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LAHORE - CNG stations in residential areas of the city are creating nuisance for the neighbouring houses, as long vehicle queues often block the houses' entrances, Pakistan Today has learnt.
A number of CNG stations in the city are located in the residential areas. These localities include Garden Town, Iqbal Town, College Road, Peco Road and Johar Town. People said often they found it difficult to enter their houses at night, when CNG stations start filing vehicles.
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LONDON - Former president Pervez Musharraf has said that he is not responsible for the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and former Balochistan governor Akbar Bugti, and cleared his position that he will not appear before any inquiry commission in this regard.
In an interview with a private TV channel, the former president said that it was not his responsibility to provide security to the late Pakistan People's Party chairperson. "I was head of the state, and

KARACHI - The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has not yet decided about sitting on the opposition benches; however, the party is not happy over leaving the federal government, MQM chief Altaf Hussain said on Tuesday while speaking to MQM activists at the party headquarters, Nine Zero, and Hyderabad Zone Office.
He supported the Coordination Committee's decision of quitting the federal cabinet, saying that future decisions would depend upon the government's attitude. "The Pakistan

NEW YORK - The US northeast began Tuesday to shake off the icy grip of one of the biggest blizzards in years, but beleaguered travelers faced at least another day of headaches in New York airports.
After one last night of ferocious winds, the storm had moved fully out of New York by early Tuesday. The system, packing enormous snowfalls and gale force winds, churned up through Maine and into Canada, leaving a cold tail as far south down the US east coast as the Carolinas.
The

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court (LHC) Office on Tuesday raised objections on a petition seeking Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer's removal from office for traveling to Sri Lanka without informing the authorities concerned and returned it to the petitioner.
According to sources, the LHC Office termed the petition as non-maintainable and returned it to petitioner Noshab A Khan advocate. Noshab told Pakistan Today that the LHC deputy registrar (judicial) wrote on the petition-file

Lahore - Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan (JUP) President Dr Sahibzada Abul Khair Mohammad Zubair has said that Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has nothing to do with the proposed changes in blasphemy law.
"It is President Zardari who is more interested in the changes, as if trying to fulfill his commitments, which he made with Pope Benedict in Vatican, last September," he said in an exclusive interview with Pakistan Today.
Dr Zubair talked about different issues including the

KARACHI /LARKANA - President Asif Ali Zardari, who is also the co-chairman of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), on Monday held Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan leader Baitullah Mehsud responsible for the assassination of his wife and party leader Benazir Bhutto, while calling the UN probe into the assassination "incomplete".
Addressing a gathering at the Naudero House near Garhi Khuda Bux on Benazir's third death anniversary, Zardari said, "Baitullah Mehsud is our (leader's)

LAHORE - Blasphemy laws should not be amended and any such attempt would not be tolerated, Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain said on Monday.
He was talking to journalists after meeting Jamiat-e-Ulema Pakistan (JUP) President and Tehreek-e-Namos-e-Risalat Convener Sahibzada Dr Zubair Ahmed at his residence.
Shujaat said that the PML-Q would not let anybody to amend the blasphemy act, as a new pandora box would open that would not be

LAHORE: The mystery of the circumstances in which, Mahd Faisal, student of C-1 of Aitchison College, was shot leading to his unfortunate demise failed to clear up on Friday. In the meanwhile, Investigation Police Cantt converted the attempt to murder case into a murder case after Mahd's demise at the Neurosurgery Ward of General Hospital late on Thursday night.
Case updates: Mahd Faisal was shot on December 20 by a friend, sources suggest, accidentally during a get-together with

KARACHI - The insensitive handling of the coverage of a recent gang-rape case in Karachi has been condemned by several quarters concerned, including War Against Rape (WAR) and the Hurmat network, an alliance of organisations working for advancing, promoting and strengthening the ethical dimensions of work with survivor of violence.
"Unfortunately, despite the increase in reporting of such cases, which shows that the media and the state are beginning to recognise and acknowledge

ISLAMABAD - The government and the opposition on Thursday expressed unity to protect national sovereignty and pledged that no foreign power would be allowed to dictate Pakistan.
"It is a wrong perception that the US would dictate us when and where to launch operation... the nation will take a decision on this issue... the government will not compromise on national security and integrity," Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said in the National Assembly while responding to a point

LAHORE: Life in Gawalmandi and Nisbat Road in Lahore depicts true Pakistani culture and the culture flourishing in the Defence Housing Authority (DHA), Lahore is not Pakistani culture in any way, Chief Justice (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry said on Tuesday.
He made these remarks while hearing a petition filed by the DHA seeking court permission to deny passage rights to residents of bordering housing societies such as Punjab Society, so that DHA's security and culture of

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday informed the National Assembly that in contrast to India's demand to allocate it a permanent membership in the UN Security Council, Pakistan is not vying for the slot at all.
"Let me say at the outset that Pakistan is not seeking permanent membership of the UN Security Council," said Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi in a written reply to a question raised by Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) Member

LAHORE: A three-member Supreme Court (SC) bench led by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Monday scolded the Defence Housing Authority (DHA), Lahore administration for not giving passage rights through its roads and streets to residents of housing schemes located nearby, such as Punjab Cooperative Housing Society. The SC bench also sought the entire land and roads record including map of the DHA, Lahore today (Tuesday) for further proceedings.
During the case's hearing,

KARACHI - Minister for Commerce and Industries Rauf Siddiqui, while delivering a speech at SITE Ltd, has said that the reformed GST is not a viable option and condemned any policy against the people of Pakistan. He grieved that imposition of reformed GST will drag the economy in doldrums and said that he would ensure greater facilities to the employees of SITE Ltd.
Rauf, in this regard, issued orders to MD, DMD, and Chief Engineer of SITE to implement effective measures in order

KARACHI - While Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza roared at a press conference on Saturday that he stood by his statement of target killers' association with political parties, including the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Senior Education and Literacy Minister Pir Mazharul Haq accused the media of creating a rift between coalition partners.
Addressing a press conference at the PPP Media Cell, Haq claimed that there was no serious difference between the PPP and the MQM. In

LAHORE - Lahore High Court Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry asked the bar associations and lawyers' representatives to end their practice of protests at the courts all over Punjab because it hindered the process of dispensing justice to the masses.
"If there is a need for a strike then it should be only for one hour as a token strike. The strikes aim at bringing an issue in the notice of higher authorities and this purpose can be served with a token strike," said Ijaz while