ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf, who is under mounting pressure to resign, called on Thursday for political stability and reconciliation to tackle economic and security problems. Musharraf, speaking in a televised Independence Day address, did not refer to a plan to impeach him drawn up by a coalition government led by the party of assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. (See Ninan’s Cartoon)The former army chief and firm US ally also did not refer to the calls for him...
Thursday, August 14, 2008
India warns Pakistan: Keep off J&K issue
NEW DELHI: India on Thursday reacted strongly to Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's remarks on violence in Jammu and Kashmir.Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee has warned Pakistan to stay out of Jammu and Kashmir issue."We have never interfered in Pakistan's internal matters. Pakistan should do the same," Mukherjee said.On Wednesday, in his address to the nation, Pakistan President played the Kashmir card, and took a jab at India condemning the violence in Jammu and Kashmir as "human rights violations."...
Independence day being celebrated with national spirit across Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s 61st Independence Day is being celebrated across the country with great fervor and zest here on Thursday.Special prayers were offered for the development of the country in Morning prayers. The central ceremony was held at Jinnah Convention Center in Islamabad where Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani hoisted the flag.Also present in the occasion were Army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, Senate Chairman Mian Muhammad Soomro, federal ministers, Speaker Dr. Fehmida Mirza,...
Srinagar simmers; 1 killed in police firing
SRINAGAR/JAMMU: In fresh violence, a youth was killed and four others injured in CRPF firing at Safakadal area in Srinagar. A police vehicle was set afire by a mob in Rawalpora area of the city, sources said. In Kishtwar in Jammu region, Army staged flag marches as security forces maintained a strict vigil in the curfew-bound town where two persons were killed and several others injured in communal clashes, police firing and a grenade blast on Tuesday.Authorities on Thursday relaxed curfew for varying...
BJP for Look North-East Policy
NEW DELHI : Stressing that freedom fighters from the north eastern region were as dear as any other from rest of the country, Opposition Leader, LK Advani today proposed to integrate the Look East Policy with Look North-East Policy. Addressing a ‘Patriots Day’ function organised to mark the Third Bir Tikendrajit and General Tangal Shaheed Day, here today, the Opposition leader said that if NDA comes to power, it would try to give a further boost to India’s ‘Look East Policy’ by integrating it into...
Nobody can stop me from becoming PM: Mayawati
LUCKNOW: Unfazed by the failure of efforts to pull down the UPA government that may have pitchforked her into national centrestage, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Saturday said that "nobody can stop her from becoming Prime Minister".In a show of strength a fortnight after the attempt in Parliament floundered, the BSP leader addressed a huge gathering of her party workers and supporters and a surprise presence in the stage was that of suspended Congress leader and former External Affairs...
Election Commission to review J&K poll preparation
SRINAGAR/NEW DELHI: The Election Commission will today review the poll preparedness in Jammu and Kashmir for the state assembly elections , which are expected to be held in sometime in November-December.The term of the Assembly would expire on November 20.According to sources, the Election Commission will review the poll preparations with the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of the state.The Commission will review the state's preparedness with regard to electoral rolls, electors' photo identity...
NA passes protest resolution against Kashmiris martyrdom
ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Wednesday passed unanimously a protest resolution against the martyrdom of Kashimiris including APHC leader Shaikh Abdul Aziz by Indian forces� firing.Federal Minister for Information, Sherry Rehman tabled the protest resolution before the assembly. The resolution condemning the killings in Indian administered Kashmir, urged the world community�s intervention for putting an end to the violence.All the parties backed the resolution.Inayatullah of Pakistan Muslim League-Q...
Desist from making comments on J-K: India tells Pak
NEW DELHI: Taking strong exception to Pakistan's attempt to internationalise the Kashmir issue, India on Wednesday warned Islamabad to desist from such a course of action that is "gratuitous and illegal" and has the potential to harm the peace process between the two countries.This is New Delhi's third warning to Islamabad in a week asking the latter to desist from meddling in its internal affairs. "The government of India finds deeply objectionable the series of remarks by the official spokesman...
J&K blockade staged by ISI to help Hurriyat?
NEW DELHI: As the agitation in the Kashmir valley against a "non-existent" economic blockade continues, Pakistan's intelligence agency, ISI, may be hoping to get through what it has failed to achieve all these years — project its loyalists in the Hurriyat Conference as the real representatives of the popular sentiments in the Valley.The observation was made by senior intelligence officers during high-level meetings on Tuesday-Wednesday amid mounting evidence that Hurriyat was using the contrived...
Shibu Soren calls emergency meeting of JMM on Aug 17
RANCHI(INDIA): A day after the quit call to the unrelenting Chief Minister Madhu Koda, JMM president Shibu Soren tonight said an emergency meeting of the party was convened on August 17 to assess its position during the 22-month long support to the government in Jharkhand."After discussing with all the party legislators, we have called the emergency meeting and legislative party meeting to discuss what all JMM gained and lost by supporting the state government," Soren told newsmen after returning...
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