‘Concrete proof of Indian role in Waziristan found’
* Kaira says Islamabad to discuss matter with New Delhi
* Large quantity of Indian arms, literature recovered from Sherwangi
By Irfan Ghauri
ISLAMABAD: The government has found concrete evidence of New Delhi’s involvement in the militancy in South Waziristan and has decided... 
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UN pulls out foreign staff from FATA, NWFP
ISLAMABAD: The United Nations on Monday announced immediate withdrawal of its staff from the NWFP and FATA due to the deteriorating security situation there. The measure was taken after UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon assessed the security situation in the northwestern region at ‘Phase-IV’. “The decision...
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7 Taliban killed in Bajaur
KHAR: Seven Taliban were killed in clashes with security personnel and airstrikes in Bajaur on Monday. The air and ground assault focused on Ovishah, Seolai, Kharkay and Badalai areas in Mamoond tehsil, destroying four terrorist hideouts. Security forces also clashed with the Taliban in Mulla Said and...
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CEC restores membership of 10 MPs
ISLAMABAD: Chief Election Commissioner Justice (r) Hamid Ali Mirza on Monday restored the membership of three members of National Assembly and seven members of the Punjab and Balochistan assemblies after they submitted details of their assets. The memberships of these parliamentarians had been suspended...
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Kayani raises ISAF border posts issue with McChrystal
* Two officials discuss law and order situation in Afghanistan and Waziristan operation
* UK’s Chief of General Staff also meets COAS
Staff Report
RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Kayani on Monday took up the vacation of border posts by International Security...
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PM assures increased funds for FATA uplift
ISLAMABAD: The government accords high priority to the development of FATA and will ensure increased funds to provide better health and education facilities there, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said on Monday. Talking to a delegation of parliamentarians from FATA, led by Munir Khan Orakzai, who...
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Senate body seeks report on Blackwater
* Interior Ministry officials say 284 ‘special Americans’ residing in 414 houses in Islamabad
By Tahir Niaz
ISLAMABAD: The Senate’s Standing Committee on Interior on Monday sought a report from the Interior Ministry on the activities of private US security firm Blackwater in Pakistan.
Senator...
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NWFP sacks AAG over sugar crisis
By Akhtar Amin
PESHAWAR: The NWFP government on Monday terminated the services of the province’s Additional Advocate General Ikramullah Khan.
The NWFP chief minister sacked Khan, replacing him with Naveed Akhtar.
Khan told reporters he represented the NWFP in the Supreme...
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Pakistan wants non-tariff barriers lifted for D-8 trade
* Qureshi invites entrepreneurs from D-8 countries to benefit from ‘liberal investment regime’
KUALA LUMPUR: Foreign Minister (FM) Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Monday proposed the removal of all non-tariff barriers to stimulate economic recovery in D-8 members countries.
According to...
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‘FATA parliamentarians will oppose NRO’
LAHORE: Lawmakers from FATA have decided to oppose the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) in parliament, a private TV channel quoted Munir Orakzai, leader of parliamentarians from the Tribal Area, as saying on Monday. Talking to the channel, he said such bills were capable of derailing the democratic...
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No decision on NRO yet: Zahid Khan
PESHAWAR: The Awami National Party has not yet decided whether to support the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) or oppose it, party spokesman Senator Zahid Khan said on Monday. “We have made no decisions as yet. We are considering every aspect of the ordinance and will make a decision later,”...
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Nation should be told names of NRO beneficiaries: Nawaz
* PML-N chief says NRO will stigmatise democratic system
* Won’t support any undemocratic move to topple govt
By Irfan Bukhari
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) will vote against the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) in parliament if presented, PML-N chief...
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‘N’ ready to block ‘black law’: Shahbaz
LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is ready to fight and block the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) at every front, including parliament, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Monday. Shahbaz said irreparable damage would be done to democracy and supremacy of law and justice...
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NRO prompts war of words at PA session
LAHORE: Lawmakers from the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q), its breakaway faction and the PML-Nawaz (PML-N) shouted slogans against the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) during the Punjab Assembly session on Monday, which resulted in a clash between the ‘anti-NRO group’ and the Pakistan People’s...
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Shahbaz proposes PPP expulsion from Punjab govt
* CM asks party leaders to decide how and when PPP should be asked to leave coalition govt
By Irfan Bukhari
ISLAMABAD: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Monday suggested that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) should seriously consider ousting the Pakistan People’s Party...
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Democratic system under threat: Ejaz
LAHORE: The democratic system is facing serious threats, as the government is being run ineffectively, former federal minister Ejazul Haq said on Monday. Speaking in a programme on Business Plus, Haq said the system could be in jeopardy if the government ignored the supremacy of parliament. He said...
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‘NRO a financial terrorism’
* Shujaat says party will oppose NRO
* Musharraf’s stubbornness, not PML-Q’s role, resulted in NRO’s promulgation
By Irfan Bukhari
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) on Monday called the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) “financial terrorism”.
After...
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‘N’ MPs ask party to table resolution against NRO
Staff Report
LAHORE: Several provincial parliamentarians of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Monday asked the party leadership to table a resolution against the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) in the ongoing session of the Punjab Assembly.
Talking to reporters...
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Country can’t afford political instability: Taseer
LAHORE: The country can no longer afford political instability, Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer said on Monday. He said both Houses of parliament, including the provincial assemblies, had elected President Asif Ali Zardari with a two-thirds majority. Taseer said the president represented the federation,...
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NRO drafted to restore democracy
ISLAMABAD: The much-debated NRO was drafted to rescue democracy at a crucial juncture when major party leaders were out of the country and the nation was facing a miserable situation, PPP Information Secretary Fauzia Wahab said on Monday. She said the NRO was an agreement through which Benazir Bhutto...
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PML-F to vote against NRO
KARACHI: The PML-F will vote against the NRO in parliament, party chief Pir Pagara said on Monday while talking to a private TV channel. He said he had opposed the ordinance when it was promulgated by former president Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf and would continue to do so. To a question, Pagara, also...
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No place for NRO in constitution
LAHORE: There is no room for laws such as the NRO in the constitution of Pakistan, a private TV channel quoted PML-N leader Javed Hashmi as saying on Monday. Talking to reporters, Hashmi said the government wanted to absolve itself of charges of corruption by getting the ordinance passed by parliament....
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MQM to vote against NRO
ISLAMABAD: The MQM will vote against the NRO in parliament and a formal announcement will be made in the party’s coordination committee meeting, party leader Haider Abbas Rizvi said on Monday. Talking to reporters outside Parliament House, Rizvi said the MQM had never benefited from the NRO, adding...
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Altaf’s suggestion a blow to PPP
ISLAMABAD: New political developments in the country are the beginning of the end of President Asif Ali Zardari’s rule, PML-Q Senator Tariq Azeem said on Monday. He said the MQM asking President Zardari to resign could be a significant development. “In the current political scenario, it is a blow to...
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Altaf Hussain’s demand shameful
ISLAMABAD: The MQM’s suggestion to President Asif Ali Zardari for resignation to pull the country out of the prevailing political crisis is shameful, ANP Senator Haji Adeel said on Monday, calling the MQM “a blackmailer party”. Talking to Daily Times, the ANP leader said, “It (MQM) wants to blackmail...
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Zardari should complete term
ISLAMABAD: The MQM is playing in the hands of people with vested interests, JUI-F Senator Haji Ghulam Ali said on Monday, after the MQM demanded resignation from President Asif Ali Zardari. Ali said the president should be allowed to complete his term so that his “real face” is revealed to the people....
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‘N’ to form govt if NRO bid fails
ISLAMABAD: The PML-N will not waste any chance of forming government in the Centre in case the present government fails to get the NRO passed from the House, PML-N leader Khawaja Asif said on Monday. Talking to a private TV channel, he said, "If the government fails to get the NRO passed, its majority...
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Rs 420m offered for 19 TTP leaders
PESHAWAR: The government on Monday announced a reward of Rs 420 million in total for information leading to the apprehension of 19 key leaders of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The top three TTP leaders, Hakeemullah Mehsud, Qari Hussain and Waliur Rehman, carry the highest reward of Rs 50 million...
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Police saved Lahore from big disaster: IG
LAHORE: Police officials have saved Lahore from a major disaster by bravely resisting the terrorists at the motorway Babu Sabu checkpost, Punjab Police Inspector General (IG) Tariq Saleem Dogar said on Monday. During a visit to the Mayo Hospital, where those injured in the attack were being treated,...
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Islamabad now resembles besieged city
* Violence in Capital claim 300 lives so far
* Schools remain close after attack on university, principals trying to ensure students’ safety
ISLAMABAD: An onslaught of militant violence has transformed Islamabad from a sleepy oasis to something of a city under siege, with its tree-lined...
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150 suspects held in Lahore
LAHORE: City Police have arrested more than 150 suspects from different areas after a suicide attack on a police picket at the Babu Sabu Interchage on Monday. Arrests were mostly made by the Iqbal Town Division Police. Iqbal Town Division Superintendent Ali Nasir Rizvi said most of the arrested men...
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SC accepts unconditional apologies of 16 more PCO judges
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Monday accepted unconditional apologies of sixteen more judges who had validated November 3, 2007 emergency rule and took oath under the Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO). A five-member bench, consisting of Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday, Justice Nasirul Mulk,...
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Legal fraternity to observe black day today
LAHORE/PESHAWAR/ KARACHI: The legal fraternity will observe ‘black day’ today (Tuesday) to commemorate the day superior courts judges were sacked in 2007 through the imposition of emergency and promulgation of the Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO) by then president Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf.
The...
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PPP MPA expelled from NA’s visitors’ gallery
Staff Report
ISLAMABAD: The sergeants at arms at the National Assembly expelled a Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) female lawmaker from the visitors’ gallery on Monday.
Nargis Faiz Malik, who is a member of the Punjab Assembly, had allegedly taunted the opposition members in the National...
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Non-transparency at PSM caused losses: Senate body
Staff Report
ISLAMABAD: A sub-committee of the Senate Standing Committee on Industries and Production on Monday observed that financial matters, procurement and marketing processes in the Pakistan Steel Mills were not conducted transparently, resulting in losses of billions of rupees for...
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‘New population policy to be announced in 2010’
* Health secretary tells NA homeopathic medicines need regulating
* Country lacks appropriate checks on use of dangerous ingredients in alternative medicines
By Irfan Bukhari
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Population Welfare, Firdous Ashiq Awan on Monday informed the National...
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World powers greet Karzai on re-election
* US president calls for a ‘new chapter’ of better governance
KABUL: The United States and UN chief Ban Ki-moon led world powers in congratulating Hamid Karzai on Monday, after the Afghan president was re-elected following the cancellation of a run-off.
The war-stricken country’s...
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Srinagar starts safaris as violence ebbs
* Safaris part of push by IHK government to revive tourism
SRINAGAR: Tourists are now going bear-spotting on wildlife safaris in a scenic wilderness where Kashmiris and Indian troops used to exchange deadly gunfire.
The start of safaris in Dachigam National Park follows a considerable...
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Pakistan’s stance on Kashmir unchanged: Gilani
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Monday Pakistan’s principled stance on the Kashmir problem remained unchanged and the government would continue extending political, moral and diplomatic support to the people of Kashmir. He was talking to AJK President Raja Zulqarnian Khan and PM...
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US envoy, Taseer discuss utilisation of KL aid
Staff Report
LAHORE: Former US assistant secretary of state for South Asia and supervisor of the Kerry-Lugar legislation Robin Raphel called on Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer at the Governor’s House on Monday. The governor’s wife Aamna Taseer was also present.
The officials discussed...
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Saifullah admits PML-Q failed to deliver consistent energy policy
* Says Kalabagh Dam was subjected to political controversy
* Accuses government of not taking power issue seriously
Staff Report
ISLAMABAD: Senator Salim Saifullah on Monday acknowledged the previous government’s failure for implementing a sustainable and consistent energy...
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Seven MPAs barred from PA proceedings
By Hussain Kashif
LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly Secretariat prevented seven parliamentarians from entering the assembly building on Monday, as they were suspended for not providing details of their assets to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).
Six of the seven suspended members...
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Court acquits woman accused of 2003 attack on Musharraf
By Aamir Yasin
RAWALPINDI: The Anti-Terrorism Court No-1 (ATC-1) on Monday acquitted a woman allegedly involved in the 2003 twin suicide attacks on the convoy of former military ruler Pervez Musharraf as she had already been tried by a field general court marshal (FGCM).
ATC-1...
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NRO controversy is over, for the time being
By Rana Qaisar
ISLAMABAD: The National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) was missing on the ‘order of the day’ for the National Assembly which went into (17th) session on Monday afternoon, a few hours after a “breaking news” flashed on a private TV channel that MQM Quaid Altaf Hussain had...
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