KARACHI (GEO): Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) increase the fuel surcharge owing to the soaring prices of the oil in international market, after which the PIA fares also have gone up.
ISLAMABAD (GEO): Pakistan has successfully test fired long-range surface-to-surface missile. Hataf-6 Shaheen-2 ballistic missile have 2000 kilometers range. The missile could carry nuclear as well as conventional weapons.
The new regime in Pakistan is learnt to devised its strategy last night to oust President Pervez Musharraf by bringing about constitutional changes that would curtail Musharrafs powers. Sources said that the constitutional changes were being prepared that would so cripple (Musharraf’s) authority in all respects that he will have no option but to bow out without facing impeachment.
ISLAMABAD: Massive downsizing of top level bureaucracy at centre is on the cards as the Prime Minister Secretariat has sought details of the officials hired in MP scales and other pay scales since 2004. Shaukat Aziz and then caretaker government of Mohammedmian Soomro had made hundreds of appointments in different ministries in violation of the […]
KARACHI: Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada, a close legal aide of President Pervez Musharraf, has requested for full official protocol and security in Islamabad and Karachi for fear of the same reaction of the public as seen in the cases of former Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim and former federal minister Dr Sher Afgan Niazi, […]
ISLAMABAD, Apr 18 (APP): Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Friday said the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) is an important constitutional body and the government would keep a liaison with it under the ambit of the constitution. The Prime Minister was talking to a delegation of the CII led by its Chairman Dr. […]
CAPE TOWN (South Africa), Apr 18 (APP): Veteran politician and PML (N) leader Javed Hashmi was given exceptional standing ovation Friday by the participants of the International Parliamentary Union (IPU) assembly.
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that our nuclear programme is secure and in safe hands.
SWAT: Security forces during an operation arrested 6 extremists at Bara Bandai and Kanju and 3 from Fizagut areas here.
LAHORE: Justice (Retd.) Rana Bhagwandas Friday said the steps taken from November 3, 2007 onwards were planned with the help and assurance of certain lawyers.