Awaz Apni

Saudi Arabia announces $ 100 mln aid for quake victims ISLAMABAD: The Saudi Government would provide $ 100million for Balochistan quake victims. Saudi Ambassador to Pakistan Ali Awadh Asseri said that Saudi King Shah Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz has sent the aid of $ 100 million. An aerial bridge has been established between Saudi Arabia and Balochistan on the directives of Shah Abdullah which would be use to deliver the aid directly to Quetta. Saudi Arabia a...

CNews LONDON: Saudi Arabia has agreed to defer payments for the crude oil sales to Pakistan worth $5.9 billion during Pakistan's current July-June financial year, a British daily reported on Saturday. "There is an agreement to defer oil payments. The modalities are being worked out," Pakistan's de facto finance minister Naveed Qamar was quoted as saying in an interview on Friday night. Qamar would not discuss the time span for which payments on Saudi oil shipments would be deferred, but an official from the petroleum ministry in Islamabad separately told the British daily that the agreement involved deferring payments until at least June 2009 when the financial year ended. It was not clear if the deferred payments would be paid back. One western diplomat familiar with Saudi ties to Pakistan said the Saudis in 1998 began supplying crude oil under a deferred payment plan after Pakistan carried out its maiden nuclear tests and came under international sanctions. Saudi Ar...

CNews MAKKA MUKARAMA: The Mufti-e-Azam Shaikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah said that Ummah is facing serious challenges.During his sermon(Khutba) from Masjid -e-Nimra to the Haj pilgrims, the Imam-e-Ka'aba emphasised on forging unity in ranks of the ummah.He said the common enemy of the Muslims is conspiring and fuelling disunity among the ummah to weaken them. The Imam said Muslims the world over wrongly being labelled as terrorists and are being subjugated and terrorised and their rights usurped. He advised the muslim governments to treat their people sincerely and with justice. He said the wealth of the Muslim countries is the trust of the Muslims of other countries in distress. He asked the preachers to execute their work with seriousness, maturity and engage the youth positively.He asked the Muslim governments for tailoring the economic system in accordance with the teachings of Islam and to abolish interest.

Draft receiving final touches for emergency lifting ISLAMABAD: The legal advisors are Saturday giving final touches to the draft of Provisional Constitutional Amended Order-II at the President House for lifting the emergency on December 15 and several new amendments are being recommended in the constitution.The suggested amendments include the accountability of the judges of higher judiciary and deleting the words regarding the appointed timeframe for the presidential election.According to the sources, the legal advisors are mulling over amending Clause-3 of the Article 41 of the amended PCO related with the presidential election. Under this article, the presidential election can be held prior to end of its stipulated tenure; also, thought is being given to eliminating the words related with the timeframe for this election from August 17, 1988.Phrase ‘subject to constitution’ is being replaced by ‘notwithstanding anything contained in the constitution’ in Sub-clause II of Article 44 dw...

CNews ISLAMABAD: A seven-member special bench of Supreme Court will hear on October 30th a contempt petition over the recent deportation of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from Islamabad airport to Saudi Arabia.The bench is headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. The other judges comprising the bench are Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Sardar Mohammed Raza Khan, Justice Faqir Mohammed Khokhar, Justice M Javed Buttar, Justice Nasirul Mulk and Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed.

CNews Islamabad, Oct 26: The Saudi Arabian government has given its approval to former Premier Nawaz Sharif to go back to Pakistan and modalities are being worked out for his return in November, a senior leader of his PML-N party said on Friday. "Saudi Arabia has already told Nawaz Sharif that he can go back to his country whenever he likes. We are working out the modalities so that he can return in November," said PML-N acting President Makhdoom Javed Hashmi. Hashmi`s assertion came a day after President Pervez Musharraf told a meeting of top leaders of the ruling PML-Q and its allies that Sharif would not return to Pakistan from exile before the general election, which is due by mid-January. Sharif was arrested and deported to Saudia Arabia barely four hours after he returned to Pakistan on September 10. The former Premier, who signed an agreement to go into exile in Saudi Arabia for 10 years in exchange for the dropping of his jail terms, had come back after Pakistan`s Sup...

CNews JEDDAH: President Pakistan Muslim League (Q) Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has said Benazir Bhutto should delay her homecoming as advised by President Gen. Pervez Musharraf. Talking to CNews News in Jeddah Shujaat said he was not in contact with Benazir Bhutto but the presidency has been in touch with her. He further said that general elections would be held at the scheduled time, claiming that the ruling Muslim League will win the polls. He denied the possibility of ruling party’s electoral alliance with Pakistan Peoples Party.Replying a question Shujaat said he would not meet with Muslim League-N leader Mian Nawaz Sharif who is staying in Jeddah.

CNews LONDON: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s son Hassan Nawaz Tuesday said his father and uncle Shahbaz Sharif would return home between November 15-30. Talking to Geo News here Hassan Nawaz said his father Nawaz Sharif was presently in holy city of Madina and will return to Jeddah on second day of Eid-ul-Fitr. After few days’ stay in Jeddah he will proceed to London. After two to three weeks stay in London Mian Nawaz Sharif along with Shahbaz Sharif will return Pakistan on any day between November 15-30. According to Muslim League-N sources Saudi government has allowed Nawaz Sharif to leave Saudi Arabia after Eid.