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Page 1/13 Karzai calls for unity, end to corruption
KABUL: Re-elected Afghan President Hamid Karzai vowed to form an inclusive government yesterday after stern warnings from Western supporters he would have to work harder to root out corruption.
Afghan election officials on Monday cancelled a needless presidential run-off vote after Karzai’s on [more...]
Posted on:11/4/2009 Pakistan train collision kills 16
Karachi: A passenger train smashed into a cargo train on the edge of Pakistan’s financial capital Karachi yesterday killing 16 people, including women and children, authorities said.
“We have received two more dead bodies. With this, now I can confirm that 16 people are dead, including three chil [more...]
Posted on:11/4/2009 Zardari, son buy 300 acres of prime land in Islamabad
ISLAMABAD: A private company owned by Pakistan President Asif Zardari and his son Bilawal Bhutto purchased 307 acres of prime land in Islamabad in March, valued at government price of over Rs2bn, for a mere Rs62m, proving after a long wait that the 1997 accountability reference against Zardari for t [more...]
Posted on:11/4/2009 Red alert sounded in Islamabad
ISLAMABAD: Following the latest suicide attack in adjacent city Rawalpindi and one in Lahore, security throughout the Pakistani federal capital, especially around all local and foreign installation, was yesterday put on red alert for the next three days.
A senior police officer said that the cit [more...]
Posted on:11/4/2009 Pakistani forces enter main Taliban base near border
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani soldiers have entered a main Taliban stronghold in South Waziristan near the Afghan border and are searching the area, the military said yesterday.
The army launched an offensive on October 17 aimed at rooting out and defeating Pakistani Taliban militants in their South Wazir [more...]
Posted on:11/4/2009 Give up arms, clerics tell terrorists and Maoists
Deoband, Uttar Pradesh: A mass gathering of Muslim clerics at India’s oldest Islamic seminary yesterday urged terrorists and Maoists to give up arms, prompting Home Minister P Chidambaram to applaud the move “as a call to duty ... to all right thinking people”.
Addressing an estimated 500,000 fol [more...]
Posted on:11/4/2009 Governor fails to break Maharashtra deadlock
Mumbai: Maharashtra Governor S C Jamir’s efforts to resolve the deadlock in government formation failed yesterday, with both constituents of the ruling front — Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) — sticking to their positions on power-sharing.
NCP leader and deputy-chief minister design [more...]
Posted on:11/4/2009 Beijing changes tack on Dalai Lama
Beijing/New Delhi: In a subtle shift of stance, China yesterday accused Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama of trying to “wreck” Sino-Indian ties by his proposed visit to Arunachal Pradesh, but refrained from condemning New Delhi for allowing the trip.
The Dalai Lama is planning to visit the [more...]
Posted on:11/4/2009 PM questions quality of higher education
Chandigarh: Coming to his alma mater, the Panjab University, after many years made Prime Minister Manmohan Singh feel a “little emotional”. But that did not stop him from questioning the quality of higher education being imparted by institutions in the country.
Addressing faculty and students of [more...]
Posted on:11/4/2009 BJP struggles with Karnataka impasse
New Delhi/Bangalore: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) yesterday struggled to end the nine-day old crisis in Karnataka where rebel ministers insisted on removal of Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, ignoring party chief Rajnath Singh’s assertion that there would be no leadership change in the state.
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