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News for Tuesday, 2 Nov 2010

Power sector reforms in eight months, IFIs told

ISLAMABAD: The government on Monday assured the International Financial Institutions (IFI) that the power sector reforms will be completed within the next eight months.
Minister for Water and Power...

Mehsud’s brother and wife killed

PESHAWAR: Yaqoob Khan, brother of former TTP chief Baitullah Mehsud, was found dead under mysterious circumstances in a mountainous region of Mir Ali town of North Waziristan.
Reports from Bannu...

Drone kills six in Waziristan

PESHAWAR: At least six suspected militants were killed and another two injured when a US drone targeted a compound in Haider Khel village near North Waziristan's Mirali town on Monday....

Three die as suicide bomber strikes Swabi police lines

PESHAWAR: Three people, including two police constables, were killed and another eight injured in a suicide attack at Swabi Police Lines on Monday. The bomber blew himself up outside the...

Nawaz resisting pressure

LAHORE: Despite a strong pressure from vested interests, PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif is in no mood to go for unification with other PML factions, including the PML-Q.
The reason for...

Enraged senators blast govt over petroleum prices

ISLAMABAD: Charged with anger and disappointment over the government's failure to curb inflation, the opposition and the treasury members in Senate on Monday lambasted the government for 'dropping a fuel...

Reforms body to review law that governs judges’ appointment

ISLAMABAD: The Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Reforms Monday decided to reconsider the judges' appointment procedure in line with the Supreme Court's interim order.
The committee meeting, chaired by Senator...

SC summons Punjab CS over prisoners’ abduction

ISLAMABAD: A three-member Supreme Court bench on Monday summoned the Punjab chief secretary for today (Tuesday) to explain why 11 prisoners, allegedly abducted from Adiala Jail, could not be recovered...

52 killed in Iraq church raid

BAGHDAD: At least 52 hostages and police officers were killed when security forces raided a Baghdad church to free more than 100 Iraqi Catholics held by al Qaeda-linked gunmen, Iraq's...

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