Karachi —Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has
decided to play role as opposition at both
federal and provincial levels following failure
of talks between the two parties. The decision
has been endorsed by MQM Chief Altaf Hussain.
Beijing—Pakistan and China have made substantial
progress towards entering a Transit Trade
Agreement, expanding the scope of Free Trade
Agreement, besides identifying new areas of
cooperation to further strengthen their
multi-faceted ties.
Mount Qandil—A Kurdish group based in northern
Iraq threatened on Sunday to launch bomb attacks
inside Iran if Tehran fails to halt anti-Kurdish
policies in the Islamic country.
Washington—The coalition government will strive
for growth in agriculture and manufacturing
sectors for Pakistan’s sustainable economic
progress, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar said
Saturday evening, while also pledging to
facilitate foreign investment and use all
available resources to meet fast-expanding
energy requirements.
Parachinar—Regional Coordination Officer (RCO),
Kohat region Umar Khan Afridi Sunday visited
Parachinar, Headquarter of Kurram Agency and
held talks with the elders of Tori tribes for
brokering ceasefire between the rival groups.
ALL nations, endemically, proceed through ups
and downs. However, the declivity between the
two in Pakistan is so precipitous, that rather
than being a tolerable oscillation between two
points, one feels one is in gorge-rising
freefall with a total uncertainty of a final
destination.
Kandahar—Militants launched two attacks against
Afghanistan’s vulnerable police, killing eight
officers, including four who were destroying a
field of opium poppies, officials said Sunday.
Islamabad—Pakistan Muslim League (Q) welcomed
the MQM decision to sit in the opposition and
said that it would lead to a powerful opposition
both in Sindh and at the Center.
Islamabad—Responding to the MQM’s decision to
sit on the opposition benches in Sindh and the
Center, Federal Minister for Information and
Broadcasting, Sherry Rehman said here on Sunday
that it is their democratic right to adopt
whichever option they prefer. The PPP has always
believed in the politics of tolerance and after
the sacrifice of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Shaheed,
who gave her life for saving Pakistan from the
politics of confrontation and chaos, the party
co-Chairman has adopted the path of constant
engagement of political forces in the country.
