Tag: Resume

The murder trial of Egypt’s former president Hosni Mubarak resumed Wednesday after a three-month hiatus that saw the ousted strongman’s fate eclipsed by deadly...

The recently-appointed city district coordination officer (DCO) on Monday gave a three-day deadline to the executive district officers (EDOs) concerned to make functional all...

After the reinstatement of local government system in Sindh, the former district coordination officers (DCOs) and executive district officers (EDOs) in all provincial districts...

The Sindh Assembly is scheduled to resume proceedings of the current session after a gap of a week on Friday (today), which is not...

The International Cricket Council task team has urged Pakistan and India to resume their bilateral series on their home soils. The neighbouring rivals...

An 11-member larger bench of the Supreme Court will today (Monday) resume hearing in a presidential reference seeking a review of the death sentence...

Resuming the stalled strategic dialogue with Pakistan, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s deputy Thomas Nides will take up the entire range of issues...

A Lahore accountability court will resume hearing of a corruption case against former prime minister Benazir’s Bhutto political secretary Ahmed Sadiq on June 18...

Iran on Tuesday said it has formally agreed to resume talks on its controversial nuclear programme with six major powers which have been stalled...

KARACHI - Local cement producers must have breathed a sigh of relief after receiving a green signal from India for exports which, analysts said, were declining. Analysts stated that cement exports from Pakistan remained depressed during the month of March and had exhibited an annual dip of 14 percent. "A ray of hope has emerged for local cement producers as they are now allowed to export cement to India," said Furqan Punjani, an analyst at Topline Research.
Cement exports to

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court (SC) will resume the hearing today (Monday) of a presidential reference to reopen the case of former premier Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. A three-member bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali and Justice Ghulam Rabbani will resume the hearing at 11.30am today.
At the last hearing, the court had pointed out flaws in the reference and asked the government to frame specific questions of law about the controversial

NEW DELHI - Pakistan and India have agreed to resume direct sporting ties, including cricket games, which were frozen after the 2008 Mumbai attacks, reports said Thursday.
The decision comes two weeks after Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh watched together as their respective teams played in the semi-final of the Cricket World Cup in northwest India.
Several Indian newspapers cited unidentified government sources as saying

BREGA - Heavy fighting between Libyan rebels and forces loyal to Moamer Kadhafi resumed on Sunday on the outskirts of the key oil town of Brega, an AFP journalist reported.
The rebels had claimed to have recaptured the town, 800 kilometres (500 miles) east of the capital Tripoli, on Saturday but pro-Kadhafi snipers were said to be still active and others were apparently holed up in the university.
Early on Sunday morning, the rebels pushed forward and were occupying the

ISLAMABAD - Gas supply to fertilisers and Independent Power Producers (IPPs) will resume shortly.
Secretary Petroleum and Natural Resources Imtiaz Kazi said that the country was facing a daily gas shortfall of 900 million mmcfd against a total production of 4.20 billion mmcfd. He said that security problems were a hindrance to get 40 million mmcfd of gas production from reservoirs in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan.
He added, as per contract dated 1983, that gas to the

ISLAMABAD - A two-member Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry will resume hearing today (Monday) on a suo motu case against Rs 256 billion loans illegally written off between 1971 and 2009.
The bench will examine a report submitted by Punjab Advocate General (AG) Khawaja Haris Ahmad on Saturday, which recommended the Supreme Court to direct National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to recover the illegally waived off loans.
AG Punjab, who was

SANAA - A Yemeni protester died on Sunday from gunshot wounds sustained in clashes with police in the southern port of Aden, and demonstrators gathered in the capital Sanaa for a new round of anti-government rallies. Four people, including a 12-year-old boy, were killed in various protests around Yemen on Saturday as an opposition drive to end President Ali Abdullah Saleh's 32-year-rule was met with increasing violence.
The United States, which sees Saleh as an important ally in

KARACHI - The doctors of the Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK) who have been agitating for their demands for the past two days resumed their duties on Friday. CHK Medical Superintendent Prof Said A Qureishi told APP that the doctors have given a written assurance that they would not continue their protest as their security has been beefed up. "Basically, it was a partial strike that the doctors from gynecology wards had observed after a man allegedly abused their colleagues," he said. In