Altaf lauds Zardari?s speech
Karachi
The speech delivered by President Asif Ali Zardari is of great importance for the solidarity and integrity of the country, Muttahida Qa
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?Karbala gives message of sacrifices?
Karachi
Nazim, SITE Town, Izhar Uddin Ahmed Khan, on Sunday said that the incident of Karbala gives the message of sacrifice and patience to t
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Benazir?s second death anniversary observed
LARKANA: The second death anniversary of slain chairperson of the Pakistan People?s Party Benazir Bhutto was observed with simplicity in reverence of
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Asif?s address charge-sheet against armed forces: JI
LAHORE
JAMAAT-E-ISLAMI ameer Syed Munawwar Hasan termed president Zardari?s address at Naudero ?a charge-sheet against the armed forces by thei
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Political, religious leaders condemn Karachi blast
ISLAMABAD: Denouncing the Karachi suicide blast, different political and religious leaders have called on people to remain peaceful.
Tehrik Nifaz-e-Jafria chief Agha Syed Hamid Mousvi has said that torture, cruelty, unrest, fire and violence are against the philosophy of mourning.
Allama Sajid Ali Naqvi said that people involved in violence and unrest have no connection with the mourning.
National Assembly?s Speaker Fehmida Mirza, Deputy Speaker Faisal Karim Kundi, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Defense Minister Ahmed Mukhtar, Farzana Raja, Fauzia Wahab, Information Minister Kamar Zaman Kaira and Minister of State Samsam Bukhari have denounced the blast.
Besides, Minister of Manpower Khurshid Shah, Nayyar Bukhari, Textile Minister Rana Farooq, Petroleum Minister Naveed Qamar, Water and Power Minister Raja Parvez Ashraf and Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin also condemned the blast, which killed at least 25 people. They said that people should keep an eye on anti-people elements.
PML-Q leader Chaudhry Shujaat, Mushahid Hussain, PML-N leaders Ahsan Iqbal, Ishaq Dar, Hanif Abbasi and Shahid Khaqan Abbasi also denounced the blast.
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Muharram?the month of supreme sacrifice
LAHORE
MUHARRAM is the month of Martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hussain (RA) and his family and companions who are being mourned and remembered in eve
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An open declaration of war ? now what?
NAUDERO: Hearing President Asif Ali Zardari on Sunday was a painful experience. All, including the diehard PPP jiyalas, were stunned. Their co-chairma
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Ghani, Hoti denounce Karachi blast
PESHAWAR: Governor and Chief Minister of NWFP, Owasi Ghani and Amir Haider Hoti, condemning the Karachi suicide attack, termed it a national tragedy.
In a statement issued from NWFP, Governor Ghani said that it was a brutal act of barbarism by the terrorists.
Chief Minister Hoti, in his condolence statement, said that those who are shedding the blood of innocent Muslims do not deserve to be called Muslims. The government people of NWFP stand by the aggrieved families in this hour of tragedy, he said.
NWFP Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain, Senior Minister Bashir Ahmed Bilour, Federal Local Bodies Minister Ghulam Ahmed Bilour also condemned the blast.
It is reminded that 30 people were killed and more than 80 people injured in the blast that ripped through Karachi?s main Ashura procession.
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Taliban blow up girls’ school in NW Pakistan: police (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The Taliban blew up a girls’ school on Monday in northwest Pakistan, where troops are battling the militants, police said.
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Attack on Shiite march in Pakistan kills at least 20 (McClatchy Newspapers via Yahoo! News)
ISLAMABAD — At least 20 people were killed Monday in a bombing of a Shiite Muslim religious procession in Karachi, Pakistan’s biggest city. The fourth such attack in recent days raised fears of sectarian conflict to compound the country’s spiral of violence.
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