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Daily Archives: March 2, 2012

Senate polls today; independents refuse to withdraw

Iftikhar A. Khan ISLAMABAD: Efforts to persuade the candidates from breakaway factions of the PML-Q to pull out of the race and pave way for uncontested Senate elections on general seats in Sindh and Punjab failed on Thursday, a day before polling. An official of the commission said that 98 candidates were contesting the election […]


Govt to go ahead with Iran pipeline: Khar

Baqir Sajjad Syed ISLAMABAD: The national leadership vowed on Thursday to press ahead with the Iran gas pipeline project, sending a defiant message to the US which is pressurising Pakistan to abandon it. “We are a sovereign country and we will do whatever is in the interest of Pakistan,” Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said […]