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PML-Q still in contact with PPP, PML-N: Shujaat

Tuesday, October 07, 2008 ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League (PML-Q) is still in contact with both the PPP and PML-N for a possible political alliance, PML-Q Chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain said on Monday. The statement comes...

President, PM condemn Bhakkar blast; compensation announced

Tuesday, October 07, 2008 ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday strongly condemned the suicide bomb blast at the residence of Member National Assembly Rasheed Akbar Khan...

Trees fast depleting in Rawalpindi

Green belts and trees are fast depleting in Rawalpindi, which once had a ‘green look’, though not like Islamabad, and it is solely happening due rapid urbanisation and haphazard development, thanks to its proximity with the...

Cloud-cuckoo-land vs the viable

Tuesday, October 07, 2008 Anjum Niaz The writer is a freelance journalist with over twenty years of experience in national and international reporting. When senior NWFP minister Bashir Bilor hastily announced that the moon had...

Why this blame game?

Tuesday, October 07, 2008 In her letter in your newspaper on Sept 25, Dr Fareeha Khanum writes: "it is time the Pakistani nation took a joint stand on the issue of terrorism". I would like to remind the writer that the nation...

Suicide bomber kills 12 in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Oct 6 - A suicide bomber killed at least 12 people and wounded a leading Pakistani opposition politician and member of the minority Shi’ite Muslim community on Monday, police said. The attack targeted the home of...

Blast hits politician's home.

Last Modified: 06 Oct 2008 Source: PA News A number of casualties are feared after a bomb exploded at the home of an opposition MP in eastern Pakistan. Police official Ahmad Kamal said the blast occurred in the Bhakkar area in...

Bomber targets Pakistan MP's home

At least 17 people have died in a suicide attack on the home of an MP in Pakistan's Punjab province, police say. Dozens were injured in the bombing, which took place at a reception hosted by MP Rasheed Akbar Noonani. He is a...

A manhunt or a vital war?

Monday, October 06, 2008 By Robert D Kaplan The rising violence in Afghanistan and fractious political situation in Pakistan have become leading issues in the American presidential campaign and the debates between the...

Cabinet expansion after joint session

Monday, October 06, 2008 President, PM discuss arrangements for in-camera briefing By Asim Yasin ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Sunday finalised a plan for the reshuffling...