Pakistan exercising maximum restraint: FO refutes Indian claim
ISLAMABAD, Nov 5: There was total agreement and unanimity of views between the two sides when US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld held talks on Sunday with President Gen Pervez Musharraf and...
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President holds talks with PPP leaders: Safe return of Benazir demanded
 ISLAMABAD, Nov 5: A four-member delegation of Pakistan People’s Party led by Senior Vice Chairman Makhdoom Amin Fahim on Monday called on President Gen Pervez Musharraf and demanded safe return of...
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Alliance attacks repulsed, says Zaeef
ISLAMABAD, Nov 5: The Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan, Mulla Abdul Salam Zaeef, on Monday claimed that Taliban forces had beaten back two big offensives launched by Northern Alliance forces, and inflicted...
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ADB to provide $950 million
ISLAMABAD, Nov 5: The Asian Development Bank has increased its assistance from $626 million to $950 million for the calendar year 2001 to help reduce Pakistan’s economic and financial difficulties....
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Chomsky slams US, India’s rights record
NEW DELHI, Nov 5: American dissident and renowned scholar Prof Noam Chomsky took apart the United States and India for their human rights record on Monday, accusing one of being the...
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Government to write off Rs21 billion debt: KESC, Wapda main beneficiaries
ISLAMABAD, Nov 5: With a staggering inter-corporate public sector debt at Rs53 billion mark, the government has decided to write off around Rs21 billion charges outstanding against energy sector firms, particularly...
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Norway favours talks on Kashmir
ISLAMABAD, Nov 5: Norway on Monday appreciated Pakistan’s firm support to the international community against terrorism and expressed desire for Islamabad and New Delhi to engage in dialogue to resolve the...
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Concern voiced over civilian casualties
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN (Brunei), Nov 5: Southeast Asian leaders issued a blunt warning about mounting civilian casualties in Afghanistan, and unveiled wide-ranging plans to haul the region out of a severe...
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36 civilians killed in fresh bombing
 KABUL, Nov 5: At least 36 civilians were killed in new US bombing raids over Afghanistan, Taliban officials and the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) said on Monday....
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PIA introduces retirement scheme
KARACHI, Nov 5: The PIA Board of Directors in its 258th meeting held on Oct 22, authorized the managing director of PIA to introduce “Mandatory Retirement Scheme (s)”....
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Swiss govt to release Benazir’s bank papers
LAUSANNE (Switzerland), Nov 5: Switzerland’s high court has decided to let Pakistan have Swiss bank documents tied to former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and two family members, a Swiss justice ministry...
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Alliance ready to march on Kabul
JABAL SERAJ, Nov 5: The military chief of the Northern Alliance, Mohammad Qasim Fahim, said on Monday his forces were ready to march on Kabul, despite signs the anti-Taliban army were...
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Pakistan N-arms in safe hands: Rumsfeld
NEW DELHI, Nov 5: US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Monday brushed aside fears about Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal after talks in India at the end of a five-nation trip....
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$275m trade deficit recorded
ISLAMABAD, Nov 5: Trade deficit recorded during first four months (July-October 2001) of the current fiscal year stood at $275 million....
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19 killed in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, Nov 5: Nineteen people were killed in clashes in occupied Kashmir, a police spokesman said on Sunday....
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Rocket seized in Quetta
QUETTA, Nov 5: Police on Monday seized a rocket from an under-construction house in Killi Faizabad....
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US Lahore Consulate anthrax test ‘positive’
WASHINGTON, Nov 5: A preliminary test on a substance found at the United States consulate in Lahore, has registered positive for the anthrax bacteria, the United State’s State Department said on...
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Musharraf-Blair meeting
LONDON, Nov 5: British Prime Minister Tony Blair will meet President Pervez Musharraf for talks on Thursday evening in London, where he will stop over on way to New York to...
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