GOMA, Congo (AP) : U.N. peacekeepers and rescue workers searched for bodies Wednesday in the smoldering rubble after a jetliner rammed into a bustling market area and burst into flames, killing at least 38 people and wounding more than 100.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani together held aloft the Beijing Olympic Torch yesterday to flag off the local leg of the relay.
ISLAMABAD: PML-N Chief Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, PML-N President Shahbaz Sharif and his son Hamza Shahbaz got nomination papers to participate in the coming bye-elections, here on Wednesday.
KARACHI: Former chief minister Sindh and leader of Pakistan Muslim League-Q, Dr. Arbab Ghulam Rahim Wednesday alleged that an assassin has been hired to take his life.
Karachi. The leadership of Pakistan Peoples Party has decided in principle to change the present Governor of Sindh. Three names, including that of a prominent PPP member, are being considered to replace Dr. Ishrat-ul-Ebad Khan, sources said.
ONLINE: The Pakistan People’s Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari may figure on TIME magazine’s 2008 list of the top 100 influential people.
WASHINGTON: In a move to seek control on Pakistan’s nuclear assets, the US has mooted that an American official be permanently posted at its embassy in Islamabad and be given direct access to Pakistan’s National Command Authority Secretariat, which controls the country’s nuclear assets. The move is aimed to build pressure on Pakistan’s newly elected […]
ISLAMABAD: Parliament on Monday called on the government to ask for a United Nation probe into the martyrdom of Benazir Bhutto.
ISLAMABAD: Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan Justice Qazi Farooq (Retd) has announced that by-elections would be held on June 3. Polling will take place for 28 seats in National, Provincial Assemblies and the Senate.
A Pakistani rights group Sunday urged Pakistan’s new government to immediately release dozens of people its security agencies have secretly detained as part of President Pervez Musharraf’s cooperation with the US in its “war on terror”.