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Authoritarianism prone to abuse of power: CJ
ISLAMABAD, May 26: Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry on Saturday said authoritarianism was maligned because it was the antithesis of the concept of separation of powers and devoid of checks and balances....
‘Shut music shops by July’
PESHAWAR: Militants have warned music and video shops, as well as clandestine hashish and alcohol outlets, in Dara Adamkhel to close their business, local people said on Saturday....
Imran barred from entering Karachi
KARACHI / LAHORE, May 26: The Sindh government on Saturday barred Imran Khan, the chief of the Tehrik-i-Insaf, from entering Karachi under the maintenance of public order (MPO) ordinance....
SHC suo motu action over May 12 events
KARACHI, May 26: Chief Justice of the Sindh High Court Sabihuddin Ahmed on Saturday constituted a seven-member bench to start hearing from Monday a petition on blockade of court premises, mistreatment...
Armed forces being upgraded: president
KARACHI, May 26: President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday asked all wings of the armed forces to be watchful of threats to national security from extremism and vested interests and said that defence forces were being upgraded to frustrate such designs....
Lawyers, opposition hold demo in London
LONDON, May 26: A big crowd of lawyers of Pakistani origin and local leaders of various Pakistani opposition political parties held a demonstration here at Marble Arch, Central London’s busiest thoroughfare...
Debate on Iran border wall disallowed
QUETTA, May 26: Balochistan Assembly Deputy Speaker Mohammad Aslam Bhootani on Saturday did not allow debate on an adjournment motion tabled by the Leader of the Opposition, Kachkol Ali, about construction a wall by Iran along the border with Pakistan....
Two health officials kidnapped
LAKKI MARWAT, May 26: Two senior health officials were kidnapped along with the car they were travelling in near Bakhmal Ahmadzai in the jurisdiction of Tajori police station here on Saturday, officials and eyewitnesses said....
Inflation exceeds target: SBP
KARACHI, May 26: The State Bank has failed to contain inflation as it exceeded the central bank’s revised estimate for 2006-07 and is expected to rise further in the next fiscal year....
Air strike leaves 5 Palestinians dead
GAZA CITY, May 26: Israeli aircraft pounded more targets in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, as the main armed factions discussed a truce call by Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas to end “futile” rocket barrages....
Eight die in Indian explosion
GUWAHATI, May 26: A bomb went off in a busy market here on Saturday, killing eight people and injuring 19 others....
US support to Muslim ‘autocrats’ criticised
WASHINGTON, May 26: The US policy of supporting autocratic rulers to fight terrorism will have disastrous consequences for the world as did the policy of backing dictators to fight communism, says an editorial published in the Los Angeles Times on Saturday....
Three crushed to death by train
KARACHI, May 26: A 28-year-old woman and her two children were crushed to death on Saturday by an express train in Landhi. Eye-witnesses said the victims, Bushra, her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter Aroob...
Kasuri leaves for Germany today
ISLAMABAD, May 26: Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri on Sunday will embark on an important tour of Germany where he will first attend the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) in Hamburg on May 28-29...
Justice Javed to be acting CJ
ISLAMABAD, May 26: Justice Javed Iqbal, the senior most judge of the Supreme Court, will take oath as Acting Chief Justice of Pakistan on Monday. The oath will be administered to Justice Javed Iqbal by Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar....
CPJ seeks action against threats
NEW YOR, May 26: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Friday asked the Pakistan government to take note of recent threats made to journalists and `actively seek out and bring to justice those who have made such threats’....
CPNE deplores threats
KARACHI, May 26: The Sindh Committee of the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) has deplored the threat hurled by the Mohajir Rabita Council (MRC) against journalists....
ISLAMABAD, May 26: Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry on Saturday said authoritarianism was maligned because it was the antithesis of the concept of separation of powers and devoid of checks and balances....
