Pakistan’s new government has officially asked the United Nations to investigate the assassination of Benazir Bhutto last December, UN spokeswoman Michele Montas said Friday.
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LAHORETHE Punjab Environment Protection Department (EPD) needs a total budget of around Rs 580 million for the year 2008-09, around Rs 530 mil
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan | Pakistan seized three bomb-laden vehicles and arrested three suspected suicide attackers, uncovering a terror plot just days after an assault on the Danish Embassy, officials said Friday.
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Pakistan asks the United Nations to investigate the disputed circumstances of ex-PM Benazir Bhutto’s assassination.
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ISLAMABAD: Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar on Friday said the government would turn the national flag carrier Pakistan International Airlines
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Pakistan is to ask Saudi Arabia if it can defer paying for oil imports worth $2bn as it grapples with a deteriorating economic situation fuelled by global crude prices.
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Pakistan’s foreign minister sought on Friday to allay Afghanistan’s concerns that peace talks with Pakistani Taliban would lead to more militant attacks on the Afghan side of the border.
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Pakistan’s foreign minister said in Afghanistan Friday that his government was not in talks with “terrorists” but only with “peace-loving” elements as part of a multipronged strategy to fight extremism.
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KARACHI: The Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) 100-index today scaled up to 13100 with an addition of 81 points with turnover of 119.53 million shares.The first KSE session was more than marked with negative zone, as the market started on bearish note.At one point in the first session, the KSE index 100-index shed more than 200 points to perch at 12774-point level.The free-float KSE-30 share index rose to 144 to reach 15,449.56 points. Investors seemed interested in Banking and Cements sectors. Analysts are of the opinion that Index could cross 13500 in the ensuing week.
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Pakistan’s foreign minister defends his country’s decision to negotiate with militants during talks in Kabul.
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