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BLA guns down two MI officials

QUETTA: The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) on Tuesday claimed responsibility for killing two high-ranking intelligence agency officials in a drive-by shooting in Khuzdar district on Monday. The banned Baloch separatist group said it had also killed policeman Mubarak Ali in Mustang district. The two Military Intelligence (MI) officials were on their way home from their […]


Dubai talks on judges inconclusive

LAHORE, April 28: Talks between the Pakistan People’s Party and Pakistan Muslim League-N on reinstatement of judges remained inconclusive in Dubai on Monday and both sides agreed to hold another round ‘within 24 hours’. Sources claimed that the coalition partners continued to differ whether to table a resolution in the National Assembly for reinstating the […]


Minister for completion of civil projects before June

QUETTA, April 28: Civil projects should be completed before June and negligence or delays would not be tolerated, Balochistan Minister for Communication and Works Mir Mohammad Sadiq Umrani said here on Monday. He said at a press conference that civil projects for collective welfare without any political consideration. He was accompanied by Secretary C&W Kaleem […]


Brutalised policeman awaits divine help after accused cleared of charges

HYDERABAD, April 28: He is now looking skywards, awaiting Allah’s wrath after police cleared of charges three prime accused of his case claiming insufficient evidence against them. Ali Hassan Solangi, a police constable who was working as court process server, was subjected to inhuman torture by his tormentors who threw acid on his face and […]


Student gangs exchange fire over ‘MAO control’

LAHORE, April 28: The tug of war between two student groups over getting ‘control’ of the MAO College turned ugly on Monday when they resorted to crossfire on the campus which lasted for well over two hours, fortunately injuring nobody. The incident reminds one of bloody on-campus clashes among the rival ‘student’ groups to establish […]


Over-expenditure of Rs10m detected: All Pakistan varsity games 2005

ISLAMABAD, April 28: The Auditor General of Pakistan has found irregularities in the second All Pakistan University Games organised by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) in the year 2005. In its report for the year 2006-07, which has been forwarded to the Public Accounts Committee of the National Assembly, the audit department said there were […]


Amendment to SPSC approved by governor

Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad has approved an amendment proposed by the Sindh Assembly in the Sindh Public Service Commission (SPSC) Act 1989, devolving powers to Sindh Chief Minister to reconstitute the commission and appoint its chairman and members for five-year terms. The Sindh Assembly passed the amendment two weeks ago and had sent it […]


PM pledges to restore Constitution

ISLAMABAD, April 28: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Monday expressed his government’s strong resolve to restore the 1973 Constitution in order to ensure supremacy of parliament and strengthen all state institutions, including the judiciary. The prime minister was talking to a delegation of members of the Balochistan Assembly at the Pime Minister’s House […]


SC asks govt to explain position: Death-row prisoners

ISLAMABAD, April 28: Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar asked Attorney-General Malik Mohammad Qayyum on Monday to find out if the government had plans to bring a legislation to commute death sentence into life term. “Please tell the court whether any legislation is under consideration of the government on death sentence,” the chief justice observed when […]


Controversy over KBCA takes another twist

KARACHI, April 28: The tussle between the Sindh government and the city government over the administrative control of two crucial civic bodies deepened on Monday when the newly appointed chief controller of the Karachi Building Control Authority assumed his office despite the fact that the acting nazim forbade him to do so and described the […]


PTA asked to block dubious SIMs by May 22

ISLAMABAD, April 26: The Senate Standing Committee on Interior took the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to task here on Saturday for not going after multiple and unverifiable SIM (subscriber identity module) holders and fixed a deadline to block all unverified mobile phone connections in the country by May 22. “I have asked mobile phone regulator […]


Pakistan on US list of countries ‘violating copyright laws’

WASHINGTON, April 26: The Bush administration is accusing China, Russia, Pakistan and six other nations of failing to protect American movies, computer software and other copyrighted material from widespread piracy. The administration on Friday placed the nine countries on a “priority watch list” that will subject them to extra scrutiny and could eventually lead to […]


Senate body asks PTV to streamline dues recovery

ISLAMABAD, April 26: The Sub-Committee of the Senate Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting on Saturday asked the PTV to streamline procedure for recovery of dues. These remarks came when the committee took strong exception to continuous defaults by an advertising agency and the PTV’s failure to recover the dues. The agency is owned by […]


Re-publishing of blasphemous caricatures condemned

Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Central Secretary-General, Syed Munawwar Hasan, has said that incidents of blasphemy and anti-Islam activities took place in the West with recurrence as the America-led developed part of the world are afraid of the renaissance of Islam. He was addressing on Saturday a large rally of women under the aegis of the women wing […]