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Thursday, March 29, 2012

RAWALPINDI - In a vital step towards Nato supplies resumption, two top allied commanders held a crucial meeting with Pakistan Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani in the first formal Pak-US military contact at the top level after last year’s Salala incident.General Kayani’s joint ...

 

KARACHI - Police used water cannons and truncheons to break up an anti-government ...

RAWALPINDI – On the call of Mutahida Mahaz-e-Usatiza, hundreds of teachers of ...

LAHORE – The City, again on Wednesday, led the power protests being held in various ...

SEOUL – Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani Wednesday said Pakistan’s ...

RAWALPINDI - In a vital step towards Nato supplies resumption, two top allied commanders held a crucial meeting with Pakistan Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani in the first formal Pak-US ...

ISLAMABAD - A formal debate on recommendations of a parliamentary committee on reviewing terms of engagement with the US was initiated on Wednesday, but it was once again abruptly hijacked by ...

This week I’m in Burma, where Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is running for a seat in parliament. This is the first time she’s been allowed to participate in an election in 22 years. The last one, in 1990, brought a landslide victory to her National League for Democracy ...

MOSCOW - A Russian prisoner who last week fled his penal colony in a helicopter had freely arranged his jail break over the Internet and using mobile phones, investigators said Wednesday. Alexei Shestakov had been in prison in the northern Vologda region for murder when he was lifted from the ...

WASHINGTON  - The US Supreme Court opened a third and final day of hearings into President Barack Obama’s landmark health care law Wednesday, examining what happens to the legislation as a whole if they declare unconstitutional a requirement that all Americans buy insurance. The top ...

OPINIONS

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Editorials

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When I first came to work in Pakistan over 10 years ago, the NGO and UN crowd, together with the modern English speaking Pakistanis, had already ...

The other day I happened to meet a gentleman holding a responsible portfolio in the Islamabad Electric Supply Company (IESCO). I was pleasantly ...

“Don’t throw a monkey-wrench into the machinery.”– Philander Chase JohnsonPresident Asif Zardari recently said: “The ...

The overreaction to the Balochistan hearings on Capitol Hill exemplifies the drought of wisdom and valour amongst sectors of Pakistani media, ...

According to a report from Seoul, President Barack Obama, in a meeting with Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani held on the sidelines of the Second ...

On two successive days, because of two unrelated incidents, the provincial metropolis of Karachi, which is also the country’s largest city and ...

While the Balochistan government expressing its determination to curb lawlessness affords some reason for optimism, Home Minister Mir Zafrullah ...

A poll conducted jointly by The New York Times and CBS News shows that the number of Americans who want the war in Afghanistan to end has spiked from ...

The fuel adjustment charges periodically added in the electricity bills is a curse which the common man bears for no ...

In view of the fact that a vast majority of engineers and water experts of the country including the Pakistan ...

Supreme Court does not seem to be too happy with the performance of police in last few years. On Tuesday, the ...

This is with reference to the sad incident of kidnapping of two girls from Iqbal Town, Lahore on gunpoint by two ...

Listening to the comments of Barristar Aitzaz Ahsan in the Prime Minister Contempt case, one feels sorry for the ...

Details have come out about India’s national river linking project. Around 30 river link canals are to be dug up ...

During another Senate Armed Services Committee briefing, there was a wide agreement among the US Senators, John McCain, ...

Majority of people in Balochistan are peace loving and want development and prosperity in the area. This can only ...

I am a resident of Clifton block 8, Khayaban-e-Jami road. I would like to draw the attention of the authorities ...

REGIONAL

Lahore

Karachi

Islamabad

LAHORE – The City, again on Wednesday, led the power protests being held in various towns ...

LAHORE – PML(N) President Nawaz Sharif has said that the people should hold former dictator ...

Against the worst loadshedding in Punjab, PML(N) will hold a protest rally from Muslim Masjid in ...

LAHORE – Asif Ali Zardari has called a meeting of the party’s Central Executive ...

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