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Nisar Khuhro, Shehla Raza elected unopposed
KARACHI, April 6: Pakistan People’s Party candidates Nisar Ahmad Khuhro and Shehla Raza were elected unopposed as speaker and deputy speaker of the Sindh assembly on Sunday....
Balochistan MPAs take oath today
QUETTA, April 6: The first session of the Balochistan Assembly will be held here on Monday at 11am with the only agenda being oath-taking by newly-elected members....
Pressure on Bush to refocus on Pakistan
WASHINGTON, April 6: Speaker and majority leaders of both chambers of the US Congress have sent a letter to President George W. Bush asking him to disengage the United States from Iraq and refocus on Pakistan and Afghanistan....
Punjab fears shortfall of 2.4m tons in wheat output
LAHORE, April 6: The wheat output in Punjab will be 1.5 million tons less than the target of 18 million tons, and there are worries here that the national yield will also fall to 21.6...
Militant killed in Mand shootout
QUETTA, April 6: One militant was killed in an exchange of fire with security forces in Mand area of Turbat district on Sunday....
Avalanche kills six seminary students
MANSEHRA, April 6: Six students of a seminary were killed and four others injured when they were struck by an avalanche in Kala Dhaka tribal area on Sunday....
US-Russia summit eases tension over missile shield
SOCHI (Russia), April 6: US President George W. Bush and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin claimed progress on Sunday towards resolving their dispute over a planned US missile defence system in Europe....
By-polls likely in mid-May
ISLAMABAD, April 6: By-elections for about 30 national and provincial assembly seats are likely to be held in mid-May....
‘Suicide bomber’ kills minister, 13 others in Lanka
COLOMBO, April 6: A suspected Tamil Tiger suicide attacker bombed the opening ceremony of a marathon race outside Sri Lanka’s capital on Sunday, killing a powerful government minister, a former Olympian and 12 others, the military said....
Baghdad fighting leaves 22 dead
BAGHDAD, April 6: Iraqi government troops backed by US forces swept into the Sadr City slum at dawn on Sunday, triggering the worst violence in Baghdad since cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called his fighters off the streets a week ago....
Indian cabinet reshuffled
NEW DELHI, April 6: India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reshuffled his cabinet on Sunday with seven new ministers but key portfolios are unchanged ahead of mid-2009 elections....
Karzai hopes Gilani will help in ‘war on terror’
KABUL, April 6: Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday expressed confidence that his government would work closely with the new Pakistani prime minister to fight extremism plaguing both countries....
Legendary actor Charlton Heston dies at 84
WASHINGTON, April 6: Oscar-winning US actor Charlton Heston — whose chiseled features and commanding presence won him epic roles from Moses to Michelangelo — died on Saturday night at age 84....
Sarabjit’s may be case of ‘mistaken identity’
NEW DELHI, April 6: The case of condemned Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who is on a death row in a Pakistani jail for his alleged involvement in 1990 serial blasts in...
‘Americans to attack Fata if Musharraf steps down’
LAHORE, April 6: President Pervez Musharraf thinks that if he steps down as head of state the United States will go for direct military attacks on tribal areas and will also take away Dr A....
Power crisis to persist for two years: Pepco
ISLAMABAD, April 6: Despite Wapda’s plans to increase its power generation capacity, loadshedding would continue for at least two years, Director-General of the Pakistan Electric Power Company (Pepco) Tahir Basharat Cheema said on Sunday....
Indian minister due for IPI talks
NEW DELHI, April 6: Indian Petroleum Minister Murli Deora has said he will visit Pakistan on April 23 to meet his counterpart Khwaja Mohammad Asif for talks, including the Iran gas...
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QUETTA, April 6: Balochistan Governor Nawab Zulfiqar Ali Magsi has said that reconciliation efforts have begun in the province and the new government will take steps to make them successful....
KARACHI, April 6: Pakistan People’s Party candidates Nisar Ahmad Khuhro and Shehla Raza were elected unopposed as speaker and deputy speaker of the Sindh assembly on Sunday....
WASHINGTON, April 6: Oscar-winning US actor Charlton Heston — whose chiseled features and commanding presence won him epic roles from Moses to Michelangelo — died on Saturday night at age 84....
