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The All Parties Hurriyet Conference (APHC) has strongly condemned the hanging of Muhammad Afzal Guru and described the incident as an attack on the collective conscience of the Kashmiris. The APHC in a statement issued in Srinagar urged the people of Kashmir to observe four-day mourning and demand for shifting the dead body of […]
Afzal Guru, a Kashmiri Muslim, convicted for his alleged role in the attack on the Indian Parliament in December 2001, was executed at Delhi’s Tihar Jail early Saturday morning, Indian media reported. Press Trust of India said that Guru, who was widely believed to be innocent, was hanged at 8 a.m., was later buried […]
Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani has told a parliamentary committee that about 3000 people have been killed in the U.S. drone attacks after the operation was started in 2004. He told the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee in Islamabad that 80 percent of those killed in drone strikes were armed militants “We cannot bear the […]
The Election Commission of Pakistan Friday rejected a proposal by the government to lift ban on recruitment ahead of the parliamentary elections, the Commission said. The Law Minister had written to the Chief Election Commissioner for lifting ban on fresh jobs as the ban is affecting performance of the several government departments. The […]
A total of 10 high profile along with 14 auxiliary defence production companies of Pakistan will participate in the largest defence exhibition for MENA region “IDEX” this year, Pakistani Ambassador to UAE, Mr. Jamil Ahmad Khan said in Abu Dhabi said on Friday. While briefing the media on Pakistan’s participation in the exhibition, Ambassador […]
The UN body monitoring the rights of children says attacks by U.S. military forces in Afghanistan have reportedly killed hundreds of children over the last four years. The report says the figures of Children casualties in the last four years are doubled than before. It says the casualties are due notably to reported lack […]
Routine life was disrupted in the commercial center of Karachi on Friday on a strike call by religious parties against the recent target killing of Islamic scholars by terrorists. The strike was called by the Ahl-i-Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) and was supported by Jamiat ulema-e-Islam, Jamaat-e-Islami and several other groups. Traders had also joined […]
Leader of Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N), Nawaz Sharif, on Thursday asked the government to start talks with the Taliban days after the militants offered dialogue to end the years of bloodshed in the country. Taliban this week said they are ready for talks if the security forces gave guarantee of three senior political and […]
Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan, Mr. Justice (R) Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim, on Thursday rejected calls from some parties for the dissolution of the Commission and termed their allegations as unfortunate. “Some political parties have recently expressed reservations against the Members and CEC of the ECP and demanded its dissolution. This criticism is most unfortunate […]
Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf Thursday made it clear that there is no room for any delay of the parliamentary elections, the comment will frustrate handful of elements, who are bent upon derailing the democratic process. The government will complete five-year term in mid-March and some ministers have indicated polls could be held in […]
Tahir-ul-Qadri, chief of Pakistan Awami Tehrik, who led a Long March on Islamabad last month, to press for electoral reforms, has now moved the Supreme Court, seeking reconstitution of the Election Commission of Pakistan. Qadri’s latest move is also seen with suspicion as parliamentary elections are just few months away and major parties say […]
Kainat Riaz, who was injured in the Taliban attack on Malala Yousafzai in Swat, says that she now leads a restricted life as she cannot go to school and visit close relatives without police guards. “I used to go freely to meet my grandmother and to learn Quran in madrassa after school time but […]
