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In what appeared to be a courageous move, National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman Admiral (Retd) Fasih Bukhari spoke about President Asif Ali Zardari’s immunity in and outside the country. While speaking to the media, Fashih Bukhari said the courts were taking up major cases that would impact commercial and political state of affairs in the […]
Showing little flexibility and withdrawing from his earlier position, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) Chief, Maulana Fazlur Rehman conditionally agreed to end his boycott to attend the proceedings of Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS). He made the announcement following a series of meetings with President Asif Ali Zardari, PCNS Chairperson Senator Raza Rabbani and Pakistan’s Ambassador […]
Terming media hype as a malicious campaign against his son Ali Musa Gilani over his alleged involvement in a chemical quota case, Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani took his cabinet into confidence. The cabinet expressed solidarity with the premier over the matter. Addressing to his colleagues, Gilani said that probes conducted by various departments […]
Pakistani jailed in the US for charges of human smuggling A Pakistani national was sentenced on Tuesday in Columbia to 31 months in prison on a human smuggling charge. Muhammad Abid Hussain, 27, was sentenced by US District Judge John D Bates. On January 31, 2012, a federal jury in Washington, DC found Hussain guilty […]
Tsunami watch lifted from Indian Ocean A tsunami watch has been lifted for most of the Indian Ocean after two powerful earthquakes hit off Indonesia’s coast. The centre of the 8.6- and 8.2-magnitude quakes took place about 500km off Banda Aceh, the capital of Indonesia’s Aceh province—the same area devastated by a 2004 tsunami and earthquake […]
A massive earthquake off Indonesia’s western coast triggered a tsunami watch for countries across the Indian Ocean on Wednesday, clogging streets with traffic as residents fled to high ground in cars and on the backs of motorcycles. Two hours after the quake hit, however, there was no sign of the feared wave. Damage also appeared […]
Tsunami warning has been issued to 28 countries after an earthquake with preliminary magnitude of 8.6 has hit off Aceh, triggering widespread panic as residents along coastlines fled to high ground. The US Geological Survey said the 8.6 magnitude termer was centered 20 miles beneath the ocean floor around 269 miles from Aceh’s provincial metropolis. […]
Reiterating his demands for early election, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz chief Nawaz Sharif said as long as the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) rules, problems would not be solved in the country. While speaking to media on the occasion of PPP senator Anwar Baig’s inclusion in the PML-N, Nawaz Sharif said that the nation was not ready to […]
Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani’s son has left Pakistan before his name could be placed on the Exit Control List (ECL) for his alleged involvement in a chemical allotment case worth of Rs7 billion. Ali Musa Gilani, who was recently elected to the National Assembly, has departed for South Africa and is expected to […]
Linking the resumption of NATO supply line with a halt in drone strikes, the Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS) finalized its recommendations for new terms of engagement with the United States. Sources said parties from across the political ambit are close to converging on re-engagement with the US and allied countries. Lawmakers are ready […]
Oslo shooter Anders Behring Breivik deemed sane Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik was sane when he killed 77 people last summer in attacks he saw as punishing pro-immigration “traitors”, a psychiatric team said on Tuesday, contradicting a prior report that found him psychotic. Breivik has insisted he is mentally stable and demanded that his attacks – the […]
India is challenging the United States at the World Trade Organisation over increased visa fees for skilled workers that have hit the country’s flagship outsourcing firms, an official said Tuesday. “We are pursuing this at the consultation level. It is our hope we reach an amicable conclusion,” a senior commerce department official in New Delhi […]
