Garhi Khuda Baksh—Prime Minister Syed Yousuf
Raza Gilani Friday offered Fateha at the graves
of 20 victims of Karsaz, Karachi incident of
Octover 18, 2007 and laid floral wreaths there.
He was accompanied by Federal Ministers Sherry
Rehman, Syed Khurshid Ahmed Shah, Syed Naveed
Qamar, Raja Pervaiz Ashraf and other ministers.
Karachi—Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gillani
has said expansion in federal government will be
made after consultation with the coalition
partners. He said this while talking to the
journalists on the occasion of his visit to
mausoleum of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah
here Friday.
Bucharest—Russia agreed on Friday to allow NATO
to use Russian land to deliver non-lethal
supplies to alliance troops in Afghanistan, but
not troops or air transit arrangements as
initially sought by NATO.
Lahore—Pakistan Muslim League-(N) leaders met
here at the party Quaid Nawaz Sharif’s Raiwind
residence on Friday and finalised matters
concerning formation of the PML-N led coalition
government in the Punjab.
After holding a reconciliatory meeting between
the leaders of MQM and Asif Ali Zardari two days
back, a delegation of Muttahida Qaumi Movement
led by Deputy Convener of MQM Raabita Committee
Dr. Farooq Sattar reached Garhi Khuda Bakhsh to
participate in Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s death
anniversary ceremonies on Friday. MQM delegation
included Babar Ghauri, Syed Sardar Ali and other
members of National and Provincial assemblies.
New York—More than 80 percent of Americans
believe the country is headed in the wrong
direction, the highest such number since the
early 1990s, according to a new survey.
