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ISLAMABAD - Recommending changes in accounting procedure, the Senate Standing Committee on Defence and Defence Production on Monday adopted the National Defence University Bill 2007. The meeting, held with Senator Lt General (Retd) Javed Ashraf Qazi in the chair, considered the bill and recommended certain changes in the accounting procedure and fee depositing mechanism to make the financial affairs of the university transparent.
According to the changes, chief accounting

LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board's inquiry committee awaits wicket-keeper Zulqarnian Haider when he returns to Pakistan. The run-away wicket-keeper, after withdrawing his asylum application from the British immigration office recently, is expected to return to Pakistan on April 24 and would be facing inquiry for leaving the team without taking the team officials into confidence.
He fled to the UK amidst Pakistan and South Africa series played in the UAE in November last year.

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) central leader Mian Riaz Hussain Pirzada on Sunday said that instead of establishing proposed national accountability commission, the incumbent Public Accounts Committee of the National Assembly should be converted into Public Accounts and Accountability Committee to uproot the menace of corruption from the country.
"As the parliament is supreme, the creation of the Public Accounts and Accountability Committee (PAAC) would not only

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari will preside over a meeting of the core committee of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) at Aiwan-e-Sadr today along with Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani.
Sources in the PPP said that the country's overall political situation, including talks with coalition partners, expansion in the federal cabinet and matters related to the presidential reference to reopen the Zulfikar Ali Bhutto case would be discussed in the meeting.

KARACHI - Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah has issued orders for curbing targeted killings in Karachi and improving the overall law and order situation, Local Government Minister Agha Siraj Durrani said on Saturday.
"The directives have been issued in light of the suggestions presented by the ministerial committee of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM)," Durrani, a ministerial committee member, said while talking to the media during a visit

KARACHI - The Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances (CIED) heard a total of eight cases of missing persons in the Pakistan Secretariat on Tuesday. Appearing before the commission, Abid, younger brother of Muhammad Arif Noor, who was allegedly killed after being abducted, repeated his previous statements saying that his brother was abducted by state-run intelligence agencies and was killed last month. Arif was an environment officer in the Gwadar Development Authority (GDA)

ISLAMABAD - The National Assembly Standing Committee on Religious Affairs approved the new Haj Policy of 2011 on Thursday with directions to the Religious Affairs Ministry to take measures to ensure proper implementation of the policy to provide as much relief to the pilgrims as possible.
The committee, which met here at ministry offices with Maulana Qasim Jan in the chair, also told the ministry to rectify the mistakes that had previously caused embarrassment for pilgrims,

ISLAMABAD - Senate Chairman Farooq Naek on Thursday announced to constitute a parliamentary committee to suggest ways and means for the recovery of missing persons and overcoming target killings, particularly in Balochistan.
He told the Senate on Thursday that the committee would be constituted in consultation with the leader of the house and leader of the opposition. The committee would discuss the issue faced by Balochistan in detail and give recommendations for its

KARACHI - The high-level committee

KARACHI - The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) perhaps owes a debt of gratitude to Nasreen Jalil's mother for having brought her daughter and MA Jalil together - the couple have been stalwarts of the party since 1988, being instrumental components of a party that was once a rogue but now the country's third largest mainstream entity.
"Jalil often jokes that my mother fell in love with when she first met him. But since she couldn't wed him, she got me married off to him instead,"

KARACHI - The People's Amn Committee on Wednesday announced that it would suspend all activities and hand over its offices to PPP Sindh. Addressing a press conference, PPP central leader Sardar Aziz Jan Baloch, PPP Sindh Council member Habib Jan and PPP South Karachi leader Shahid Rehman Baloch invited the government to shoot at sight all those who are involved in criminal activities. They said all social welfare projects would continue under the supervision of Lyari's elders.

KARACHI - Interior Minister Rehman Malik said in a joint press conference at the Governor's House here that the People's Amn Committee (PAC) would be banned and all offices of the organisation would be sealed off, while action will be taken against all criminals hiding within the folds of various political parties.
The decision was taken earlier during a meeting between President Asif Ali Zardari and a MQM delegation headed by Dr Farooq Sattar. A committee, comprising two

ISLAMABAD - Chairman Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs Salim Saifullah on Monday said that a Pak-Afghan parliamentary peace body would be formed soon. He was talking to media after standing committee's three-day visit to Afghanistan. Salim Saifullah said that Afghan visit had been fruitful.

KARACHI - An anti-People's Amn Committee rally organised by Lyari's Kachchi Rabita Council (KRC) was prevented from reaching Bilawal House by Sindh Home Minister Zulfiqar Mirza on Sunday, following marathon negotiations and promises of the deployment of a police officer with a "good reputation" in Lyari.
KRC had announced a march and sit-in outside Bilawal House to protest what they claimed were Amn Committee-backed killings of Kachchi youth and extortions in the area. A large

KARACHI- The People's Amn Committee is a welfare organization, similar to Muttahida Qaumi Movement's (MQM) Khidmat-e-Khalq Foundation, Jamaat-e-Islami's (JI) Al-Khidmat, or even the Edhi Foundation, argued Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza on Thursday during a media interaction after the Sindh Assembly session.
"The Amn Committee is becoming popular among the masses, which means that they are doing something good," Mirza said, adding that the MQM's allegations against the

KARACHI - The People's Amn Committee is a welfare organization, similar to Muttahida Qaumi Movement's (MQM) Khidmat-e-Khalq Foundation, Jamaat-e-Islami's (JI) Al-Khidmat, or even the Edhi Foundation, argued Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza on Thursday during a media interaction after the Sindh Assembly session.
"The Amn Committee is becoming popular among the masses, which means that they are doing something good," Mirza said, adding that the MQM's allegations against the

ISLAMABAD - The National Assembly Standing Committee on Education on Wednesday took serious notice of a 'bogus' inquiry report prepared by Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) regarding irregularities in recruitment of teaching staff.
The report was prepared by a three-member committee headed by a senior official of Education Ministry, TM Qureshi. The 94 pages report failed to fix responsibility on the liable officials who appointed 451 teachers against the 284 advertised posts