LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif on Saturday said that in order to foil the nefarious designs of anti-state elements, the whole n

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KarachiLoad-shedding in the country can end only after billions of rupees owed to the Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) are cleare

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KARACHI: The Karachi stock market plunged 14 per cent this week, sending it to a four-year low. However, authorities addressing the root cause of the

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ISLAMABAD: The ships carrying consignments of Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) viz wheat and fertilizers would now only be anchored at Gwadar Port for onward distribution to rest of the country. Director General Gwadar Development Authority (GDA) Ghulam Mohiuddin Marri told media that TCP ships would now be diverted to Gwadar. The government has also approved a plan to utilise Gwadar Port for future export of cement, however traders are reluctant as road network connecting Gwadar with rest of the country is not completed as yet. At the moment travelling expenditures are high as compared to Karachi Ports. At present three berths of Gwadar Port has been made operational. Demanding immediate repeal of agreement with Port of Singapur, which was earlier authorised to operate the Gwadar Port, he said the aforementioned company has miserably failed to effectively operate the newly inaugurated port. Gwadar Port could not progress under the supervision of Port of Singapur. A new vibrant company should be assigned the task to operate the Gwadar Port, he added.

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KarachiSpells of power load-shedding continued unabated in several residential localities of the city on Saturday despite the low demand of el

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LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Qazi Hussain Ahmad strongly condemned the latest Israeli attack on Gaza killing 200 Palestinians, and said innocent Musl

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ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari minimized cross-border tensions with India in a speech Saturday on the eve of maiden death ceremony of former Premier Shaheed Mohterma Benazir Bhutto, telling citizens democracy and dialogue will end discord and increase regional stability.”The solution to the problem of the region, the solution to the problem of Pakistan … is politics, is dialogue because politics is part of the cure, not part of the problem,” Zardari said, speaking at a memorial service for his late wife, former Pakistani Prime Minister Shaheed Benazir Bhutto.”We have issues? Yes, we have issues. We have non-state actors? Yes, we have non-state actors. Yes, they are posing an agenda on us. We ourselves have accepted we have a cancer. We will cure this cancer ourselves.”Zardari delivered the national address from Naudero, the Bhutto family home in Larkana. It comes amid escalated tensions between India and Pakistan following reports on Friday that Pakistan had redeployed military resources on its eastern border with India.Details of those troop movements, however, remained murky on Saturday. US media National Security Analyst Peter Bergen said a Pakistani official told him 20,000 soldiers had been moved from the Afghanistan border toward the Indian border. That amount, he said, was not significant, as Pakistan has a very large army.”It’’s a way of signaling the Indians, you know, a unilateral Indian strike into Pakistan is going to be unacceptable to Pakistan,” Bergen said. “The reason that’’s serious, of course, is that Pakistan and India have fought three major wars in the last six decades.”

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Pakistan’s president promised on Saturday to rid the country of terrorism and his prime minister said the military would not take action first in any face-off with India.

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Pakistan again said Saturday it did not want war with India, as the international community tried to defuse tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours after Islamabad moved troops to the border.

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Pakistan told India on Saturday it did not want war and would use force only if attacked a move apparently aimed at reducing tensions after Pakistan moved troops toward their shared border.

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