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BLA claims responsibility for killing professor in Quetta
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By Saleem Shahid
QUETTA, April 27: A woman professor of Balochistan University was gunned down here on Tuesday.
Nazima Talib was travelling in a rickshaw when two masked men on a motorcycle opened fire on her on the Sariab road...
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Former MI chief faces investigators today
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By Iftikhar A. Khan and Syed Irfan Raza
ISLAMABAD, April 27: Maj-Gen Nadeem Ijaz, a former director-general of the Military Intelligence (MI), will appear on Wednesday before a three-member fact-finding committee investigating the hosing down of the site of Benazir Bhutto's assassination.
The commission recorded on Tuesday statements of four police officials allegedly involved in washing the site shortly after the gun and bomb attack that claimed Ms Bhutto's life near Liaquat Bagh in Rawalpindi on Dec 27, 2007...
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Nepra asks govt to start work on coal-based plants
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By Khaleeq Kiani
ISLAMABAD, April 27: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) decided on Tuesday to reduce electricity tariff by 45 paisas per unit under the monthly fuel adjustment formula and asked the government agencies concerned to start working immediately on setting up coal-based power projects for decreasing reliance on expensive furnace oil.
During a hearing on monthly fuel adjustment in power tariff, Nepra Chairman Khalid Saeed said the Private Power and Infrastructure Board (PPIB) and the ministry of water and power should invite tenders for setting up power projects to be run on imported coal till the Thar coal deposits were exploited and used for generating electricity because furnace oil was becoming unaffordable...
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Petroleum product prices being raised
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By Kalbe Ali
ISLAMABAD, April 27: Prices of petroleum products may be raised by three to eight per cent in May because of increasing oil prices in international markets, according to sources in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources.
They said the price of petrol might go up to Rs75.40 per litre next month. Diesel will cost much more than petrol and the price of motor and generator fuel may be raised by more than Rs5 to Rs78.50 per litre...
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India nabs diplomat on charge of spying for Pakistan
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By Jawed Naqvi
NEW DELHI, April 27: India said on Tuesday it has arrested a woman working as a diplomat in its Islamabad embassy on charges of spying for Pakistan.
Madhuri Gupta, 53, is a second secretary in the high commission in the press and information section. She was arrested on a work trip to Delhi...
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SC wants govt to revisit LNG deal
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By Nasir Iqbal
ISLAMABAD, April 27: The Supreme Court ordered on Tuesday that a fresh decision should be taken for the award of a contract for importing 3.5 million tons of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to parties which were declared qualified by consultants.
A three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, Justice Chaudhry Ijaz Ahmed and Justice Ghulam Rabbani had taken notice of a news report about the contract for Mashal LNG project awarded to French firm GDF-Suez. According to the report, the lowest bid jointly offered by Fauji Foundation and multinational energy firm Vitol had been ignored by the petroleum ministry...
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President asks people to protect motherland
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PESHAWAR, April 27: President Asif Ali Zardari has urged the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to keep outsiders out of their ranks and unite to protect the country from various threats.
Addressing a tribal jirga at the Governor House here on Tuesday, the president said every citizen would have to play his role because complacency had no place in such challenging times. He said that people needed to ensure that their neighbours were not foreigners living in the country illegally and were not involved in unlawful activities and not creating problems for the locals...
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Saarc nations to jointly fight climate change
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THIMPHU (Bhutan), April 27: Foreign ministers of eight South Asian nations met in this secluded Himalayan kingdom on Tuesday to discuss ways to jointly fight climate change, start a $300 million development fund for infrastructure and sign a trade agreement, officials said.
The fund, which would comprise financial contributions by Saarc (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) countries, will offer loans and grants to member countries for projects to help reduce poverty...
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Aid must follow military gains: UN
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ISLAMABAD, April 27: Pakistan and its Western backers should swiftly pour money into former Taliban bastions to ensure that military successes were not lost and the population remained on the government's side, a UN envoy said.
The army has said it hit Taliban militants hard over the past year with offensives, destroying bases, killing hundreds of fighters and clearing out many others in a bid to stabilise the country...
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Karachi Stocks Up 0.01 Points:
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KARACHI, April 27: At close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 10556.38, up 0.01 points.
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Forex Update:
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KARACHI, April 27: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 84.40 to the US Dollar in the open market.
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