Islamabad, Oct 22 – Five judges in Pakistan have been suspended on charges of corruption. Dawn reported that two district and sessions judges and three additional district and sessions judges were suspended Thursday for a period of three months. Justice Miftauddin Khan, registrar of Peshawar High Court, suspended the judicial officers. The district and sessions [...]
Islamabad, Oct 22 – US President Barack Obama has told Islamabad he doesn’t want to bracket his visit to Pakistan with India because adding it would mean spending only half a day in the country, which would be unfair, Pakistan’s ambassador to the US Hussain Haqqani said. Haqqani called up Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani [...]
Islamabad, Oct 21 – Pakistan’s Supreme Court Thursday asked the government to review in three months a key constitutional amendment, which gives parliament the power to appoint judges, and refused to scrap the amendment as sought by a joint plea. Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry announced the verdict on a batch of petitions challenging certain [...]
Islamabad, Oct 21 – As the trade between Indian and Pakistani Kashmir across the Line of Control (LoC) marked its second anniversary Thursday, a traders group in Pakistani Kashmir alleged big traders from India and Pakistan are misusing the route to save duty on their products. The authorities denied the charge. ‘The traders in big [...]
Islamabad, Oct 21 – Bollywood actress Katrina Kaif longs for the carefree time of her college life when she even did not need to get concerned about homework thanks to her friends, a Pakistani newspaper reported Thursday. ‘When I entered an engineering college at 16, I had not even thought of a Bollywood career. In [...]
Karachi, Oct 21 – Pakistan’s hockey captain Zeeshan Ashraf is confident that his team can end its losing streak against India and tame the arch-rivals in next month’s Asian Games at Guangzhou in China. Pakistan and India will meet in a crucial Pool B encounter of the Asian Games hockey event Nov 20. ‘We have [...]
Karachi, Oct 21 – Pakistan’s cricket selectors ignored suggestions from the national team’s captain Shahid Afridi and coach Waqar Younis by recalling former captain Younis Khan for the one-day International series against South Africa in the United Arab Emirates. The captain and coach wanted all-rounder Shoaib Malik in the team as a replacement for injured [...]
Islamabad, Oct 21 – The Supreme Court of Pakistan Thursday directed the government to review an amendment to the constitution pertaining to appointments of judges to superior court on the ground that it was detrimental to judiciary’s freedom. Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry gave the verdict on the petitions challenging certain clauses of the 18th [...]
Islamabad, Oct 21 – Loans worth over Rs.62 billion granted to top business firms had been written off over a 12 year period, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) told the Supreme Court. The massive loans were written off by banks between 1996 and 2008, said the country’s central bank. SBP counsel Syed Iqbal Haider [...]
Islamabad, Oct 21 – Pakistan has turned down a $2 billion loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and another $1 billion loan from the World Bank to reconstruct infrastructure destroyed by the devastating floods. Islamabad has now decided to rebuild ‘from its own resources’. The News International cited sources as saying that the move [...]
Islamabad, Oct 21 – The introduction of electronic voting machines (EVMs) is a right step as ‘transparency has never been a high point in Pakistan’s electoral history’, said a leading daily, citing the India example to stress that effective media campaigns can help generate awareness about the procedure. The Dawn said in an editorial that [...]
Karachi/Islamabad, Oct 20 – The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Wednesday decided to distance itself from three tainted players – Salman Butt, Muhammad Asif and Muhammad Aamer – who are currently being probed by the International Cricket Council (ICC) for spot-fixing. The PCB has decided to bar the tainted trio from using the training facilities in [...]
Islamabad, Oct 20 – A roadside bomb attack on a security forces convoy in Pakistan’s tribal region killed at least three soldiers Wednesday, Xinhua reported. Two soldiers were also injured when the bomb exploded near the convoy in Bara area of Khyber Agency. Taliban and three other militant groups are active in Khyber tribal region, [...]
Islamabad, Oct 20 – At least eight more people were killed Wednesday in fresh incidents of violence in Karachi, taking the death toll to over 80 in five days of target-killing in Pakistan’s largest and most crowded city. The violence broke out Saturday night, hours ahead of the Sunday by-poll for an assembly seat in [...]
Karachi, Oct 20 – Former Pakistan captain Younis Khan was recalled to the national team for its upcoming series against South Africa after he ‘resolved’ his differences with the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) here Wednesday. Younis, who was banned indefinitely last March over disciplinary problems, met with PCB chairman Ijaz Butt in Lahore after which [...]
Islamabad, Oct 20 – A well-known sarod player of Pakistan shut his newly-opened music training centre here after his 12-year-old son was threatened. He was told to ‘stop teaching music’. Sarod player Asad Qazilbash was shocked when his son, playing in the street with his friends, was approached by a group of young men who [...]
Islamabad, Oct 20 – Tax evaders in Pakistan owe a whopping Rs.100 billion to the national exchequer, officials said. The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) is stuck in litigation in courts against thousands of tax evaders. Revenue officials told National Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that they had requested Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry to constitute [...]
Islamabad, Oct 20 – Pakistan is going to set up a commission that will allow people to file appeals on cases decided by courts since 1947, the year the country was born. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will announce the setting up of the commission which will review criminal cases and determine possible ‘miscarriage of [...]
Islamabad, Oct 20 – Former Pakistan president Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari, who dismissed Benazir Bhutto’s government in 1996, is dead. He was 70. Leghari died in Pakistan’s Rawalpindi city early Wednesday, Dawn reported. He was elected Pakistan’s eighth president in 1993. He dismissed Benazir Bhutto’s government on allegations of corruption, lawlessness and extra-judicial-killings Nov 19, [...]
Islamabad, Oct 20 – Militants Tuesday torched a plane in Pakistan, a media report said. The aircraft, which belonged to a private airline company, was parked at an airport in Parachinar, the headquarter of the Kurram Agency, when it was set ablaze. The plane used to fly between Peshawar and Parachinar once a week, the [...]
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