As politics of wheeling and dealing between the PML-Q, dissident group and the Unification Bloc continue at full throttle, the PML-N plans to stage a big show of power with 47 Unification<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/12/pml-n-gearing-up-for-grand-show-2/" title="Read more" >...</a>
ForeignNATO-led air strikes hit Muammer Gaddafi’s compound Thursday, killing six people, the Libyan regime said as rebels celebrated the capture of Misrata airport and a British invitation to open their first foreign<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/12/nato-strikes-on-gaddafi-compound-kill-6-libya-govt/" title="Read more" >...</a>
An apt example of poor bureaucratic planning surfaced during the meeting of National Assembly Standing Committee on Finance the other day when it was informed that after devolution, 171 projects worth Rs<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/12/171-projects-worth-rs-216b-face-axe/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Despite the Sindh government constituting committee after committee for ensuring transparent distribution of Rs 700 million for community development among 27 non-governmental organisations (NGOs), no committee has furnished a monitoring report to<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/12/the-tale-of-rs-700-million-and-27-ngos/" title="Read more" >...</a>
NATIONALChief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry observed on Wednesday that the government was not following the constitution, which could lead to another constitutional crisis. Chaudhry was heading a three-member Supreme<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/12/govt-heading-towards-constitutional-crisis-cjp/" title="Read more" >...</a>
The Sindh Assembly could not discuss the recent increase in power tariff on Wednesday as the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) ministers opposed the move, while the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) lawmakers kept<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/12/ruling-parties-evade-power-tariff-hike-issue/" title="Read more" >...</a>
ForeignUS President Barack Obama acknowledged in a television broadcast Thursday that many Americans were still feeling the pain of a slow economic recovery, but insisted his policies were working. “People still aren’t<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/12/obama-sees-americas-pain-on-economy/" title="Read more" >...</a>
ForeignQueen Elizabeth II on Thursday became the second-longest reigning monarch in British history, clocking up a total of 21,645 days on the throne. Only Queen Victoria, the current monarch’s great-great-grandmother, has reigned<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/12/queen-elizabeth-ii-becomes-britains-second-longest-reigning-monarch/" title="Read more" >...</a>
ForeignIndia’s prime minister held talks in Kabul on Thursday on the fallout of Osama bin Laden’s death and boosting aid projects in a move likely to raise Pakistani fears about Indian influence<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/12/india-pm-in-kabul-for-talks-post-bin-laden/" title="Read more" >...</a>
SportsPakistan defeated India 3-1 in a fast-paced encounter between the two countries of the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup in Ipoh, Malaysia. India led 1-0 at half-time after Rupinder Pal Singh converted a<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/11/pakistan-0-1-india-at-halftime-in-azlan-shah-cup/" title="Read more" >...</a>
ForeignIranian Authorities have arrested 56 illegal Pakistani immigrants and handed them over to Pakistani officials on late Tuesday night. According to the Levies Force, the Pakistani nationals had entered Iran without possessing<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/11/56-illegal-pakistani-immigrants-deported-from-iran/" title="Read more" >...</a>
NATIONALUnidentified armed men on Wednesday set ablaze two Nato containers in the Guncha Dhori area of Mastung, police said. Police official told that two containers carrying supplies for the Isaf forces were<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/11/nato-containers-torched-in-mastung/" title="Read more" >...</a>
