
ISLAMABAD: In yet another move to keep a check on the power’s of the president, the Constitutional Reform Committee has transfered the authority to appoint service chiefs from the president to the prime minister. Sources revealed on Thursday that the decision was unanimously agreed upon by all the major political parties, including the PPP, PML-N, [...]

ISLAMABAD: Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik held Lashkar-e-Jhangvi responsible for the Karachi Ashura blast last month, adding that the final report on the Bolton Market incident will be completed in ten days. ‘Al-Qaeda, TTP, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Jaish-e-Mohammad are behind the bombings in Karachi,’ the Interior Minister stated on Thursday. He said that so far 30 [...]

RAWALPINDI: Federal Law Minister Dr. Babar Awan’s brother, Zia Awan, along with other political figures announced their decision to join MQM on Thursday. The announcement was made in the general worker’s meeting of Muttahida Qaumi Movement, which was held in Rawalpindi. In the meeting, besides Zia Awan, Dr. Ibrar Hussain Shah, brother of PPP leader [...]
January 14, 2010 | Posted in
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KARACHI: For maintaining peace in Karachi, a committee has been formed comprising members of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM). This was decided in a meeting, headed by President Asif Ali Zardari, here at the Bilawal House. Members of the PPP and MQM attended the meeting. Governor Sindh Dr. Ishrat-ul-Ebad headed the [...]
January 12, 2010 | Posted in
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ISLAMABAD: The government and the opposition crossed swords over a perceived political fightback by President Asif Ali Zardari at the start of a National Assembly session on Monday after both sides agreed to put off a debate on Karachi violence until Wednesday. Strangely, at least two members of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) from Karachi [...]
January 11, 2010 | Posted in
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KARACHI: Thousands of people poured onto the streets of Pakistan’s financial capital Karachi on Monday to protest at a security crackdown after dozens of people died in political violence. Security officials say up to 48 political party workers have been killed in Karachi since Thursday, when the headless body of a worker from the city’s [...]
January 11, 2010 | Posted in
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KARACHI: The Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) said on Monday it would not quit the ruling coalition after it won the government’s assurance of efforts to stop violence against its political workers in Karachi. About 40 people, most of them rival political activists, have been killed in four days of violence in Karachi, Pakistan’s biggest city [...]
January 11, 2010 | Posted in
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KARACHI: In an effort to curb the spate of violence in Karachi, a meeting between representatives of the Pakistan People’s Party and Muttahida Qaumi Movement at the Governor’s House on Sunday resolved that all those behind targeted killings in the city would be dealt with sternly without regard to their political affiliation. By the time [...]
January 11, 2010 | Posted in
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کراچی…کراچی کے مختلف علاقوں میں فائرنگ اور ٹارگٹ کلنگ کے واقعات میں پولیس اہل کار سمیت مزید 11 افراد ہلاک اور دیگر 10 زخمی ہوگئے۔گزشتہ تین دنوں میں ہلاک ہونے والے افراد کی تعداد 39ہوگئی ہے۔ پولیس کے مطابق لیاری، گارڈن، خاموش کالونی، پرانا حاجی کیمپ اوردیگر کئی علاقوں میں ہفتہ کوبھی فائرنگ کاسلسلہ جاری [...]
January 10, 2010 | Posted in
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KARACHI: Another 11 persons were killed in targeted killings during last 15 hours in separate parts of Karachi while according to police calculation, the death toll by target killings in Karachi has risen to 39 people in last 3 days and scores of people sustained injuries. The situation has raised tensions between the People’s Party [...]

KARACHI: In a major development that may have a far-reaching impact on the Pakistan People’s Party-led coalition government at the centre, parliamentarians belonging to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement have told their party high command that they want to quit treasury benches and sit on opposition benches because of what they described as an “irresponsible attitude [...]
January 9, 2010 | Posted in
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KARACHI: At least seven people have been shot dead and several others injured in a firing incident in Karachi. According to the police, violence erupted after the body of an MQM worker packed in a gunny bag was found in Chakiwara area of Lyari. A senior police official told our correspondent that Lyari gangsters are [...]
January 7, 2010 | Posted in
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