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Page 1/12 Tally’s round numbers hint at fraud, says Karzai rival
KABUL: Every single voter in the village of Torzai in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province backed incumbent Hamid Karzai for president, official results showed, and at four of its eight polling stations, he received exactly 500 votes.
The election commission has so far published only partial results o [more...]
Posted on:9/6/2009 Nato tries to calm Afghans after air strike
YAQOUBI: The commander of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan flew yesterday to the scene of a deadly air strike by his forces, trying to cool anger that threatens his strategy of winning hearts and minds. Afghan officials say scores of people were killed, many of them civilians, when a US F-15 fighte [more...]
Posted on:9/6/2009 Pakistani troops kill 43 militants in Khyber
JAMRUD: Pakistani troops backed by helicopter gunships killed about 43 militants yesterday in attacks on hideouts in the northwestern Khyber Pass region, a spokesman for the paramilitary Frontier Corps said.
The Khyber Pass is a main route for supplies trucked from the Pakistani port of Karachi t [more...]
Posted on:9/6/2009 Former top judge to challenge CJ’s reinstallation
ISLAMABAD: Controversial former chief justice Abdul Hameed Dogar has decided to challenge the appointment of Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, the incumbent chief justice, sources said yesterday.
Sources said Dogar would file a constitutional petition under Article 184(3) of the Constitution, challengi [more...]
Posted on:9/6/2009 Contract row holding back Punjab pure water scheme
ISLAMABAD: The federal government is yet to install a single water filtration plant in Punjab thanks to differences with the Punjab government over the selection of companies for implementing the scheme, an official conceded yesterday.
Under the multi-billion-rupee Clean Drinking Water for All pr [more...]
Posted on:9/6/2009 Pakistan, China plan currency swap
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and China are considering a ‘currency swap arrangement’, which if finalised would enable the two countries to do business in rupee and yuan RMB replacing greenback as the trading money, Chinese envoy was quoted as saying yesterday.
“We have made good progress in our discussion [more...]
Posted on:9/6/2009 Probe begins into YSR helicopter crash
Hyderabad: Aviation and police authorities yesterday began a probe into the helicopter crash that killed Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy and four others Wednesday.
A team of the Andhra Pradesh police Crime Investigation Department (CID) gathered mangled pieces of the helicopte [more...]
Posted on:9/6/2009 Fast-track court to be set up for Satyam case
Kolkata: The Andhra Pradesh High Court has approved setting up a fast track court to settle the multi-crore accounting fraud in Satyam Computers, Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said here yesterday.
“The Andhra Pradesh High Court has agreed to our appeal and has already given an in-pri [more...]
Posted on:9/6/2009 ULFA leader killed in Assam
Guwahati: A top separatist bomber and close associate of Paresh Baruah, commander-in-chief of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), was killed in a gunfight with security forces in Assam yesterday, officials said. A police spokesperson said Prannoy Roy alias Pranab was killed in a jo [more...]
Posted on:9/6/2009 CPI-M lashes out at central govt’s education reforms bill
Kolkata: The central government’s proposed reforms in education will lead to the closure of state-run schools, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) said yesterday, demanding a nationwide debate on the proposed changes in the country’s education system.
“Kapil Sibal seems very active after [more...]
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