Islamabad, Nov 18 (IANS) The Pakistan government Wednesday announced a 15-day special package ahead of Eid under which a total subsidy of Rs.300-400 million would be given on more than 400 commodities. Sugar would be sold at Rs.38 per kg.
Addressing a press conference here, the Managing Director (MD) of the Utility Stores Corporation, Arif Khan, said 102,000 tonnes of sugar would be made available to consumers at Rs.38 per kg through all Utility Stores of the country.
Islamabad, Nov 18 (IANS) A Pakistani parliamentary panel has recommended that a constitutional provisional that requires candidates contesting elections to have at least a college degree be amended.
This can be done by amending articles 62 and 63 of the statute, the Constitutional Reforms Committee said at its meeting here Tuesday.
Islamabad, Nov 17 (IANS) Top leaders of the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) want President Asif Ali Zardari to deliver an immediate nationwide address to quell rumours and inject confidence into the suspense-ridden and disappointed masses, a media report Tuesday said.
They have also demanded immediate removal of “incompetent persons” from their “highly esteemed and responsible posts” since they were bringing disrepute to the party and ruining its name and credibility among the masses, Online news agency reported.
Islamabad, Nov 17 (IANS) Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari will pay an official visit to Afghanistan Thursday to attend the oath taking ceremony in Kabul by President Hamid Karzai for his second term in office.
Diplomatic sources told Online news agency that the president will be accompanied, among others, by Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Interior Minister Rehman Malik.
Islamabad, Nov 17 (DPA) The leader of the Taliban militants in Pakistan’s northwestern Swat district, Maulana Fazlullah, said Tuesday that he had survived the military offensive and was now in Afghanistan.
Fazlullah told the BBC Urdu Service via cell phone from an undisclosed location in Afghanistan that his loyalists would soon “launch guerrilla raids against the army in Swat”.
London, Nov 17 (IANS) Hundreds of Al Qaeda terrorists remain in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan, continuing to receive explosives and weapons training in camps in that country, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said.
Peshawar, Nov 17 (IANS) Unidentified militants blew up a girls school in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber tribal region Tuesday, the third such attack in the area bordering Afghanistan this month. There were no casualties.
An intelligence official in the area said the Taliban attacked the government-run school
Srinagar, Nov 17 (IANS) One militant was killed and another terrorist, who was trained in Pakistan, was arrested as the army foiled yet another infiltration bid from across the Line of Control (LoC) in north Kashmir, an army spokesman said here Tuesday.
Lieutenant Colonel J.S. Brar, spokesman of the army’s 15th corps, said: “Terrorists made yet another attempt at infiltration into the Valley in the Keran sector of the LOC yesterday (Monday).
Islamabad, Nov 17 (IANS) The police have formed committees, which will include the aged, to tackle terror in this Pakistani capital. The committee members would collect information about tenants and visit schools and colleges to guide students.
The committees comprise the youth, members of senior citizens’ committees and personnel of ‘Rescue 15′ which provides aid to terror victims, a police spokesman said.
Washington, Nov 16 (IANS) As President Barack Obama prepares to announce his new strategy for Afghanistan, his administration is stepping up pressure on Pakistan to expand and reorient its fight against the Taliban and Al Qaeda, the New York Times reported Monday.
As Obama travelled to Asia, his national security adviser, Gen. James L. Jones, was quietly sent to Islamabad to warn that failing to do so would undercut the new strategy and troop increase for Afghanistan, the influential US daily said citing unnamed American officials.