Wednesday, March 31, 2010 ISLAMABAD: All members of the parliament’s constitutional reforms committee have signed the draft of 18th Amendment after reaching a consensus here on Wednesday. The signing ceremony took place at the committee room in Parliament. Federal Minister for Water and Power Raja Pervaiz Ashraf was the first to sign the draft followed by Naveed Qamar. Besides, Sardar Mehtab Abbasi and Ishaq Dar, Babar Awan, Lashkari Raisani, ... Read More

Updated : Wednesday March 31 , 2010 ISLAMABAD: Parliament’s Constitutional Reform Committee (CRC) on Wednesday agreed on Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa as the new name for NWFP,it was reported here. for more News Visit: www.pakistannews24.com www.bismillahnews.com ... Read More

Wednesday March 31, 2010, Mumbai May 3, 2010, is Judgement Day. The day Ajmal Amir Kasab, the sole terrorist captured alive in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, will be sentenced. Trial ended in the case on Wednesday after the conclusion of arguments, and special judge ML Tahaliyani announced that he would pronounce the verdict on May 3. The memories of another Wednesday, of gun shots and blasts, horror and despair, an ... Read More

Updated : Wednesday March 31 , 2010 ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani Wednesday asked the members National Assembly to observe patience for release of the United Nations report on Benazir Bhutto’s assassination. “Let the concerned person come, he will reply. And the concerned person is Interior Minister who is Minister-in-Waiting with the Turkish Prime Minister,” the Prime Minister said, in response to a ... Read More

Updated : Wednesday March 31 , 2010 ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister of Law Babar Awan has said President Asif Ali Zardari is facing victimization not accountability. Addressing annual results function of a private educational institution in Rawalpindi on Wednesday Babar Awan said Benazir Bhutto faced accountability in her life but "..we do not allow accountability of her Mazar." He said after 37 years a constitutional ... Read More

Updated : Wednesday March 31 , 2010 LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board says former test captain Younis Khan has the right to appeal against his indefinite ban from the national team. PCB legal adviser Taffazul Rizvi has said that the cricket board had received a letter from Younis' lawyer seeking clarifications on the ban. Rizvi said the PCB has responded by saying that the ... Read More

Updated : Wednesday March 31 , 2010 ISLAMABAD: Turkish President Abdullah Gul called on Presidency in Islamabad on Wednesday to discuss the matters of mutual interest with President Asif Ali Zardari. President Abdullah Gul arrived here Tuesday on a four-day official visit of Pakistan on the invitation of President Zardari. President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani warmly welcomed the ... Read More

LAHORE: The family members of Col. (R) Ikram Khan (late), who died in an accident with the car of former Chief Secretary, met the Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer here at Governor House on Tuesday. The family members including widow of the late Col Khurram Ikram (son), Azam Ikram (son) and daughter thanked the Governor for taking action against the responsible top officer who had to leave the post for his ... Read More

Wednesday, March 31, 2010 ISLAMABAD -- The Pakistan army says 6 soldiers and 25 militants have been killed in fighting triggered by an insurgent attack on a checkpoint close to the Afghan border. The fighting Wednesday took place in the Khyber district near the main northwestern city of Peshawar. The military statement said soldiers repulsed the attack and that several suicide car bombs were destroyed. ... Read More

March 31, 2010 Islamabad, Pakistan -- Five Americans accused of plotting attacks on Pakistan face up to life imprisonment in a terror trial that opened Wednesday in the city of Sargodha. The men, who have been called the "D.C. 5" because they all lived in the region around the U.S. capital, have been charged with several terrorism-related counts including criminal conspiracy to commit terrorism and waging war against Pakistan and its allies. Sargodha ... Read More

Wednesday, Mar. 31, 2010 Six months after the Harper government boasted of improved safeguards for detainees, top Canadian soldiers responsible for handing captives to the Afghans complained about being kept in the dark on the health of transferred prisoners. Colonel Christian Juneau, deputy commander of Joint Task Force Afghanistan, wrote superiors in November of 2007 to protest how little information he was getting from Canadian diplomats assigned to monitor detainees, ... Read More

Wednesday, March 31, 2010 A bomb concealed on a bicycle killed at least eight people Wednesday in southern Afghanistan, as the Pentagon's top military officer said NATO forces hope to reverse the Taliban's momentum in the south with an upcoming offensive in Kandahar. The bomb went off in the Nahr-e-Sarraj district just north of Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province, police said. It exploded near people who gathered to receive free ... Read More