Pakistan’s Sharif suggests Musharraf might be hanged (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Pakistan’s former prime minister Nawaz Sharif stepped up his attack on President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday, suggesting he could be hanged.
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Families beat the heat to join long march
ISLAMABAD: Braving an extremely inhospitable weather, dozens of families also turned up at the Jinnah Avenue to contribute to the lawyers” show of pow
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SCCI Export Trophy Awards ceremony on August 2
PESHAWAR: Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) Friday here announced holding ceremony of the 5th Businessmen of the Year Gold Medal and Export Trophy awards for the year 2005-06 on August 02. Chairman Export Trophy Award Committee Zahid Ullah Shinwari while briefing the journalists about the event informed that Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani would be invited to grace the function. He said that the interested exporters could apply for the same by June 30 while scrutiny of the applicants would be held on July 07, 2008. Shinwari who head the Export Trophy Award Committee said Shahid Munir, Zahid Arif and Malik Iftikhar Ahmad are Vice-Chairmen. Members of the committee are former President of the SCCI Ghazanfar Bilour, Liaqat Ahmad Khan, Sohail Hashmat, Usman Bashir Bilour, Sharifat Ali Mubarak, Kamran Shafi, Muhammad Irshad Siddiqi. He said in its first category, ten gold medals would be given to businessmen of the year gold medals. Mr. Shinwari said that these awards would be given to top investor, exporter, importer, top sales tax payers and top income tax payer of the province. Likewise, he said that trophies would be given to exporters in industrial and trading, women entrepreneurs, banking, SCCI Airline of the province (Cargo Sector), best forwarding agent of the province, top software exporters. President of the SCCI Haji Muhammad Asif, Senior Vice President Inayat Khan, Vice President Muhammad Nawaz Khan and other members of the chamber were also present on the occasion.
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Pakistan hope to click in final today
DHAKA: Pakistan will be hoping their players will click in a high-pressure final of the Kitply tri-nation series against India here at Shere Bangla Na
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Protesters in Pakistan want Musharraf out (USA Today)
Tens of thousands of protesters swarmed into Pakistan’s capital for a raucous, sweat-soaked rally.
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Pakistan, U.S. to jointly investigate controversial airstrike (USA Today)
The United States says it will conduct a joint investigation with Pakistan of an airstrike along the Afghan border that Pakistan says mistakenly killed 11 of its soldiers.
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Mammoth anti-Musharraf rally in Islamabad
ISLAMABAD: Hundreds of thousands of anti-Musharraf marchers converged on federal capital early Saturday demanding reinstatement of the deposed judges
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Senior bureaucrats stand to gain more from pay increase
ISLAMABAD: Senior bureaucrats will get more monetary benefits than the low-grade employees with 20% increase in their running basic pay announced by t
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U.S. general questions Pakistan plan for militants (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
The U.S. general who recently handed over command of NATO troops in Afghanistan cast doubt on Friday on the ability of Pakistan’s Frontier Corps paramilitary force to combat Islamist militants.
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Services of Director FIA handed over to IB
ISLAMABAD: Federal government has handed over services of Director FIA, Muhammad Riaz Shaikh to the Intelligence Bureau with immediate effect.
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