The Express Tribune Newsletter: May 24, 2012 ~ Mera Pak Watan

The Express Tribune Newsletter: May 24, 2012

Today's Headlines

Contempt case strategy: After huddle with Aitzaz, Premier Gilani approves draft appeal

Irfan Ghauri

Despite discord over whether the government should aim for an appeal or use the National Assembly speaker's office as a strategy, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has given his approval to a draft of the appeal prepared by his defence team.

US drone strike kills 10 in North Waziristan

Reuters

A US drone strike on suspected militants in North Waziristan killed 10 people on Thursday, intelligence officials said, an attack likely to raise tensions in a standoff with Washington over Nato supply routes to Afghanistan.

Demand for Mohajir province: Rally attack creates rift within ruling party

Hafeez Tunio

The attack on the Awami Tehreek rally in Karachi, which claimed 13 lives on Tuesday, has intensified divisions in the senior Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leadership.

NATO supply lines will not be restored: JUI-F

Our Correspondent

Asserting that Nato supply routes will not be restored, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief has said that rumours regarding any such move are completely "baseless".

Business

Residential consumers: Cabinet fails to decide on reducing outages

Zafar Bhutta

The cabinet on Wednesday failed to reach a decision on a programme aimed at avoiding the wrath of the people in next general elections by reducing electricity outages by 40% for residential consumers of urban and rural areas and enforcing power cuts on cement, textile and processing industries.

TAPI pipeline: Indian and Pakistani firms sign gas purchase contract

Reuters / APP

State-owned energy companies from Pakistan and India have signed a 'Gas Sales and Purchase Agreement' with Turkmenistan's national oil company Turkmengaz that will lead to the supply of up to 90 million cubic metres (mcmd) of natural gas a day via the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline.

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Sports

Nice Open Aisam, Rojer through to quarters

News Desk

Pakistan tennis ace Aisamul Haq Qureshi and his Dutch partner Jean-Julien Rojer have advanced to the quarter-finals of the Nice Open doubles event with an easy 6-3, 6-2 win over the American duo of Scott Lipsky and Ram Rajeev.

Snooker: 'Shift events out of Karachi'

Nabeel Hashmi

The law and order situation is now taking its toll on local sports events – participants of the national ranking snooker event have demanded the tournament, and future events, to be moved out of Karachi after the rally killings in the city that claimed 12 lives and left more than two dozen injured.

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Life & Style

Fashion (able) police

Hina Taha

Exactly two months ago, when spring began descending into odious summer, the local police candidly declared that their characteristic grumpiness was not a personality trait intrinsic to their job but was in fact brought on by the dark colours of their uniform.

Masuma Halai: Capturing the imagination

Sehrish Ali

Karachi-based artist Masuma Halai Khwaja showcased her second solo exhibition, 'Life is a Song, in Islamabad's Khaas Art Gallery on Tuesday.

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Opinion