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President of Pakistan signs new summary of judges appointment
Following the advice of Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday night signed the summary of appointment of justices Saqib Nisar and Asif Saeed Khosa as permanent judges of the Supreme Court and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday as ad hoc judge of the apex court for one year.
The summary was [...]
Appeals court upholds life sentence for 9/11 conspirator
Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person convicted in a U.S. court on criminal charges related to the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001, lost a bid on Monday to overturn his guilty plea and get a new trial.
A U.S. appeals court based in Richmond, Virginia, rejected arguments by Moussaoui, who is serving a a life sentence at [...]
Blast rocks Shiite parade in Karachi, at least 43 killed
Pakistan’s interior minister appealed for calm on Tuesday in the country’s commercial capital Karachi, where shopowners surveyed gutted premises a day after a suicide bomber killed 43 people and triggered a city-centre riot.
The bombing of a Shi’ite Muslim procession in Karachi underscored multiple security challenges facing the nuclear-armed U.S. ally at a volatile time for [...]
Insurgency In Pakistan
After last weekend’s attack on the headquarters of the Pakistan Army in Rawalpindi, one of the questions being asked with a rather troubling air of inevitability was: where next? That question was answered on Thursday with a string of attacks across the country, including three in Lahore.
So now, what next?
Many expect the attacks to continue, [...]
