ISLAMABAD – Aggrieved families of missing persons on Wednesday launched a long march from Faisalabad Bar Association for the safe recovery of their dear ones with solemn pledge to enter Islamabad with five million registered followers for staging a sit-in.
A signatory campaign along with the long march was also…
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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Afghanistan early Monday as coalition forces continued to restore order in the town of Marjah, the first major test of the U.S. and NATO counterinsurgency strategy since President Obama ordered 30,000 new American troops to blunt the Taliban’s momentum.
Gates said the…
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ISLAMABAD – Constitutional Reforms Committee of the Parliament (CRCP) on Friday sought the comments and views of the Federation of Pakistan on some crucial and technical points pertaining to provincial autonomy.
Meanwhile the Committee continued its clause-wise review of the Constitution under the head of its Chairman Senator Mian Raza…
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NATO announced the deaths of three soldiers fighting Taliban militants in Afghanistan’s volatile south, bringing the number of foreign troops to die in the war so far this year to 112. NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said one soldier died in a bomb strike on Friday. On Thursday, another…
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US Coordinator for Economic and Development Assistance Robin Raffell has said US has no doubt on transparency of Benazir Income Support Food Program.
Robin Raffell said this during signing ceremony of 7.23 billion Rupees budget support agreement here Thursday. Chairperson Benazir Income Support Food Program Farzana Raja signed the accord…
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PESHAWAR (AFP) – Taliban militants blew up a boys’ school in Khyber, officials said Wednesday.
The boys’ school attack took place overnight in the Spin Qabar area of Khyber, a lawless district that straddles the main supply line for NATO troops fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan. “All four rooms of…
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Six NATO soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan in one of their deadliest days this year as the US commander led calls for swift governance following a major offensive against the Taliban. The military deaths bring to 107 the number of foreign soldiers who have died in Afghanistan so far…
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Six NATO soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan in one of their deadliest days this year as the US commander led calls for swift governance following a major offensive against the Taliban. The military deaths bring to 107 the number of foreign soldiers who have died in Afghanistan so far…
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The Constitutional Reforms Committee (CRC) of the Parliament has agreed upon formation of the Pakistan Judicial Commission regarding appointment of judges in superior courts, chairman of the CRC Senator Raza Rabbani said. Briefing the newsmen here Tuesday about decisions made the body, Rabbani said the parliamentary body has developed consensus…
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The Constitutional Reforms Committee (CRC) of the Parliament has agreed upon formation of the Pakistan Judicial Commission regarding appointment of judges in superior courts, chairman of the CRC Senator Raza Rabbani said. Briefing the newsmen here Tuesday about decisions made the body, Rabbani said the parliamentary body has developed consensus…
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ISLAMABAD – A severe constitutional hiccup emerged in the Upper House of the Parliament on Monday when Minister of State for Finance, Hina Rabbani Khar placed a copy of the Federal Value Added Tax Bill in the House just 15 minutes before its prorogation.
None else but Senator Raza Rabbani…
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ISLAMABAD – Calling for a comprehensive national water policy, senior PPP leader Senator Mian Raza Rabbani stressed for resolving the issues relating to water through the Council of Common Interests (CCI).
Taking part in a debate over a motion moved by Senator Muhammad Ali Durrani in the Upper House, Mian…
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A suicide car bomber targeted NATO forces on Monday outside the major southern Afghan city of Kandahar, killing four civilians, the Interior Ministry said. It was not immediately known if there were any NATO casualties.
The attacker waited in a station-wagon taxi near a bridge between the airport and city…
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Suspected militants armed with guns and rockets on Monday blew up a tanker carrying fuel through Pakistan for Nato troops based in neighbouring Afghanistan, police said.
Several armed men lobbed a rocket and then opened fire on the supply convoy on the outskirts of Peshawar, senior police officer Imtiaz Ahmed…
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LONDON – The recent changes introduced to the immigration laws by the British government are discriminatory and unjust for Pakistani students.
This was the outcome of a seminar ‘New British immigration laws and their effects on Pakistani students’, held at Oxford University under the aegis of Nawa-i-Waqt Group of…
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ISLAMABAD – Although intensified and off-the-curtain deliberations for reconciliation between US and Taliban have been continuing for the last couple of months in Afghanistan, yet the United Nations holds certain disagreements with NATO command over its ‘overstepping’ on some fronts.
United Nations Assistance Missions in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has been instrumental,…
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ISLAMABAD – The Upper House of the Parliament on Thursday passed with majority the National Command Authority Bill 2010 and the Protection Against Harassment of Women at the Workplace Bill 2010.
Jamaat-e-Islami Senators Prof Ibrahim and Prof Khurshid moved amendments in the National Command Authority Bill 2010, which were subsequently…
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