Six foreign investors to establish Wind Power Plants in Sindh Friday, February 29, 2008 ISLAMABAD: The Federal government has issued power generation licenses to six foreign investors for establishing Wind Power Plants in the coastal areas of Sindh. A spokesman of Pakistan Alternate Energy Development Board told media that under the plan, wind power plants having a capacity of 700 megawatts would be established in Charo and Keti Bandar by 2010. Ninety-three private investors have shown interest in establishing small wind power plants with ... Read More

Special Correspondent WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential hopefuls - Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama - clashed sharply over their stance on Pakistan, the Iraq war and other issues in a heated debate Tuesday night, one week before a pivotal group of primaries. Seeking to regain lost momemtum, Mrs Clinton slammed Obama for having unwisely ‘threatened to bomb Pakistan’ if President Pervez Musharraf failed to act against Al-Qaeda militants. “Last summer, he basically threatened to bomb Pakistan, which I don’t think was a particularly wise ... Read More

Musharraf will leave office peaceably - Biden Special Correspondent NEW YORK - A key U.S. senator said Monday that President Pervez Musharraf gave the congressional delegation that he led to Pakistan an impression that he would step back from the exercise of the kind of power he has exercised and eventually leave the office peaceably. "I think he will go gently into the good night," Joseph Biden told Council on Foreign Relations, a think-tank, when asked to elaborate his call ... Read More

Asif to host ‘show of strength’ party today By Amir Waseem ISLAMABAD, Feb 26: The first show of strength by three major parties -- Pakistan People’s Party, Pakistan Muslim League-N and Awami National Party -- which emerged victorious in the Feb 18 elections will be held here on Wednesday at a luncheon hosted by PPP co-chairman Asif Zardari for the newly-elected MNAs. PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif, president Shahbaz Sharif and ANP president Asfandyar Wali Khan are expected to attend the luncheon meeting where the ... Read More

Press Trust Of India Lahore, February 26, 2008 Ruling out indemnity for "illegal steps" taken by President Pervez Musharraf during the emergency rule last year, former Pakistan premier and PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday said one of his top priorities would be to rid the country of "dictatorship". He asked the former military ruler to quit as President and said there would be no indemnity for "illegal and unconstitutional steps" taken by him during emergency. Sharif said his PML-N party would not compromise ... Read More

LONDON: Pervez Musharraf is considering stepping down as President of Pakistan rather than waiting to be forced out by his victorious opponents, claimed by British Newspaper The Sunday Telegraph. According to the newspaper, one close confidante said that the President believed he had run out of options after three of the main parties who triumphed in last week’s poll announced they would form a coalition government together, and also pledged to reinstate the country’s chief justice and 60 other judges sacked ... Read More

Rawalpindi Blast: 8 killed including Lt. Gen. Mushtaq Baig   Updated at: 1800 PST, Monday, February 25, 2008      RAWALPINDI (Mazhar Tufail): Lt. General, Dr. Mushtaq Baig was martyred while his guard and driver were killed on the spot in a suicide bomb attack at busy Mall Road in garrison city of Rawalpindi on Monday.The Interior Ministry has confirmed deaths of four persons in the explosion executed at around 2:45 PM near NADRA office. The suicide bomber was on foot, who blew himself up by ... Read More

 The man, who rigged 2002 polls, spills the beans Updated at   By Umar CheemaISLAMABAD: The main wheeler and dealer of the ISI during the 2002 elections, the then Maj-Gen Ehtesham Zamir, now retired, has come out of the closet and admitted his guilt of manipulating the 2002 elections, and has directly blamed Gen Musharraf for ordering so. Talking to The News, the head of the ISI’s political cell in 2002, admitted manipulating the last elections at the behest of President Musharraf and ... Read More

Election results could mean search-and-destroy missions on terror strongholds could be choked off WASHINGTON, FEBRUARY 22: American officials reached a quiet understanding with Pakistan’s leader last month to intensify secret strikes against suspected terrorists by pilotless aircraft launched in Pakistan, senior officials in both governments say. But the prospect of changes in Pakistan’s government has the Bush administration worried that the new operations could be curtailed. Among other things, the new arrangements allowed an increase in the number and scope of patrols and ... Read More

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan's president will not step down as head of state and intends to serve out his five-year term, his spokesman said, despite a sweeping victory by his opponents in an election that President Bush on Wednesday judged to be fair. But with the vote count nearly complete, two opposition parties have won enough seats to form a new government, though they will likely fall short of the two-thirds needed to impeach the president. The result is seen as a ... Read More