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KARACHI: Pakistan have told the seven players disciplined for their behaviour in Australia to apologise in writing if they want to be pardoned. Mohammad Yousuf and Younis Khan were banned indefinitely, while Shoaib Malik and Rana Naved were suspended for a year and fined after an inquiry blamed infighting within the team for the poor [...]
ISLAMABAD: Reiterating his earlier stance, President Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), Qazi Anwar, said the parliament does not have the right to appoint judges. Speaking to journalists on Wednesday, Anwar said the parliament should be supreme and the judiciary independent. Thus, the parliament should not tread into the judiciary’s ambit and scope. Comparing the different [...]
ISLAMABAD: A letter has been sent to Switzerland’s Attorney-General to reopen corruption cases against President Asif Ali Zardari, National Accountability Bureau (NAB) lawyer Abid Zuberi told the Supreme Court on Wednesday. The move came after the Supreme Court ordered the NAB to revive all corruption cases after it threw out a controversial amnesty for Zardari, [...]
KARACHI: The court trying the cases against Mohajir Qaumi Movement leaders Afaq Ahmed and Aamir Khan, postponed the announcement of decision in the last case against them till April 7. Later, talking to media outside the court, Afaq Ahmed said that target killings in Karachi should end now and this kind of politics should be [...]
GENEVA: Pakistan has not asked Swiss authorities to reopen a corruption case against President Asif Ali Zardari, Geneva’s public prosecutor said on Wednesday. In any case, Zardari enjoys immunity from prosecution as a head of state, Prosecutor-General Daniel Zappelli told Reuters. “I have not received any request,” Zappelli said, commenting on news from Islamabad that [...]
ISLAMABAD: Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Reforms has reached consensus on renaming NWFP as Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa. The committee held a crucial
PORT LOUIS: Mauritius Prime Minister Navinchandra Ramgoolam dissolved parliament on Wednesday and said the Indian Ocean island would hold elections on May 5. The country, one of Africa’s most stable and prosperous nations, holds general elections every five years. By law, the country has between 30 and 150 days to organise elections after the prime [...]
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations said Tuesday it would delay the release of a report into the assassination of former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto until April 15 at the request of Islamabad. “The secretary general has accepted an urgent request by the president of Pakistan to delay the presentation of the report… until April 15,” [...]
HYDERABAD: Indian police on Tuesday imposed a curfew in parts of the southern city of Hyderabad, home to global IT giants Google and Microsoft, after three days of inter-religious clashes. At least one man died in street battles between Hindu and Muslim mobs during violence triggered by arguments over putting up decorations for a religious [...]
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A universally accepted truth is that the government we have is powerless, that the state is non-functional, and that law and order has fled (if it ever has been with us during the past four decades). Thanks to the last of the military dictators and the myriad private television channels he gave us that bring [...]
Since their 2007 launch, the whistleblowing web site WikiLeaks have been the subject of “hostile acts” by state and private security services for spilling the beans on crime, corruption and violence perpetrated by the capitalist deep state. But rather than being deterred by government threats or overt acts of violence, including the murder of two [...]
ISLAMABAD: A High level meeting jointly presided over by Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani and President Asif Ali Zardari had decided that the PPP government would go ahead with the tabling of the constitution reforms package before the parliament despite hurdles. The meeting deliberated upon current political situation in the country in the backdrop [...]
KARACHI: Pakistani police said Monday they arrested three militants from the country’s most feared sectarian group on suspicion of plotting to blow up a Karachi prison to free jailed comrades. Three members of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi were arrested in a raid on a house in Rerhi, in the suburbs of Karachi, senior police official Umer Shahid told [...]
DUBAI: Seventeen Indian nationals have been sentenced to death for killing a Pakistani man in a turf dispute between bootleg liquor gangs in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, local media reported on Monday. The Pakistani man was beaten to death with metal bars in January 2009, while three others were injured in the attack, [...]
LAHORE: Indian tennis star Sania Mirza is engaged to former Pakistan cricket captain Shoaib Malik and they might tie the nuptial knot next month. The wedding ceremony of both the sports stars will take place in April, while the walima reception will be hosted by Shoaib Malik on April 16 or 17 in Lahore, sources [...]
KARACHI: Former Pakistan captain and world record holder batsman Mohammad Yousuf on Monday announced he was to quit international cricket in protest against an
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Veena Malik seeks court’s help for registration of an FIR against Muhammad Asif
In mom’s wedding sari, Sania Mirza says “Nikah Kabul Hai”; it’s Sania Shoaib from now
Rehman Malik asks Shahid Malik to get Shoaib Malik’s passport back
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