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Free judiciary ensures economic security: Iftikhar

July 26, 2008
Free judiciary ensures economic security: Iftikhar

MULTAN - Deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Friday elaborated the relationship between independent judiciary and economic growth of any country, saying 'investment shies away from economies and countries that do not have an independent judiciary'. "What capital and investment, both ...

No Nawaz-Gilani meeting in London

No Nawaz-Gilani meeting in London

July 26, 2008

LONDON - There is no possibility of a meeting between Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and PML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif in London, ...

Electricity shortage soars to 7,075MW

Electricity shortage soars to 7,075MW

July 26, 2008

LAHORE - As the country is plunging deeper and deeper into the energy crisis, the electricity shortfall has hit the record level ...

32pc inflation breaks 30-year-old record

32pc inflation breaks 30-year-old record

July 26, 2008

ISLAMABAD - Higher energy and food prices have pushed inflation over 32 per cent, the highest in the last 30 years, as both the ...

International
US lawmaker welcomes release of Pakistani-American

US lawmaker welcomes release of Pakistani-American

July 26, 2008

WASHINGTON: - US Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, co-chair of the Congressional Pakistan Caucus, on Wednesday met with Dr. ...

Fresh clashes shake north Lebanon: Six killed: sporadic fire despite ceasefire

Fresh clashes shake north Lebanon: Six killed: sporadic fire despite ceasefire

July 26, 2008

TRIPOLI  - Six people, including a child, were killed in fierce sectarian clashes on Friday in Lebanon's northern port of ...

Sudan threatens to expel UN peacekeepers

Sudan threatens to expel UN peacekeepers

July 26, 2008

ADDIS ABABA  - Sudan threatened Friday to expel peacekeepers from Darfur if President Omar al-Bashir is indicted for war ...

Iran must resolve N-dispute before US vote: Obama

July 26, 2008

PARIS  - US White House hopeful Barack Obama said Friday that Iran should not wait for the new US president to be elected to ...

Ban Ki-moon urges Israel to freeze all settlement activity

July 26, 2008

UNITED NATIONS: - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday urged Israel to freeze all settlement activity in West Bank. In ...

CIA authorised to torture suspects

July 26, 2008

WASHINGTON - The US Justice Department has allowed the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to torture jailed terror suspects, ...

8 die in mosque collapse

July 26, 2008

BEIJING  - At least eight people were killed and three seriously injured after a mosque being built in northwest China ...

Taliban cannot be defeated militarily

July 26, 2008

KABUL  - Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents use a sophisticated media strategy to portray themselves as stronger than they are ...

Brown suffers fresh blow in by-election

July 26, 2008

LONDON  - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown suffered another serious blow to his leadership Friday after his governing ...

Australia to decide after ICC Task Force's report

July 26, 2008

MUMBAI - Cricket Australia (CA) will wait till the outcome of the ICC's Task Force team before deciding the composition of its ...

T20 Champions League put off

July 26, 2008

NEW DELHI (AFP) - Cricket's multi-million dollar Twenty20 Champions League has been postponed, an Indian official said on Friday, ...

China's athletes pledge 'glory' as biggest Olympic team unveiled

July 26, 2008

BEIJING (AFP) - Yao Ming and many of China's other top athletes pledged "glory to the motherland" on Friday as the ...

Khan predicts eight medals for British boxers

July 26, 2008

LONDON (AFP) - Amir Khan believes Britain's boxers can win eight medals at the Beijing Olympics. Britain will have eight ...

Business
Acquisition of MCB shares by Maybank: Balance of payments, reserves to rise $217m

Acquisition of MCB shares by Maybank: Balance of payments, reserves to rise $217m

July 26, 2008

KARACHI - The expected acquisition of MCB Bank's shares by Malayan Banking Berhad (Maybank) may add $217 million to the country's ...

Market fails to sustain bullish view

Market fails to sustain bullish view

July 26, 2008

LAHORE - Equity Market Opportunity Fund buying, new discovery of oil and gas in Sindh, acquiring of another five per cent of MCB ...

SPI for lowest income group goes further up

SPI for lowest income group goes further up

July 26, 2008

ISLAMABAD  - The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI), for the week ended on July 24, for the lowest income group up to Rs. ...

Government mulls 100pc increase in agri-support price

July 26, 2008

ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Food, Agriculture and Livestock (Minfal) Nazar Muhammad Gondal said Friday that due to ...

Oil drops to $124 in New York

July 26, 2008

LONDON  - Oil prices headed south again on Friday, cutting short a brief rally amid a drop in fuel demand across the United ...

MBA in Islamic Banking soon

July 26, 2008

KARACHI - Meezan Bank Limited (MBL) and Riphah International University (RIU) entered into a Memorandum of Understanding under ...

Pak-Iran trade rises to $125m in first quarter

July 26, 2008

KARACHI - Pakistan and Iran bilateral trade has increased to $ 125 million in the first three months of current fiscal year after ...

PSM production capacity needs to be raised to 1.3 MT

July 26, 2008

ISLAMABAD  - Mian Manzoor Wattoo, Advisor to Prime Minister said on Friday that production capacity of Pakistan Steel Mills ...

CSF issues annual progress report

July 26, 2008

ISLAMABAD  - The Competitiveness Support Fund (CSF) here on Friday published its annual progress report, highlighting its ...

Politics
Rice gives another 'do more' prodding

Rice gives another 'do more' prodding

July 26, 2008

PERTH  - The United States and Australia on Friday urged Pakistan to do more to control militant activity in its border ...

Bush hails Islamabad democratic strides

Bush hails Islamabad democratic strides

July 26, 2008

WASHINGTION - Renewing US support for freedom and liberty around the world, President George W Bush on Thursday acknowledged ...

President, PM for ISAF to be more effective

President, PM for ISAF to be more effective

July 26, 2008

ISLAMABAD - President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani have reiterated the government's firm resolve ...

Girls school blown up; cloth market torched

July 26, 2008

MINGORA - Unknown miscreants set a girls school on fire and blew up a private market with explosive material in two different ...

Indian allegation may harm ties: FM

July 26, 2008

LONDON - Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that despite harsh attitude on part of India, Pakistan is treating New ...

Suicide attacks dip by 80pc in NWFP: Malik

July 26, 2008

ISLAMABAD - Advisor to Prime Minister on Interior Rehman Malik has said that suicide attacks have come to zero level in Punjab ...

Militants free eight hostages

July 26, 2008

HANGU - In the wake of ceasefire between administration and alleged Taliban militants, the members of reconciliatory Jirga Friday ...

Eight Punjab judges willingv to come back

July 26, 2008

LAHORE - Attorney-General of Pakistan Malik Qayyum Friday called on Punjab Governor Salman Taseer and discussed with him the ...

Two killed as nine blasts jolt Bangalore

July 26, 2008

BANGALORE  - A string of nine synchronised bomb blasts on Friday shook India's high-technology capital Bangalore during the ...

Faraz's condition deteriorates

July 26, 2008

WASHINGTON: " Poet Ahmed Faraz's condition has deteriorated, with sources at a Chicago hospital saying that there was not much ...

Evening and fast-track courts being planned

July 26, 2008

ISLAMABAD  - Federal Minister for Law, Justice, Parliamentary Affairs and Human Rights Division Farooq H Naek has said that ...

Judges issue 'N' to await outcome of Zardari-Nawaz impending meeting

July 26, 2008

ISLAMABAD - Rejecting calls for flexibility, a high-level PML-N meeting Friday decided to leave contentious issue of ...

Pak UN envoy Munir Akram leaving post

July 26, 2008

UNITED NATIONS - Pakistan UN Ambassador Munir Akram, whom a former US top diplomat described as "smooth-as-silk", is leaving his ...

Operation against illegal sale of cellular SIMs from Aug 1

July 26, 2008

ISLAMABAD - Chairman Senate Standing Committee on Interior Senator Talha Mahmood has announced a countrywide crackdown against ...

Coalition airstrike perishes 40 Taliban

July 26, 2008

GHAZNI - Forty Taliban were killed in airstrike to take back a district of Afghanistan captured by the group while a British ...

Jirga fails to calm Tirah fighting

July 26, 2008

PESHAWAR - The reconciliatory jirga of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (Fazl) has so far failed to make any breakthrough in striking a peace ...

FC vehicle damaged in bomb attack

July 26, 2008

QUETTA - A vehicle of Frontier Corps (FC) was slightly damaged in remote bomb attack in Khuzdar on Friday. FC Commandant ...

Gilani off to US today

July 26, 2008

ISLAMABAD  - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani will embark on an all-important visit to the United States on Saturday ...

Entertainment
Ancient Aboriginal rock art at risk

Ancient Aboriginal rock art at risk

July 26, 2008

BURRUP PENINSULA (Australia)- Australia's greatest ancient Aboriginal rock art is at risk of being damaged or destroyed because ...

Why play a losing game?

Why play a losing game?

July 26, 2008

ALTHOUGH state lotteries, on average, return just 53 cents for every dollar spent on a ticket, people continue to pour money into ...

Brangelina twins are vitro fertilised

Brangelina twins are vitro fertilised

July 26, 2008

ANGELINA Jolie and Brad Pitt reportedly conceived their twins using in vitro fertilization. The couple - who welcomed Knox ...

Bregenz Festival excavates long-forgotten Krenek opera

July 26, 2008

BREGENZ, (Austria) - While the opening night of the annual Bregenz Festival on Wednesday was one for the masses with a visually ...

Life eerily imitates art in Karadzic manhunt

July 26, 2008

BELGRADE  - For novelist Mirjana Djurdjevic, revelations about the secret life adopted by Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive ...

What makes the Northern Lights dance?

July 26, 2008

WASHINGTON  - Explosions of magnetic energy between Earth and the moon are behind the sparkles and wavy glows of the ...

Islamabad
Private hospitals fleecing patients

Private hospitals fleecing patients

July 26, 2008

ISLAMABAD - Owing to lack of priorities towards health sector by the government, private hospitals are seeking unfair advantage ...

CNG buses may solve commuters fares problem

CNG buses may solve commuters fares problem

July 26, 2008

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Commuters in twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi have been facing myriad transport problems which spiralled ...

Khalid Manzoor Butt: An unsung artist

Khalid Manzoor Butt: An unsung artist

July 26, 2008

ISLAMABAD - Khalid Manzoor Butt could rightly be called an unsung artist, who has golden fingers in the art of painting but has ...

PML-Q convenes party's media conference on Aug 1

July 26, 2008

ISLAMABAD - Secretary General PML-Q Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed has convened a media conference of all PML provincial ...

ICT sets up atta sale points

July 26, 2008

ISLAMABAD - The Islamabad Capital Territory administration has further enhanced the vigilance on smooth and sufficient supply of ...

Pro-investor policies attractive for FDI: PM

July 26, 2008

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that Pakistan has great potential for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) ...

Karachi
Pull-out threat looms

Pull-out threat looms

July 26, 2008

KARACHI (AFP) - Holders Australia and other key nations could pull out of the Champions Trophy after the International Cricket ...

Relieved Pakistan vow safe Champions Trophy

Relieved Pakistan vow safe Champions Trophy

July 26, 2008

KARACHI (AFP) - Pakistan's relieved cricket authorities said Friday that they were more focused than ever on staging a safe ...

No-hopers Pakistan to make up for numbers

No-hopers Pakistan to make up for numbers

July 26, 2008

KARACHI (AFP) - For a nation obsessed with sports, Pakistan has very little to boast about when it comes to the Olympics and even ...

South Zone, Central Zone Blues to clash in final

July 26, 2008

KARACHI - South Zone scored easy seven-wicket win over Central Zone Greens to reach the final of the inaugural Women's National ...

Small traders observe shutterdown strike

July 26, 2008

KARACHI - Small traders in the city observed shutterdown strike on Friday against the government's recent move of raising the ...

Dengue claims another life in Karachi

July 26, 2008

KARACHI - Dengue fever has returned the metropolis and a young girl was confirmed dead due to this fatal disease at Abbasi ...

Girl killed during police encounter

July 26, 2008

KARACHI - A girl was killed in police encounter when five accused tried to escape from the premises of City Court. Police have ...

Work on Sports Complex to start soon

July 26, 2008

KARACHI - Provincial Sports Minister Dr Muhammad Ali Shah has said that Sindh government is going to start construction of ...

Kannup power supply finally restored

July 26, 2008

KARACHI - Power supply from the Karachi Nuclear Power Plant (Kannup) has finally been restored.     The plant, ...

Probe into misuse of funds ordered

July 26, 2008

KARACHI - Sindh Minister for Home and Forests, Dr. Zulfiqar Ali Mirza on Friday issued orders to conduct inquiry into the alleged ...

Lahore
Asif submits statement to fact-finding committee

Asif submits statement to fact-finding committee

July 26, 2008

LAHORE - Fast bowler Muhammad Asif submitted a written statement to the fact-finding committee of the Pakistan Cricket Board ...

Penpix of Olympics-bound Pakistan hockey team

Penpix of Olympics-bound Pakistan hockey team

July 26, 2008

LAHORE - The factfile of the Pakistan Olympic hockey team due to take part in 29th Olympic Games Hockey Tournament at Beijing, ...

488 prosecutors employed by ex-government fired

488 prosecutors employed by ex-government fired

July 26, 2008

LAHORE - The Punjab government on Friday has terminated the contractual appointments of 488 public prosecutors, while 394 ...

People lodge protest against LGH admin

July 26, 2008

LAHORE - Scores of people Friday launched strong protest against the Lahore General Hospital management for not providing ...

No detention on mere agencies' report: LHC

July 26, 2008

LAHORE-The Lahore High Court (LHC) Friday ruled that no one could be detained on agencies' report without having incriminating ...

Wall built by Cantt Board sparks controversy

July 26, 2008

LAHORE - A wall erected behind one side of commercial plazas in Cavalry Ground has become controversial among the residents, ...

Constitutional package and government's designs

July 26, 2008

LAHORE - Constitutional package means PPP is least interested in restoration of the deposed judges and the gimmick is only to buy ...

JAP to challenge IHC decision on AQ case

July 26, 2008

LAHORE - Judicial Activism Panel (JAP) has announced to challenge the decision of Islamabad High Court on nuclear scientist Dr ...

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