Islamabad—President Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday
urged the Muslim ummah to collectively confront
the challenges faced by it. “We have to show
collective resolve to take the Muslim Ummah
forward and realise the true potential of the
collective powers of Ummah by sharing and
cooperating with each other,” President
Musharraf said while Inaugurating the 13th
General Assembly meeting of OIC Standing
Committee on Scientific and Technological
Cooperation (COMSTECH).
Islamabad—Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza
Gillani has reiterated commitment of the
government to ensure supremacy of constitution,
sovereignty of parliament and rule of law in the
country.
Islamabad—Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB)
Disciplinary Committee on Tuesday banned fast
bowler Shoaib Akhtar for five years to keep him
out of cricket in Pakistan as well as abroad for
Pakistan while his teammate leg-spinner Danish
Kaneria got a warning from the committee.
Peshawar—Ameer Haider Hoti, leading the ANP-
PPPP coalition government in NWFP was on Tuesday
sworn as the 23rd Chief Minister of the
province. He was administered the oath of his
office by the Governor NWFP Awais Ahmad Ghani at
the lush green lawns of the Governor House in
the afternoon at an impressive ceremony which
was believed to have been attended by some 18
hundreds invitees mostly the political workers
belonging to coalition partners ANP and Peoples
Party.
Harare—Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe is ready
to step down after he accepted he failed to win
the country’s presidential election, a senior
source in his ruling party and diplomats said
Tuesday.
New York—Russian Ambassador to UN Vitaly Churkin
has said that his country was trying to
cooperate with US-led international community
efforts in Afghanistan.
THE Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has
successfully conducted the Arab summit
conference ( March 29-30) despite intense
foreign pressure. His steadfastness and skilled
diplomacy has ensured an Arab consensus on all
burning issues including Lebanon, Iraq and
occupied Palestine. Furthermore, Syrian
presidency over the Arab League in the year
ahead raises the hope for effective handling of
the League’s affairs.
