ISLAMABAD: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Thursday announced that the general elections would be held by Feb 15 and said he would doff his uniform as soon as the Supreme Court took a decision about the notification of the results of Oct 6 presidential election. Reiterating his “total commitment” to hold the general elections and […]
ISLAMABAD: President General Pervez Musharraf informed the US in advance that he needed 15 days to ‘clean up the mess’ by imposing an extra-constitutional emergency, a diplomatic source privy to the conversation told The News here on Thursday. According to the source, there were strings of meetings going on between the government and the Islamabad-based […]
KARACHI, Nov 7: Naib Nazim Nasreen Jalil inaugurated two newly renovated libraries in Landhi Town on Wednesday. The project cost around Rs2.8 million. Landhi Town Nazim Syed Asif Husnain said development projects worth Rs190 million were underway in the town. He said the town administration would develop 13 more libraries on modern lines. Ms Jalil […]
ISLAMABAD: President of Muslim League Chaudhary Shjaat Hussain on Wednesday claimed that the media had failed to play its impartial role following the government’s concessions. ‘We observed that some media channels were busy in promoting,, confusion and uncertainty in the society,” he said, adding sensitive scenes were being shown to audiences by private, television channels. […]
ISLAMABAD: The government will soon issue a special code of conduct for the media, Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema said on Tuesday. “The Information Ministry is busy finalising a code of conduct for the media in consultation with the stakeholders, and it will be issued shortly,” Cheema told Daily Times by telephone. He did […]
HYDERABAD, Nov 6: Lawyers across the province boycotted courts against the imposition of emergency on the second day running on Tuesday and staged rallies, marches and demonstrations and held meetings within the courts’ premises after heavy contingents of police manning all the entry and exit points stopped them from taking their protest to roads. In […]
PESHAWAR, Nov 6: Militants seized the town of Madyan in Swat on Tuesday and hoisted their flags over buildings after security forces surrendered, police and residents said. Madyan is the third town to come under the effective control of followers of Maulana Fazlullah, who is demanding enforcement of Sharia in Swat. “They seized Madyan town […]
ISLAMABAD, Nov 6: An eight-member Supreme Court bench headed by newly installed Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar on Tuesday overruled a seven-judge decision that had struck down the Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO) soon after its proclamation and declared that the earlier order should not be deemed to have been passed. “The order is set aside […]
PESHAWAR: Mulla Fazlullah-led local Taliban on Tuesday announced the enforcement of Shariah in Swat by appointing administrators for five subdivisions now under their control. The announcement, which would further provoke the government, was made as sporadic clashes continued between the militants and the security forces deployed in lower parts of the Swat Valley. Militants, who […]
KARACHI: Satellite dish and receivers have recorded a sharp price hike of an average 83 per cent and were in short supply after cable operators were ordered to suspend their services following the state of emergency declared in the country on Saturday. Muhammad Rizwan, a dealer in satellite decoders at the electronics market in Saddar […]
ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet on Tuesday endorsed the imposition of emergency and the Provisional Constitutional Order. Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz chaired the cabinet meeting, which also endorsed the president’s commitment to early completion of the third and final phase of the democratic process, which he had initiated after assumption of power. The cabinet also fully […]
RAWALPINDI – The City District government and Cantonment Board have fixed one-week deadline for removing all kinds of billboards installed in the taking-off areas of airplanes near Airport Road. The authorities decided to launch an operation after the fixed date against these heavy sized hoarding and billboards as they could cause any mishap in future. […]
ARTICLE (November 07 2007): On Monday evening, 29th of October 2007, was launched in Karachi, an exceptionally important book titled “The Day the Mountains Moved” which has international perspective in handling psycho trauma as its principal concern. I would like to focus on this 280-page hardbound book today. But one also needs to keep in […]
LAHORE: The police used brute force on Monday to crush the lawyers’ countrywide protests against the imposition of emergency. In Lahore, the premises of the High Court became a battlefield when the police resorted to baton-charge and teargasing to disperse angry lawyers who wanted to take out a protest rally against the imposition of emergency. […]
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