Islamabad, Oct 11 (IANS) Some Pakistanis have started cleaning out their bank lockers and dollar accounts, fearing a freeze due to the economic crisis gripping the country. The run continues despite the assertion of President Asif Ali Zardari that “Pakistan is not a limited company which may go bankrupt”.
Karachi, Oct 10 (DPA) Pakistan’s main Karachi bourse Friday reluctantly decided to unfreeze itself by Oct 27 only if the government fixes a cap on interest rates on loans taken by top brokers, sources said.
Islamabad, Oct 10 (DPA) At least 23 people were killed and dozens more injured Friday in a suicide bombing during a gathering in Pakistan’s tribal region along the Afghan border, officials said.
Islamabad, Oct 10 (Xinhua) At least 16 people were killed Friday in a suicide bomb attack in Pakistan’s Orakzai agency near the Afghan border, the state-run PTV reported.
Islamabad, Oct 10 (DPA) Twenty-five people, most of them students, were killed and more than 48 injured Friday when a bus and a trailer lorry collided in Pakistan’s Punjab province, police said.
Srinagar, Oct 9 (IANS) Two Pakistani guerrilla commanders of the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) militant outfit were killed in a gun battle in north Kashmir Thursday, the police said.
Islamabad, Oct 9 (Xinhua) At least 11 people, among them four students and five policemen, were killed when a bomb exploded in a tribal area of northwest Pakistan Thursday, Geo TV said quoting the police.
Islamabad, Oct 9 (DPA) Taliban militants are using children as fighters and suicide bombers, Pakistan’s new spy chief told lawmakers in a rare briefing on threats posed by Islamic militants in the country’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP), media reports and officials said Thursday.
Islamabad, Oct 9 (DPA) At least nine civilians, including women and children, were killed Thursday in clashes between Taliban rebels and security forces, while a compound used by militants was destroyed in Pakistan’s troubled Swat district, media reports and officials said.
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