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Iran vows never to renounce nuclear rights
May 17th
TEHRAN: Iran rejects Western pressures over its nuclear activities and will never give up its rights, Tehran’s chief nuclear negotiator said Thursday ahead of crunch talks with world powers in Baghdad next week.
“If we participate in the negotiations… it is because of our resistance (to Western powers). Thanks to our resistance, we have defended the rights of the Iranian people,” Saeed Jalili said in a speech broadcast on local television.
“The Iranian people will never give up even an iota of their rights,” Jalili added, in reference to the Islamic republic’s nuclear drive which the West suspects is masking a weapons More >
HEC to grant 1000 scholarships to Balochistan students: Jamali
May 17th
Speaking to the Chief Secretary Balochistan in Quetta, the federal minister of science and technology, Mir Changez Khan Jamali said that 1000 scholarships for the Balochistan students will be provided by HEC. – File Photo
QUETTA: Federal Minister for Science and Technology Mir Changez Khan Jamali said on Thursday that Higher Education Commission would grant about 1000 scholarships to the talented students of Balochistan during the prevailing year while PCSIR and COMSAT would arrange training programs for about 100 teachers and students of the province.
He said this while talking to the Chief Secretary Balochistan Babar Yaqub Fateh Mohammad here.
Mr jamali said More >
Iran, Pakistan, Israel most negatively rated countries: BBC poll
May 17th
Pakistan is the only country which rated its own influence as negative, stated poll results. Pakistan is the only country which rated its own influence as negative, stated poll results. SOURCE: BBC POLL
Pakistan was ranked second in the list of most negatively rated countries in the world by a global poll for BBC World Service, which surveyed 24,090 people around the world.
Citizens of 22 countries were interviewed face-to-face or by telephone between December 6, 2011 and February 17, 2012. Polling was conducted by the international polling firm GlobeScan and its research partners in each country, together with the Program More >
No decision yet on Nato supply lines, says Gilani
May 17th
Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani.—File Photo
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani prime minister has said the country has yet to decide on the issue of restoring ground supply lines to Nato troops in Afghanistan; however, a decision would be announced as soon as talks between different ministries and officials conclude.
“We have directed the concerned ministries and departments to conclude the process as soon as possible,” Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani told reporters on Thursday after attending an event here in Islamabad.
The final decision would depend on the outcome of ongoing talks, said PM Gilani.
Moreover, the prime minister said that the invitation More >
I will show trust in Malik and Latif: Hafeez
May 17th
Hafeez also faces the challenge of leading a team which has two former captains in it. -Photo by AP
LAHORE: Pakistan’s newly appointed Twenty20 captain Mohammad Hafeez on Thursday called for trust and a good environment in the dressing room ahead of next month’s tour of Sri Lanka.
The talented team often makes headlines over rows between the players and a volatile dressing room atmosphere, but Hafeez said he would continue the good example set by Misbah-ul Haq.
Misbah, dropped from the Twenty20 squad but retained as one-day and Test captain for the Sri Lankan tour, is credited with uniting the team after More >
Study suggests lower death risk for coffee lovers
May 17th
Coffee was tied to a lower risk of dying from heart disease, stroke and infections. – Reuters Photo
Older people who reported drinking a few daily cups of coffee were less likely to die over the subsequent 14 years than were those who abstained from the beverage or rarely drank it, according to a US study of 400,000 people.
In particular, coffee was tied to a lower risk of dying from heart disease, stroke, infections, injuries and accidents, the researchers said in a report published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
But they warned that the findings should be interpreted with caution More >
Cricket Classics: Before Chris, there was Lance Cairns
May 17th
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SC seeks notification on ISI’s political role
May 17th
Staff ReportISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) Thursday directed the Attorney General to produce a notification regarding assigning political responsibilities to the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) during era of former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry issued the directives while a hearing the 1996 petition of Tehriq-i-Istiqlal’s chief and Air Marshal (retd) Asghar Khan about allegations of the ISI’s political funding in the 1990 election to prevent the Pakistan People’s Party from winning in the general elections.
Reacting to the rejoinder submitted by the former ISI Chief Asad Durrani regarding the political cell of the spy agency, Justice Jawwad S. More >
Seeking accountability: PAC orders inquiry into Sheikh Rashid’s illegal purchase
May 17th
Committee says an unauthorised vehicle was bought by former minister. Committee says an unauthorised vehicle was bought by former minister.
ISLAMABAD:The Public Account Committee (PAC) has ordered an inquiry into the illegal purchase of a Mercedes Benz coach in 2005 that can possibly implicate former information minister Sheikh Rashid and the then information secretary Shahid Rafi.
The PAC, parliament’s top accountability body, took the decision after the Federal Audit’s director general (DG) revealed that the former top officials of the information ministry had bought the imported luxury vehicle while the premier had only allowed the purchase of a Hyundai van for More >
Bollywood drama – off screen and in parliament
May 17th
NEW DEHLI: You cannot escape Bollywood and the drama that comes with it, not even in the hallowed environs of the Rajya Sabha.
On Monday, as actress Rekha, the newest member of the upper house of India’s parliament took oath, the focus — at least that of the cameras, was on another, older member. Rekha’s short swearing-in ceremony was interspersed with several shots of a very grim-looking Jaya Bachchan.
Anyone watching the five-minute swearing-in ceremony, would have been forgiven for thinking they were watching a Bollywood awards ceremony, where the camera pans to a Shahid Kapur when a Kareena Kapoor is dancing More >
