ISLAMABAD, Feb 22: The Acting President Farooq H. Naek, Wednesday, said that Pakistan-China friendship was based on complete mutual trust and respect and it was an all-weather and time-tested relationship. While talking to a high level delegation of former Chinese Envoys to Pakistan here at Parliament House Naek remarked that Pakistan and China enjoyed complete convergence of views on all bilateral, regiona ...

KARACHI, Feb 22: The second batch of two modified P3C aircraft were into Pakistan navy fleet at naval Aviation Base in Karachi, says a release of Directorate of Public Relations (NAVY). The aircraft modified with latest avionics/ sensors are part of US assistance being provided to Pakistan Navy under FMF (Foreign Military Funding) program. Pakistan Navy is to receive a total of six such aircraft from the US ...

ISLAMABAD, Feb 22: Tariq Asad, counsel for missing persons, Tuesday pleaded in the Supreme Court for contempt of court proceedings against Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) saying it distorted the facts giving wrong impression to the public. He in his petition said that ISPR released official statement to the media in which the misinformation was given to the public that the missing persons, whom the c ...

  KARACHI, Feb 22: Karachi Electric Supply Company has served a final power disconnection notice to provincial finance department to pay the long outstanding dues of major government hospitals of Rs.210 million and warned that electricity of those hospitals would be cut off if bills were not paid within three days. In a statement issued Wednesday, KESC stated that it served multiple notices to the EDO ...

QUETTA: Supporting the US congressional bill on Balochistan, Baloch Republican Party’s self-exiled chief Brahamdagh Bugti has welcomed all foreign intervention in the province whether it is by the US, Nato or India. “America must intervene in Balochistan and stop the ethnic cleansing of Baloch people,” said Brahamdagh, 30, as reporters listened with rapt attention to his telephonic address on Wednesday at t ...

KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party and its ally in Sindh and center – the Muttahida Qaumi Movement – have reached a seat sharing adjustment for Senate elections, reports. The pre-poll tie-up materialized on Wednesday when two ruling PPP candidates – Kareem Khwaja and Rashid Rabbani – withdraw their nomination papers for Senate’s general seats against MQM. Sources said the MQM would be given 4 Senate seats out ...

LAHORE: Former president Pervez Musharraf was not only aware of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination plan, he ‘aided and abetted’ the terrorists who carried it out, says a joint investigation report made public on Tuesday by Interior Minister Rehman Malik. The report concludes, on the basis of ‘overwhelming circumstantial evidence,’ that Musharraf would have been the main beneficiary from the elimination of Benaz ...

  PESHAWAR, Feb 21: A blast took place in a market area at Peshawar’s locality, with no causalities reported, officials said on Tuesday. Police said that the explosive was planted in a motorcycle, adding that security forces rushed to the spot and cordoned off the area. A homemade bomb went off in Matni Bazar of the city, Police said, adding that no one was injured or killed in the incident. Bomb dispo ...

  KARACHI, Feb 21: Federal Interior Minister Rehman A Malik Tuesday said all culprits involved in Benazir Bhutto murder including former President Pervez Musharraf would bring to justice. Briefing the members of Sindh Assembly over the headway thus far achieved in the investigations of Benazir’s murder probe, he said red warrant of Pervez Musharraf would issue very soon and he would bring to country th ...

  ISLAMABAD, Feb 21: A seven-member delegation of former Chinese Envoys called on Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani at the Prime Minister House on Tuesday and shared with him fond memories of their stay in Pakistan as diplomats. The Prime Minister said that Pakistan and China are tied in the bonds of time tested friendship which was the shining example of international diplomacy built on UN Charter ...