Tel Aviv rigid on siege of Ramallah: Partial pullout pledged
TEL AVIV, April 18: Israel pledged on Thursday to withdraw from most West Bank cities by the end of the week, but said its forces would continue the siege of Yasser...
|
|
Musharraf terms referendum legal
SUKKUR, April 18: President Gen Pervez Musharraf said here on Thursday that referendum was legal and constitutional, and added that opponents’ objections in this regard were not justified....
|
|
US jet mistakenly kills 4 Canadians
OTTAWA, April 18: Four Canadian soldiers were killed in Afghanistan on Thursday when a US jet mistakenly fired on them during a training exercise, and Ottawa said it was looking for...
|
|
Missing passports worry envoys
ISLAMABAD, April 17: A number of foreign embassies and diplomatic missions have asked the Pakistani authorities to provide serial numbers of over 20,000 Pakistani passport books stolen from various passport offices...
|
|
|
Zahir Shah arrives in Kabul
 KABUL, April 18: Afghanistan’s former king came home on Thursday after 29 years in exile, carrying hopes of a new beginning for his volatile nation on his frail shoulders....
|
|
Nazims may lose office, says Ranjha
ISLAMABAD, April 18: Law and Justice Minister Khalid Ranjha has said that the government may seek disqualification of those Nazims and Naib Nazims who are indulging in party politics in violation...
|
|
|
Islamabad weighs legal options on Delhi’s breach of Indus treaty
ISLAMABAD, April 18: Pakistan is looking into legal options enshrined in The Indus Waters Treaty, 1960, as it believes India is in breach of the treaty through diversion of Chenab waters...
|
|
Pakistan not doing enough: India
NEW DELHI, April 18: India accused Pakistan on Thursday of playing to the galleries with its propagandist rhetoric and not doing anything to ease its alleged hostility against New Delhi, for...
|
|
|
Parties ask Nazims not to support referendum
RAWALPINDI, April 18: All main political parties that are opposed to the referendum, have told their representatives in local bodies not to extend cooperation to Gen Musharraf’s campaign....
|
|
Pakistani convicted of honour killing in US
NEW YORK, April 18: A New York court on Wednesday convicted a Pakistani Mansoor Quadir for killing his niece’s husband in an “honour killing” incident on the streets of Manhattan....
|
|
|
4 killed as plane hits skyscraper in Milan
 MILAN, April 18: A small tourist plane smashed into Milan’s tallest skyscraper on Thursday, killing at least four people and injuring scores in what Italian officials said was an apparent accident,...
|
|
Bangalore blast claims 13 lives
NEW DELHI, April 18: Thirteen people were killed and another 20 injured in a powerful explosion in Bangalore on Thursday. According to police sources, the explosion occurred as explosives were being...
|
|
|
Bush backs Sharon
WASHINGTON: US President George Bush said on Thursday Israel had “met the timetable” it promised for withdrawing from the West Bank and now it was up to Palestinian Authority to act...
|
|
Troops trade fire after Kashmir blasts
JAMMU, April 18: Indian and Pakistani troops exchanged fire on Thursday in Kashmir after militants entered the Indian zone and set off more than two dozen explosions, India’s Border Security Force...
|
|
|
