Karachi: Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Friday emphasised on the need for a code of conduct for a peaceful solution to the Karachi situation, and urged the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and Awami National Party (ANP) to make collective efforts to restore peace in the city.

He was talking to the representative delegations of various political parties which called on him at Chief Minister House.
The challenges confronting the country, the Prime Minister said, demand unity among all the segments of the society including political parties for creating an enabling …

Karachi: An activist of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) was shot dead in Gulistan-e-Johar, whereas five other persons were reported dead from other parts of the city during the last 24 hours. Meanwhile, the President summoned Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik in this regard today.

According to reports, eight vehicles, dozens of shops and a furniture market were also set on fire in different areas of the city.
Spells of firing continue in Gulistan-e-Johar.
Karachi is still in the grip of tension following yesterday’s attack on an MQM unit, in which one …

Peshawar: The NWFP government on Wednesday formulated a judicial commission to probe into the killing incidents in Abbottabad after mass protests erupted against renaming of the province as Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.

According to a notification issued by provincial government, a judge of Peshawar High Court Abdul Aziz Kundi will be the head of the commission. The commission will present its report within 15 days.
Some eight people had been killed and more than hundred as police opened fires on angry protestors demonstrating against changing name of the province.
The protests are still ongoing in various …

Timer Girah: A bomb attack killed 30 people at a celebration organised by a political party in northwest Pakistan on Monday, with fears the death toll could rise further, police said.

The meeting had been organised to celebrate plans to change the name of North West Frontier Province, which dates back to British colonial rule, to Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa in a nod to its Pashtun-majority population.
The gathering was held in Timargarah, the main town in the northwestern district of Lower Dir.
Zahid Khan, a spokesman for the Awami National Party, said his party was …

Islamabad: Parliament’s Constitutional Reforms Committee (CRC) on Wednesday approved Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa with consensus as the new name for NWFP.

PCCR met with Senator Raza Rabbani in chair to end the deadlock between Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and Awami National Party (ANP) on the renaming of NWFP.
Rabbani and PML-N’s Senator Ishaq Dar also held a one-on-one meeting on the sidelines of CRC meeting.
According to reports, the reforms committee has accepted the PML-N demands about renaming of NWFP and reconstitution of judicial commission.
The committee will again meet 8:00 p.m. today to attain a consensus …

Islamabad: Amid almost stalled talks between the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Awami National Party (ANP) to rename NWFP, PML-Quaid factions have also become a party to the controversy – a development that is likely to complicate further the constitutional reforms committee’s task of coming up with consensus recommendations.

A delegation of Awami National Party (ANP) met with PML-Q President Shujaat Hussain and discussed matters relating to the renaming of NWFP here on Monday.
Later talking to media, PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain while terming the constitutional reforms package essential for …