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LAHORE - PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif's spouse Begum Kalsoom Nawaz has vowed to transform women into a dynamic force to guard Pakistan against all odds, driving out corrupt rulers from the country.
She was addressing a function regarding PML-N women's convention in connection with Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah's birth anniversary at Alhamra on Thursday. The convention was attended by Begum Tehmina Doltana, Najma Hameed, Ishrat Sharaf, Begum Zakia Shahnawaz, Zaib Jafar and party

KABUL: Iran is preventing hundreds of fuel tankers from crossing into Afghanistan and supplying US-led NATO troops fighting the Taliban, senior officials in Kabul said Wednesday.
Around 1,600 trucks have been prevented from crossing for three weeks and the situation threatens to push up fuel prices, which have already skyrocketed in recent days, at the start of winter.
Although Kabul says the tankers would be used to supply ordinary Afghans, deputy commerce minister Mohammad

ISLAMABAD: America is on the run and is facing defeat in Afghanistan, Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl group (JUI-F) Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman said in a press conference after his party's Central Executive Council meeting on Wednesday. "Pakistan is not an easy prey and the US will meet the same fate in North Waziristan at it did in Afghanistan and Iraq," he said. Even though his party's CEC had supported the decision of quitting central government, party policy in Balochistan and

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Tuesday came hard on critics of the PPP-led coalition government, saying those calling parliament a rubber stamp should learn that the history had no match for the independence exercised by the incumbent parliament.
"I have been a member of parliament since 1982, except for 1997 and 2002 elections, but I have never seen as independent a parliament the incumbent one. Let me tell you that the past parliament did nothing but chant

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

KARACHI: Founder-Editor of Pakistan Today Arif Nizami has said he will raise the issue of jobs quota for the sons and daughters of hawkers in the media organisations in the country.
"I will raise this issue through articles and my influence to provide quota of jobs for the sons and daughters of the hawkers," Arif Nizami said in a meeting with the representatives of the hawkers association in Karachi.
The meeting had been arranged to brief the representatives of the hawkers

LONDON - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday said the Swedish women who have accused him of sexual assault had got into a "tizzy" about the possibility they had caught a sexually transmitted disease from him.
Assange told the BBC that one account of what happened in August - the month at the centre of allegations against him - was that the two women had panicked when they found out they had both slept with him and went to police who "bamboozled" them.
He insisted he

YEONPYEONG: North Korea said it would not react to "reckless" military drills by the South on Monday, despite an earlier threat to retaliate, and CNN reported that Pyongyang had agreed to the return of nuclear inspectors.
Air-raid bunkers on the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong shook during the live-fire artillery exercise, which went on for just over 90 minutes, but the North Korean guns that had shelled the island after a similar drill last month stayed silent.
"The

NEW DELHI: India's premier Manmohan Singh said Monday he had "nothing to hide" as he offered to be quizzed by a parliamentary panel over a massive telecom scandal that has shaken his government.
Singh, who enjoys a reputation for honesty in India's murky political world, has been battling to protect his image against accusations of failing to act over the government's cut-price sale of mobile telephone licences in 2008.
"I have nothing to hide from the public," Singh, 78,

ISLAMABAD: China is committed to the construction of the Chashma Nuclear Power Plant (CHASNUPP) unit three and four, Chairman Board of Investment (BoI) Saleem Mandviwala said addressing a news conference here on Monday. He added that he was not aware about other details relating to these projects, as BOI processed 18 Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) of $ 15 billion investment while 13 MoU were signed at the Prime Minister's residence.
China has helped Pakistan to construct

NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said that friendly ties with Pakistan could only come when Islamabad ensured its soil was not used for "terrorist" activities against Indian targets. Relations have been strained between the nuclear-armed neighbours since 166 people were killed in 2008 attacks in Mumbai blamed on the outlawed Laskhar-e-Tayyaba (LeT), which is based in Pakistan.
"We want friendly relations with Pakistan. But we know this will be possible only

DUBAI: Former president Pervez Musharraf said on Saturday the Chaudhrys were never against him, saying they had deviated off-course under political expediencies, but would be reverting back to his fold at an "opportune moment".
He also denied that Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl chief Fazlur Rehman was against him, saying Fazl was in constant touch with him.
Talking to a private TV channel, Musharraf stressed it was the Chaudhrys who "pressurised him" to quash cases against

ISLAMABAD: Calling China a true and most reliable friend of Pakistan, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Sunday said the world had a lot to learn from China.
In his vote of thanks after the address of Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao to a joint session of parliament, Gilani said all political parties, all parliamentarians, and the whole nation stood united to take the friendship and partnership with China to greater heights. He said Pakistan and China enjoyed unique relations

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira on Sunday said that Chinese premier Wen Jiabao has assured Pakistani leadership that his country would support Pakistan at all fronts. He was addressing a news conference here along with Pakistani ambassador in China, Masood Khan. When asked as to why the Chinese PM avoided to mention Kashmir issue, Kaira said, "There is no change in China's stance over Kishmir issue. Chinese premier has assured Pakistan that they

LAHORE - The Punjab government is urging killing of blasphemy convict Aasia Bibi before more developments occurred in the issue, participants of the All Christian Parties Conference led by Pakistan Christian Democratic Alliance Chairman Bishop Yaqoob Paul said on Sunday.
Around 25 Christian parties participated in the conference. The conference demanded immediate repeal of Section 295-B and C of blasphemy laws, as these laws did not apply on minorities. The conference also agreed

JERUSALEM - Palestinians in the occupied West Bank lack basic amenities and are effectively being forcibly displaced by discriminatory Israeli policies, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report released on Sunday.
The New York-based rights group called on the United States to penalise Israel by withholding from its massive annual aid a sum equal to the amount the Jewish state gives in subsidies to West Bank settlements.
The 166-page report accuses Israel of depriving the

ISLAMABAD - US Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter has said the US wants Pakistan to launch a military operation in North Waziristan soon but it is up to the leadership of the Pakistan Army to decide when to launch it.
Addressing a press conference on Afghanistan and Pakistan Annual Review on Friday, Munter said, "The Pakistan Army certainly wants to restore its writ there." To a question about Pakistan's cooperation in the war on terrorism, Munter said Pakistan had made