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Army Board promotes 29 brigadiers
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Staff Reporter
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RAWALPINDI: The meeting of the Army Promotion Board was held here on Wednesday with Chief of the Army Staff Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kiyani in the chair in which 29 brigadiers were promoted to the rank of major general.
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CRC split
over control of resources
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Online
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ISLAMABAD: Differences have surfaced among the members of Constitutional Reforms Committee over the issue of handing over the control of natural resources to provincial governments.
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NAB chief goes on long leave
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ISLAMABAD: National Accountability Bureau Chairman Naveed Ahsan has gone on long leave and Deputy Chairman Irfan Nadeem has assumed responsibilities of acting chairman.
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US House poised for pullout
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Agencies
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WASHINGTON: The US House of Representatives was poised to vote Wednesday on a measure demanding President Barack Obama withdraw all US forces from Afghanistan, in a key election-year test for his war strategy.
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Tehran, Washington spar over Kabul
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KABUL: Iran's outspoken president on Wednesday criticised Western troops as an obstacle to peace in Afghanistan and mocked the US defence secretary during their overlapping visits to the war-torn country.
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US drone hit kills 14 in NWA
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The Post Report
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MIRANSHAH: US drone attacks on a village in Miranshah killed 14 militants and wounded many others.
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Pakistani tops accountancy examination
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistani student Hassan Siddiq, who is management accountant trainee, stood first in the world in one of the prestigious Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) November 2009 accountancy examination.
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Hearing put off in Sharifs’ references
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The Post Report
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RAWALPINDI: An accountability court adjourned on Wednesday the hearing of application filed by the National Accountability Bureau seeking reopening of three corruption references against Sharif brothers.
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Inexpensive, expeditious justice a crucial duty: CJP
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Associated Press of Pakistan
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ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Wednesday said that ensuring inexpensive and expeditious justice is a crucial duty and efforts of lawyers' community for implementation of national judicial policy is laudable.
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CJCSC visits Italy
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Agencies
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ROME: General Tariq Majid, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) who is on an official visit to Italy for Bilateral Defence Talks on the invitation of his counterpart, spent a busy day at Rome and held extensive talks with top brass of Italian Armed Forces to include Chief of the Italian Defence General Staff, General Vincenzo Camporini.
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Govt employees continue strike in IHK
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SRINAGAR: In occupied Kashmir, work in all the government offices including hospitals and schools remained paralysed in response to the five-day strike call given by Employees Joint Action Committee (EJAC) and Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) against the anti-people polices of the puppet administration.
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Asif for enhanced Pak-UK relations
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The Post Report
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ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday stressed the need for Pakistan and Britain to work closely to further enhance their partnership in diverse areas mainly trade, investment and educational development.
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Surreal arrests disrupt family
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The Post Monitoring
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WASHINGTON: Talha Chaudhry says his brother gave little hint of his intentions the weekend he disappeared.
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FM briefs President
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The Post Report
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Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi met President Asif Ali Zardari here at the President House and briefed him on important affairs of Pakistan's foreign policy.
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