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Boucher to meet Asif, Nawaz?
LONDON: US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher is likely to meet Nawaz Sharif and, perhaps, Asif Ali Zardari in London....
Trade deficit hits $16bn
ISLAMABAD, May 10: Surging crude oil and food prices in international markets pushed Pakistan’s trade deficit to $16.805 billion in the first 10 months of the current financial year, up by 50.78...
College adjacent to FC premises blown up
DARRA ADAMKHEL, May 10: Militants blew up the two-storey building of Government Degree College for boys in Darra town on Saturday....
Two militants killed
QUETTA, May 10: Two suspected militants were killed in a gunbattle with security forces in Lanjoseghari area on the Balochistan-Punjab border on Saturday....
4 policemen hurt in Swat suicide attack
MINGORA, May 10: Four police constables were injured when a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into the Mingora police station on Friday night, hours after a ceasefire agreement was reached between the ANP-led government and pro-Taliban militants....
Pemra to Reform licence system
ISLAMABAD, May 10: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) Board has decided to speed up and simplify the process of issuing licences to applicants so that a long waiting period...
India hands over body of Pakistani prisoner
LAHORE, May 10: Indian Border Security Force on Saturday handed over the body of a Pakistani prisoner, Mohammad Akram, to the Rangers at the Wagah border post, 10 days after his death....
No inquiry into missing file of housing ministry
ISLAMABAD, May 10: Neither any inquiry has been ordered as yet nor is any explanation forthcoming about the mysterious disappearance from the housing ministry of the master file of Rs450 billion federal government property in different parts of Karachi....
Govt urged to get down to business
The coalition government must settle contentious political issues quickly and generate the right signals for the stakeholders in the economy to revive investors’ confidence and arrest the flight of capital....
Sindh govt to fill 40,000 vacancies
KARACHI, May 10: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah said on Saturday that around 40,000 vacancies in different departments would be filled before the coming budget....
Hezbollah starts pulling out of Beirut
BEIRUT, May 10: Hezbollah on Saturday began withdrawing gunmen from Beirut and handed control of the streets to the Lebanese army, after days of gunbattles with supporters of the US-backed government....
Tsvangirai to fight run-off against Mugabe
PRETORIA, May 10: Zimbabwe’s opposition leader said on Saturday he would return home within two days to contest a run-off against President Robert Mugabe and deal him a “final knock-out” after almost three decades in power....
Yangon ignores suffering, goes ahead with vote
PATHEIN (Myanmar), May 10: Myanmar’s junta held a referendum on a new constitution on Saturday, despite warnings more people would die unless it focussed on delivering emergency aid for survivors of last week’s cyclone....
Three held, suicide vests seized
RAWALPINDI, May 10: Law-enforcement agencies on Saturday arrested three suspected terrorists and seized some suicide vests and maps of sensitive installations....
‘Four killed in military operation in Dera Bugti’
QUETTA, May 10: Jamhoori Watan Party (Bramdagh) leader Nawabzada Jamil Akbar Bugti has claimed that four Bugti tribesmen were killed and several others injured in a fresh military operation in different areas of Dera Bugti on Saturday....
Founder: Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah
Editor: Abbas Nasir
DARRA ADAMKHEL, May 10: Militants blew up the two-storey building of Government Degree College for boys in Darra town on Saturday....
KARACHI, May 10: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah said on Saturday that around 40,000 vacancies in different departments would be filled before the coming budget....
