Lahore, Feb. 5 : The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) has set several conditions for a possible alliance with the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) in Punjab, a private TV channel has claimed.
The channel quoted a close aide of PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain as saying that the party had set certain terms for a possible power-sharing deal with the PPP, including dissolution of the Punjab Government.
PML-Q Punjab President Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi said his party would decide whether to support the PPP or the PML-N on the basis of the Supreme Court's verdict in the eligibility case of PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif.
Karachi, Feb. 5: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) which has been facing a huge financial crunch due to lack of international events on its soil, is looking to make huge money from the proposed Australia-Pakistan series.
According to The News, the PCB is hoping to make the Pakistan-Australia series a money churner event, and is expected to generate a whopping Rs 400 million from television rights alone.
Sources privy to the PCB have revealed that the Board will be adding a huge amount to its depleting bank accounts.
The PCB is banking on the fact that there has been virtually no cricket between both the sides for a long time now, and people in Pakistan would be eager to watch the encounter between the World Champions and the home team.
London, Feb. 5 : Heightening the international pressure on Pakistan to bring the perpetrators of the November 2008 Mumbai attack to justice, Britain has asked Pakistan to speed-up its investigations into the matter, and come out with substantial results.
"Pakistan must go `further and faster' in prosecuting those suspected of being involved in November's attacks on Mumbai," The Daily Times quoted British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, as saying.
Miliband said that though Pakistan had taken actions against some of the terrorist groups operating from its soil, more firm steps were needed to prosecute the masterminds of the Mumbai carnage.
Islamabad, Feb. 5 : The United Nations (UN) has announced that it would set up a commission to probe the killing of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
UN's Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said that an independent three-member committee would be established to investigate Bhutto's assassination, on December 27,
2007.
"I intend to establish an independent commission of inquiry to be headed by a distinguished person who will be appointed very shortly," The Daily Times quoted Ban Ki-Moon, as saying here.
Pakistan Presidency spokesperson Farhatullah Babar said that an outline for the commission is being prepared.
Islamabad - United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced Wednesday the formation of a UN commission to probe the assassination of Pakistan's former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
The announcement was made during Ban's meeting Bhutto's widower and President Asif Ali Zardar, Pakistan's state-run news channel PTV said.
Ban met Zardari during his first visit of the Islamic country since taking office in late 2006.
Bhutto was murdered in a suicide attack on December 27, 2007 during an election rally in the garrison town of Rawalpindi.
A Taliban commander named Baitullah Mehsud was initially blamed for the slaying, but he denied the allegations.
