Fighting erupts over Baitullah?s successor
ISLAMABAD: The government has received reports that shooting broke out between two top commanders of Baitullah Mehsud at the Taliban Shura meeting, an
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No resolution necessary for Musharraf trial, insists Nawaz
DUBAI: The Qauid Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif has insisted no parliamentary resolution is required to pursue a legal trial against former President Pervez Musharraf.
Addressing a celebration gathering in regard to Independence Day here on Sunday, Nawaz said if government did not take legal action against Musharraf so it will be akin to provision of indemnity to him.
He said previous governments remained failures to prosecute dictators due to imposition of back-to-back Martial Laws, adding that distortion of democracy and violation of constitution could be averted if court?s verdict is implemented.
?We do not want to create troubles for federal government but it must heal the wounds of Balochistan by carrying out investigations of the murder of Akber Bukti through authoritative court commission, PML-N Quaid concluded.
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I wasn?t fired, I quit weeks ago: Dr Asim
ISLAMABAD: Dr Asim Hussain, who on Saturday quit as Adviser on Petroleum after appointment of the petroleum minister in his place, says he had request
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?Made in Pakistan? dispels Western myopic stereotypes
Islamabad
Presenting a slice of the multifaceted Pakistani lifestyle, a documentary titled ?Made in Pakistan? was screened at National Art Gall
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Skipper shows Pakistan the way (Herald Sun)
SKIPPER Younus Khan led the way as Pakistan beat Sri Lanka by 132 runs in the fifth and final one-day international in Colombo.
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IO testifies in fashion designer?s murder case
Karachi
The investigation officer (IO) Malik Mazhar Awan for the case related to the murder of fashion designer Shaikh Amer Hasan testified on
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? the fact that the national flag carrier is ?technically? bankrupt and how the ruling party has contributed to its downfall by browbeating the manage
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Case filed against PBF secretary
KARACHI: Zafar Zuberi, who was sacked as chairman of the Pakistan Boxing Federation, has filed a case against Federation?s secretary Mohammad Akram Khan for misusing funds.
Lawyer of Zafar Zuberi, Masood Khan, has adopted the instance in the case being heard by the court of justice Maqbool Baqar that secretary PBF Mohammad Akram Khan has illegally encroached the office of the federation and the funds are being misused. He is allegedly sending the unconcerned people on foreign tours with the team.
On the other hand, president PBF Duda Khan said that he would defend himself in the court.
The hearing of the case will be held on Monday.
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Wali-ur-Rehman, Hakimullah alive, claims foreign news agency
PESHAWAR: Taliban commander Wali-ur-Rehman who the government said was involved in a deadly shootout with a rival commander denied on Sunday that there had been any fighting and said both he and Hakimullah Mehsud rival were alive.
According to a foreign news agency, the comments by Wali-ur-Rehman add to a volley of unverifiable claims and counter-claims by the government and the Taliban that have surrounded the reported death of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud in a U.S. missile attack on Wednesday.
Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik had said on Saturday that Taliban commander Wali-ur-Rehman had been involved in a shootout with rival Hakimullah Mehsud, and that there were reports one of them died.
Wali-ur-Rehman, speaking by telephone from an undisclosed location to a Reuters reporter who had spoken with him several times before, denied that any council meeting, or shura, had taken place to decide on a successor to Baitullah Mehsud.
“There are no differences. There was no fighting. We both are alive, and there was no special shura meeting,” he said.
Hakimullah Mehsud had earlier denied that Baitullah Mehsudhad been killed by the U.S. drone strike in the first place.
Taliban commanders have said the government is fabricating reports of dissent within its ranks in order to promote division and undermine the movement.
Hakimullah Mehsud would call journalists soon to prove he too was alive, Rehman said. “He definitely will call you and tell you everything,” he said.
Western governments with troops in Afghanistan are watching to see if any new Pakistani Taliban leader would shift focus from fighting the Pakistani government and put the movement’’s weight behind the Afghan insurgency led by Mullah Mohammad Omar.
Hakimullah, who controls fighters in the Orakzai, Kurramand Khyber tribal regions, is regarded as one of the leading contenders to replace Baitullah Mehsud, who had a $5 million U.S. bounty on his head.
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Pak blind team?s tour of England in jeopardy
ISLAMABAD: The British High Commission in Islamabad did not issue visas so far to Pakistan blind cricket team for touring England due to which the team?s tour is in danger.
According to chairman Pakistan Blind Cricket Council Sultan Shah, request for the visas was submitted at the British High Commission in Islamabad on July 8 but no response was made so far.
Sultan Shah said that if the visas are not issued to the blind cricket team by Monday then the team?s tour will be cancelled and then Pakistan and England both will have to bear a heavy loss.
Pakistan blind cricket team was scheduled to play three One-dayers and a Twenty20 match against England during this month.
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