RAWALPINDI: The Lahore High Court’s Rawalpindi bench on Wednesday declared Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz MPA Yasir Raza disqualified over his fake academic record.
Justice Khwaja Imtiaz Ahmed of the LHC’s Rawalpindi bench declared the provincial lawmaker from PP-13 ineligible for holding any public office, and ordered Election Commission of Pakistan to hold bye-polls on the constituency.
Raza’s rival, [...]
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LAHORE: Former president of Supreme Court Bar and PPP leader Aitzaz Ahsan has said implementation of the court decisions is the responsibility of the government.
Talking to media in Lahore High Court on Wednesday Aitzaz said the implementation of verdicts will demonstrate freedom of judiciary in the country.
He said an independent judiciary is must for a [...]
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ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has declared the degree of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani as genuine.
Prime Minister Gilani had passed his Masters in Mass Communication from the University of Punjab in 70s.
Higher Education Commission has sent the degrees of 200 members of the assemblies to concerned universities for confirmation.
The Election Commission and Higher [...]
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LONDON: Serena Williams was left all alone trying to crush an unlikely uprising on Wimbledon’s hallowed lawns as sister Venus and Kim Clijsters suffered shock defeats in the women’s quarter-finals.
By the time defending champion Williams stepped on Centre Court before beating China’s Li Na 7-5 6-3, Venus had been thumped by Bulgaria’s Tsvetana Pironkova and [...]
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KABUL: Eight militants were killed in a gunbattle after a suicide car bombing Wednesday at the entrance to an airport outside the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, airport authorities said.
After the car bombing, a group of militants, using light weapons and rocket-propelled grenades, battled international forces for 30 minutes, according to information provided by the [...]
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