2 suicide bombers kill four Israelis
TEL AVIV, Feb 18: Four Israelis were killed in two separate Palestinian suicide attacks in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Monday, as Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon faced mounting...
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New Delhi has started arms race, says FO
ISLAMABAD, Feb 18: Pakistan on Monday expressed alarm at the “relentless pursuit to acquisition” of foreign defence equipment by India far beyond its genuine needs, causing an arms race in South...
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UAE lifts visa ban on Pakistanis
RIYADH, Feb 18: The ban on issuance of new visas to Pakistani nationals in the UAE, imposed after Sept 11 events, has been lifted. All types of UAE visa — visit,...
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US billed $300m for logistics
KARACHI, Feb 18: Pakistan has already received $80 million against a total $300 million the US administration was billed for the logistic support extended to the American forces in Pakistan during...
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Four rockets found near airport
KARACHI, Feb 18: Police said they found on Monday four live rockets planted on a wooden frame with timing devices and aimed at the airport....
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BJP struggling in UP elections
 NEW DELHI, Feb 18: The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) looked likely to lose its controlling position in Uttar Pradesh, exit polls showed on Monday after two rounds of voting....
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Registration of 10 medical colleges cancelled
ISLAMABAD, Feb 18: Pakistan Medical and Dental Council has deregistered 10 private medical colleges located in various cities in the four provinces after they failed to remove professional deficiencies....
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Comstech: Atta to visit OIC states
 ISLAMABAD, Feb 18: Minister for Science and Technology Attaur Rehman will soon visit OIC member countries as an special envoy of President Musharraf to involve heads of the Islamic states in...
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US bombing ‘enemy positions’ in Afghanistan
KABUL, Feb 18: The United States has confirmed its warplanes bombed “enemy positions” in eastern Afghanistan to help defend friendly forces, amid reports an Afghan government soldier was killed in a...
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Bush reiterates warning to ‘axis of evil’
 TOKYO, Feb 18: US President George W. Bush gave Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and his proposed economic reforms a ringing endorsement on Monday, even as Japanese leader said Japan had...
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PAC to review Shujaat’s case
ISLAMABAD, Feb 18: The ad-hoc Public Accounts Committee has decided to review the case of Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain in the light of an application moved by him on Friday last during...
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Second PIA flight carries Afghan pilgrims
ISLAMABAD, Feb 18: The second Airbus flight of Pakistan International Airlines taking 270 Afghan pilgrims left on Monday from Karachi to Jeddah....
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EC unhappy over NA seats distribution
ISLAMABAD, Feb 18: The Election Commission has raised objections over the allocation of National Assembly seats to provinces by the National Reconstruction Bureau....
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No progress in Pearl case
KARACHI, Feb 18: The police and other agencies are still clueless about the captors of US journalist, Daniel Pearl, and investigation seems to have come to a standstill....
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Hekmatyar free to leave Iran: Kharazi
TEHRAN, Feb 18: Iranian foreign minister Kamal Kharazi said on Monday that exiled Afghan warlord Gulbadin Hekmatyar was free to leave Iran....
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S. Arabia reopens embassy in Kabul
KABUL, Feb 18: Saudi Arabia reopened its embassy in Afghanistan on Monday almost five months after closing it in the wake of the Sept 11 terror attacks against the United States....
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India claims killing six Mujahideen
SRINAGAR, Feb 18: Indian forces claimed killing six Kashmiri Mujahideen on Monday, police said....
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Film director Ehtesham dies at 75
DHAKA, Feb 18: Bangladesh’s leading director and producer Ehtesham, who shot to fame making commercially successful Urdu-language feature films, died in Dhaka at the weekend due to old age complications, family...
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