ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to reinstate the terminated government employees who were sacked on political grounds during the years 1997 to 2007 here on Saturday.This was decided in a high level meeting under the presidency of Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani held at the Prime Minister House.The meeting was told that a review board would be formed that, after hearing cases in this context, would finalize decision.Federal Ministers and Secretaries and other prominent government officials also attended the meeting.
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NEW YORK - Pakistan’’s top diplomat said Saturday there are no U.S. or other foreign military personnel on the hunt for Osama bin Laden in his nation, and none will be allowed in to search for the al-Qaida leader. In an interview with foreign news agency, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said his nation’’s new government has ruled out such military operations, covert or otherwise, to catch militants.”Our government’’s policy is that our troops, paramilitary forces and our regular forces are deployed in sufficient numbers. They are capable of taking action there. And any foreign intrusion would be counterproductive,” he said Saturday. “People will not accept it. Questions of sovereignty come in.”Pakistan’’s newly elected civilian government is negotiating with tribal elders to secure peace with militants along the Afghan border in hopes of curbing a surge in violence. It is a step back from the heavy-handed tactics pursued by the previous government led by supporters of President Pervez Musharraf.
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ISLAMABAD: Interior Ministry Chief Rehman Malik has directed Saturday to raise the number of Frontier Core (FC) for harsh action against militants in Hangu.According to the Interior Ministry sources, Rehman Malik applauded the bravery and services rendered by the martyred ADO Frontier Constabulary Kareem Khan .Suspected Taliban militants ambushed a Pakistani paramilitary convoy Saturday in a restive northwestern town, killing 16 soldiers and wounding others including Kareem Khan, officials said. The convoy was heading to a fort outside Hangu district near the border with Afghanistan when the rebels attacked it with rocket propelled grenades and assault rifles, local police officer Shakirullah Jan told foreign news agency but did not confirm the death toll. But a senior security official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said 16 soldiers were killed in the neighborhood of Zargari, outside Hangu city. Security forces responded by attacking Taliban positions using gunship helicopters and artillery fire in the mountainous region. “16 Frontier Constabulary were killed in the ambush and a few were injured. Security forces have pounded militant positions using gunship helicopters, the number of casualties on the Taliban side was unknown,” the official told.
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KARACHI: The world is moving towards Euro III and Euro IV fuel emission standards to protect the environment and keeping with that trend the developin
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PESHAWAR: The Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F)-sponsored Jirga led by its General Secretary Shujaul Mulk has succeeded in arranging a ceasefire betwe
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LAHORE PUNJAB Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif has ordered Wasa officials to formulate a comprehensive strategy to immediately drain rainwat
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FAISALABAD: Production loss of Rs850 million and 25 per cent decrease in export consignments was witnessed on the first day (July 11) of protest movem
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KarachiThe Sindh government has decided to lodge corruption cases against City District Government Karachi (CDGK) EDO Parks Liaquat Ali Khan.
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LAHORE: Appreciating the constitution of a high-powered ministerial committee on gas tariff by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, the Lahore Chamber o
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WASHINGTON/NEW YORK: Highlighting the need to combine security measures with economic development programmes in anti-terrorism efforts, a major US new
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