June 24, 2010

Lawyers protest blasphemous websites

BAHAWALPUR: Members of the Bahawalpur High Court Bar Association on Wednesday boycotted courts to protest blasphemous material on nine websites, which the LHC bench on Tuesday had ordered should be

Taliban ‘openly raising funds’ in Punjab: BBC

ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani intelligence report says militants are publicly raising funds in the Punjab province, the BBC has learned. The disclosure comes amid reports of an increased Taliban presence in

Of women MPs

By Iftekhar A Khan Wzomen’s sensitivity is a delicate subject. When women in question are the rotund begums of domestic variety transformed into parliamentarians without contesting a direct election, the

Rs12.98 billion budget for Gilgit-Baltistan

GILGIT: The Gilgit-Baltistan government presented on Wednesday its first budget with an outlay of Rs12.984 billion and Rs6.404 billion non-development expenses. Finance Minister Mohammad Ali Akhtar told the Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative

Cases disposed of under NRO revived: LHC

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) has observed that there is no need to pass any formal order to revive a case disposed of under the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO)

PBC gets Rs20 million

ISLAMABAD: Federal law minister Babar Awan made good on his promise to the Pakistan Bar Council and handed over Rs20 million of the Rs51 million he had promised them. The

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