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WB okays $5.5bn aid
WASHINGTON, Dec 23: The World Bank has agreed to give $5.5 billion in development aid to Pakistan to support poverty…
Government, Army on collision course
ISLAMABAD: A sense of foreboding gripped the country on Thursday as a showdown between the civilian arm of the government…
Move afoot to bring down govt: PM
Responding to intriguing questions being raised from right and left, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani made a strong assertion of…
US concedes mistakes led to killing of Pakistani troops
WASHINGTON, Dec 22: The location Pakistan received from a Nato coordination official was 14 kilometres away from the intended target,…
Report rejected
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Army on Thursday rejected the US probe report on Nato attacks on Pakistani border posts, saying it…
SC receives host of affidavits, pleas
Frenetic activity was the order of the day in the Supreme Court on Thursday when a host of affidavits to…
President in Islamabad
KARACHI: President Asif Ali Zardari arrived in Islamabad from Karachi on Wednesday night after a three-day stay at Bilawal House…
ISPR denies Pasha’s ME trip
ISLAMABAD: In a belated rebuttal to British newspaper Independent’s blog posting on ISI chief Lt-Gen Shuja Pasha’s alleged trip to…
No control over operations of Army, ISI: govt
ISLAMABAD: All eyes are focussed on the Supreme Court as it is set to take up the memo case again…
EC ordered to complete rolls by Feb 23
ISLAMABAD, Dec 21: The Supreme Court ordered the Election Commission on Wednesday to complete the process of preparing fresh electoral…
Parliamentary committee opens probe
ISLAMABAD: Opposition PML-N members in the Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS) sought to dissociate themselves from the committee’s proceedings…
Confident Nawaz treads a tricky path
KARACHI: Appearance matters a great deal in politics and going by the appearance, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif looked to…
Gilani, Asfandyar call on Zardari
KARACHI: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani called on President Asif Ali Zardari at Bilawal House here on Tuesday and enquired…
Nawaz advises PPP to go for early elections
KARACHI: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif came up with a tricky piece of advice for the Pakistan People’s…
Rally in Lahore sends alarm bells ringing
IT was an extraordinary spectacle in Minto Park at the foot of the Minar-i-Pakistan on Sunday: jihadists, sectarian warriors, orthodox…
Former FM Kasuri joins Imran’s party
KASUR, Dec 20: Former foreign minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri and a number of other political figures announced their decision to…
Inquiry blames weather, pilot for Airblue crash
PESHAWAR, Dec 20: An inquiry report placed before the Peshawar High Court on Tuesday held inclement weather and pilot of…
‘I acted on Islamabad’s instructions’, says Haqqani
ISLAMABAD, Dec 20: The country’s former ambassador to Washington, Husain Haqqani, appeared before the Abbottabad inquiry commission on Tuesday and…
EC starts enforcing law against dual nationality
ISLAMABAD: In what may come as a nightmare for many, the Election Commission (EC) has started enforcing a law that…
Balochistan at point of no return, Mengal tells Nawaz
KARACHI: Veteran Baloch nationalist leader Sardar Ataullah Khan Mengal has accused what he described as the “Punjabi army” of committing…
State Bank annual report: Institutional weakness pointed
KARACHI: The State Bank has said institutional weakness at all tiers of the government — judiciary, civil services, law…
ISPR moves to dispel speculation about ‘deal’
ISLAMABAD, Dec 19: An unusual statement by the Inter Services Public Relations, about the telephonic conversation on Friday between the…
No rebuttal of charge leads to validation: CJ asks Gilani to clarify aides’ jibes
ISLAMABAD, Dec 19: The news is not good for those who think that the furore over the memo issue has…
Govt, opposition at one on democracy
ISLAMABAD: Despite some fireworks in the National Assembly and a standoff on the streets of Islamabad and nearby Rawalpindi over…
Influential figures likely to join PTI
ISLAMABAD: Imran Khan’s campaign will gather more steam when a group of about 30 politicians, including some sitting legislators and…
The president is back!
KARACHI: The mystery surrounding President Asif Ali Zardari’s departure earlier this month came to an end on Sunday when he…
Tehran reopens trade
QUETTA: Iran reopened the trade gate on the Taftan border on Sunday after a three-month closure.
“Iranian authorities have informed…
US troops quit Iraq 9 years after invasion
IRAQ-KUWAIT BORDER, Dec 18: The last US forces left Iraq and entered Kuwait on Sunday, nearly nine years after launching…
Gilani upbeat after talks with Kayani
ISLAMABAD: A confident-looking Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Saturday he was in total control of the situation arising…
SC takes up memo case tomorrow
ISLAMABAD: With just two days to go before the hearing of Nawaz Sharif’s petition over the memo scandal, a host…
