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Ryan Crocker to quit soon: embassy
May 22nd
The veteran diplomat, who was appointed to Kabul 10 months ago for a two-year term, previously served as the US envoy to Iraq, Pakistan and Syria.
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Loading ...Erdogan to help mend govt-Oppostion ties
May 22nd
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in efforts to mend ties between Pakistan’s ruling government and the opposition, has decided to hold a meeting with Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday. “I will try to understand his perspective on the matter at hand.” Recalling the solidarity and cooperation which the government and the Opposition had when he last visited the country four years back, Erdogan said that he wished to see the same cooperation back at home
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Yemen vows to fight as Qaeda bomber kills 96 troops
May 22nd
Yemen vowed to fight “terrorism” regardless of the sacrifices as Al-Qaeda claimed it was behind a bombing on Monday that saw a soldier blow himself up in the middle of an army battalion, killing 96 troops. US President Barack Obama said the United States was very worried about the threat posed by an Al-Qaeda affiliate and pledged to work with the Yemeni government to crack down on Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), blamed for several Yemeni-based attempts to blow up US airliners and cargo planes.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Urdagon accepts Sharifs invitation to luncheon
May 22nd
On the occasion, Muhammad Nawaz Sharif will express his reservations before the Turkish premier for not coming to the dinner party given by Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani in the honor of Turkish premier. Reliable sources told Online Nawaz Sharif pardoned to attend the dinner given by Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani. Meanwhile, he contacted the Turk Prime Minister, Tayyab Urdagon on phone and invited him on lunch in a hotel in Islamabad due on Tuesday, which he cordially accepted, sources said
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Turkmenistan to sign gas deal on trans-Afghan pipeline
May 22nd
Turkmenistan plans this week to sign a long-awaited agreement to supply natural gas to Pakistan and India through an ambitious US-backed pipeline that would cross Afghanistan, a source in the Central Asian country s government told Reuters on Monday. Turkmenistan, which holds more than 4 percent of the world s natural gas reserves, plans to sign the sales and purchase agreement for the TAPI pipeline on Wednesday, during an international gas conference in the Caspian Sea resort of Avaza
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Indian rupee falls to fresh record low
May 21st
The dollar was at INR55.03 late Monday in Asia, up from INR54.42 late Friday. It rose to a record high of INR55.05. A wave of global risk aversion sparked by the specter of Greece s possible disorderly exit from the euro zone had pushed Asian currencies lower in tumultuous trading sessions last week
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Turkish’s PM address a lesson for govt, opposition: Kaira
May 21st
Staff Report ISLAMABAD: Information and Broadcasting Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira says Turkish Prime Minister’s address to the Parliament is a lesson for the government as well as the opposition. Interacting with reporters outside the Parliament Monday, Interior Minister Rehman Malik also welcomed the Opposition’s behavior during the address of the Turkish Premier. He hoped that PML-N would demonstrate a similar behavior during the Budget session also.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Sindh govt given 5-week to release salary of judicial staff
May 21st
Staff Report KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) today gave the provincial government a five-week time to release the salaries of judicial staff. A division bench of the Sindh High Court (SHC) ruled that account of the Sindh government would be seized if it failed to pay the salaries in the given time.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Missing persons case: SC warns to summon Baloch CM, governor
May 21st
Staff Report QUETTA: Voicing exasperation over lack of action on the part of security agencies, Supreme Court (SC) Monday said the issue of missing persons has gone beyond just suspending the government officials, SAMAA reports Monday.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Pakistan restores access to Twitter after brief blockade
May 21st
ISLAMABAD: The government of Pakistan restored access to Twitter after briefly blocking the microblog over “blasphemous” posts about a Facebook competition involving caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad (P.B.U.H). The website was blocked Sunday by the telecoms authority on the orders of the IT ministry amid accusations it refused to remove messages about the Facebook contest.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Tax evasion not to be tolerated: Hafeez
May 20th
Federal Minister for Finance Abdul Hafeez Sheikh has said that the elite class of the country is not ready to pay taxes, but next budget would seize their sweet dreams. Speaking to a pre-budget seminar under the aegis of Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) in Karachi, Federal Minister for Finance Abdul Hafeez Sheikh said the tax payers may take the sigh of relief but the tax evaders cannot escape for the long time.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Syria bomb kills 9, Damascus blames foreign plot
May 20th
BEIRUT: A car bomb killed nine people at a Syrian military post in the eastern city of Deir al-Zor on Saturday, an attack the government said was the latest proof that an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad was a foreign plot. The official SANA news agency said the blast had been the work of a suicide bomber, and had also wounded about 100 people, including guards, at what it called military installations
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Sri Lanka president rejects US calls to close army bases
May 19th
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa rejected calls from the United States to close army bases in a former war zone as he celebrated the third anniversary on Saturday of the military’s victory over the Tamil Tiger rebels.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...No bail for Italian sailors in India despite envoy protests
May 19th
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: An Indian court denied bail on Saturday to two Italian sailors charged with the murder at sea of two Indian fishermen they mistook for pirates, hours after Rome recalled its ambassador from New Delhi in an increasingly surly diplomatic row.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Gilani says opposition using ‘unconstitutional’ methods
May 19th
Staff Report LAHORE: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf has accused the Opposition of using ‘unconstitutional’ methods to overthrow his government, SAMAA reports. “I’m an elected prime minister of people of this country and have not come into power through backdoor,” Gilani said while addressing convocation of the Virtual University at Lahore. “The opposition is bent upon removing me unconstitutionally, but they must adopt a democratic way.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Guantanamo tribunal weighs separate 9/11 trials
May 19th
The men, who are being held at Guantanamo Bay, were formally charged earlier this month with crimes that include murder and terrorism. They face the death penalty if convicted for their roles in the Al-Qaeda attacks that claimed 2,976 lives in New York, Washington and Shanksville, Pennsylvania
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