No budging to pressure on uniform: Musharraf "While the President believes in dialogue and deliberations on all important national issues, he never works under any pressure or ultimatum," Musharraf's spokesman Rashid Qureshi said in a statement on Thursday.
US hails Sadr call to halt armed operations The US on Thursday welcomed the decision of radical Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to suspend for six months armed operations mounted by his Mahdi Army militia.
Virginia Tech varsity takes flak for shootings Virginia Tech officials might have saved lives if they had notified faculty and students earlier about the first two shootings on campus, concluded a panel investigating the April shootings.
China sacks finance minister Chinese President Hu Jintao signed a presidential decree of approval for the replacement of Finance Minister Jin Renqing by Xie Xuren, Director of the State Administration of Taxation.
Supporters of Pakistans ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif hold a rally in favour of their leader with a lion, an election symbol of Sharif’s party, in Lahore on Thursday. Sharif is expected to return home on September 10 to challenge President Pervez Musharraf in the forthcoming elections, sources said on Thursday. AP
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