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SC to examine Bilawal’s speech
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has summoned the transcript of a speech delivered by PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on the…
Broad contours of budget finalised
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Finance has finalised the broad contours of the federal budget of 2012-13, envisaging tax revenue of…
Sectarian militancy thriving in Balochistan
KARACHI: It is a chilling scene once one realises what is going on, the real horror coming from the cool…
S. Arabia offers help to tide over energy crisis
ISLAMABAD: Saudi Arabia looks askance at Pakistan’s commitment to pursue energy cooperation with Iran and is nudging the government to…
Consensus on US ties eludes parliament
ISLAMABAD: A government-sought consensus on reviewing Pakistan’s strategic ties with the United States continued to elude parliament for the third…
Committee completes draft of revised proposals
ISLAMABAD: The Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS) claimed on Tuesday to have prepared a preliminary draft of revised recommendations…
Ephedrine import scam: Apex court issues notice to Ali Musa Gilani
ISLAMABAD: An embarrassment with serious political ramifications may engulf Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani as the role allegedly played by…
Curfew continues in Gilgit, Kidnappers free 34 hostages
GILGIT: Thirty-four people kidnapped from Hunza on April 3 in the wake of violence and bloodshed in Gilgit and Chilas…
Police in Quetta find another 3 missing men
QUETTA, April 10: Police recovered on Tuesday the three missing people who could not be produced before the Supreme Court…
Markets to close at 8pm: Uniform power hardship for all provinces
LAHORE: The second national energy conference decided here on Monday to introduce uniform power loadshedding across the country and to…
Rescuers may take days to reach trapped men
ISLAMABAD, April 9: It may take days before rescuers reach the 139 men trapped in a military complex buried under…
US ready to help settle Siachen dispute
WASHINGTON: The United States said on Monday that it was ready to help India and Pakistan resolve their differences over…
Six killed in Quetta sectarian assault
QUETTA, April 9: At least six people were killed and three others injured in a drive-by shooting here on Monday…
Violence-hit Gilgit faces shortage of essentials
By Farooq Ahmed Khan in Gilgit & Qasim A. Moini in Islamabad
April 9: The authorities relaxed curfew for three…
Questions in parliament over Siachen conflict
ISLAMABAD, April 9: It was amid feelings of shock and helplessness that parliament prayed on Monday for scores of people…
The dwindling impact of the PPP’s victim card
As the PPP’s troubles with the Supreme Court intensify once again, the party’s attempt to paint itself as a victim…
Work to win love, Zardari told in Delhi
NEW DELHI: President Asif Ali Zardari enjoyed a sumptuous lunch here on Sunday with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh before offering…
Desperate rescue efforts at Siachen
RAWALPINDI: Rescue workers used bulldozers on Sunday to dig through snow, boulders and slush in an increasingly desperate search for…
Foreigners stranded in GB evacuated
GILGIT: The Gilgit-Baltistan authorities evacuated on Sunday scores of foreign tourists who had been stranded in the region since April…
New team to hold talks with India: PM
LAHORE: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has expressed the hope that ties with India will improve after President Asif Ali…
US experts arrive for help
ISLAMABAD: The US sent a team of experts on Sunday to help in the search operation for the people missing…
Three security men among seven killed in Balochistan
QUETTA, April 7: Seven people, among them three security personnel, were killed and three others injured in a rocket attack…
Singh seeks one-to-one talks: Zardari travels to India today
NEW DELHI: Before they join the other guests at a promising lunch on Sunday, President Asif Ali Zardari and Indian…
Army chief meets president, PM
LAHORE: President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Chief of Army Staff Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani held…
Ministers in Nagir to negotiate release of hostages
GILGIT: A team comprising ministers and members of the Gilgit-Baltistan Council, headed by Law Minister Wazir Shakil, arrived in Nagir…
Four of the missing 7 brought to court
SP accuses fellow officer of having plotted suicide attack
KARACHI, April 6: In a surprising development, a senior police officer who had survived a suicide attack in the city…
Nawaz links reopening of Nato routes to expulsion of US agents
PESHAWAR: Pakistan Muslim League-N chief Nawaz Sharif said here on Friday that the government would have to get the country…
Zardari launches another tirade against Sharifs
LAHORE: President Asif Ali Zardari launched another diatribe against the Sharif brothers on Friday, saying they had ‘stiff necks’ and…
US message to Iran offers way out of N-impasse
WASHINGTON, April 6: President Barack Obama has told Iran the US would accept Tehran having a civilian nuclear programme if…
