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Judges issue lands in London after draws at Murree, Dubai
LONDON, May 8: PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari accompanied by the prime minister’s adviser on interior, Rehman Malik, arrived here on Thursday evening for what is termed as the final round...
Call in Senate for change in pro-US foreign policy
ISLAMABAD, May 8: Both friends and foes of the new government urged it during a Senate debate on Thursday to review what many saw as a pro-US foreign policy charted by...
Progressive tax system being planned: Dar
LONDON, May 8: Promising a relief package for the poor in the forthcoming budget, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has hinted that progressive taxation will be introduced through the finance bill to make the rich pay their share of dues....
Cruise missile fired from aerial platform
ISLAMABAD, May 8: Pakistan on Thursday conducted a successful ‘flight test’ of the indigenously developed nuclear capable air launched cruise missile, Hatf-VIII (Ra’ad)....
China to expedite delivery of N-plants: Indigenous capability being pursued
ISLAMABAD, May 8: Islamabad and Beijing will set up a corporation shortly to build nuclear- and coal-based power plants in Pakistan. The decision to form the ‘China-Pakistan Power Plant Corporation’ was taken during President Pervez Musharraf’s visit to China last month....
SC vows to identify scam beneficiaries
ISLAMABAD, May 8: A Supreme Court bench hearing the massive loan write-off scam said on Thursday that the court would examine the case ‘in depth’ to find out who were the...
May 6 nominees to refile papers
RAWALPINDI, May 8: Candidates who filed their nominations for by-poll on May 6 are required to file their papers afresh under the revised schedule announced on Wednesday....
Controversial US general’s posting put on hold
ISLAMABAD, May 8: The United States has agreed not to post the controversial ex-Guantanamo Bay prison chief, Maj-Gen Jay W. Hood, in Pakistan after a public uproar in the country against his appointment....
Tibetan takes Olympic flame to Everest top
EVEREST BASE CAMP, May 8: A Tibetan woman took the Olympic torch the last steps to the top of Everest on Thursday, realising “a dream of all Chinese people”....
Russia expels two US military attaches
WASHINGTON, May 8: Russia has expelled two US military attaches from the US Embassy in Moscow following the ouster in recent months of a pair of Russian diplomats from Washington, the State Department said on Thursday....
Four jobless Kashmiris try to kill themselves
SRINAGAR, May 8: Four Kashmiri men had to be rescued from a fast-flowing icy river on Thursday after they jumped in to protest a lack of jobs, police said....
To stall food crisis, countries in Central America hand out cash
SANTA LUCIA LA REFORMA (Guatemala), May 8: Central American governments are handing out cash and fertilisers and buying up grains from farmers to prevent rising food prices from pushing millions into deeper hunger and poverty....
Two new polio cases found in Sindh
KARACHI, May 8: The Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI), Sindh, on Thursday confirmed two new cases of polio among children, bringing the total number in the province to seven....
Quetta strike against traders’ killing
QUETTA, May 8: A shutter-down strike was observed here on Thursday on a call given by the Anjuman-i-Tajran Balochistan and Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party in protest against the killing of two traders.All...
Five killed in road accident
QUETTA, May 8: Five people were killed and 10 others suffered injuries in a road accident near Surab in the district of Kalat on Thursday....
Tank-Wana road blocked
TANK, May 8: Security forces closed the Tank-Wana road on Thursday and stopped people from entering South Waziristan amid fresh tensions in the volatile tribal area....
93 journalists killed in 2007
VIENNA, May 8: Ninety-three journalists were killed in 2007, almost half of them in Iraq, the International Press Institute media watchdog said in its annual press freedom review published on Thursday....
40,000 displaced in Zimbabwe
JOHANNESBURG,May 8: Some 40,000 farmworkers and their families have been displaced as a result of violence and intimidation by pro-government militias since Zimbabwe’s elections, a union leader said on Thursday....
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ISLAMABAD, May 8: Pakistan on Thursday conducted a successful ‘flight test’ of the indigenously developed nuclear capable air launched cruise missile, Hatf-VIII (Ra’ad)....
EVEREST BASE CAMP, May 8: A Tibetan woman took the Olympic torch the last steps to the top of Everest on Thursday, realising “a dream of all Chinese people”....
