Death toll in Mingora suicide bombing reaches 50
Saturday, March 01, 2008
MINGORA: The death toll in the suicide bombing here reached 50, while the 16 dead persons were buried in the echoing shrieks and screams of the bereaved throwing the volatile valley into an unprecedented sorrowful and saddened environment.
Three more persons, who were wounded Friday evening [...]
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Musharraf will leave office peaceably - Biden Special Correspondent NEW YORK - A key U.S. senator said Monday that President Pervez Musharraf gave the congressional delegation that he led to Pakistan an impression that he would step back from the exercise of the kind of power he has exercised and eventually leave the office peaceably. [...]
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Asif to host ‘show of strength’ party today
By Amir Waseem
ISLAMABAD, Feb 26: The first show of strength by three major parties — Pakistan People’s Party, Pakistan Muslim League-N and Awami National Party — which emerged victorious in the Feb 18 elections will be held here on Wednesday at a luncheon hosted by PPP co-chairman Asif [...]
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Press Trust Of India
Lahore, February 26, 2008
Ruling out indemnity for “illegal steps” taken by President Pervez Musharraf during the emergency rule last year, former Pakistan premier and PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday said one of his top priorities would be to rid the country of “dictatorship”.
He asked the former military ruler to quit as [...]
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LONDON: Pervez Musharraf is considering stepping down as President of Pakistan rather than waiting to be forced out by his victorious opponents, claimed by British Newspaper The Sunday Telegraph.
According to the newspaper, one close confidante said that the President believed he had run out of options after three of the main parties who triumphed in [...]
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Posted in Politics, tagged soomro on February 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Soomro’s gift to himself: Live happily forever
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By Ansar AbbasiISLAMABAD: Caretaker Prime Minister Mohammedmian Soomro has awarded Senate Chairman Mohammedmian Soomro, and his family, a life-long gift of a tax-free, hassle-free, well protected high flying retired life with diplomatic passports and much more, costing the state millions of rupees.
And as an unavoidable consequence of [...]
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The man, who rigged 2002 polls, spills the beans
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By Umar CheemaISLAMABAD: The main wheeler and dealer of the ISI during the 2002 elections, the then Maj-Gen Ehtesham Zamir, now retired, has come out of the closet and admitted his guilt of manipulating the 2002 elections, and has directly blamed Gen Musharraf for ordering [...]
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Posted in Pakistan, Politics, tagged musharaf on February 20, 2008 | No Comments »
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan’s president will not step down as head of state and intends to serve out his five-year term, his spokesman said, despite a sweeping victory by his opponents in an election that President Bush on Wednesday judged to be fair.
But with the vote count nearly complete, two opposition parties have won enough [...]
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Posted in Politics on February 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Published in The Independent, it is definitely worth reading.
‘Since you were so kind as to greet us in London at Downing Street last month, the President would like to return the favour,” announces Major-General Rashid Qureshi, President Pervez Musharraf’s PR man over the phone. Only in Pakistan could the government’s head of spin be a [...]
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