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Pakistan-India talks next week
ISLAMABAD, April 6: India’s minister for state and deputy chairman Planning Commission K.C. Pant, who arrived here on Saturday to attend a two-day Conference of Saarc Finance and Planning Ministers, will...
‘Modi tried to exploit riots’
NEW DELHI, April 6: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, widely suspected of conniving with Hindu mobs to massacre Muslim civilians in a five-week-old and as yet unabated frenzied violence against the...
Pakistan may use nukes, says Musharraf
NEW DELHI, April 6: President Pervez Musharraf has “threatened India with the atom bomb” in the event of war over Kashmir whose “blood runs in our hearts”, he was quoted on...
It’s a war on democracy, says Benazir
ISLAMABAD, April 6: Former prime minister and chairperson Pakistan People’s Party, Benazir Bhutto, has said that Gen Musharraf has declared “war on democracy” by seeking office “through the back door”....
Explosion rocks Marri tribal area
QUETTA, April 6: A powerful bomb explosion rocked Kohlu township of Marri tribal agency late on Saturday night while two land-mines, planted at the main road linking the tribal agency with...
Eight die in Sialkot accident
SIALKOT, April 6: Eight people were killed, including five of a family, and 20 others injured in an accident on the Sialkot-Daska-Gujranwala Road on Saturday morning....
12 killed in Kashmir clashes
SRINAGAR, April 6: Eight Mujahideen, two Indian soldiers and two civilians were killed in clashes in occupied Kashmir on Friday night and Saturday....
8 students die in wall collapse
QUETTA, April 6: Eight children of a religious school were killed and nine others, including a teacher, injured when a school wall collapsed on Saturday, hospital sources said....
US stance on referendum vague
NEW YORK, April 6: The US State Department remained ambiguous and tentative in reacting to Pakistan President Gen Pervez Musharraf’s plan to hold referendum to stay in power beyond scheduled October...
Daylight saving introduced
ISLAMABAD, April 6: Clocks were moved forward an hour, to GMT plus six hours, at midnight (1900 GMT) all over the country, in line with a government directive....
Erakat tells Bush to stop ‘playing with words’
GAZA CITY, April 6: Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat on Saturday accused US President George W. Bush of “playing with words” by not giving Prime Minister a fixed date to pull his...
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JENIN, April 6: About 50 refugees were killed on Saturday as Israeli forces fought defiant Palestinians at a camp in Jenin, in the northern West Bank....
