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ISLAMABAD - Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Kayani and his corps commanders on Wednesday took up several important issues during the 136th Corps Commanders' Conference, including the recent Munich Conference that Gen Kayani attended and the issue of American national Raymond Davis, charged with killing of two Pakistanis in Lahore.
Expressing its satisfaction over the state of operational preparedness of the army during the conference held at the General Headquarters, the top

ISLAMABAD/LAHORE - In a significant political move, President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani telephoned heads of all major political parties, including PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif, and took them into confidence on the right-sizing of the federal cabinet. The cabinet downsizing was on top of the PML-N's demands. President Zardari talked to Nawaz after the PPP CEC on Friday gave a go-ahead to the prime minister's decision to restructure his cabinet.
President's

RAWALPINDI - Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Kayani and Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Friday discussed internal security in the context of the recent wave of terrorist attacks across the country. Malik called on the COAS at GHQ in Rawalpindi.
According to ISPR, matters related to internal security were discussed during the meeting.
An official of the Interior Ministry told Pakistan Today that the meeting discussed the growing threat of terrorism and those

LAHORE - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has convened a meeting of the Council of Common Interest (CCI) on Tuesday to discuss the issue of gas supply to the industrial sector in Punjab.
Gilani made the decision after he discussed the gas supply issue with Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif at the Prime Minister's House on Sunday. Sources said both leaders discussed the current political situation, as well as matters pertaining to security and economic challenges faced by the

ISLAMABAD - The Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC), an eight-party alliance of the Barelvi school of thought, would discuss the situation arising after the assassination of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer in a meeting scheduled at Eidgah Sharif in Rawalpindi on Monday.
The chairman of the SIC, Sahibzada Haji Fazl-e-Kareem, will preside over the meeting. Kareem told Pakistan Today that the meeting would discuss the issue of Tahafuz-e-Namoos-e-Risalat in the context of the assassination of

ISLAMABAD - A ministerial committee will take up the issue of unilateral price increase of urea with the representatives of fertiliser industry here on Tuesday.
Taking strict notice of the increase in urea prices by manufacturers, the Ministry of Industries has convened a meeting of the Fertiliser Review Committee. The meeting would be chaired by the Minister for Industries and would be attended by federal ministers for agriculture and provincial agriculture ministers.
The

ISLAMABAD - A delegation of Afghan Peace Council will arrive in Islamabad on Tuesday on a two-day visit to hold talks with Pakistani leadership and furnish a formal request for Islamabad's help for the success of ongoing 'reconciliation process' with the Taliban.
Former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani will lead the delegation of Afghan Peace Council, which is visiting Pakistan on the invitation of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani. The 70-member council was formed by the

ISLAMABAD - The central executive committee (CEC) of the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP) is meeting today (Sunday) at Naudero House, Larkana, under the joint chairmanship of party chief Bilawal Bhutto and co-chairman President Asif Ali Zardari.
A party source told Pakistan Today that the meeting could prove to be a launching pad for Bilawal's entry into mainstream politics. "There is a strong possibility that Bilawal announces the beginning of his political career during the

ISTANBUL: President Asif Ali Zardari said on Wednesday that the democratic government of Pakistan had given new impetus to its relations with Kyrgyzstan and called for more work together to improve the working and implementation of the quadripartite Agreement on Transit Traffic.
The president was talking to Kyrgyzstan President Roza Otunbayeva who called on him here on Wednesday on the sidelines of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) meeting. President Zardari said that

ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Tuesday gave final touches to a reconciliation strategy with the Pakistan People's Party's major coalition partner - the Mutahidda Qaumi Movement (MQM) - as well as a contingency plan in case the MQM decided to part ways with the government in the near future.
An informed source told Pakistan Today that during the crucial meeting held at the Presidency, the two leaders agreed that in case of any

ISLAMABAD: The Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Reforms (PCCR) has included a new clause into Article 68 of the constitution to empower the parliamentary committee on appointment of judges to discuss the conduct of a judge, Pakistan Today has reliably learnt.
The clause was not touched previously while drafting the 18th Amendment.
Under the new proposal, the bar on parliamentarians to discuss the conduct of judges would continue, but the parliamentary committee

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Friday called on President Asif Ali Zardari at the Presidency.
Both leaders discussed the overall political situation in the country and exchanged notes on the party's progress on winning the support of political parties on the reformed general sales tax.
The prime minister also briefed the president about his visit to Turkey.
The president congratulated Gilani on his successful and productive visit to Turkey and his

ABU DHABI: US Defence Secretary Robert Gates is meeting on Thursday with Emirati leaders on Iran's nuclear programme and Al Qaeda threat in Yemen, as WikiLeaks exposed Gulf Arab fears of the Islamic republic. Gates was to meet the deputy commander of the United Arab Emirates armed forces, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammad bin Zayed al-Nahayan.
Their talks will touch on military cooperation and "challenges that we are working together to try to solve," press secretary Geoff

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Thursday summoned an important meeting of the Defence Committee of the Cabinet (DCC) to discuss matters related to internal and external security today (Friday) at 11am. The meeting was summoned following a phone call from US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to President Asif Ali Zardari.
A source told Pakistan Today that the DCC had been summoned to review the on-going war against terrorism and take a decision on launching a

ISLAMABAD: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Wednesday called on Army Chief General Ashfaq Kayani to discuss the country's security, with emphasis on counter-terrorism efforts by the military and provincial law enforcement agencies.
"Shahbaz called on the army chief and whenever he meets General Kayani the discussion is only on the security situation," Senator Pervez Rashid told Pakistan Today. A security official said the army chief discussed matters pertaining to the law

LAHORE: The All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) is holding a crucial meeting on energy crisis with the Federal government on Monday. The meeting is scheduled at a time when gas supply to the industry is already in doldrums ahead of the winter season.
The APTMA delegation, under the leadership of APTMA Central Chairman Gohar Ejaz will meet Federal Minister for Textile Rana Farooq Saeed, Federal Minister for Petroleum Naveed Qamar and State Minister for Economic Affairs

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has summoned the meeting of the Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) on November 6 to make it operational and initiate the process of filling vacancies in the country's superior courts.
The meeting will also discuss the nominations for the slot of new Lahore High Court chief justice, as the incumbent Chief Justice Khwaja Muhammad Sharif is to retire on December 8. The petitions challenging the formation of