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ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Monday said it would order abduction cases against intelligence agencies if the missing people weren't found, and directed the secretaries of Defence and Interior ministries to ensure their presence in court at every hearing of the case.
Before adjourning the hearing for a week, the two-member bench of Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed and Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali said those who took oath under the constitution would have to follow the constitution and

ISLAMABAD - In its proposals sent to India before the forthcoming foreign secretaries' meeting in Bhutan, Pakistan has urged India to resume negotiations on all outstanding issues rather than confining the dialogue to terrorism alone.
"Pakistan wants the resumption of composite dialogue as was the case before November 2008 when the Indo-Pak talks came to a halt after the terrorist attack on Mumbai. This was conveyed to New Delhi formally in a set of proposals handed over through

LAHORE - The ghosts of captaincy have once again come back to haunt the Pakistan cricket team with some players and officials raising questions over the attitude of Shahid Afridi. Sources in the PCB claimed that there were deliberations among officials on retaining Afridi as captain as there were negative reports about his behaviour.
"Right now there is a 50-50 split within the board and in the team management on whether Afridi should be allowed to captain the team in the World

KARACHI - Interior Minister Rehman Malik assured religious scholars on Saturday that blasphemy laws would not be amended, while the clerics demanded that the government form a 10-member committee to resolve the blasphemy law issue. Malik gave the assurance during a meeting with leaders of religious parties, including Shah Turabul Haq, Sarwat Ejaz Qadri, Kaukab Noorani and Allama Abbas Kumaili, as well as Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad at the Governor's House.
"The committee

LAHORE - Which is the healthiest cooking oil? The common reply to this question will be olive oil. Most people believe that the best quality olive oil available in the market is virgin or extra virgin olive oil, but scientific research belies this myth.
According to the latest research, when virgin olive oil is heated above 177 degrees centigrade, it produces toxic byproducts in the form of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which worsen both taste and the nutritive value.

KARACHI - The jail reforms proposed by President Asif Ali Zardari - Benazir Prison Reform Package - seem to have hit a snag as the Sindh government has not made any progress on the plan even after the passage of more than two years.
Well-placed sources told Pakistan Today that the Finance Department has not released a single paisa for the proposed reforms despite repeated attempts by the prisons department for the release of funds.
In October 2008, President Zardari had

LAHORE - Shabab-e-Islami will resist any government action against Mufti Hanif Qureshi and the people favoring the late governor should keep in mind his beliefs as well, said Shabab-i-Islami's leaders while speaking to demonstrators outside Lahore Press Club on Wednesday. Liaqat Attari, Hafiz Abdul Qadir Hazarvi, Allama Mujahid and Qari Mukhtar termed Pope Benedict's statement as an effort to sow the seeds of hatred and a clash among civilizations. These leaders said that efforts to

Veteran rocker Steven Tyler on Tuesday denied that his new role as a judge on 'American Idol' meant the death of his band Aerosmith, and said he wanted to start work on a much-delayed new album later this month. "We are just on a break. We are still rocking big time," Tyler, 62, told television journalists, while promoting the new season of "American Idol".
Aerosmith has not recorded a studio album since 2001 and a 2009 feud between Tyler and his bandmates threatened to break up

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LAHORE - The Aamer Hayat Khan Rokhri-led faction of the Pakistan Badminton Federation has termed the trials being held at Islamabad on January 13 as illegal.
An official of the federation sad that the trials for Fajr International Tournament called by the other faction through its secretary Imtiaz Gill on January 13 2011 at Islamabad were illegal.
Rokhri said that the so-called federation of Gill is planning to hold trials at Islamabad for participation in Fajr Tournament

LAHORE - Pakistan People's Party's Senior Minister Raja Riaz has said that PPP will not initiate any step that can destabilise the coalition government in the province. While talking to the journalists along with visiting ministers from Khyber Pakhtunkhwah here on Monday, at the slain governor's grave, Punjab Senior Minister said that his party would take every action in national interest and he added that PPP's leadership had ordered to stop any act that could destabilise the Punjab

LAHORE - The journalist community's welfare will not be compromised but some negative forces in the community were doing propaganda against the present Lahore Press Club (LPC) council, LPC President Sarmad Bashir said on Sunday.
He was speaking at the LPC Annual Lunch hosted in honour of club members and their families at the Journalist Housing Society, Harbanspura. Punjab University (PU) Vice Chancellor (VC) Dr Mujahid Kamran graced the occasion as chief guest.
Bashir said

Peter Roebuck - Australia have been given a cricketing education. England appeared to be playing a different game on a different pitch. When they batted the track was as placid as celery. Between innings the curator moved the poles and the pitch had more kick than a cranky colt. Even the outfield seemed to slow down. Not that the Aussies reached it all that often. Of the two teams out there, only one is playing Test cricket.
Over the years the Aussies have given the basics of the

ISLAMABAD - The prime minister has not given any statement that the Haj operation would be conducted by the Foreign Affairs Ministry from next year, Federal Labour and Manpower Minister Syed Khurshid Ahmed Shah told the National Assembly (NA) on Friday. "The PM has not given any statement that the Haj operation will be conducted by the Foreign Affairs Ministry and the foreign minister himself said that the Foreign Office cannot take the responsibility," Khurshaid said while speaking

ISLAMABAD - Ruling out any possibility of rejoining the government, JUI-F Senator Abdul Gafoor Haideri said Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani should opt for an honourable exit and dissolve the cabinet to let someone else form the government.
"The prime minister has a better option to dissolve the cabinet and let someone else form the government. Even the Awami National Party (ANP) has advised him to do so. If the no-confidence vote is moved against the prime minister, it will be

ISLAMABAD - Punjab Governor Salman Taseer's killer Mamtaz Qadri should not be given the status of a hero, instead he must be treated like a killer, said Quaid-i-Azam University students on Friday.
The students staged a protest rally against the killing of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer in the varsity's premises and demanded that Qadri must be hanged quickly. They were carrying placards and banner inscribed with slogans against Taseer's killer and chanted slogans against the

LAHORE - A meeting of representatives of trade unions organised by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has deplored the lack of regard for labour rights and international conventions while adopting new labour laws, following the transfer of the subject to the provinces under the 18th Amendment.
The labour representatives took exception to the provision of the 18th Amendment that abolished the system of labour legislation at the national level, a provision they have