100 non-Afghan PoWs killed in prison revolt: Kunduz falls; US adviser shot dead
KABUL, Nov 25: The dramatic two-week siege of Kunduz, the final Taliban bastion in northern Afghanistan, was drawing to a close on Sunday with mass surrenders by the Taliban and rival...
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US to interrogate 5,000 Arab youths
NEW YORK, Nov 25: The US Justice Department is geared up to interrogate some 5,000 young men who arrived in America from the Middle East in the last two years on...
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Anti-Taliban forces capture 2 districts
QUETTA, Nov 25: Anti-Taliban tribal forces have captured at least two districts in Spin Buldak and Kandahar, and have blocked traffic on the main highway linking southern Afghanistan with Pakistan....
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Israeli missiles hit Gaza
GAZA, Nov 25: Israel launched helicopter and surface-to-surface missile strikes in the Gaza Strip on Sunday in a fresh round of tit-for-tat violence ahead of a new US peace mission aimed...
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US has no proof to get Osama convicted: Chomsky
LAHORE, Nov 25: US scholar Dr Noam Chomsky on Sunday said America wanted Osama bin Laden dead and not alive because it did not have any proof to get him convicted...
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Benazir backs India-Pakistan dialogue
NEW DELHI, Nov 25: Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto began a private tour of India on Sunday with a call for restoration of democracy in her country and an expression...
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Zahir Shah a weak leader: US
LOS ANGELES, Nov 25: Declassified US documents from his last years as king of Afghanistan portray Mohammad Zahir Shah as an aloof leader reigning over a nation with declining morale and...
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Rabbani for Dubai on secret mission
PESHAWAR, Nov 25: President of Northern Alliance, Prof Burhanuddin Rabbani left for Dubai on a secret mission on Sunday, well-placed sources told Dawn....
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Six Pakistan tribesmen killed in US bombing
QUETTA, Nov 25: At least six tribesmen of the former Asmat militia were killed and some others were injured in US bombing in Adha area some 25km northeast of Chaman inside...
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Chomsky’s Islamabad lecture today
ISLAMABAD, Nov 25: American intellectual, linguist, educator and political activist Prof Noam Chomsky will deliver a lecture at the Convention Centre on Monday. The lecture is on Our Endangered Species and...
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Four cops die in Jammu suicide attack
JAMMU, Nov 25: Four policemen were killed and three seriously injured on Sunday when a suicide squad of suspected guerillas attacked a police post in Kashmir, a defence spokesman said...
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Musharraf to appear on TV tonight
ISLAMABAD, Nov 25: President Gen Pervez Musharraf will be chief guest at the PTV’s Current Affairs Programme ‘News Night’ on Monday (Nov 26), at 9.30 pm, after ‘Khabarnama.’...
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