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The writer is a freelance columnist and former newspaper editor Thursday, November 12, 2009 If a referendum were to be ordered, there seems less and less doubt that most people would wish to see President Asif Ali Zardari make his way out of the Presidency.

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari is suspected of having received millions of dollars in kickbacks from the 1994 sale of three French submarines to the Pakistani Navy, the daily Liberation reported Tuesday.

SKARDU: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday assured of holding free, fair and transparent elections in Gilgit-Baltistan and said ensuring level-playing field by the government encouraged all political parties to run for the polls.

Today is Tuesday, November 17, the 321st day of 2009. There are 44 days left in the year.

LAHORE: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said the issue of the 17th Amendment would be resolved in accordance with the Charter of Democracy.

RAWALPINDI: Civil Judge Rai Afzal Kharal on Saturday issued warrants for Federal Minister for Water and Power Raja Pervaiz Ashrafa s arrest and directed the police to present him in the court on the next date of hearing on November 21.

Wednesday, November 04, 2009 By Sadiq Saleem On Monday, November 2, thirty-five innocent Pakistanis lost their lives to a terrorist attack.

Under the terms of reference signed with the UN Commission, the government is under obligation to provide access to any official and individual and any material required in the investigation.

LAHORE: The former president Supreme Court Bar Association Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan has said Sunday judiciary might rule against NRO even after its ratification from parliament under July 31st judgment, Geo news reported.

Islamabad, Nov.4 : Over 200 Urdu speaking officials of the private US security company, Blackwater, touched down at Islamabad's international airport late on Tuesday.

UNITED NATIONS: The chairman of the UN commission investigating the assassination of Benazir Bhutto on Tuesday said it was making progress, but could not say whether its report would be ready by the end of the year.

Professor Husain Haqqani, who took a leave of absence from Boston University to become Pakistan's ambassador to the United States last year, is one of the most influential figures in his nation's government.

While President Asif Ali Zardari is already pushed to face the pending court cases against him, dubious characters are at large to exploit relations with him as well as key cabinet members to ruin the state entities.

Rather than prop up a corrupt and incompetent President Karzai in a country where Al Qaeda is no more, we should instead give Pakistan's president all the help to defeat the Taliban and Al Qaeda.

Islamabad, Nov 3 : Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Tuesday defended the government's decision not to table the National Reconciliation Ordinance in parliament for ratification.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today completed a 3-day visit to Pakistan.

Rawalpindi attack death toll rises to 34 By shahid Ikram RAWALPINDI: At least 34 persons were killed and 32 were injured in a suicide attack near Shalimar Hotel in Saddar area of Rawalpindi on Monday.Several security men and children and women were killed in the attack at 10:39 am today, when a motorbike rider blew him up outside a bank branch ...

In recent weeks, Pakistan has been relentlessly rocked by a wave of attacks as Islamic militants retaliate against a military offensive to rout insurgents operating along the Pakistan-Afghan border.

COMMENT: Life before Kerry-Lugar -Haider Nizamani Popular sentiment has always been wary of American influence in Pakistan.

Amanpour: Is the world prepared to see the Taliban return to power? They'll bring their allies, al Qaeda, with them, she says Majority of Afghans want nothing to do with the Taliban, she says But they feel NATO, U.S. troops have fallen short of their promises, she says Editor's note: Christiane Amanpour is host of the new show " Amanpour ," which ...