MP govt wants to lease forest patches...
NEW DELHI: After demanding that the core oftiger reserves be opened to tourism, the Madhya Pradesh government has mooted another controversial proposal, to lease out large tracts of reserved forest lands to private tourism operators.
The proposal to develop ‘ecotourism forests’ through PPP mode could stir a controversy like the e [...]
India steps into Philippines-China sp...
NEW DELHI: As the Philippines braces for anti-China protests on Friday, India has stepped into the hottest South China Sea dispute to counsel restraint.
In an unusual statement that signals India’s growing interests in South China Sea, the MEA on Thursday weighed in on the growing dispute between China and the Philippines. Admitting In [...]
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LONDON: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that his visit would help to enhance political and cultural ties with United Kingdom.
Addressing a dinner reception organised by British Pakistan Foundation here, the Prime Minister said that Pakistan and UK have various common values, adding that both the countries have harmoniou [...]
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ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office (FO) said Friday that Pakistan would host the next round of talks with India over the disputed Siachen Glacier on June 11-12 in Islamabad.
Troops from India and Pakistan have faced off on the glacier, high in the mountains of disputed Kashmir, since the 1980s but calls for the stand-off to end have been gr [...]
China CPI growth eases to 3.4% in Apr...
China’s consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, rose 3.4 percent year on year in April, the National Bureau of Statistics announced this morning.
The growth eased slightly from the 3.6-percent rate registered in March. It hit a 20-month low of 3.2 percent in February.
The country’s CPI climbed 3.8 percent in the fir [...]
Drone attacks counterproductive: Zard...
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari has again told the US that drone attacks inside Pakistani territory are useless and counterproductive.
He was talking to visiting US Special Envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan Marc Grossman, who is on a two-day visit here to hold talks with Pakistani leadership over the resumption of ties between the two [...]
Karachi unrest: Six gunned down in Ly...
KARACHI: At least six people were killed while 12 injured in Lyari area of the city on Friday.
Violence continues in Lyari as two more people were gunned down near general hospital of the area.
PPP leader Nabeel Gabol was also narrowly escaped in an attack at Miran Naka road while he was going to participate in funeral slain party worker Mali [...]
Central London neighborhood sealed am...
LONDON: Armed and masked police were at the scene of a disturbance in central London Friday where an eyewitness reported that a mentally unstable man had walked into her office threatening to blow himself up.
Reports also suggest that their might be 4 hostages held at the scene.
Scotland Yard said in a statement that police were called to Tot [...]
Former KPK member parliament joins AP...
PESHAWAR: All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) Secretary General Barrister Muhammad Ali Saif addressed a joint press conference here on Thursday, in which former member parliament from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and former Chairman Kohat District Council Abdul Haleem Khatak announced formally to join APML.
Abdul Haleem Khatak addressing the conference w [...]
Contempt case: SC convicts PM Gilani
ISLAMABAD: A seven-member bench of Supreme Court of Pakistan on Thursday convicted Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in contempt of court proceedings against him for refusing in complying with an order to write a letter to the authorities in Switzerland to ask them to re-open corruption cases against President Asif Ali Zardari.
The ruling sai [...]
