CO-CHAIRMAN Pakistan People’s Party, Asif Ali
Zardari Thursday reiterated commitment to the
Murree Declaration, saying there are no
difference on the issues at hand. In connection
with Dubai talks, he said Pakistan Muslim
League-N Chief Nawaz Sharif is his leader and he
(Zardari) will be able to say anything on the
matter after Nawaz Sharif’s news conference in
Pakistan.
Islamabad—The government has once again
postponed commencement of bus service between
Quetta and Mushad till the end of May 2008 due
to insignificant progress on preparatory
arrangements, sources told here on Thursday.
Peshawar—Chief of Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F)
and a coalition partner in the Central
Government Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Thursday
warned against the deadlock over judges issue
between country’s big political parties PPP and
PML(N) saying, the same must not lead to the
dismissal of the newly established coalition
government as the countrymen were attaching high
expectations with the new democratic setup.
Peshawar—At least 25 religious students were
seriously injured when a suicide bomber blew
himself up at a madrassa in Tehsil Bara of
Khyber agency some twenty kilometers from here
Wednesday morning. The suicide bomber was killed
in the incident and the doctors at the hospitals
feared more casualties as the condition of some
of injured was stated to be critical.
Islamabad—Informed political sources are issuing
veiled warning that if Pakistan Muslim League
(N) decides to leave the Pakistan People’s
Party-lead coalition Government in Centre and
side with lawyers and civil society on judiciary
issue PML-N must be ready to face serious
political consequences.
Washington—The Taliban in Afghanistan whose
government was toppled by U.S.-led forces after
the September 11, 2001, attacks has strengthened
its military and technical capabilities even
while suffering heavy combat losses, says a
State Department report.
Mogadishu—The American military launched an
airstrike Thursday targeting the head of al-Qaida
in Somalia, a U.S. defense official said. The
head of an Islamic insurgent group said the
attack killed its leader.
Islamabad—At May Day rallies held throughout the
country, labourers vowed that they would
continue struggle for their due rights. Rich
tributes were paid to the Chicago workers who
laid down their lives for protection of rights
of labourers on the occasion of World Labour day
observed here as elsewhere in the country.
Islamabad—Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani
has said the government is making short term and
long term policies to control continuous price
hike of essential commodities.
