NOWSHERA: Seven persons, including two security men, four civilians and the bomber, were killed and 20 others injured when a suicide attacker blew himself up at the gate of the Army Services Corps Centre here on Saturday, military and police sources said. The bomber riding a bicycle detonated the explosives at a check-post after he […]
KARACHI, Dec 15: The treasury benches in the City Council on Saturday bulldozed the Karachi Strategic Development Plan-2020, also called the master plan, through the house and approved it amid a boycott by the protesting opposition members, who demanded adequate time for debate on the vital document. The house witnessed noisy disturbances throughout the session, […]
* Pound suspected militant hideouts with artillery * Arrest 10 suspects in Swat, Batkhela crackdown MINGORA: The army on Saturday continued efforts to reestablish control over towns taken back from militants of pro-Taliban cleric Maulana Fazlullah, and pounded suspected militant hideouts with artillery, officials said. Local government spokesman Hasan Jan told reporters that the operation […]
ISLAMABAD, Dec 15: President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday lifted the emergency, repealed the Provisional Constitution Order (PCO) and revived the 1973 Constitution after effecting amendments through presidential decrees. Chief Justices and judges of the Supreme Court, high courts and Federal Shariat Courts took the oath again shortly after the order — officially called the Revocation […]
ISLAMABAD, Dec 14: President Pervez Musharraf introduced six more amendments in the Constitution through executive orders on Friday – a day before the lifting of the emergency, revocation of the Provisional Constitution Order (PCO) and restoration of the Constitution. Ordinances incorporating the amendments were promulgated late on Friday night. Attorney General Malik Mohammed Qayyum told […]
KARACHI, Dec 14: A five-member bench of the Sindh High Court adjourned the hearing of the May 12 case to Jan 15, 2008, to consider the maintainability of the proceedings. An associate of Advocate Qazi Faez Isa, who was appointed amicus curiae (friend of the court) by the previous seven-member bench that had initiated the […]
KARACHI (December 15 2007): City District Government Karachi (CDGK) has given final shape to the establishment of “Rescue Service” which will be launched soon. A meeting held under the chairmanship of City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal here on Friday, decided to set-up a new department for this service while services of some expert will be […]
LAHORE- City police sealed off the entire Punjab Capital, shortly after unidentified motorcyclists gunned down two on-duty policemen during a brutal attack here in Nishtar Colony Area on Thursday night, police sources revealed. “The gangsters sprayed volleys of bullets with automatic weapons (kalashankoves) on the policemen at Katcha Kumahan Road and fled away. Each policeman […]
QUETTA, Dec 13: Two young suicide bombers blew themselves up close to a military checkpoint in Quetta’s Cantonment area on Thursday, killing five soldiers and wounding 22 people, officials said. “Two personnel of the military police were killed on the spot in the first attack,” the officials said, adding that the second bomber blew himself […]
KARACHI, Dec 13: While the government makes tall claims of educating the citizenry in order to raise living standards and make young people less susceptible to being inveigled into criminal activity, the residents of Old Golimar lament the fact that the area’s only library was taken over by various government departments and after a fire, […]
KARACHI, Dec 13: The Federal Ministry of Education through a notification has declared the Urdu Dictionary Board, Karachi, as the subordinate office of the ministry. The chief editor of the Urdu Dictionary Board, Karachi, will be the head of department to exercise the administrative and financial powers, the notification says. The notification has been issued […]
HYDERABAD, Dec 12: The University of Sindh has approved the revised syllabus of different institutes and departments of faculties of natural sciences, social sciences, arts and Islamic studies as well as LLM programme here on Wednesday. The revised syllabi were approved in the 33rd meeting of academic council here on Wednesday. The meeting was presided […]
Karachi:An international agency would provide funds for the establishment of a modern Disaster management centre in Karachi with the cooperation of the United Nations. An initial amount of $15,000 is being provided to conduct a preliminary study of the project. The leading operations officer of World Bank, Raja Rehan Arshad called on City Nazim Syed […]
ISLAMABAD: The government is finalising a law to determine the status of all those judges of the superior courts who were offered to take oath under the Provisional Constitution Order (PCO). “To determine the status of these judges, proposals have been finalised and these judges would be entitled to all the benefits granted to the […]
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