s commitment stating: ‘The Pakistan government regards the protection of rights of the minorities as its constitutional duty and is committed to their welfare.’ The Constitution [...]
Islamabad, Dec 25 (IANS) Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, in the midst of the memogate scam, said Sunday his government would complete its full five-year term to 2013. Addressing the 100th meeting of the federal cabinet here on the 135th birth anniversary of Pakistan’s founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the prime minister said the parliament would complete its five-year term [...]
Islamabad, Dec 25 (IANS) Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Sunday turned down Information and Broadcasting Minister Firdous Ashiq Awan’s resignation from her post as minister during a one-on-one meeting, the News reported. A tearful Awan had announced her resignation during a televised cabinet meeting earlier Sunday morning, saying: ‘I endorse your leadership (but) I think I am not competent enough [...]
Islamabad, Dec 25 (IANS) Pakistan’s president and prime minister, on the backfoot in the wake of the memogate scandal, have urged the nation to keep their faith in the ballot as the instrument of change and not use force to bring this about. In his message on the 135th birth anniversary of Pakistan’s founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah Sunday, President Asif [...]
Islamabad, Dec 25 (IANS) Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has been criticised for raising in parliament the question of the slain Osama bin Laden’s presence in the country. It was not appropriate for the prime minister to talk about martial law and conspiracies against the democratic system, Leader of Opposition Nisar Ali Khan (Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz) said at a press [...]
Islamabad, Dec 25 (IANS) Pakistan Information Minister Firdous Ashiq Awan tendered her resignation during a cabinet meeting Sunday while expressing her disappointment over the ‘attitude’ of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leadership. Awan announced her resignation at the meeting presided over by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, Dawn News reported. ‘I endorse your leadership (but) I think I am not [...]
Islamabad, Dec 25 (IANS) No one will be allowed to dissolve Pakistan’s parliament and abrogate the constitution, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif has said, urging the government to focus on the country’s economic growth. Speaking at a ceremony Saturday ahead of the 135th birth anniversary of Pakistan’s founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz president said that dictators had [...]
Islamabad, Dec 25 (IANS) Pakistan Information Minister Firdous Ashiq Awan resigned during a cabinet meet Sunday. Awan announced her resignation at the meeting presided over by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, Dawn News reported.
Islamabad, Dec 25 (IANS) The year 2011 saw Pakistan making headlines for all the wrong reasons, compounded by yearend uncertainty about the political future of a nation that is a declared nuclear power. Will the military take over the reins of government yet again was the common refrain among Pakistanis following the memogate scandal and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s [...]
Washington, Dec 24 (IANS) Pakistani military had harboured Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden with the knowledge of former president General Pervez Musharraf, former army chief General Ziauddin Butt has said. An article on the Jamestown Foundation website, which cited Butt, said that despite denials, evidence is emerging that ‘elements within the Pakistani military harboured Osama with the knowledge of [...]
New Delhi, Dec 24 (IANS) The NIA, India’s premier anti-terror probe body, Saturday filed charges against Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists, including Pakistani-American David Headley and two alleged ISI men for their role in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack. The chargesheet, which also names Lashkar founder Haafiz Sayeed and seven others, was filed in a special National Investigation Agency court here. The [...]
Islamabad, Dec 24 (IANS) Pakistan may be on the ‘cusp of a defining historic moment’, said a daily over the tension between the army and the government. An editorial in the Daily Times Saturday said that Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s ‘unusually blunt remarks the other day about moves to oust his government implied that the usual cast of suspects [...]
Islamabad, Dec 24 (IANS) Nine Pakistani paramilitary troopers were killed Saturday when a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into their office building in northwest Pakistan, police said. Seventeen others were injured in the attack at the Frontier Corps’ office in Bannu town of Khyber Pakhtonkhwa province, Geo TV reported. The bomber drove his vehicle packed with explosives into the [...]
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