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Hundreds feared drowned in BD
DHAKA, May 4: A ferry carrying about 500 passengers sank in a storm in southern Bangladesh on Friday night and officials fear hundreds may have died or been swept away by...
Elections on party basis: Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, May 4: President Gen Pervez Musharraf said on Saturday the general elections in October will be held on party basis....
ME moot: US plays down expectations
WASHINGTON, May 4: The Palestinian Authority and Israel are reported to have endorsed the idea of an international peace conference on the Middle East, but a debate has erupted here over...
WB loan for provinces soon
ISLAMABAD, May 4: The World Bank has agreed to offer development loans to the provinces directly for which the federal government will stand as guarantor....
Palestine asks UN to ensure Jenin mission
UNITED NATIONS, May 4: Condemning the Israel’s rejection of the UN fact-finding mission to Jenin, Ambassador Nasser Al-Kidwa, the observer for Palestine, on Friday asked the Security Council to press the...
Rocket lands near US base in Ghazni
KABUL, May 4: A rocket slammed into an uninhabited area near a US special forces base in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, travellers arriving in Kabul from the area said....
116 die in Nigerian air crash
KANO (Nigeria), May 4: A Nigerian airliner crashed into a densely populated district of the northern city of Kano on Saturday, killing at least 116 people, including 40 on the ground,...
18 killed in Valley
SRINAGAR, May 4: Indian troops claimed killing nine Mujahideen in gunbattles and unidentified men gunned down nine civilians in occupied Kashmir on Saturday....
ARD, JI to issue white papers on referendum
ISLAMABAD, May 4: The Alliance for Restoration of Democracy, and Jamaat-i-Islami have separately decided here on Saturday to publish white papers on the irregularities allegedly committed by the government and the...
Indo-US wargames
NEW DELHI, May 4: Indian and US special forces will carry out joint exercises code named “Exercise Balance Iroquois” in Agra beginning from the second week of May....
30 more Pakistanis arrive from Afghan jails
CHAMAN, May 4: Some 30 Pakistani prisoners, who fought alongside Taliban during last year’s fighting, arrived home on Saturday after being released from an Afghan prison....
Canadian papers slam referendum
TORONTO, May 4: Pakistan’s “deeply flawed” referendum has tarnished the image of Gen Pervez Musharraf, according to leading Canadian newspapers here....
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DHAKA, May 4: A ferry carrying about 500 passengers sank in a storm in southern Bangladesh on Friday night and officials fear hundreds may have died or been swept away by...
SRINAGAR, May 4: Indian troops claimed killing nine Mujahideen in gunbattles and unidentified men gunned down nine civilians in occupied Kashmir on Saturday....
