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Three anti-NATO protesters face terrorism charges
May 19th
CHICAGO: Three anti-NATO protesters arrested in a late-night raid days before start of the 60-nation summit have been charged with terrorism for possession of explosive devices, police and their attorney said on Saturday.
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May 19th
SALT LAKE CITY: Scientists have discovered fossilized bones near Utah’s iconic Arches National Park representing a new species of raptor dinosaur that was about the size of a coyote, the state’s top paleontologist announced on Friday. The raptor was among several discovered at or near Doelling’s Bowl Bone Bed, haqqında 230 miles southeast of Salt Lake City, which has yielded several new species in the last two decades and is thought to be the base of Utah’s Cretaceous record. Fossils found at the bone bed are estimated at between 120 and 130 million years old.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Final decision on NATO supply not yet taken: PM
May 19th
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that no final decision has been taken with regard to resumption of NATO supplies so far. Talking to media on Friday after a meeting with Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Pervez Elahi, he said that the Parliamentary Committee on National Security gave its recommendations and the Defence Committee of Cabinet had disused them. “I have four priorities for the upcoming budget,” said Gilani, listing them down as electricity, employment, no new taxes and relief to the agriculture sector.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Pakistan stocks drop; rupee, o/n rates flat
May 18th
Islamabad: Pakistan stocks fell for a third consecutive day on Friday with investors depressed by the performance of global markets, dealers said. The Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) benchmark 100-share index ended 1.46 percent, və ya 205.3 points, lower at 13,857.78 on volume of 129.29 million shares, compared to Thursday’s close of 14,063.08
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...White House signals to veto bill limiting Pakistan aid
May 17th
WASHINGTON: White House threatened to vieto a key defence bill with a number of provisions including conditions imposed on US aid to Pakistan, if it impedes the ability of the government to execute the new American defence strategy.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Model used to plan Bin Laden raid revealed
May 17th
The scale model was a precise replica used to plan the raid that killed the Al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden a year ago. The table-top model made its public debut Wednesday in the halls of the Pentagon, where soldiers and office workers stopped in the corridor and gazed in fascination at the elaborate miniature of Bin Laden s compound
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...NATO supply: PNSC recommendations will not be bypassed: PM
May 17th
Talking to media in Islamabad, Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani said that the parliamentary recommendations will not be bypassed in restoration of NATO supply. Gilani further said that there would be no compromise on the country’s principals and the government would not take any emotional decisions, adding that the national interests would not be compromised while reviewing NATO supply. Gilani said that PML-N has finally changed its stance and recognized him as Prime Minister
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Indonesian organisers fight for Lady Gaga concert
May 16th
JAKARTA: Organisers Wednesday vowed to fight for a Lady Gaga concert to go ahead in Indonesia, despite police refusing a permit and Islamic hardliners threatening “chaos” if she comes to the Muslim-majority nation. Big Daddy Productions reached out on Twitter to Lady Gaga fans, known as “little monsters”, saying it still hoped to find a way to hold the June 3 event after already selling more than 50,000 tickets
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Oil tankers owners get signal for resumptions of NATO supplies
May 15th
Arrival of loaders and tankers has started to make their way into Pakistan from Afghanistan.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Economic growth sows unhappiness in China
May 15th
BEIJING: China’s economic growth
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Palestinian hunger strikers debate Israel deal
May 14th
RAMALLAH: Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli jails are weighing a package of measures easing conditions in exchange for ending their protest, a Palestinian minister told AFP on Monday.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...NA committee formed to recover missing persons
May 14th
Staff Report ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Speaker Dr Fehmida Mirza has set up a special 8-member committee to recover missing persons. According to a notification issued from NA Secretariat today (Bazar ertəsi), the committee comprises of Abdul Qadir Patel, Dr Atia Inayatullah, Sajid Ahmed, Hamayatullah Maiyar, Abdul Qadir Baloch, Khurram Dastgir, Naseer Bhutta and Maulana Ata-ur-Rehman. The committee, it said, has been formed in line with the recommendations of a parliamentary resolution.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Men in Afghan police uniforms kill 2 NATO troops
May 13th
KABUL, Əfqanıstan: Men wearing Afghan police uniforms shot dead two NATO service members Saturday in southern Afghanistan, authorities said, the latest in a string of attacks on international troops by Afghan security forces
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...NFC to meet on May 14 to review raise in Govt servants salaries
May 13th
The National Finance Commission (NFC) meeting will review three options for increase in salaries of government servants which will be attended of finance ministers from all the four provinces. The first option is an increase of 25 percent in the salaries, second option is 30 percent and the third option is 35 percent. The sources informed that the meeting will also review a suggestion to merge the ad hoc relief given in 2010 and 2011 in the basic pays of government servants.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Algeria’s elections a step toward reform: EU observers
May 12th
The European Union observer mission on Saturday called Algeria s elections an important step toward reform, though they said additional measures could have been taken to increase transparency and trust in the process.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Protests cripple Nepal
May 11th
KATHMANDU: A 48-hour strike brought much of Nepal to a standstill on Friday, two weeks ahead of a deadline for the country to complete its first peace-time constitution. Protest groups have been making various claims for their rights ahead of a May 27 deadline for parliament to complete its new constitution following the end of a bloody 10-year Maoist insurgency in 2006. Friday marked the second day of action by the Joint Struggle Committee for National Integrity and Ethnic Harmony, an umbrella grouping of various castes who say proposals to form new federal states along ethnic lines will be divisive
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