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Fahmida Mirza elected Speaker
Bilawal arrives, to announce candidate for Prime Minister

Zardari criticises army
New York: Pakistan’s military, which thinks itself as the country’s “only viable institution” and its deep-rooted suspicion of the civil political process have hampered the growth of democracy during the past six decades, ...

Arthur Clarke is dead
COLOMBO: Sir Arthur C. Clarke (90), the British-born science fiction writer, who had made Sri Lanka his home for the past 50 years, died at a hospital here on Wednesday after a brief illness. Sir Arthur had wished for lasting peace in ...

‘Make oath minority friendly’
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party deputy chairman Makhdoom Amin Fahim made a representation in the National Assembly on Wednesday for a more minority friendly oath of office for parliamentarians. The issue came up ...

U.K. court backs Chavez in row with oil giant

Worth the fight, says Bush
Washington: Marking the fifth anniversary of the launch of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, President George W Bush on Wednesday insisted that the hugely unpopular war was worth the fight and that “removing Saddam Hussein from power was the ...

India & World
‘Satyagraha’ threat in U.S.
Washington: Over 100 Indians, who allegedly faced “slave-like treatment” in a shipyard in the United States, have threatened to stage a “satyagraha” here if the Government of India did not take up their cause with the ...

Sikh magistrate jailed in Britain
London: A Sikh magistrate of Indian origin has been jailed in Britain for 18 months for telling a businessman-friend that he could make a court case against him “disappear” for £ 45,000. Handing down the judgment to ...

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