June 22, 2011


NA approves federal budget for 2011-12
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Wednesday passed Finance Bill 2011 giving legal effect to the budgetary proposals for the next financial year and with this, the new budget ...Full Story

OBL exit brings no change in Pakistanis opinion: Poll
WASHINGTON: Pakistanis opinion about U.S. before and after Osama bin Laden has remained unchanged, according to the...Full Story

Zardari defending secular forces: Rana
LAHORE: President Zardari's address was more of a corrupt jiala rather than of a president, Punjab Law Minister Rana...Full Story

Political speech of Zardari won’t affect masses: Ahsan Iqbal
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-N secretary information Ahsan Iqbal, while reacting on President Asif Ali Zardari’s remarks about Nawaz Sharif, stated that it seems the soul ...Full Story

Zardari following policy of destruction: Nawaz
BAGH: Expressing concerns over the deteriorating law and order situation in the country, PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif said on Tuesday that the country’s rulers and foreign agencies...Full Story

Ready to disclose BB’s assassins: Malik
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rehman Malik, on Tuesday, said that Benazir Bhutto’s assassins had been identified. “The assassins and perpetrators of Benazir Bhutto’s..Full Story

Sikh yatrees arrive to attend Ranjit Singh’s death anniversary
LAHORE: To attend the death anniversary of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, 280 Indian Sikh yatrees reached Wahga Railway Station, Lahore by a special train on...Full Story


Brig Ali case: army interrogating 4 Majors
RAWALPINDI: DG ISPR Major General Athar Abbas has said that four Majors were being investigated along with Brigadier Ali Khan for their alleged links with a banned....Full Story

Marvi Memon resigns from NA
ISLAMABAD: PML-Q MNA Marvi Memon resigned from the National Assembly, Geo News reported....Full Story

Water disputes may derail Pak-India peace process: Wikileaks
KARACHI: Lingering water disputes between the two South Asian neighbours may derail the ongoing peace process or even to lead to war, Wikileaks cables revealed....Full Story

Zardari hits back at Nawaz with scathing criticism
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari, on Tuesday, asked the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz chief Nawaz Sharif to wait patiently for the next general elections and refrain from..Full Story

Malik calls for special NA session on terrorism
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rahman Malik, on Tuesday, called for a special session of parliament to expose the real hands behind the terror activities in country following the....Full Story

Benazir Bhutto’s 58th birth anniversary observed
ISLAMABAD: The 58th birth anniversary of Benazir Bhutto was observed on Tuesday across the country with a pledge to continue her mission...Full Story

Youth urges devolution of powers to provinces
LAHORE: The youth of all the provinces of Pakistan have been concerned about the dire consequences, in case the devolution of the powers to the provinces is not implemented...Full Story

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Murder of Shahzad ‘assassination of journalism': Nawaz
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-N Chief Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif Wednesday termed the murder of Salim Shahzad as assassination of journalism and of Pakistan...Full Story

Pakistan denies arresting informants
RAWALPINDI: The Pakistan Army has rejected claims in the US media that the country's top intelligence agency ISI arrested...Full Story

Double trouble worsens life across country
KARACHI: Many cities of Pakistan are under the grip of a severe heat wave and temperatures rose beyond 40 °Celsius...Full Story

Police torture Quetta doctors, strike continues
QUETTA: The young doctors’ strike all across the province of Balochistan including this capital city continues, while the situation has further worsened by the police..Full Story

Indian foreign secretary due in Pakistan to discuss Kashmir
ISLAMABAD: India’s foreign secretary is due to visit Pakistan this month to discuss Kashmir, a Pakistani official said on Tuesday, the first formal talks between the two rivals...Full Story

US influence can put $11.3bn IMF loan programme back on trackISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s economic managers strongly feel that the influence of the US will be decisive in putting the suspended $11.3 billion IMF Stand-By-Arrangement (SBA) loan..Full Story

No political solution in Afghanistan without Pakistan: Ackermann
BERLIN: Political solution is of paramount importance for Afghanistan and this political solution cannot be achieved without the support of Pakistan....Full Story


BHC seeks probe report on police surgeon manhandling
QUETTA: The Chief Justice of Balochistan High Court Qazi Faez Issa has ordered to submit the departmental inquiry report on next hearing against the two police officials ...Full Story

We are safe now, says Captain Wasi
KARACHI: Pakistani captain of the ship, freed from Somali pirates said they were attacked again today but are safe now...Full Story

Extravagant amount was spent on BB’s welcome: WikiLeaks
KARACHI: A secret cable of 2007 has revealed that then Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) chairperson Benazir Bhutto (BB)....Full Story

MQM walks out of NA over Karachi killings
ISLAMABAD: The government, on Tuesday, faced embarrassment in the National Assembly when one of its coalition partner, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), walked..Full Story

Gates urges patience with Pakistan after tip-off suspicions
WASHINGTON: The US is disappointed and suspicious that terrorists in Pakistan apparently were tipped off that American intelligence officials had discovered two of their....Full Story

KESC demands govt enforce law for saving assets
KARACHI: The Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) has demanded the government to enforce law and exercise its authority to get the utility’s offices and installations..Full Story

PM announces ‘revolving fund’ to deal with terror damage
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, on Tuesday, announced to set up a revolving fund for rehabilitation of infrastructure damaged by terrorist attacks as well as...Full Story

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