Rift over UN role in peacekeeping: US wants world body’s help for Afghans
 UNITED NATIONS, Oct 18: Differences between the United States and the UN officials have emerged over the future role of the world body in post-Taliban Afghanistan as they debate the tenuous...
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Bush signals switch to ground assault: Civilian toll mounts
KABUL, Oct 18: Concerns over civilian casualties from US attacks on Afghanistan mounted on Thursday, as President George Bush signalled the focus of the campaign would soon switch to ground forces....
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Mutawakil returns after secret visit
PESHAWAR, Oct 18: Taliban Foreign Minister Wakeel Ahmad Mutawakil and Frontier Regions Minister Maulvi Jalaluddin Haqqani returned to Afghanistan after discussing in Islamabad the formula of a broad-based government in Kabul...
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Pakistan asks UN to check Indian designs
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 18: Pakistan called on the international community to dissuade India not to exploit the current situation by launching “pre-emptive strikes” against Pakistan in its “narrow selfish desire” to...
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Israeli tanks enter 3 cities
 TEL AVIV, Oct 18: Israel seized parts of three Palestinian-ruled cities on Thursday in retaliation for the assassination of Tourism Minister Reehavam Zeevi and in the gunbattles that ensued, three Palestinians,...
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Talks best way to resolve Kashmir issue: US
WASHINGTON, Oct 18: The United States has called for exercising restraint, saying dialogue was the best way to solve the Kashmir dispute....
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Maximum restraint to be exercised: Islamabad wants resumption of dialogue
ISLAMABAD, Oct 18: Pakistan will continue its policy of exercising maximum restraint along the Line of Control and the working boundary, a foreign office spokesman said on Wednesday....
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‘Troops movement cannot be ignored’
ISLAMABAD, Oct 18: Director General ISPR General Rashid Qureshi said on Thursday that Indians know well that if they resort to any adventure they will suffer tremendous losses....
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8,000 Afghans cross into Pakistan in four days
ISLAMABAD, Oct 18: The number of Afghans arriving in Balochistan has risen sharply with about 8,000 believed to have crossed into Chaman area alone during the past four days, UNHCR said...
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Sanctions on China remain in place
WASHINGTON, Oct 18: The White House said on Wednesday the US government was not deliberating a waiver of Tiananmen sanctions to sell spare parts for China’s fleet of Black Hawk helicopters....
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Mutawakil rejects defection reports
ISLAMABAD Oct 18: The appearance of Taliban Foreign Minister Wakeel Ahmad Mutawakil live on the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television on Thursday must have sent shock waves for those manoeuvring to bring him...
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Pakistan, India trade fire at LoC
SRINAGAR, Oct 18: Pakistani and Indian troops exchanged fire across the Line of Control (LoC) on Thursday and 25 people were killed in clashes in occupied Kashmir....
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Suspected anthrax case at British HC reported
ISLAMABAD, Oct 18: A suspected case of anthrax was reported at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) on Thursday night, police and hospital doctors told Dawn....
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Britain writing off $84m loans
ISLAMABAD, Oct 18: The visiting British Secretary of International Development Ms Clare Short announced here on Thursday that the international community has decided to extend maximum economic support to Pakistan including...
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Four get life term for bombing of US embassies
NEW YORK, Oct 18: Four men, alleged to be accomplices of Osama bin laden, America’s number one fugitive, were convicted in the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in East Africa...
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UK striving to reduce tension: Blair
LONDON Oct 18: British prime minister Tony Blair on Thursday said Britain was trying hard to reduce tension between Pakistan and India....
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Qazi’s entry into Sindh banned
SUKKUR, Oct 18: The Sindh home department has banned the entry of Jamaat-i-Islami chief Qazi Hussain Ahmed into Sindh, Dawn learnt on Thursday....
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Kuwait Airways
KARACHI, Oct 18: Kuwait Airways has announced the resumption of its flights from Pakistan from November 1, 2001. The company had stopped operations after the American attacks on Afghanistan....
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