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    Shahbaz wants PPP to pass judges bill acceptable to lawyers

    ISLAMABAD : President Pakistan Muslim League-N, Mian Shahbaz Sharif said on Saturday that if Pakistan People’s Party is honest in its commitment towards the restoration of deposed judges, then it should come up with such a bill that is also acceptable to lawyers.


    Gilani arrives to attend WEF

    SHARM EL-SHEIKH : Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani arrived here on Saturday on a 4-day visit to Egypt to attend the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Middle East being held in this Egyptian sea-resort from May 18 to 20.

Abducted Pakistan envoy Tariq Azizuddin released

May 17th, 2008 | By Sindh Today | Category: Focused, Pakistan, Top News

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Ambassador in Afghanistan, Tariq Azizuddin has returned home being released by the abductors after three months. Tariq Azizuddin was kidnapped from Khayber Agency on February 11, 2007, while he was on his way to Afghanistan.



Pakistan elected to Commonwealth executive body

May 16th, 2008 | By Sindh Today | Category: Focused, Pakistan

LONDON : Two days after being readmitted to the Commonwealth, Pakistan was elected to the 17-member Executive Committee of the organisation. The 53-member Board of Governors of the Commonwealth during its annual meeting on Thursday elected Pakistan as a regional representative for a two-year term on the Executive Committee.



ISI briefs Pak PM, Zardari about security issues

May 16th, 2008 | By Sindh Today | Category: Focused, Pakistan

Islamabad, May 16 : Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and his party boss Asif Ali Zardari today visited ISI headquarters where they were reportedly briefed about security issues the country was facing.



PML-Q offers legal help to PPP/PML-N for the restoration of Judges: Mushahid

May 16th, 2008 | By Sindh Today | Category: Focused, Pakistan

ISLAMABAD : PML-Q Secretary General Mushahid Hussain Sayed on Friday offered cooperation of his party’s legal experts to the ruling coalition for restoration of deposed judges.



Qaim Ali Shah meets Governor Sindh

May 16th, 2008 | By Sindh Today | Category: Focused, Sindh

KARACHI: Chief Minister Sindh Qaim Ali Shah called on Governor Sindh Dr. Ishratul Ibad Khan at the Governor House Thursday.



Salmaan Taseer takes oath as “Governor of Punjab” today

May 16th, 2008 | By Sindh Today | Category: Focused, Pakistan, Top News

Salmaan Taseer a former federal minister in care-taker government and a political activist of the late Zulifqar Ali Bhuttos period will be sworn in as the new Governor of the Punjab on Friday. Taseer who is son of the late Dr Deen Mohammed Taseer, who was a scholarly figure. The mother of Salmaan is sister […]



Nawaz, Zardari cant go together: Rashid

May 15th, 2008 | By Sindh Today | Category: Focused, Pakistan

ISLAMABAD : Former prime minister and PML-Q central leader Sheikh Rashid Ahmad has said that Nawaz Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari couldnt go together as PPP-PML-N alliance is unnatural.



Nawaz, Shahbaz nomination papers accepted

May 15th, 2008 | By Sindh Today | Category: Focused, Pakistan, Top News

LAHORE : An election tribunal on Thursday accepted the nomination papers of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif.

PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif has filed nomination papers to contest by-election from NA-123, Lahore, while party president Shahbaz Sharif filed papers for PP-154.