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Shujaat ready to restore Sumaira as Leghari fumes

Friday, November 28, 2008 By Rauf Klasra ISLAMABAD: PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain is prepared to reverse his decision of sacking Sumaira Malik, the outspoken niece of former president Farooq Leghari, from the party’s...

PM forms National Commission for Minorities

Friday, November 28, 2008 By our correspondent ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday gave approval to the new National Commission for Minorities (NCM). The Prime Minister said the government would...

National Youth Summit to start from tomorrow

Friday, November 28, 2008 ISLAMABAD: World Population Foundation (WPF) would organize three days `National Youth Summit’ (NYS-08) to develop national platform for advocating youth participation in policy making process. The...

Red-faced OGDC cancels project but attacks media

Friday, November 28, 2008 By Rauf Klasra ISLAMABAD: An embarrassed OGDC on Thursday decided to scrap the controversial proposal to outsource its three gas fields to SSGC, after it was duly exposed by The News, but OGDC attacked...

Govt to ensure gender equality in all walks of life: Tareen

Govt to ensure gender equality in all walks of life: Tareen Friday, November 28, 2008 ISLAMABAD: The government has ensured gender equality in all walks of life to allow women to play their role in socio-economic development of...

Iron fence to be erected around parliament

Friday, November 28, 2008 By our correspondent ISLAMABAD: The parliament building will soon give a look of a house under siege as the PPP government has come up with a new idea to erect a nine feet high iron fence around the...

FIA probing KKI’s one-year transactions

Friday, November 28, 2008 By Tariq Butt ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) is probing the last one-year transactions of the Khanani and Kalia International (KKI). “We will go to the previous years’ dealings by...

Gilani pledges better education facilities in Balochistan

Friday, November 28, 2008 ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani on Thursday said the government would not cut the funds for the health and education sectors despite the financial constraints. Addressing a delegation...

Kalia’s worried clients running from pillar to post

Friday, November 28, 2008 By Mazhar Tufail ISLAMABAD: Relatives of people who legally remitted small amounts through the Khanani & Kalia but saw them stalled because of the crackdown on the company, are running from pillar to...

If this is our 9/11, let’s fight it like US

The unprecedented terrorist assault on Mumbai which began late Wednesday and was still continuing 24 hours later is easily the deadliest such attack on this nation: no earlier incident quite equals this in savagery, intensity...

               

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