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Sep 26 2009
Pakistan former prime minister and the late wife of President Asif Ali Zardari, Benazir Bhutto, has been posthumously awarded this year’s Global Creative Leadership Award by the Louise T Blouin Foundation in New York on September 24, 2009. The award...
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Sep 26 2009
While President Zardari and other high government officials are abroad for getting billions of dollars in aid from the US and other allies, Transparency International (TI) Pakistan released a report pointing to the boundless corruption in Pakistan....
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Sep 24 2009
The joy of eid-ul-fitar after a warm-weather Ramazan proved short-lived as load shedding has returned to cities and towns in the country. While the power outages are not painfully extended as before, the problem has at least started again on a daily...
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Sep 21 2009
After a mostly peaceful Ramazan, sectarian violence erupted in Hangu on Eid day, September 20, 2009. After 24 hours of the breakout of violence, 4 people have been reportedly killed and 4 other injured in the exchange of firing while a military curfew...
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Sep 19 2009
Quaid-i-Azam University, considered by some as Pakistan’s topmost institution of higher education, failed to make functional a management software that had been developed for the university by Oracle for 21 million rupees. The software, called Campus...
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Sep 18 2009
The Baluchistan High Court (BHC) has issued a notice to the Defense Ministry to direct the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Military Intelligence (MI) to cooperate with Turbat police in investigating the murder of three Baloch nationalist leaders...
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Sep 18 2009
After weeks of comparative tranquility in Hangu-Kohat the region, a major suicide bombing incident shook the area of Kacha Pakha along the Hangu-Kohat GT road on Friday, September 18, 2009. By latest, at least 40 people were killed and 65 injured in the...
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Sep 18 2009
International calls made via the Internet have become a concern for the Indian security agencies and they have requested a ban on international internet telephony until a system of tracing such calls is put into working. The agencies fear that internet...
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Sep 17 2009
To develop the country’s social sector, Pakistan has signed three agreements with the World Bank. The agreements, worth $350 million in total, were signed by the World Bank’s Acting country director Said Al-Habsy and Pakistan’s Secretary Economic...
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Sep 17 2009
President Asif Ali Zardari, on Tuesday (September 15, 2009), launched the landmark Waseela-e-Haq program to help the country’s poor out of their misery. The program, an offshoot of the Benazir Income Support Program (BISP), will allow an interest-free...
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