New Delhi recalls envoy from Islamabad: Threat to snap road, rail links from Jan 1
NEW DELHI, Dec 21: India on Friday announced that it was recalling its envoy to Islamabad in protest against Pakistan’s failure to act against terrorist groups it accuses of involvement in...
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65 killed as US planes bomb Afghan convoy
ISLAMABAD, Dec 21: Sixty-five people were killed on Thursday night when US planes bombed a convoy of Afghan elders, tribal chiefs and commanders heading for the inauguration of Afghanistan’s new government...
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Ties with China to stay strong: CE
BEIJING, Dec 21: President Pervez Musharraf promised China on Friday that his country’s newly close relations with the West would not affect a “time-tested” friendship with Beijing....
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UN assembly reposes full trust in Arafat’s leadership
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 21: The UN General Assembly on Thursday reposed full confidence in the leadership of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in ending the 15-month violence in the Middle East....
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Pakistan says it will not retaliate
ISLAMABAD, Dec 21: In a clear depart from the traditional tit-for-tat response, Pakistan on Friday decided not to recall its High Commissioner from New Delhi as done by India....
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India will not attack, US assures Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Dec 21: The government has been assured by the United States that India will not attack Pakistan as is largely being apprehended these days....
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7,000 Taliban, Al-Qaeda fighters held: coalition
 ISLAMABAD, Dec 21: Spokesman for international coalition Kenton Keith said on Friday that around 7,000 fighters of Taliban militia and Al-Qaeda members had been arrested in Afghanistan....
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Lashkar may be declared a terrorist group by US
WASHINGTON, Dec 21: The action taken by the Bush administration late on Thursday against the Lashkar-i-Tayyaba and Umma Tameer-i-Nau (UTN), an organization linked to two Pakistani Atomic Energy Commission scientists, is...
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US steps up pressure on CE to suppress extremists
NEW YORK, Dec 21: In the aftermath of attack on the Indian Parliament and its failure to capture Osama bin Laden the United States has increased political pressure on Gen Pervez...
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Pakistan gets first tranche of $109m
KARACHI, Dec 21: Pakistan has received $109.5 million as first tranche out of the $1.3 billion poverty reduction and growth facility from the IMF....
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Cargo ship intercepted in English Channel
LONDON, Dec 21: A cargo ship suspected of carrying terrorist material was intercepted in the English Channel, off the Sussex coast, here on Friday morning. Police boarded the ship on a...
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No trace of Osama in Tora Bora caves
WASHINGTON, Dec 21: United States and coalition forces have joined Afghan anti-Taliban fighters in searching the caves of Tora Bora for Al-Qaeda/ Taliban men that may be hiding there, but no...
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Hamas suspends attacks
 GAZA CITY, Dec 21: The radical Palestinian movement Hamas said on Friday it was suspending suicide operations in Israel to preserve “national unity”. But its smaller rival, the Islamic Jihad, vowed...
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Eight killed in held Kashmir
SRINAGAR, Dec 21: Eight people have been killed and 10 wounded in explosions and shootouts in Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Friday....
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Argentine president resigns
BUENOS AIRES, Dec 21: Argentine President Fernando de la Rua resigned on Thursday as opposition Peronist leaders rejected his call for a national unity government amid growing unrest over economic austerity...
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Moin’s brother shot dead
KARACHI, Dec 21: Unknown assailants shot dead the elder brother of Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider, few yards from the Fatmid Foundation office in Soldier Bazaar, on Friday night....
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