Islamabad, Dec.25 : Namira Salim, who is undergoing training to be th

Islamabad, Dec 25 : Ayaz Amir, a renowned Pakistani journalist, who is writing columns for

Islamabad, Dec 25 (ANI):

Karachi, Dec 25: A team of international observers has arrived in Pakistan to monitor the January 8, 2008 general election.

The team sent by Washington-based International Republican Institute (IRI) started its scheduled visits to Sindh starting from Jamshoro district on Monday.

Initially the team met with Nawab Abdul Ghani Talpur, the Pakistan People's Party candidate for NA-231, Sehwan-Kotri, who briefed them about upcoming polls.

Talpur told the foreign observers that the PPP welcomed the most recent steps taken by Musharraf, especially giving up the uniform and removing emergency, and added that the PPP expected he would also hold free and fair elections.

Islamabad, Dec 25: The Foreign Office has rejected a report published in the New York Times that Pakistan has squandered over five billion dollars in aid, saying that the report was baseless.

Islamabad, Dec 25: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has expressed its shock over a New York Times (NYT) report that there were too few controls over how US aid money of over five billion dollars w