|
|
|
| June 02, 2008 | Monday | Jamadi-ul-Awwal 27, 1429 |
|
Sheikh Rashid quits PML-Q, forms Awami Muslim League: Withdrawal from election race
RAWALPINDI, June 1: Former federal minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has finally parted ways with the Pakistan Muslim League-Q and set up his own party after withdrawing his candidature for the by-election for National Assembly’s NA-55 seat.... 
|
|
Defence minister claims PPP’s Musharraf policy unchanged
LAHORE, June 1: Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar said on Sunday that the PPP-led government would not change its policy towards Pervez Musharraf in spite of President Bush’s support to the beleaguered leader....
|
|
||
|
95pc people for cut in defence budget: survey
ISLAMABAD, June 1: About 95 per cent of the people want the government to cut defence expenditure and give less importance to the defence spending while making budget for the year 2008-09, a survey soliciting proposals for upcoming budget reveals....
|
|
AJK judicial row to figure in lawyers’ march
ISLAMABAD, June 1: An opposition party of Azad Kashmir seeking the replacement of a controversial chief justice of the territory said on Monday its workers and lawyers would agitate the row...
|
|
|
||
|
Islamabad millers left with only two days’ wheat stock
ISLAMABAD, June 1: The prevailing Atta (wheat flour) crisis has aggravated in Islamabad, as only two day’s stock of wheat is available with local flour mills, Dawn learnt on Sunday....
|
|
Independent judiciary protects democratic govt, says Iftikhar
PESHAWAR, June 1: Deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has said that an independent judiciary plays the role of a shield for a democratic government, and in its presence nobody would dare to harm it....
|
|
|
||
|
11 polytechnic institutes to be set up in Balochistan
QUETTA, June 1: Provincial Minister for Education Shafiq Ahmed Khan has said that 11 polytechnic institutes would be set up in Balochistan....
|
|
Ahmed Faraz wants army out of politics
HYDERABAD, June 1: Renowned poet Ahmed Faraz has said that army should keep away from politics and should always remain under the elected civilian governments....
|
|
|
||
|
PTCL subscribers find it a ‘cutpurse’ package: Call duration reduction
LAHORE, June 1: The Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited subscribers are enduring the burden of the management’s decision to cut the call duration from five to two minutes as most of them...
|
|
PML-Q vows to Defend Musharraf
LAHORE, June 1: Pakistan Muslim League-Q will block all attempts to destabilise President Pervez Musharraf....
|
|
|
||
|
May 12 chaos: JI opposes probe by ‘PCO judges’
LAHORE, June 1: Jamaat-i-Islami secretary-general Syed Munawwar Hassan has opposed investigations into the killing of 50 people in Karachi last year by a tribunal comprising `PCO judges.’...
|
|
PML-N asked to develop consensus on major issues
ATTOCK, June 1: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Malik Hakmeen Khan has urged the PML-N leadership to pull the country out of the prevailing internal and external crises by developing a consensus on major issues instead of following emotional politics....
|
|
| ||
|
|
||
|
Two die in separate incidents
CHAKWAL, June 1: A five-year-old boy and a young man were killed in two different incidents in the district, police said....
|
|
IEP proposes think tank to guide policy makers: Power crisis
ISLAMABAD, June 1: The Institution of Engineers Pakistan (IEP) has proposed the establishment of a national think-tank of engineers to give policy guidelines to the government in order to take the...
|
|
|
||
Diplomats visit Taxila sites
ISLAMABAD, June 1: Diplomats with their families from 35 missions on Sunday paid a visit to historical places like Sikh Temple and the museum in Taxila and Punja Sahib (Hassanabdal)....
|
|
Fata people to get computerised passports
ISLAMABAD, Jun 1: Prime Minister’s Adviser on Interior Rehman Malik has asked the director-general of immigration and passports, Brig (retd) Khalid Habib, to immediately start issuing machine-readable passports in the Federally Administrated Tribal Areas....
|
|
|
||
Hu visits Pakistani medical camp
ISLAMABAD, June 1: Chinese President Hu Jintao on Sunday visited a mobile surgical hospital set up by Pakistan’s medical mission in Longano, 500 kilometres from Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu province....
|
|
Salient features of the proposed bill
ISLAMABAD, June 1: The following are the salient features of the proposed 18th Constitution Amendment Bill....
|
|
|
||
|
Two robbers held after ‘encounter’
SHEIKHUPURA, June 1: Two robbers were arrested after police injured one of them in an encounter near Kot Pindi Das adjacent to Lahore Road here on Sunday morning....
|
|
Seraiki party to march for KBD
MULTAN, June 1: The Seraikistan Qaumi Movement has announced to launch a long march along both banks of the Indus River for the construction of Kalabagh Dam from July 1....
|
|
|
||
|
2 kidnapped, released
TOBA TEK SINGH, June 1: Six people kidnapped a man with his car and a mechanic travelling with him. The kidnappers later freed the two men after keeping them in...
|
|
Official neglect threatens erosion of Jhang villages
JHANG, June 1: Scores of villages, comprising thousands of acres of fertile land, situated on the left bank of river Jhelum, are facing the threat of obliteration from the fast pace of erosion due to the apathy of the Irrigation department....
|
|
|
||
|
School without principal for six months
VEHARI, June 1: Academic activities at the Divisional Public School have been badly affected owing to non-appointment of the principal for the last six months....
|
|
A visit which had to be cancelled
OKARA, June 1: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani’s plan to visit Haveli Lakkha was a fiasco, resulting not only in resentment among his hosts, but also wastage of millions of rupees spent on the arrangements from the district government coffers....
|
|
|
||
|
Robbers kill govt servant
SHEIKHUPURA, June 1: A government employee was shot dead while his brother was injured during a dacoity bid in Kashmir Colony on Sunday morning....
|
|
Jamia Hafsa students remembered
TOBA TEK SINGH, June 1: Those who are involved in the killing of innocent students of Jamia Hafsa are facing the Nature''s wrath and now no one will help them...
|
|
|
||
|
IMAX Theatre payment may go down the drain
LAHORE, June 1: Punjab is going to lose Rs150 million the previous government had paid to a foreign company for making IMAX Theatre equipment if it is not imported in near future....
|
|
Pepco claims partial success of energy conservation plan
LAHORE, June 1: The energy conservation drive by the Pakistan Electric Power Company (Pepco) turned out to be a `partial success’ on its first day (Sunday), with 60 per cent markets across the province voluntarily closing by 9pm....
|
|
|
||
