Four vital objectives achieved, says CE: Support to anti-terror war
ISLAMABAD, Oct 31: President Gen Pervez Musharraf said here on Wednesday that his government’s principled support to the international effort for combating terrorism has helped Pakistan achieve four major important national...
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US carpet-bombs Kabul; 13 killed in Kandahar clinic
 KANDAHAR, Oct 31: US planes carpet-bombed Taliban frontlines north of Kabul on Wednesday and attacked the militia’s power base of Kandahar in southeastern Afghanistan, killing 13 people at a clinic, witnesses...
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Change in cabinet ruled out
ISLAMABAD, Oct 31: The president’s spokesman emphatically said on Wednesday that no change in the cabinet by induction of politicians was contemplated and nothing of the sort had been discussed by...
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Rumsfeld plans to visit Pakistan
WASHINGTON, Oct 31: Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is expected to visit Pakistan, India, Russia and some Central Asian states next week....
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Saudi Arabia, UK agree to work for broad-based govt
RIYADH, Oct 31: British Prime Minister Tony Blair said here on Wednesday he had reached an agreement with Saudi Arabia to work for a broad-based government in a reconstructed Afghanistan....
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Brahimi serving US interests, says Zaeef
ISLAMABAD, Oct 31: The Afghan ambassador in Islamabad Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, while declining to meet the visiting special UN envoy on Afghanistan, Lakhdar Brahimi, has said that Taliban regime does...
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APHC lauds UN observer’s views
NEW DELHI, Oct 31: Kashmir’s All Parties Hurriyat Conference on Wednesday welcomed the assessment by the UNMOGIP chief about the rising tensions between India and Pakistan, saying it showed that a...
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Riyadh doesn’t back attack
RIYADH, Oct 31: Saudi Arabia, Washington’s main Gulf ally, does not back US-led strikes on Afghanistan, Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz said on Wednesday, ahead of a visit to...
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New Delhi threatens Islamabad with war
NEW DELHI, Oct 31: Two days after fuming at the UN’s peace monitor in Kashmir for accusing India and Pakistan of playing games with the troubled Himalayan region, India’s army and...
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Annan calls for end to attacks
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 31: UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Tuesday called for a quick end to the US-led military campaign in Afghanistan to allow the United Nations to begin sending food...
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Petroleum prices slashed nominally
KARACHI, Oct 31: The Oil Companies Advisory Committee on Wednesday slashed the prices of petroleum products by 0.46 per cent to 8.17 per cent. The new prices will be effective from...
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Restrictions on use of loudspeaker
ISLAMABAD, Oct 31: The government on Wednesday banned the use of loudspeaker in mosques except for Aazan and Khutba-i-Juma (Friday sermon) and decided to proceed against religious parties, inciting public unrest,...
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Pakistan, India asked to avoid flare-up
WASHINGTON, Oct 31: Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Tuesday that India and Pakistan should take great care to avoid a “flare up” over Kashmir as the United States presses...
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Karakuram Highway opened for Raiwind event
MANSEHRA, Oct 31: The armed workers of religious parties and local tribesmen have partially opened the Karakuram Highway for traffic to make it possible for people to attend the three-day annual...
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Israel kills six Palestinians, raids village
AL KHALIL (West Bank) Oct 31: Israel assassinated two members of the Islamic group Hamas on Wednesday, including a top commander it said helped plan five deadly suicide attacks, and killed...
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Mutawakil denies split
KANDAHAR, Oct 31: Taliban Foreign Minister Wakil Ahmed Mutawakil on Wednesday dismissed speculation of a schism in the ruling Islamic militia, saying it was united in the face of its enemies....
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