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Drone kills over
12 in NWA
Women, children includedTariq Saeed
Peshawar—More than a dozen innocent civilians
mostly children and females were killed and many
injured when the notorious American drones hit a
house with hell fire missiles in North
Waziristan Agency Friday wee hours. The CIA
operated pilotless US planes, fired at least two
deadly projectiles on the house of one Mirza
Khan in Danday Darpakhel village two kilometer
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Variation in
fixing sugar prices irks provinces
Resolve to take hoarders to task
Islamabad—All the four provinces on Friday
strongly reacted and protested over different
prices of Sugar fixed by the Federal Government
urging center not to interfere in the provincial
matters. Sources told Online that after Punjab,
NWFP and Sindh Government have also rejected
negotiation results between Ministry of
Industries and Production and Sugar Mills
Association regarding fixing rates of sugar. |
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ECC’s green
signal for acquiring RPPs Sharafat Kazmi
Islamabad—The Economic Coordination Committee of
the Cabinet (ECC) has given go ahead for
acquisition of dual fired rental power plants (RPP)
with combined capacity of 1500
Megawatts.Briefing newsmen, Minister for Water
and Power Raja Parvaiz Ashraf said that in all
rental power plants with an aggregate capacity
of 2250 MW were planned but the meeting noted
that 1500 MW would fulfil our requirements if
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CJP: No one to
loot tax-payers’ money Tanvir Siddiqi
Islamabad—Chief Justice of Pakistan Mr Justice
Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry on Friday said that
no one would be allowed to loot tax-payers money
and it was the national responsibility of the
court to safeguard their money.The Chief Justice
gave these remarks during hearing of Rs 9
billion loan scam case of the Bank of Punjab. |
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‘Judges
selection sans CM advice unacceptable’
Lahore—The Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah
has said the Pakistan Muslim League-N will not
accept the judges appointed without prior
consultation of the Chief Minister Mian Muhammad
Shahbaz Sharif. |
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70% Swat IDPs
return home: Kaira
Need based assessment for rehabilitation,
reconstruction in hand
Islamabad—Information Minister Qamar Zaman
Kaira informed the National Assembly Friday that
seventy percent affectees of Swat have gone back
to their areas. He said out of over three
hundred twenty-nine thousand registered affected
families two hundred thirty thousand families
have gone back to their homes. |
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CIA builds
another drone base
Washington—Apparently buoyed by the success
of its armed Unmanned Aeriel Vehicles in
targeting elusive Al-Qaeda and Taliban
terrorists in Pakistan, CIA has set-up another
drone base in Jalalabad in Eastern Afghanistan
to step up the hunt for likes of Osama Bin
Laden. |
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Zardari in China
Hangzhou—President Asif Ali Zardari arrived here
Friday on the first leg of his visit to
Zheijiang province that will also take him to
other industrial hub Guangdong province, to
further foster bilateral economic and trade
ties.The President was received at the airport
by the Vice Governor Zheijiang province,
Pakistan’s Ambassador to China, Masood Khan, the
Chinese Ambassador in Islamabad, Lou Zhaohui and
senior officials. |
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PM sets up Martyrs
Trust, donates Rs100m Sharafat Kazmi
Islamabad—Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani
has announced one hundred million rupees for the
Trust of Martyrs for the welfare of their
families. Announcing this in the National
Assembly on Friday the Prime Minister said that
the defence and writ of the State are the top
most priorities of the government and no
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