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Health spending: Consultation talks of misplaced priorities
Jun 9th
Pakistan Medical Association meeting highlights doctors’ concerns.
Obama says sorry to Karzai for civilian deaths
Jun 9th
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama on Wednesday expressed his sorrow in a video conference with Afghan President Hamid Karzai over recent civilian casualties in Afghanistan, his spokesman said.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said Obama sp…
Women purposely kept backward: PEW
Jun 9th
ISLAMABAD: June 08, Dr Murtaza Mughal, President the Pakistan Economy Watch (PEW) on Wednesday said that women in Pakistan were intentionally kept backward for systemic subordination. Budget has offered nothing to women entrepreneurs as no …
Troika discuss security situation
Jun 9th
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yusaf Raza Gilani Wednesday called on President Asif Ali Zardari and discussed current political situation in the country.
The meeting held at the Aiwan-e-Sadr, also discussed security situation in the country and the re…
Clinton heads to UAE for talks on Libya
Jun 8th
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton left here Wednesday for Abu Dhabi to consult with countries backing military action in Libya and looking at more ways to help the Libyan opposition.
The talks in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) capital …
Floods swamp earthquake-ravaged Haiti, killing 23
Jun 8th
PORT-AU-PRINCE: Torrential rains lashed Haiti on Tuesday, flooding shanty towns, swamping the squalid camps erected after a 2010 earthquake and killing at least 23 people, officials said.
The worst rains to hit the impoverished country this year — at…
Dollar falls against yen after Bernanke”s remarks
Jun 8th
TOKYO: The dollar fell to a one-month low against the yen in Asia on Wednesday after a gloomy assessment of the US economy from Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, dealers said.
After hitting a fresh one-month low of 79.84 yen, the dollar fetched 7…
US senator wants 15,000 troops out of Afghanistan
Jun 8th
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama should withdraw a minimum of 15,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2011, the chairman of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee said on Tuesday.
“At least 15,000 by the end of this year. That”s wha…
Delay in formation of Abbottabad commission grievable
Jun 8th
LAHORE: PML-N Chief Mian Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday said that delay in formation of independent commission to probe Abbottabad incident is regrettable adding that PML-N would not tolerate further delay.
Talking to media after inaugurating cricket summer …
US plans to sabotage Pak nuke facilities: Ahmadinejad
Jun 8th
TEHRAN: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday accused Washington of planning to sabotage Pakistan”s nuclear facilities, during a media conference in Tehran.
“We have precise information that America wants to sabotage the Pakistani nuclear …
