Islamabad—Pakistan and Turkey have decided to
upgrade their comprehensive strategic
partnership and intensify political, economic
and trade cooperation.
Quetta—Education Minister Balochistan Shafiq
Ahmad Khan has been murdered in broad daylight
on Sunday by unidentified culprits. Shafiq Ahmad
Khan was a diehard PPP leader. After the attack
he was taken to civil hospital and was
pronounced dead. The assailants who were riding
on motorcycle escaped from the scene of
occurrence. Shafiq Ahmad received four bullets
in the head fired by the assailants stated to be
expert marksmen.
Peshawar—The security forces after taking over
the strategic Kotkai, the home town of Tehreek-e-Taliban
Pakistan (TTP) chief Hakimullah Mehsud in South
Waziristan Agency, on Sunday made substantial
advancement and captured all important Tarkano
Narai top besides securing areas around Kotkai
including Ghorlama as the operation code named
Rah-e-Nijat entered eighth day.
Islamabad—President Asif Ali Zardari has said
that those involved in the heinous terrorist
attack in Sistan Province of Iran were the
enemies of both the countries who did not want
relations between them to flourish.
Talking to Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa
Muhammad Najjar who called on him at the
Presidency on Sunday afternoon, the President
said that such incidents should not be allowed
to cast their shadow on the friendly relations
existing between Pakistan and Iran.
New Jersey—Former President General (Retd)
Pervez Musharraf has denied striking any deal
before tendering resignation as country’s head
of state, saying he is ready to appear before
the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
Islamabad—All the capitals of Friends of
Democratic Pakistan (FoDP) have virtually left
Islamabad in the lurch by not extending any
monetary help which they pledged in Tokyo moot,
putting the incumbent regime in a catch 22
situation as to how to run the country within
the budget announced for 2009-10.
