Islamabad, Dec 25 (IANS) The mystery of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto’s assassination remains unresolved as her first death anniversary approaches, though police and Scotland Yard experts say she died after her head hit the sunroof lever of her costly and bomb proof Toyota Land Cruiser.
Islamabad, Dec 24 (IANS) Privately-owned Pakistani news channel Geo TV Wednesday inexplicably failed to air a programme containing “stunning revelations” on the assassination a year ago of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in a gun and bomb attack in which the Taliban is said to have had a role.
Islamabad, Dec 19 (IANS) The State Bank of Pakistan will issue a new Rs.10 coin in honour of slain former prime minister Benazir Bhutto to mark the fist anniversary of her death in a suicide attack.
Washington, Dec 18 (DPA) Barack Obama, the politician who rose from obscurity to become the first African-American president of the US, was named Person of the Year by US magazine Time. Time cited Obama’s unlikely run for the presidency, his ability to energize voters and the expectations abounding for his presidency at home and abroad as some of its reasons for picking him as the top story of 2008.
Baghdad, Dec 15 (Xinhua) An Iraqi reporter threw his shoes at visiting US President George W. Bush and called him a “dog” during a news conference in Baghdad Sunday.
Islamabad, Dec 14 (Xinhua) Pakistan accused India of violating its airspace and declared emergency at all airbases Sunday two weeks after India vowed to take strong action against Islamabad in the wake of the Mumbai terror attacks, media reports said.
Islamabad, Dec 13 (IANS) Reiterating that his government will not hand over any terror suspect to India, Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Saturday said he had not received any evidence of any Pakistani’s involvement in the Mumbai carnage.
Islamabad/Washington, Dec 8 (IANS) More than 24 hours after its security forces cracked down on the Laskhar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant group that India has blamed for the Mumbai attacks, Pakistan said late Monday that operations were on against “banned outfits and organisations” - and reiterated that it would not allow its soil to be used for terrorist activities.
Islamabad, Dec 7 (DPA) Some 300 heavily-armed rebels attacked two parking bays in north-western Pakistan full of vehicles used by US and NATO contractors for making deliveries to Afghanistan, killing a guard and torching dozens of trucks, the police said Sunday.
Islamabad, Pakistan’s economy during the 2007-2008 fiscal year is expected to grow by 4.5 percent while the inflation rate is to vary between 20 percent and 22 percent. The country’s central bank, State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), said that exports for the fiscal year are expected to remain in the range of $21.50 billion-$23 billion.
In its annual report for the fiscal year (July 2007-June 2008), the SBP said that the economic growth rate during the year was originally planned at 5.8 percent, short of the target by 1.2 percent.