Tag Archives: Feb
Taliban cleric vows to impose sharia across Pakistan
Islamabad, April 19 (IANS) Taliban-linked radical cleric Maulana Sufi Mohammed Sunday said existing judicial system of Pakistan was un-Islamic and vowed to impose sharia all across the country. Sufi Mohammed, chief of the Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat Muhammadi (TNSM), termed judges, lawyers and pro-democracy clerics of Pakistan as ‘rebels’. ‘Opposition to enforcement of (the law as per) the [...]
Hasina government tackled mutiny, economy well’
Dhaka, April 16 (IANS) Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government, which completed 100 days in office, has done well on managing the economy and in tackling the border guard troopers’ mutiny, a survey said Thursday. However, it fared badly in curbing indiscipline and corruption among its own cadres, said an opinion poll conducted by The Daily [...]
UPDATE 1-Etruscan Q1 loss widens, cuts 2009 exploration budget
Q1 loss of C$0.26/shr; gold rev C$17.4 mln * Produced 15,181 oz of gold in Q1 * Sees 2009 gold production of 70,000-80,000 oz * Says significantly reduced 2009 exploration budget * Available cash of C$6.4 mln at Feb. 28 April 14 (Reuters) – Gold miner Etruscan Resources Inc (EET.TO) posted a wider quarterly loss, [...]
Murdered Pakistani helped U.N. official’s release
ISLAMABAD, April 10 (Reuters) – The United States has condemned the killing in Pakistan of three political leaders from a southwestern province, saying one of them had helped in the release of a kidnapped American U.N. official. The United Nations expressed serious concern over the killing of the three men, the discovery of whose bodies [...]
Swat deal linked to restoring peace, asserts Pakistan
Islamabad, April 10 (IANS) The ratification of a peace deal signed with the Taliban in the Swat Valley is directly linked to restoring peace in the area, a Pakistani minister said Friday, a day after a radical cleric who had brokered the deal upped the ante on its implementation. Talking to reporters outside parliament, Interior [...]
Taliban eye Islamabad, threaten to pull out of Swat peace deal
Islamabad, April 9 (IANS) After consolidating their position in a vast swathe of the country’s restive northwest, Taliban militants now seem to be eying this Pakistani capital, even as they threatened to walk out of a peace deal in the Swat valley if the federal government doesn’t play ball. A large group of Taliban fighters [...]
Uncertainty looms as Swat peace deal totters
Islamabad, April 9 (IANS) Uncertainty loomed Thursday as a radical cleric who had brokered a peace deal with the Taliban in Swat shut down his camp in the area after accusing the federal government of insincerity in ratifying the pact. Speaking to reporters in Swat, Maulana Sufi Mohammad of the Tehrik-e-Nifaz e Shariah-e-Mohammadi (TNSM) said [...]
CPI-M fumes at Congress’ West Bengal report card, Pranab
Kolkata/New Delhi, April 6 (IANS) A day after senior Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee released a report card on the Left’s three decades of ‘misrule’ in West Bengal, the Marxists refuted the findings and, launching an attack on Mukherjee, wondered at his ‘doublespeak’. Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Biman Bose, speaking in Kolkata, expressed surprise [...]
BlackBerry shares shoot up 34 percent on record profit
Toronto, April 4 (IANS) Shares of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) shot up almost 20 percent Friday after the wireless communication leader Thursday posted a record profit of $518.3 million for the last quarter of fiscal year 2009 ending Feb 28. RIM shares closed at $72.80 on the Toronto Stock Exchange – more than [...]
US stocks end positive on strong week
New York, April 4 (DPA) US stocks made gains Friday at the close of a strong week for global markets, buoyed by some positive economic news and a comprehensive deal by world leaders to tackle the global recession. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has climbed 21 percent over the past four weeks, its best run [...]