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KARACHI - The breaches in the Torhi Dyke are lo longer left to provincial ministers: President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday flew from Karachi to Kashmore to inspect the plugging of breaches in the dyke, and after inspecting the state of affairs, ordered Irrigation Minister Jam Saifullah Dharejo to submit a weekly progress report to him.
Dharejo had informed President Zardari that repair works on the Torhi Dyke would take another two months more, according to a press release

ISLAMABAD - Interior Minister Rehman Malik presented a preliminary report on the assassination of Minorities Affairs Minister Shahbaz Bhatti to Prime Minister (PM) Yousaf Raza Gilani at PM House on Thursday. The report contained facts and the circumstances which led to the minister's assassination. Gilani said anti-state elements were making their last ditch efforts to destabilise the country by targeting important personalities. He said that the government would make foolproof

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Monday granted one month to the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to prepare a final report on the whopping losses of Rs 19 billion to Rs 36 billion caused to the national exchequer by the containers meant for supplies to ISAF forces in Afghanistan, which entered the Pakistani territory over the past four years in the name of Afghan Transit Trade (ATT) and pilfered causing the losses.
A three-member bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad

KARACHI - Taking serious notice of alleged rape of a woman in Model Colony by a police sub-inspector, PPP Women Wing President Faryal Talpur on Monday directed the Sindh inspector general of police (IGP) to submit his report of the incident within 24 hours and take stern action against the accused if proven guilty, so that no one dares to commit such heinous crimes.
In a separate statement, PPP Women Wing Information Secretary Sharmila Farooqui stated that Talpur had directed

ROME - Italy has sold Libya explosives, gun targeting equipment and other military hardware worth tens of millions of euros (dollars) in the past two years, Italian daily Corriere della Sera reported on Saturday.
The newspaper quoted an official report from the Italian interior ministry that listed signed contracts as well as ongoing negotiations between Libya and several major Italian defence companies including industry giant Finmeccanica. Missile systems maker Mbda Italia

ISLAMABAD - Hearing a petition against the Railways land scam, allegedly worth more than Rs 25 billion, the Supreme Court on Friday directed the Railways secretary to submit a comprehensive report within two weeks. A three-member bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali and Justice Ghulam Rabbani held that the court would also examine the transparency of the transfer of money in the deal.
Mian Gul Hassan advocate told the court that

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Friday directed the attorney general to bring into the notice of the prime minister the worsening law and order situation in Balochistan and submit within three days policy statement of the premier on the steps to improve the situation.
A three-member, bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali and Justice Ghulam Rabbani, was hearing a petition filed by the Balochistan High Court Bar Association president

WASHINGTON - The US Army ordered the illegal use of psychological operations to influence US lawmakers on the Afghanistan war, Rolling Stone magazine reported on Thursday, forcing the US commander there to launch an inquiry.
The explosive article said the command of General William Caldwell, in charge of training Afghan troops, pressured US soldiers specializing in "psy-ops" that normally influence enemy behavior, to manipulate visiting US senators and congressmen -- as well as

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Foreign Ministry on Thursday welcomed the United States (US) Senate report on "Avoiding water wars in South and Central Asia", which acknowledged that the dams, India was building in Occupied Kashmir, would limit the water supply to Pakistan.
Foreign Office Spokesperson Tehmina Janjua said, "The report substantiates Pakistan's concerns at the building of dams by India on the western rivers in violation of the Indus Waters Treaty." The report released by US

LAHORE - The family of the late Punjab governor Salman Taseer, who was assassinated earlier this year, expressed shock and anger on Wednesday at comments in a news report claiming that it had not made sufficient effort to ensure that the investigation of the governor's assassination was carried out properly.
A source close to the family said that it was deeply upset by the comments, and said how it followed up on the investigation was entirely the family's business. The late

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed Secretary Industries and Production to submit a written report on the losses incurred by the Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) and the steps taken to make up for them.
A three-member bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali and Justice Ghulam Rabbani was hearing a suo motu case into alleged corruption of Rs 22 billion in Pakistan Steel Mills. The court also directed the secretary to submit

SANTIAGO - A top Pakistani court has frozen a $3.3 billion copper and gold exploration concession owned by Antofagasta Minerals and Barrick Gold while it probes past irregularities, a Chilean newspaper reported on Friday. The Supreme Court is investigating the handover of the concession to its previous owner BHP Billiton by the local government and could issue a ruling in a month, Santiagio-based Diario Financiera reported, citing media and the country's ambassador in Chile.
The

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court rejected a report over illegal appointments in Port Qasim Authority (PQA) on Monday and directed the government to make regulations to run its affairs. A three-member bench consisting of Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Tassaduq Jillani and Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed was hearing a petition filed by Ports and Shipping ministry's dysfunctional secretary Abdul Jabbar Memon that challenged the appointment of Mehmood Zameer Farooqi, brother-in-law of Commerce

ISLAMABAD - Despite the passage of over three months, a sub-committee of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Education has failed to submit its report to the committee on irregularities in the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) during recruitment of teachers.
The said sub-committee was constituted under Dr Nadeem Ehsan to look into various irregularities made by the FDE in recruitment of the teaching staff in MTT and TUGT cadre and other matter. However, the

KARACHI - Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Ali Mirza ordered Karachi Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Fayyaz Laghari on Saturday to submit a detailed report to the provincial government on the targeted killing of doctors. The minister directed that the report must include details of the incidents and the registered cases, results of investigations and information about the arrested people and cases forwarded to the courts between January 2010 and February 2011.
The home minister

ISLAMABAD - Directing the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to explain why and under what procedure space for restaurants in the city's hilly areas had been allotted to various parties, the National Assembly Standing Committee on Environment asked the authority to submit a detailed report on why this environmentally dangerous action had been taken.
The NA body met on Saturday with its chairman MNA Raja Muhammad Asad Khan in the chair, who directed CDA Chairman Imtiaz Inayat

LONDON - Afghan Taliban leaders would be willing to break with al Qaeda to end the war in Afghanistan, but US policy is creating younger, more radicalised fighters less open to a peace deal, a report released on Monday said. The report, by Kandahar-based researchers Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn, said the Taliban could be willing to ensure Afghanistan was not used as a base for terrorism.
US policy, however, including attempts to fragment the Taliban, "are changing