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News for Thursday, 9 Dec 2010

Mysterious absence of governor remains hot topic in Punjab Assembly

LAHORE: The mysterious absence of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer remained a hot topic in the Punjab Assembly on Wednesday, with members, as well as Law Minister Rana Sanaullah telling the...

David Cameron phones Zardari

ISLAMABAD: British Prime Minister David Cameron telephoned President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday to discuss his forthcoming visit to Pakistan, bilateral matters and the general security situation in the region.

Cooperation council will help strengthen Pak-Turk ties: Gilani

ISTANBUL: The commissioning of the High Level Cooperation Council (HLCC) will enable the leaders of Pakistan and Turkey to take important decisions to boost ties in all areas, Prime Minister...

Recent attacks part of new Al Qaeda-backed Taliban strategy

ISLAMABAD: Investigators probing the recent spate of suicide bombings in Mohmand Agency, Darra Adam Khel and other Tribal Areas believe that these attacks are part of a Taliban strategy to...

SC pardons Petroleum DG in contempt

ISLAMABAD: A three-member Supreme Court bench accepted unconditional apology of Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources Director General (DG) Sher Muhammad Khan on Wednesday. He was issued show cause notice...

No drones in Balochistan, says CM Raisani

QUETTA: There will be no drone strikes in Balochistan, Chief Minister Nawab Mohammad Aslam Raisani said after the inaugural session of the fifth course under Balochistan Institute of Technical Education...

Juvenile rapist gets 10 years

KARACHI: More than three years after a case was lodged against 16-year-old Asif for raping his maternal uncle Raza Khan's 18-year-old wife, and a little over two years after he...

No employee will be displaced: Rabbani

ISLAMABAD: Implementation Commission on 18th Constitutional Amendment Chairman Raza Rabbani said on Wednesday that no employee of the devolved ministries would be displaced.
Talking to the journalists, he said that...

480 deportees arrive from Muscat

KARACHI: At least 480 Pakistani illegal immigrants, who were deported from Muscat, the capital city of Oman, arrived here on Wednesday. Officials of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) told Pakistan...

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