Paris reviews military ties with Islamabad
PARIS, May 12: As a military aircraft from Pakistan arrived Sunday morning at Villacoublay military airfield outside of Paris - and two hours later at Cherbourg airport carrying bodies of 11...
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Gaza Strip attack scrapped: Generals oppose action
AL QUDS, May 12: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon retreated from a planned Gaza Strip offensive but faced a key policy battle on late Sunday within his Likud party over the...
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US wants Al Qaeda men apprehended
WASHINGTON, May 12: The United States is said to be pressing Pakistan to launch an operation against groups of Al Qaeda fighters concentrated in Waziristan in the tribal areas, but Pakistani...
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Motorway case taken to ICSID
ISLAMABAD, May 12: The government decision of expelling the Turkish contractor from Peshawar Motorway project, has been challenged at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), reviving the memories...
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5 Pakistani sisters among 7 dead in UK fire
HUDDERSFIELD, England, May 12: British police opened a murder probe on Sunday after seven people, including five sisters aged between six months and 13 years, died in a fire at a...
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Karzai to discuss pipeline project with Pakistan: Afghan govt to ensure security
KABUL, May 12: Afghan interim ruler Hamid Karzai will hold talks with his Pakistani and Turkmenistan counterparts later this month about plans for a pipeline through his country to export Turkmenistan’s...
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New Motorway contract soon
ISLAMABAD, May 12: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has directed the National Highway Authority to award the contract of Peshawar-Islamabad Motorway project (M-I) afresh through open tender, Dawn learnt on authority....
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15-day time to register teenagers as voters
ISLAMABAD, May 12: All those citizens who have reached the age of 18 years would be given 15-day time to get themselves registered as voters, a proposed amendment to the Election...
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US troops seize radio station
ISLAMABAD, May 12: Afghan troops backed by US soldiers seized control of a local radio station from supporters of a warlord in the eastern province of Khost, the Afghan Islamic Press...
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Ijazul Haq goes abroad to escape party wrath
ISLAMABAD May 12: A meeting of Pakistan Muslim League (QA) central working committee (CWC) is being held here on Monday to dispose of a complex agenda, including the efforts for reunification...
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Al Qaeda men being smuggled, claims paper
SAN FRANCISCO, May 12: Smuggling of Al Qaeda
men to Pakistan is a booming business for smugglers who make a living by
transporting refugees, drugs and electronic goods, Christian Science Monitor
reported on Saturday from South Waziristan.....
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PAF chief arrives in Washington
WASHINGTON, May 12: Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Mushaf Ali Mir, arrived here on Saturday for an official visit at the invitation of his US counterpart, Gen John Jumper....
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Six injured in Indian shelling
MUZAFFARABAD, May 12: Six people, including two children, were injured in Indian shelling from across the Line of Control in two different sectors of Azad Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, police...
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UK troops find arms cache
BAGRAM AIR BASE, May 12: The British-led coalition forces have made another major weapons discovery in an operation to hunt down Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters in eastern Afghanistan, a spokesman...
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Air service with Kabul resumes
ISLAMABAD, May 12: The air service between Pakistan and Afghanistan was resumed when an Ariana airline plane landed here at Islamabad International Airport to mark the resumption of commercial flights after...
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Two killed in road accident
KARACHI, May 12: Two people were killed in a road accident on Sunday night in Landhi....
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