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Awaz Apni ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani have strongly condemned the killing of Raza Haider, MQM leader and Member Sindh Assembly, who was shot dead by unknown assailants in Karachi on Monday evening. The President and Prime Minister in their separate messages expressed shock and grief over the unfortunate incident and directed the concerned authorities to investigate the tragic happening and take all necessary steps to bring the culprits to justice. They conveyed their condolences to the bereaved family and prayed to Almighty Allah to rest the departed soul in eternal peace and grant courage to the bereaved family to bear this irreparable loss with equanimity.

Islamabad, Air Blue Plane Crash Exclusive Pictures

Names of deceased One hundred and forty-six passengers and six crew members were on board, whereas there are 13 lucky people who missed the unfortunate flight. The names of passengers who died in the crash are: Pyar Ali, Prem Chand, Hassan Javed Khan, Syed Arsalan Ahmed, Mohammad Tufail, Abdul Rehman, Mohammad Faisal Rasheed, Mohammad Owais, Hussain Alam, Ghulam Abbas, Naveed Ilyas, Mohammad Ali Mughal, Mohammad Aftab, Shireen Lodhi, Mohammad Nawab Hassan, Asim Arain, Ali Sherazi, Mohammad Bashir, Zahid Habibi, Dr Mirko Cvjfticanin, Asia Begum, Mohammad Umair Khan, Haji Rehmat Gul, Misha Dawood, Ali Asghar Rajab Ali, Rashida Tyeb Khan, Murtaza Tyed Khan, Malik Mohammad Yousuf, Nabeel Lutfi, Manzoor Nasir, Saleem Ahmed, Rosie Ahmed, Hamid Javed, Mohammad Yousuf, Ata Raja, Anwar Bibi, Gulzar Bibi, Tariq Subhan, Abdul Ghaffar, Irfan Imran, Mohammad Sultan, Mohammad Yaseen, Gayaba Khan, Manzoor Ahmed, Masood Salam, Syed Azam, Ojam Khan, Jannat Gul, Zaintun Bibi, Waheed-ur-Rehman, Mohamma...

Awaz Apni ISLAMABAD: Investigators spent a third day searching Friday for the black box of a Pakistani jet that crashed into Islamabad's hills, killing all 152 people on board, officials said. The search for human remains has been called off and most bodies handed over to families for burial, police said. The Airblue passenger jet crashed in a ball of fire in the forested Margalla Hills overlooking the Pakistani capital in heavy rain and poor visibility on Wednesday, while trying to land after flying from Karachi. "We have recovered remains of all the dead bodies. Now our focus is on the investigation and we are searching for any clue which can help us," senior Islamabad police official Bani Amin told media. Monsoon rains hampered the search for two days, but aviation experts and other investigators resumed work after the weather cleared on Friday. Investigators are focusing on the black box as the flight data recorder will provide valuable clues as to why the ...

Awaz Apni ISLAMABAD: A commercial airbus of a private airline has crashed into Margalla Hills, a mountainous range behind Shah Faisal Mosque, apparently due to rough weather, Current News World news reported. According to preliminary reports, as many as 150 passengers including crewmembers were onboard plane while the smoke is seen rising through heavy clouds from the crash site, police and rescue service officials said. Eyewitnesses said people noticed airbus flying at very low altitude near Daman-e-Koh this morning and it might have crashed due to rough weather. The wreckage can be seen in video footages with fierce fire raging and smoke emitting from there despite heavy rains in Islamabad. Airport sources said the flight took off at 7:50am from Karachi to Islamabad but crashed due to uneven weather a few minutes before landing after loosing connection with control tower. Islamabad is witnessing heavy showers and thick fog at the moment. Meanwhile rescue teams have been dis...

Awaz Apni Breaking News PM extends COAS’ term for 3 years from 29 Nov ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani Thursday extended the term of Chief of Army Staff Ashfaq Paervez Kayani for three years starting from November 29, 2010.

Awaz Apni ISLAMABAD: India is not yet mentally prepared for the resumption of dialogue process with Pakistan and is just interested to discuss only some specific issues instead of talking on all outstanding issues between the two countries. This was stated by Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi while talking to newsmen here at Foreign Service Academy after attending the certificate distribution ceremony to the newly trained probationers of the Foreign Service. Replying to a question about any ‘dead lock’ in Pak-India foreign minister level talks held here at Islamabad yesterday, Qureshi said,” India is not seen mentally ready for the resumption of talks.” He said although the Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna have positive approach and thinking for resuming the talks, but there are some other problems being faced on part of Indian leadership for the revival of dialogue process. Qureshi said Pakistan is alw...

Awaz Apni ISLAMABAD: Chairman Higher Education Commission (HEC) Dr. Javed Leghari Wednesday said even a single degree of a parliamentarian, if proven fake, will put all the degrees under suspicion. Talking exclusively to Awaz Apni News here, the HEC Chairman said degrees of all the parliamentarians including Rehman Malik and Babar Awan are being scrutinized while copies of 161 degrees, which were unintelligible, have been sent back. “Had the degrees were in readable condition, the verification process could have completed within a three-four days,” Dr. Javed Leghari added.

Awaz Apni ISLAMABAD: Government has hiked power tariff by 7.6 percent in line with the IMF agreement. According to the Ministry of Water and Power the revised tariff will be effective from July 1. The above raise will be in addition to the hike announced earlier by NEPRA in consequence to the monthly fuel adjustment. The notification says that the government has, under NEPRA Act, hiked the power tariff for consumers of eight power distributors as well as Karachi Electric Supply Company. The government’s original plan was to implement the hike from April this year but had to delay it for two months as country suffered from increased power shortfall and load-shedding. Earlier, the government had raised the electricity tariff by 4.6 percent in October 2009 and then in Janaury 2010 by 12 percent as part of its plan to bring in phases a total increase of 24 percent in the electricity rates. The consumers of up to 100 units will have to bear an additional burden of 29 paisas per ...

Awaz Apni ISLAMABAD :  Syed Talat Hussain, the Executive Director news and current affairs of Aaj News and other two Pakistanis, detained by Israel after attack on aid flotilla, have been handed over to Jordanian ambassador to Israel, Aaj News reported. According to details, the Interpol has confirmed that the three Pakistanis have been handed over to Jordanian ambassador to Israel . Jordanian ambassador along with Syed Talat Hussain, Raza Agha and Nadeem Ahmed has left Tel Aviv for King Hussein Bridge Jordan where he will hand over the three Pakistanis to the Pakistani ambassador to Jordan. All the three Pakistanis will be returning to Pakistan on Wednesday, the channel added.

Awaz Apni 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, Wasim Sajjad and others also singed the draft. The committee reached a consensus on the draft of 18th Amendment following the detailed deliberations lasting several months.

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ISLAMABAD: In a country where over 40 per cent of the population is said to be languishing under the poverty line with families surviving on less than $2 a day, the shameful revelation of the filthy rich getting loans worth over Rs100 billion written-off owing to their formidable clout is shocking the nation. And this shameful list carries some of the biggest names of our power elite. The names of Ch Shujaat and Ch Pervez Elahi were found among about 1,000 influential businessmen and Army men who got a total of Rs18 billion loans written-off from the government-owned banks during the first three years of the military government. The list was submitted in the NA when Zafarullah Jamali was the prime minister and Shaukat Aziz was the finance minister. The first loan of Rs70 million was outstanding against the Punjab Sugar Mills and was written off by the National Bank of Pakistan along with the actual loan amount. The mill was owned by Chaudhry Shujaat Husssain, Chaudhry Mansoor Elah...

Awaz Apni ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday sought a detailed report till December 21 on cutting of trees due to extension of the Canal View Road Project in Lahore from the provincial environment secretary and the director general. A three-member SC bench, comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Mian Shakirullah Jan and Justice Tariq Parvez, was hearing a suo moto case initiated against the cutting of trees. Nawaz Manik, deputy director of the Punjab Environment Protection Department, Israr Khan, project director of the Lahore Canal Road, and Khadim Hussain Qaiser, Additional Advocate General Punjab, appeared in the court in connection with the notice. Israr Khan presented a report of Nespak about the impact on the environment due to the cutting of trees. However, the civic representatives negated the report and contended that the report was about a previous project and had nothing to do with the current project. Israr Khan told the court that the Canal ...

Awaz Apni ISLAMABAD: The master mind of suicide attacks on World Food Program and Rescue 15 offices has been arrested.In a media briefing, Federal Police IG said Jamsheed alias Tahir has belonged to Mulla Rahim group and Ghazi force of Orakzai Agency and also fought in Swat. A suicide jacked recovered from Jamsheed was also presented in the briefing. IG said Jamsheed used Muhammad alias Ilyas and Haroon as suicide bombers to attack World Food Program and Rescue 15 offices. Police have also got key clues about the elements involved in firing incidents on military officials in Islamabad, he added.

Awaz Apni ISLAMABAD: Muttahida Quami Movement’s MNA Wasim Akhtar Thursday alleged that government is involved in firing on MQM’s candidates in Gilgit-Baltistan. Speaking in Awaz Apni, Wasim Akhtar said election results are being manipulated, asking the President to intervene and bring a halt to, what he called, the rigging in the ongoing G-B polls so that derailment of democracy can be stopped. He said it would be difficult for MQM to accept the results if what he called the rigging in Gilgit-Baltistan is not stopped.

KARACHI: Pakistan’s historic win in the final of the T20 World Cup against Sri Lanka at Lord’s sparked jubilation across the country and worldwide. People took to the streets after the match in all major cities of the country including Lahore, Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Multan, Karachi, Peshawar and Quetta and expressed their joy in their own peculiar manner. They distributed sweets and danced to the beat of drums to celebrate the much-needed victory. While some people resorted to aerial firing, others set off fireworks lighting up the night sky. They also sang national songs and chanted slogans of ‘Pakistan Zindabad’. Large screens were installed in all major cities for people to watch the match. Theses were the scenes witnessed not only in Pakistan but also in every corner of the world wherever Pakistanis are living. Whether it would be streets of US or grounds of Britain, Pakistani flag flying high conveying the message of peace and expressed that Pakistani nation is a peace loving nati...

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani Thursday said the armed forces have been called in to eliminate the terrorists in Swat and Malakand Division.In a televised address to the nation, the Prime Minister also said that one billion rupees have been provided for the rehabilitation of the internally displaced persons.He announced employment will be provided to one member of a family which has lost any of its member at the hands of terrorists.The Prime Minister said the above decisions were taken after holding consultations with the political parties and other stakeholders.He said although the government adopted the path of talks and negotiations to resolve Swat issue the terrorist elements continued to challenge the writ of the government.“We went ahead and implemented Nizam-e-Adl Regulation in the Malakand Division in line with the long standing demand of the locals,” he said and added that later President Asif Ali Zardari also signed the NAR.However, he said, all these steps faile...