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News for Sunday, 31 Jul 2011

Pakistan, Afghanistan and US to hold talks on August 2

Pakistan, Afghanistan and the US will hold talks in Islamabad on Tuesday. According to media reports, President Obama’s Special Representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan Mark Grossman will participate in the...

‘SC ruling a retreat from principled stance’

Justice (r) Wajihuddin Ahmed said on Saturday that the Supreme Court (SC) had backed off and compromised on its principled stand by giving the government more time to restore the...

Amended FCR to give tribesmen the right to appeal

In a bid to separate judicial and executive powers vested in the authority of a political agent in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) since British rule, the people of...

Employees’ degree verification process moving at snail’s pace

The process of verification of federal government employees’ academic degrees is moving at a snail’s pace and the authorities concerned are yet to receive thousands of the degrees. Prime Minister...

12-year-old murdered

A young girl and a man were shot dead by unidentified gunmen in two different incidents on Saturday, and a woman died in hospital after she fell unconscious in a...

Parliament supreme but won’t let anyone strike at judiciary

Supremacy of parliament is an acknowledged fact but it will not be allowed to strike the judiciary, PML-N President Nawaz Sharif said on Saturday. In a meeting of the newly-elected...

PML-N ‘won’t allow govt to pit parliament against judiciary’

With the executive-judiciary crisis apparently over, the PML-N has decided to strongly resist in case the PPP-led coalition government attempts to pit the parliament against the judiciary, as a strong...

Grossman arriving on 2-day visit

In a bid to lower the escalating tensions between Pakistan and the United States, US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Marc Grossman arrives tomorrow (Monday) on a two-day visit...

Punjab to move SC on devolution of ministries

The Punjab government is all set to challenge Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani’s decision to create three ministries with disputed departments of the devolved ministries to accommodate the PML-Q’s portfolio-less...

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