Nawaz chairs meeting to discuss political situation

Nawaz chairs meeting to discuss political situation

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) meeting with chairman Mian Mohammed Nawaz Shairf in chair is underway here to review situation after US operation in Abbottabad and the prevailing political landscape, Geo News reported Tuesday.

PML-N’s senior leader Mian Mohammed Shahbaz Sharif, opposition leader in NA Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Raja Zafar-ul-Haq, Ishaq Dar, Ahsan Iqbal, Khwaja Saad Rafique and other leaders are attending the meeting.

Matters relating to post-US operation in Abbottabad, PML-Q’s joining of federal cabinet, prevailing political situation, reorganization of party and future strategy are under discussion.

Subsequently, Nawaz Shairf will hold a press conference to make important announcements, sources said.

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Good ties with Pakistan 'but not at any price': US Senator

Good ties with Pakistan 'but not at any price': US Senator

 WASHINGTON: Pakistan must heed US "concerns" about its efforts to combat extremists, a senior US senator said Tuesday, warning he wanted to maintain good ties with Islamabad "but not at any price."

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin became the second senior US lawmaker in two days to express deep misgivings about relations with Pakistan amid ties strained after the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad.

"I think it's important that we have a good relationship with Pakistan, but not at any price," Levin, a Democrat, said.

Levin said Islamabad should give US interrogators access to three of the al Qaeda leader's widows who lived with him at the fortified compound in Abbottabad.

"That would show that they're trying to be responsive to our concerns. They ought to respond to our concerns," said the senator, who cautioned that cooperation against extremists "should not be dependent upon certain moods of either party."

Levin said Washington should formally object to Pakistan leaking the name of the CIA station chief in Islamabad "if they leaked it," but acknowledged that this would be unlikely to have much force amid anti-US anger there.

"They're trying to show that they're not responding affirmatively to too many things we're asking for these days," he told reporters. (AFP)
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A Family Affair at the "Water for Elephants" Premiere

New York – You'd think that everyone who attended the "Water for Elephants" premiere in New York on Sunday, April 17, would have been all excited over seeing star Robert Pattinson's arrival, but all eyes were actually on the two beautiful blonde women that flanked him as he hit the red carpet. Who were they? Certainly neither was Kristen Stewart, his "Twilight" saga costar, who's been constantly linked romantically to the darkly handsome British star since the first of those flicks hit the silver screen.
Surprise! They were his two older sisters, Victoria and Lizzy Pattinson, who had flown across the pond from England to join in the fun, as their brother launched his first big film outside of those star-making and hugely popular vampire-and-werewolves movies. And that wasn't all: their parents, Clare and Dick, made the family complete. Plus, despite there being no sign of Stewart on the red carpet, she snuck into the theater to support her man, and she brought her parents, too.
This time out, Pattinson stars in "Water for Elephants" with two of Hollywood's heavy hitters, Academy Award winners Reese Witherspoon and Christoph Waltz, in the cinematic adaptation of the best-selling novel.
Set in the exotic world of a 1930s traveling circus, the film tells the emotionally charged tale of illicit love under the big top. It's chock with real elephants, clowns, little people, and an incendiary love triangle that drives the action. But for the two popular stars, getting into the mindset of that distant time and place came down to the clothes.
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Nato jets strike inside Gaddafi compound

TRIPOLI: A Nato air strike flattened a building inside Muammar Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziyah compound early on Monday, in what a press official from Gaddafi's government said was an attempt on the Libyan leader's life.

Firefighters were still working to extinguish flames in apart of the wrecked building when journalists were brought on a government-organised trip to the scene, a few hours after three loud explosions shook central Tripoli.

The press official, who asked not to be identified, said Gaddafi used the destroyed building for ministerial and other meetings. She said 45 people were injured, including 15 who were seriously hurt, and some were still unaccounted for after the attack.(Reuters)

Karachi be made a province, Shahbaz demands

DERA ISMAEL KHAN: Chief Minister Punjab Mian Mohammed Shahbaz Sharif Sunday called for formation of new provinces in Sindh province as being demanded in Punjab, adding that Karachi be made a province, Geo News reported.

Addressing a ceremony of laying the foundation stone of a school building, CM Punjab termed those killed in North Waziristan in US drone attacks as being his brothers.

Shahbaz said US drone attacks are promoting terrorism in Pakistan. “This government cannot stop missile attacks because they are earning dollars in exchange of those attacks,” he revealed.

Advising government he said, we will have to break begging-bowl if we want to lead an honorable life.

He said that being beggars and nuclear power are two different facts, which cannot run shoulder-to-shoulder.

Denying to comment on his party’s leader Makhdoom Javaid Hashmi’s statement, Shahbaz prayed for his long life.

Not only should new provinces be formed in South Punjab but Karachi should also be made a new province.