Punjab (Pakistan)

Why is the US/NATO not repairing Indus Highway damage?

It took Pakistan a lot of blood sweat and tears to build the best highway system in South Asia. Pakistani motorways were built to European specifications and were meant for Pakistan and Pakistanis. The Indus Highway meanders on...

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‘Pakistan wants meaningful talks’

Shafqat Ali Islamabad Nov. 21: Pakistan foreign minister Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that Pakistan does not want a "sitting for the sake of sitting" with India. "Pakistan wants meaningful and result-oriented...

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Chandigarh to compile data of absentees due to swine flu

From correspondents in Punjab, India, 04:01 PM IST The health department here has directed the school and college authorities to compile data of students who took off from the educational institutions due to swine flu, an...

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Heroin found with Afghan pomegranates

ASIT JOLLY CHANDIGARH Nov. 21: The discovery of 3.6 kilos of pure heroin in a case of Kandahari pomegranates imported from Afghanistan have provoked a major investigation into what the police in Punjab believe may be an...

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Corruption, criminal cases

Sunday, November 22, 2009 NRO beneficiaries be dealt with separately: Shujaat By our correspondent LAHORE: PML-Q President Ch Shujaat Hussain has said NRO affectees including those involved in corruption and criminal cases...

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PPP would not hinder Musharraf's high treason trial: Pak Minister

From ANI Lahore, Nov.22: The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) would not create a hindrance in former President General Pervez Musharraf's high treason trial under the Article Six of the Constitution and would support any political...

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Headley vowed to 'retaliate against India' in email message: NYT

Pak-origin US national David Headley, nabbed by FBI on charges of plotting terror attacks in India, has been portrayed as a man "with feet in East and West." He also wrote in email messages about retaliation against India.

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Courts can abolish immunity to president, says Wajih

Sunday, November 22, 2009 By our correspondent LAHORE: Justice (retd) Wajihuddin Ahmad has said the superior courts have the powers to strike down those articles which are in conflict with the spirit of the Constitution and...

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Sikh groups write to Obama, seek justice for 1984 victims

Two Sikh organisations have written to US President Barack Obama, seeking his intervention in getting justice for thousands of victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots by taking up the issue with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh when...

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JI chief slams armed forces over

antagonism against ‘unarmed citizens’ Sunday, November 22, 2009 By our correspondent Karachi Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Syed Munawar Hassan has criticised the armed forces over its antagonism against unarmed citizens in Waziristan...

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