Bush gets authority to lift all sanctions: House passes bill
WASHINGTON, Oct 17: The US House of Representatives on Tuesday evening passed by voice vote a bill that gives authority to the president to waive all sanctions against Pakistan, including democracy...
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Army put on high alert: India warned against aggression
ISLAMABAD, Oct 17: Pakistan on Wednesday put its armed forces on high alert along its eastern front following movement of Indian troops near the international borders....
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Israeli minister shot dead
TEL AVIV, Oct 17: An unidentified man gunned down Israel’s ultranationalist Tourism Minister Rehevam Zeevi on Wednesday, setting back the peace process once again as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vowed a...
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Taliban’s frontlines bombed
KABUL, Oct 17: US-led forces pounded Taliban frontline positions for the first time on Wednesday in apparent preparation for ground attacks, as the bombing campaign came under the critical spotlight and...
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Japan reluctant to write off debt
TOKYO, Oct 17: President Gen Pervez Musharraf called on Japan to boost its financial support, including a debt waiver, as Pakistan struggles to cope with a flood of refugees following US...
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Anthrax forces US House shutdown: Governor’s office, 34 senate workers affected
WASHINGTON, Oct 17: The US House of Representatives shut down till Tuesday as an extraordinary precautionary measure after 34 members of Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle’s staff tested positive for exposure...
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Attacks to end soon if Osama gives in: FO
ISLAMABAD, Oct 17: Pakistan reaffirmed its belief here on Wednesday that as soon as the Taliban government accepted the UN Security Council resolution demanding surrender of Osama bin Laden to the...
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EU promises swift signing of cooperation treaty
LUXEMBOURG, Oct 17: European Union governments Wednesday promised a swift signature of a new cooperation treaty with Pakistan, with diplomats also recognising that any future broad-based post-Taliban government in Afghanistan would...
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Setting up of microfinance bodies okayed
ISLAMABAD, Oct 17: President General Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday allowed establishment of microfinance institutions in the country to provide “financial, infrastructural and organisational support to poor persons, particularly poor women, for...
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Britain to give £15m for Afghan refugees
 ISLAMABAD, Oct 17: Britain has decided to further offer 15 million pounds for Afghan refugees, says the visiting British secretary of state for international development Clare Short here on Wednesday....
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Zaeef appeals for relief goods
ISLAMABAD Oct 17: Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, the Afghan ambassador in Islamabad, has appealed to the people of Pakistan to urgently send relief goods including food and drugs for the people...
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Powell sees role for peacekeepers
SHANGHAI, Oct 17: US Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Wednesday he sees a possible role for UN peacekeepers in the transition to a new government in Afghanistan to replace...
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‘Mutawakil has not defected’
DOHA, Oct 17: Taliban Finance Minister Aghajan Motasem denied on Wednesday reports that Foreign Minister Wakil Ahmed Mutawakil had defected from the Islamic regime and said he was still carrying out...
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JSQM calls for strike today
HYDERABAD, Oct 17: Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz chairman Bashir Khan Qureshi and vice chairman Niaz Kalani were arrested at the latter’s residence in Qasimabad on Wednesday....
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Schroeder due on 25th
ISLAMABAD, Oct 17: German Chancellor Gerhart Schroeder is expected to visit Pakistan on Oct 25, following the visit of German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer who is arriving here on Friday, Foreign...
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Delhi assures Powell of talks with Islamabad
NEW DELHI, Oct 17: India assured the United States on Wednesday that it would work for good neighbourly relations with Pakistan and described claims by Islamabad of war-like movements by its...
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It is a routine redeployment, says India
NEW DELHI, Oct 17: India said on Wednesday that its troop movements along the Line of Control were a “routine redeployment”....
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Four convicted of spying for Pakistan
KOLKATA, Oct 17: An Indian court convicted four people on Wednesday of spying on a military installation for Pakistan, a charge that can carry the death penalty....
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PIA airbus skids off runway
KARACHI, Oct 17: All the 190 passengers, including five children and three infants, besides 12 crew members on board Pakistan International Airline’s Airbus A-300 operating flight PK231 from Peshawar were “safely...
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Taliban seize two food stores
WASHINGTON, Oct 17: The Taliban military troops have evicted UN relief workers from two food warehouses in Afghanistan, dealing a potentially crippling blow to international efforts to deliver food aid in...
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