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ISLAMABAD - In a strong message to Washington to protest a deadly drone strike that killed 44 Pakistanis on Thursday, Islamabad refused on Friday to attend the trilateral meeting of Pakistani, Afghan and American officials schedule for March 26 in Brussels, saying that Pakistan should not be treated as a client state, nor be taken for granted.
"In pursuance of the directives of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, US Ambassador Cameron Munter was summoned to the Foreign Office by

LAHORE - Protests by opposition parties, including the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q), in the Punjab Assembly on Tuesday led to the adjournment of proceedings without the House taking up even a single agenda of official business.
The opposition's protest started soon after the arrival of Unification Group leader Dr Tahir Ali Javed in the House. The opposition members jointly stood up and started chanting slogans against the members of

GUJRANWALA - Anti-Corruption Establishment and Special Judicial Magistrate Abdus Sattar arrested Old-Age Benefits Institution Assistant Director Ahmad Habib red handed while accepting Rs 50,000 from a factory owner. Reportedly, Ahmad Habib was forcing a local factory owner Salman Javed to give Rs 50,000 for showing less number of employees in the record than their actual number. Salman Javed informed the Anti-Corruption Establishment which planned a raiding party under the supervision

ISLAMABAD - The PPP core committee's decision of replacing Fauzia Wahab with Qamar Zaman Kaira as the PPP information secretary has raised questions about the legality of the body which is not part of the ruling party's organisational structure as envisaged in its constitution.
The core committee was neither notified nor was it approved by the party's top decision-making body - the central executive committee. This body was created by PPP co-chairman and that too without

ISLAMABAD - Sheikh Zameer Ahmed, lawyer for Justice Sajjad Hussain Shah - a dysfunctional judge of the Lahore High Court (LHC) who took oath under the PCO - on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that his client regretted taking oath in violation of the SC restraining order and had left himself on the court's mercy.
A four-member bench of Justice Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui, Justice Jawwad S Khawaja, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Tariq Parvez was hearing contempt of court

LAHORE - Punjab University (PU) administration on Friday suspended its Estate Officer (EO) Muhammad Shokat and Assistant Security Officer Muhammad Shokat on allowing Islami Jamiat Taliba (IJT) to hold programs inside the varsity.
IJT activists also protested against the PU Vice Chancellor Professor Dr Mujahid Kamran after the Friday prayer, chanted slogans against the VC on disturbing their functions and claimed they were 'innocent' while VC was 'revengeful'.
According to PU

CAIRO - Two men set themselves ablaze in Egypt on Tuesday, security officials said, bringing to 10 the number such cases in the Arab world, including a Tunisian whose action sparked a revolution. An Egyptian security official said a 25-year-old unemployed man suffering mental problems set himself ablaze in the northern city of Alexandria on Tuesday, suffering third degree burns. Another man set himself alight outside Egypt's government headquarters in Cairo, an official reported

LAHORE - An accountability court judge, Ahmad Nawaz Ranjha, on Monday severely beat up a peon in his chamber for going on a day's leave without prior permission. The peon, Habibur Rehman, is a naib qasid in another accountability court. The judge slapped and tried to strangle Rehman with his scarf, and banned Rehman's entry in the premises of the accountability court. Per details, Rehman, who works in Accountability Court No 4, took a day's leave on Saturday without permission from

PESHAWAR - Not only contaminating the area's potable water, marble factories in the residential areas of Buner district are also a cause of the residents' psychological and physical diseases.
Suffocated by the factories, the residents told Pakistan Today that huge boulders were transported through the narrow streets of the residential area and could cause accidents, while the yelling of workers and the grinding of stone and the dust produced made them anxious and was also

ISLAMABAD - Higher Education Commission (HEC) is seriously mulling to take indirect control of all government post-graduate colleges, it has
been learnt.
A source in HEC told Pakistan Today that a committee had been constituted to look after the affairs of the post-graduate colleges.
It said the committee consisting of six universities includes University of the Punjab, Peshawar University, Gomal University, Karachi University and Sindh University.
It added that

LAHORE - The Punjab Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) on Monday arrested Lahore Arts Council (LAC) Programme Deputy Director Zulfiqar Ahmad Zulfi red handed while taking bribe for allotting dates for a stage play. Play producer Muhammad Siddiq had submitted an application to the ACE alleging that Zulfi received Rs 70,000 from him as a bribe for allotting dates for staging a play at the Alhamra Arts Council and was demanding Rs 20,000 more. An ACE team consisting of ACE Deputy

LAHORE - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has arrested two senior officers of Pakistan Public Works Department (PWD), red handed, while taking bribe from a contractor on Thursday. FIA sources said Karamat Sheikh, a government contractor, submitted an application to the FIA Multan Circle Additional Director Rana Irfan and alleged that the two PWD officers; Executive Engineer Khizar Hayat and Sub Divisional Officer (SDO) of Bahawalpur office Javed Majoka, were demanding Rs 0.15

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Monday decided to lobby with political parties, including the PML-Q, MQM and PPP-Sherpao, to foil the passage of the reformed general sales tax bill by the National Assembly.
The central organising committee of the PML-N which met with Nawaz Sharif in the chair also decided to complete intra-party elections from local to central level before January 15, 2011.
Addressing the central organising committee members, Nawaz

LAHORE: Abdul Manan, a journalist who was tortured in the Punjab University, said Muslim Town Police have registered a case against Rana Qurban and Law College students who tortured and tried to kidnap him but the PU administration and Director Public Relation Khawaja Tahir was avoiding taking disciplinary action against them.
Journalists on Sunday said they will protest today (Monday) at the varsity against PU administration for not taking disciplinary action against ten

KARACHI: The Karachi Stock Exchange exhibited profit taking at inflated levels as investors preferred to book gains following FBR's announcement to impose a one time flood surcharge of ten percent on collection of Capital Gains Tax (CGT). However, the mechanism for the applicability of this has not been mentioned in the Finance Amendment bill.
The KSE100 index closed at 11154.83 after it lost 16.26 points, while the KSE 30 index closed at 10768.51 following a loss of 54.11points.

WASHINGTON: Former US president George W Bush has acknowledged that Pakistan "paid a high price for taking on extremists" and said its forces were successful for several years in targeting Al Qaeda militants crossing the porous border with Afghanistan.
In his book "Decision Points" published on Tuesday, Bush said he had "complex" relations with Pakistan and former president Pervez Musharraf, who pledged to support the US after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Bush said, "Over