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Judges’ scrutiny by parliament panel after reinstatement
ISLAMABAD, April 3: A draft constitutional package envisages subjecting all judges of the superior judiciary to scrutiny by a parliamentary committee after reinstatement of the judges sent home upon proclamation of the emergency on Nov 3....
Musharraf to visit China next week
ISLAMABAD, April 3: President Pervez Musharraf will pay a six-day state visit to China next week, but the composition of delegation accompanying him has not been announced mainly because of the...
PML-N convenes meeting
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-N chief Nawaz Sharif has called a meeting of his party’s federal ministers and provincial presidents in Lahore on Friday to discuss a plan for implementing the Murree Declaration....
Govt to follow multi-faceted strategy in terror war: FM
LARKANA, April 3: Pakistan will formulate a multi-pronged strategy for the war on terror and the coalition government’s emphasis would be to try to win the people of tribal areas by holding talks with them to resolve all issues....
US braces for Pakistan’s new plan
WASHINGTON, April 3: The US military chief has acknowledged that the new government in Islamabad could adopt a new strategy for fighting terrorists hiding in the tribal areas, but hoped that...
Swiss resume arms delivery
BERN, April 3: The Swiss government on Thursday reauthorised arms exports to Pakistan, saying it saw positive political developments in the country....
Lahore streets greet women traffic wardens
LAHORE, April 3: Eight women traffic wardens turned up on heavy-duty bikes on city’s major roads on Thursday for patrolling duty for the first time in the history of the country’s traffic police....
Greek and Turkish Cypriots pull down division symbol
NICOSIA, April 3: Greek and Turkish Cypriots on Thursday pulled down barricades that have separated them for half a century, reopening Ledra Street, a potent symbol of Cyprus’s ethnic partition....
Crossing closed ‘temporarily’
Greek Cypriot police said they had temporarily closed the newly opened Ledra Street crossing through the divided capital on Thursday to protest the presence in the UN-controlled buffer zone of Turkish Cypriot policemen....
Membership of Ukraine, Georgia stalled: Setback for Bush at Nato summit
BUCHAREST, April 3: Nato leaders gave way to Russian pressure on Thursday and delayed a decision to put the former Soviet states of Ukraine and Georgia on track for membership in the Western alliance, despite US President George W....
32 Guantanamo returnees freed
RIYADH, April 3: The Saudi Arabian authorities have released 32 men repatriated from the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba last year, a newspaper reported on Thursday....
Hizb leader held, two militants killed in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, April 3: Indian police have captured a top leader of the largest militant group in occupied Kashmir in one of their most important recent arrests, an official said on Thursday....
S. Arabia plans forum on extremism
RIYADH, April 3: Saudi Arabia plans to hold a conference of senior clerics from around the world this year to promote moderation in Islam and fight extremism, a newspaper reported on its website on Thursday....
Asian workers grilled over Sharjah unrest
DUBAI, April 3: Authorities questioned dozens of Asian labourers after hundreds of workers clashed with police during a protest against their living conditions in the emirate of Sharjah, media reported on Thursday....
Food-carrying robot freighter docks with space station
TOULOUSE (France), April 3: Europe’s robot freighter successfully docked on its maiden voyage on Thursday with the International Space Station, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced....
Airliner bombing plot: trial opens
LONDON, April 3: Eight British men planned to detonate bombs aboard airliners bound for the US and Canada, hoping to kill hundreds of passengers in a major terrorist attack, a prosecutor...
Cricket enters NY’s school system
NEW YORK, April 3: Although Pakistani, Indian and West Indian communities have been playing cricket in New York City for years, it was never accepted as a recognised team sport here...
Gas pipeline blown up
QUETTA, April 3: Supply from the Pir Koh gas field to the main purification plant in Sui was suspended after a pipeline was blown up by suspected saboteurs in Dashat Goran area of Dera Bugti district on Thursday....
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NAUDERO, April 3: PPP Secretary-General Jahangir Badr said on Thursday that time would prove that the ‘forgive and forget’ policy of the PPP and the MQM was a historic step....
LAHORE, April 3: Eight women traffic wardens turned up on heavy-duty bikes on city’s major roads on Thursday for patrolling duty for the first time in the history of the country’s traffic police....
NICOSIA, April 3: Greek and Turkish Cypriots on Thursday pulled down barricades that have separated them for half a century, reopening Ledra Street, a potent symbol of Cyprus’s ethnic partition....
Greek Cypriot police said they had temporarily closed the newly opened Ledra Street crossing through the divided capital on Thursday to protest the presence in the UN-controlled buffer zone of Turkish Cypriot policemen....
BUCHAREST, April 3: Nato leaders gave way to Russian pressure on Thursday and delayed a decision to put the former Soviet states of Ukraine and Georgia on track for membership in the Western alliance, despite US President George W....
