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ISLAMABAD: The interior ministry, in compliance with the NAB’s directives, has issued arrest warrants against 252 beneficiaries of the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO). The names of the 252 have been placed on the Exit Control List.
The bank accounts of many of the beneficiaries have been frozen and their properties seized. — DawnNews

ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has requested the interior ministry to place the names of all NRO beneficiaries on the Exit Control List (ECL), DawnNews reported.
The NAB has issued arrest warrants for declared proclaimed offenders and convicts and has ordered the freezing of accounts in individual cases, officials were quoted as saying.
The NAB chairman [...]

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has declared the controversial National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) null and void in a short order.
In a landmark decision, the apex court unanimously decided that the ordinance was unconstitutional.
All old cases that had been dismissed under the NRO stand revived and can now be reopened as per the court orders.
The court said [...]

 The JF-17 ‘Thunder’ had until recently been under a cloud over controversies surrounding its Russian powerplant. However, cynics were proved wrong with the arrival in Pakistan of two small batch production (SBP) aircraft in March, and also assurances from the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) that the issue has been resolved. The two SBP aircraft will [...]

LAHORE: In a stunning revelation, US private security service agency, Blackwater’s founder, Erik Prince, has claimed that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had asked the agency to kill Pakistani nuclear scientist, A Q Khan.
In an interview with Vanity Fair, Prince said the CIA had asked the Blackwater to eliminate Khan, however, authorities in Washington “chose [...]

SALTA, Argentina: The second semi-final of the BDO Champions Challenge between India and Pakistan being played in Salta, Argentina, turned out to be a classic encounter, as is always the case when the two sides lock horns. In sharp contrast to the more sedate first semi-final between hosts Argentina and New Zealand, which ended in [...]

Pakistan has received the first delivery of Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft from Sweden months after India obtained a similarly system from Israel.
The first of four Saab-2000 AWACS planes was handed over to the Pakistani Air Force (PAF) on Tuesday, said a spokesman for the force.
“The aircraft landed at one of the PAF’s [...]

SAN FRANCISCO: An annual security report being released Tuesday by technology titan Cisco warns that banks and online social networks are prime targets for increasingly sophisticated cyber crooks.
‘Criminals have been taking note of the large crowds in social-networking sites,’ said Cisco security researcher Scott Olechowski. ‘They steal them with various techniques.’
Tactics used to get into [...]

ISLAMABAD: The Shamsi airbase in Balochistan is being used by American forces for logistical purposes but the government is not satisfied with payments for the use of the facility, disclosed the defence minister.
Talking exclusively to DawnNews, Defence Minister Ahmad Mukhtar said that the US was still using the Shamsi airbase, however, the govt is not [...]

CAIRO: Al Qaeda denied Saturday that it was behind a series of bombings in Pakistan that have killed hundreds of civilians, saying in a new English-language video that such attacks were un-Islamic.
US-born al Qaeda operative Adam Gadahn, who commonly delivers the organization’s English messages, said the extremist network was being framed by the US and [...]