ISLAMABAD: In aftermath of the unprecedented catastrophic floods, which killed more than 170 people and affected over 21 million people, the nation will celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr today with simplicity, renewing pledge to forge unity in the entire Muslim Ummah and to strengthen the national cohesion and solidarity.

NEW DELHI : India on Friday handed over to Pakistan a new folder of confirmation related to the November 2008 Mumbai attacks, in front of talks next week among top foreign ministry officials.

India’s foreign ministry separately announced a convention next Thursday between

Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao and her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir as the two nations look to assemble on a recent thaw in relationships.

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani telephoned PML-N Chief Nawaz Sharif and Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif later than the Lahore High Court (LHC) dismissed petitions seeking their ineligibility.He congratulated Sharif brothers on dismissal of their petitions. The petitions were filed against the Sharif brothers for contesting polls from NA-52 and NA-123.
Lawyers representing the Sharif brothers argued that elections have already taken place in this constituency.
A three-member bench of the Lahore High Court supervised by Justice Ijaz Chaudhry dismissed the petitions as the petitioner did not appear in the court hearings.

Pakistan military plane on Tuesday airlifted the first grouping of 136 students from the violence-stricken Kyrgyzstan and another plane left to bring more stranded students.

Qamar-uz-Zaman Kaira received students at a military airbase in Rawalpindi, said the government will take all measures to bring all students from Osh, Kyrgyzstan, where cultural brutality has claimed over 100 lives.

Several students, who were happy on safe return, told reporters at the Chaklala Air Base, that they were not expecting to return live as the situation had been worst in Osh city, where they had been studying.