Vajpayee terms carnage a blot on Indian face: Call to restore peace; toll mounting
 NEW DELHI, March 2: Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee looking for help in the opposition ranks after his own rightwing Hindu hardliners appeared determined to let him down, on Saturday...
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Pakistan deplores attack on its HC staffers: Delhi alleges spying
ISLAMABAD, March 2: Pakistan has strongly condemned the attack on its High Commission staffers in New Delhi by the Indian intelligence operatives on Saturday afternoon during which the staff members were...
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Observers to be welcomed: CEC
ISLAMABAD, March 2: A two-member delegation of the European Commission to Pakistan met Chief Election Commissioner Irshad Hasan Khan here on Saturday and apprised itself of the preparations being made for...
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Al Quds suicide attack kills 10
AL QUDS, March 2: At least ten people were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighbourhood of Al Quds on Saturday, Israeli police said....
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Al Qaeda fighters repel attack: US soldier, two Afghans killed
GARDEZ (Afghanistan), March 2: Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters killed a US soldier, two Afghans and wounded others on Saturday in repelling an attack in eastern Afghanistan described as the biggest...
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Shootouts claim 12 lives in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, March 2: Twelve people, including three children and two women, were killed in occupied Kashmir on Saturday and Friday night, police said....
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Fesco issued power distribution licence
ISLAMABAD, March 2: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) has issued power distribution licence to Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (Fesco) with the right to provide electricity to consumers within an...
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Israel claims finding rocket factory
 NABLUS (West Bank) March 2: A Palestinian rocket production factory raided by the Israeli army in the Balata refugee camp in the West Bank was the first one unearthed in the...
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Musharraf dismayed over Indian violence
ISLAMABAD, March 2: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Saturday expressed dismay and sorrow over large-scale communal violence in India, and said violence against the Muslim community had caused deep distress and...
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Cup hopes in tatters
KUALA LUMPUR, March 2: A controversial 38th minute penalty stroke left Pakistan’s World Cup campaign virtually in tatters as they crashed 1-2 to defending champion Holland Saturday....
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Pakistan kept out of C’wealth
COOLUM (Australia), March 2: Commonwealth leaders on Saturday dashed Pakistan’s hopes of rejoining the 54-nation body, saying it had failed to make sufficient progress in restoring democracy after the 1999 military...
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Pakistanis killed, claims Macedonia
SKOPJE, March 2: Macedonian police said they shot seven people dead on Saturday, including some Pakistan nationals, who were suspected of planning terror attacks in the capital Skopje....
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India tests fire rocket engine
NEW DELHI, March 2: India’s second successful test firing of an indigenous cryogenic rocket engine was carried out at ISRO’s Liquid Propulsion Center in Mahendragiri, near Nagercoil in the southern Indian...
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Chemical substance sent to Blair’s wife
LONDON, March 2: The British police have launched a big investigating operation to trace the terrorists who have sent up to 16 packages containing a dangerous chemical, including two sent to...
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7 Afghans killed after meeting UN officials
ISLAMABAD, March 2: Seven Afghan tribal elders were shot and killed in eastern Afghanistan last week after talks with a UN-backed commission aiming to establish a new government for devastated Afghanistan,...
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Ahmedabad losses stand at Rs30,000m
AHMEDABAD March 2: The Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Industry President, Kalyan Shah, said on Saturday that the commercial loss to Ahmedabad was around Rs30,000 millions in the violence....
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Jayalalitha sworn in as CM
CHENNAI, March 2: Former actress Jayalalitha Jayaram was sworn in as chief minister of Tamil Nadu on Saturday, just five months after she was forced to step down from the post...
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Gilani calls on Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, March 2: Iftikhar Hussain Gilani, a leader of the PML-Q called on President Gen Pervez Musharraf at the Aiwan-i-Sadr on Saturday....
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