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May 20, 2012

  • UAE, Qatar issue travel advisory on 2012-05-20 04:01:22

      UAE, Qatar issue travel advisory DUBAI (Agencies): The United Arab Emirates and Qatar on Saturday urged their citizens to avoid travel to Lebanon, where clashes linked to the conflict in neig More

  • Police summons Sharifs on 2012-05-20 04:01:40

      Police summons Sharifs ISLAMABAD (Online): Islamabad  Capitol Territory Police has sent two separate notices to PML(N) President  Nawaz Sharif and CM Punjab Shahbaz Sharif in the Su More

  • Pakistan calls for more trade on 2012-05-20 04:01:54

      Pakistan calls for more trade UNITED NATIONS (APP): Pakistan called for "a level playing field" to enhance trading opportunities and boost investment inflows that would enable developing coun More

  • Three daughters thrown into canal on 2012-05-20 04:02:10

      Three daughters thrown into canal SARGODHA (APP): A man threw his three daughters into a canal in tehsil Bhalwal over poverty on Saturday. Police said Ansar Abbas of Zafar Hayat Colony, a fat More

  • Burned student laid to rest on 2012-05-20 04:02:24

      Burned student laid to rest  FAISALABAD (INP): Thirteen year old Umer, who committed suicide by self-immolation after getting dismissed from his school by the headmaster of a school over More

  • Police official killed in Mardan on 2012-05-20 04:02:43

      Police official killed in Mardan Jamal Hoti MARDAN: A police head constable in the line of duty was killed by unidentified armed men here on Saturday at the Katlang Hospital, police official More

  • Madhiyana men attack teacher’s lawyer on 2012-05-20 04:03:02

      Madhiyana men attack teacher’s lawyer SARGODHA (INP): Armed men stated to be supporters of former PPP MPA Aslam Madhiyana, key accused in teacher torture case, attacked and injured lawy More

  • ANF presents assets of two accused on 2012-05-20 04:03:26

      ANF presents assets of two accused RAWALPINDI (Online): Anti Narcotics Force (ANF) has presented the details of assets and banks accounts of two accused in Ephedrine case in the court. The S More

  • Brawl with police: PM’s security officer released after apology on 2012-05-20 04:03:42

      Brawl with police: PM’s security officer released after apology LAHORE (NNI): Police released one of the security staff members of Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani after the offic More

  • Jail warden gunned down on 2012-05-20 04:04:08

      Jail warden gunned down  QUETTA (APP): Unidentified armed men gunned down a chief jail warden on Jail Road here on Saturday. Police said that Imtiaz Rasool, chief warden of Huda Jail, wa More

  • Windstorm hits Karachi on 2012-05-20 04:04:21

      Windstorm  hits Karachi KARACHI (INP): A woman was electrocuted while several others sustained injuries as a result of heavy winds carrying dust revisiting the metropolis on Saturday ev More

  • Spy plane crashes on 2012-05-20 04:04:36

      Spy plane crashes MIANWALI (INP): A surveillance drone of the Pakistan Army crashed near Mianwali on Saturday. According to official sources, the surveillance drone took off from Mianwali Air More

  • PML-N to attend joint session on 2012-05-20 04:04:55

      PML-N to attend joint session  ISLAMABAD (INP): Pakistani Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Saturday decided to attend the joint session of parliament convened by the President on May 21 to More

  • Turkish PM arrives today on 2012-05-20 04:05:09

      Turkish PM arrives today ISLAMABAD (APP): Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will arrive here on Sunday for a three-day visit to Pakistan on the invitation of Prime Minister Syed Yus More

  • ATC reserves judgment over Mush’s property on 2012-05-20 04:05:24

      ATC reserves judgment over Mush’s property RAWALPINDI (INP): Anti-terrorist court No.1 judge Shahid Rafiq reserved judgment here Saturday after hearing arguments of the lawyers over a p More

  • Malik: No decision yet on restoration on 2012-05-20 04:05:38

      Malik: No decision yet on restoration LAHORE (APP): Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Saturday that no decision had yet been taken on restoration of the NATO supply line. Talkin More

  • Progress made on reopening of supplies: Tom on 2012-05-20 04:05:53

      Progress made on reopening of supplies: Tom WASHINGTON (NNI): The United States says progress has been made in talks with Pakistan on reopening of NATO supply routes to Afghanistan but no tim More

  • EU urges world to stop India’s dams construction on 2012-05-20 04:06:07

      BRUSSELS (Online): Kashmir Council EU Chairman Ali Raza Syed has urged the international community to stop Indian plans to construct seven new dams on three rivers flowing from Indian Held Kas More

  • Tax collection up by 25 per cent, says Sheikh on 2012-05-20 04:06:20

      ISLAMABAD (INP): Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh has said that revenue collection during the first ten months of the current year was 25% more than the past year. Talking to media at More

  • Missing journalist in Balochistan found dead on 2012-05-20 04:06:36

      QUETTA (Online): Unidentified gunmen have killed a journalist in Turbat district in Balochistan days after the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) ranked More

  • Lawyers moot demands SC decisions implementation on 2012-05-20 04:06:54

      Mohammad Amjad RAWALPINDI: Lawyers fraternity from across the country at a convention here on Saturday issued a thirteen-point joint declaration with deep resentment that the rulers were viol More

  • DPC announces long march on 27th on 2012-05-20 04:07:12

      LAHORE (Online): The Defence of Pakistan Council (DPC) Saturday announced to organize a long-march against the possible restoration of supply line for NATO forces on May 27. Pakistan had clos More

  • Suicide blast kills 13 in eastern Afghanistan on 2012-05-20 04:07:25

      KABUL (AP): A suicide bomber blew himself up at a police checkpoint Saturday in a volatile area of eastern Afghanistan, killing 13 people, police said. The bomber walked up to a checkpoint in More

  • ‘I can’t be removed unconstitutionally’ on 2012-05-20 04:07:39

      LAHORE (Online): Prime Minster Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani Saturday said that he could not be removed from his position by unconstitutional means as he was elected by the people of Pakistan.  More

  • Economy in shambles due to govt’s ineptness: Qadeer on 2012-05-20 04:07:52

      KARACHI (NNI): The Farther of Pakistan's Nuclear Programme, Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan has said that the country is passing through a very difficult period and country needs the sincere and honest l More

  • All must abide by Constitution, says CJ on 2012-05-20 04:08:04

      ISLAMABAD (APP): Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhary on Saturday stressed the need for modernization and simplification of laws to ensure inexpensive and speedy justice More

  • Key Arab leader taken into confidence on 2012-05-20 04:08:17

      Key Arab leader  taken into confidence ISLAMABAD (Online): Before proceeding to the US to attend the Afghan summit, President Asif Ali Zardari discussed the reopening of NATO supply rou More

  • Zardari in Chicago, to meet Karzai, Nato chief on 2012-05-20 04:08:29

      CHICAGO (INP): President Asif Ali Zardari arrived here on Saturday to attend the Nato summit and hold meetings with world leaders on bilateral and regional issues, especially peace and securit More

  • ‘Survival of country put in jeopardy’ on 2012-05-20 04:08:41

      HAFIZABAD (INP): Pakistan Muslim League-N Chief Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif said that survival of Pakistan has been jeopardized by the rulers.  “Today country is in danger owing to More

  • Normal supply to be resumed on 2012-05-20 04:08:52

      WASHINGTON (INP): Pakistan is about to resume normal arrangement of trucks with Nato supplies passing through its territory, the country's top diplomat in Islamabad has said. "Truck cargo was More

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