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LAHORE - The families of three deceased young men, who became victims of American National Raymond Davis and his friend's killing spree in Qartaba Chowk located near Mozang Area on Jan 27, have completely refused to accept any compensation less than death sentence to the culprits.
Faheem's family showed their aggressions to the US Government by refusing to allow the American Consulate to fix a meeting with American Senator John Kerry, who wanted to express grief on Faheem's

ISLAMABAD - Former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on Wednesday US national Raymond Davis did not qualify for blanket immunity. "In a meeting at the Foreign Office on January 31, I was told by Foreign Ministry officials that Raymond Davis did not qualify for blanket immunity," he said.
Addressing a press conference after meeting Senator John Kerry, Qureshi said that the Foreign Ministry officials had reached at the conclusion after going through all relevant record and

LAHORE/ISLAMABAD - The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday directed Deputy Attorney General Naveed Inayet Malik to submit a reply on behalf of the Foreign Ministry regarding the diplomatic immunity to Raymond Davis, while the US expressed its disappointment that Pakistan did not certify immunity for the American national in court.
On Thursday, Malik appeared on behalf of the federal government and informed the court of Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry that Davis' name had been

KARACHI - Hundreds of under-training apprentices of the Benazir Bhutto Shaheed Youth Development Programme (BBSYDP) in different provincial departments, particularly Health and Works and Services, have not been paid monthly stipends for the last three months, as funds worth millions of rupees have allegedly been misappropriated by erring officials.
Reliable sources told Pakistan Today that more than 1,200 BBSYDP trainees in the Works and Services Department have not been

KARACHI - If a warrant can be issued against former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf in the Benazir Bhutto murder case, then President Asif Ali Zardari can also be summoned by the court for assisting the former military ruler flee the country, Sindh National Front (SNF) chief Mumtaz Ali Bhutto said in a statement issued on Monday.
"Under the criminal law of the country, a person who aids the escape of an accused is also guilty for the same offence," he said, adding that

KARACHI - "It's normal to openly urinate along the road in Pakistan, but people disapprove of a couple holding hands," says S, who is now living in Karachi after spending most of her life in Los Angeles, USA.
"Despite the fact that Karachi is a major city, it's awkward for a couple to go to public places. They stare at you as if you are from some other planet," she adds.
Many people in Karachi were seen at shops on Sunday buying cards and gifts for Valentine's Day today

KARACHI - Sindh Commerce and Industries Minister Rauf Siddiqui has told SITE Ltd officials to ensure that official record and files do not go missing. According to press release issued on Saturday, the minister, while addressing an immediate session of SITE official at SITE head office, said that negligence in the department would not be tolerated at any cost.
"If employees are found guilty in cases of missing files, they will be terminated from the service and stern legal action

GUJRANWALA - Neither the commissioner nor the district coordination officer (DCO) bothered to visit any of the affected sites of Wednesday's three bomb blasts, but the DCO issued a handout, later, and called all these bombs cracker explosions, negating the findings of the bomb disposal squad as well as of the CPO.
Under the old system, these two officers played a pivotal role in such crises and catastrophes. It is, perhaps, the outcome of the changed system that the commissioner

KARACHI - The University of Karachi (KU) administration has once again been coerced into appointing rejected candidates as teachers owing to mounting pressure from the Sindh Governor's House, sources have informed Pakistan Today.
The university has appointed two part-time cooperative teachers, who were already declared ineligible for teaching at the university as they had failed to meet the criteria of employment. The KU had declared Muhammad Wasi Fasih Butt and Maqbool Ahmed

ISLAMABAD - Former president Pervez Mushrraf's lawyer on Wednesday denied media reports that Musharraf would record his statement with the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) after the agency declared him an absconder in the Benazir Bhutto murder case.
Talking to Pakistan Today Barrister Muhammad Ali Saif denied Mushrraf would record his statement, saying no decision had been taken in this regard so far. According to a private TV channel, lawyers of the former president said on

LAHORE - Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir were sent full written judgments on the verdicts and sanctions they were handed by a three-man tribunal on Saturday.
Whether the judgment becomes public is, however, still not clear; the ICC is keen to publish it the same day, but complications have arisen in the wake of the decision of the UK's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to press charges against the three.
On Saturday, a short statement was read out by Beloff,

LAHORE - Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah has said that the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) ministers would be ousted from the Punjab cabinet if federal government did not act upon Nawaz Sharif's 10-point agenda. Reiterating the PML-N's stance on Monday after visiting the Punjab Governor's House, he said that the party was working on a public welfare agenda and no delaying tactics would be tolerated in this regard.
Commenting on the deadline given by PPP Senior Minister Raja

KARACHI - Pakistan is hosting one of the world's youngest and fastest-growing literary festivals, a showcase of new talent where writers urge citizens to reverse the tide of extremism and global isolation. Now into a second year and determined to become an annual fixture on the international circuit, the Karachi Literature Festival portrays the softer face of a country more often associated with terrorism than award-winning prose.
Students, authors, budding writers and avid

LAHORE - Raymond Davis, the American who killed two Pakistanis in Lahore last month, is not a regular employee of the US embassy in Pakistan, but his name was put on the list of embassy staff after the incident. Sources said he had been working the US Army, where he worked as a firing instructor.

ISLAMABAD - Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Friday that Raymond Davis, a US national accused of killing two Pakistani youths in Lahore a few days ago, had a diplomatic passport but he travelled to Pakistan on a non-diplomatic visa. Talking to reporters outside the Parliament House, he said the Interior Ministry issued Davis a visa on the recommendation by the Foreign Office after due clearance by the security agencies.
"I again repeat, I never said that Davis travelled to

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court (SC), after hearing petitions against the appointment of Justice (r) Syed Deedar Hussain Shah as NAB chairman, has said that if notification of the chairman's appointment is cancelled, Article 209 (judicial misconduct) would not be applicable.
A four-member bench, comprising of Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillanai, Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed and Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa, noted that consultation process, provided in section 6 of

KARACHI - MNA Sherry Rehman has rejected Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani's statement that he had discussed her proposed amendments in the blasphemy laws with her and asked her to withdraw the bill, saying that neither had she been consulted nor had she agreed to "withdraw" her bill.
In a press statement, she said since the prime minister had announced in the National Assembly that there could not even be discussion on procedural amendments, and the committee announced by the