EU to seek firm anti-terror steps: Patten due next week
BRUSSELS, May 17: Europe’s External Relations Commissioner Chris Patten arrives in Islamabad early next week with a clear message for President Pervez Musharraf: stamp down harder on terrorism and keep Pakistan...
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India has to fight it alone: Advani spells out anti-terror stance
NEW DELHI, May 17: India will have to go it alone against “cross-border terrorism from Pakistan,” Home Minister L.K. Advani said on Friday, responding in parliament to this week’s massacre in...
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10 drown as boat capsizes in Jhelum
MUZAFFARABAD/ RAWALPINDI, May 17: Ten people were drowned after their boat capsized in the Jhelum River in Azad Kashmir on Friday. Six others were rescued, authorities said....
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Tripartite accord on oil & gas pipelines by 30th
ISLAMABAD, May 17: Pakistan, Turkmenistan and Afghanistan are expected to sign a tripartite agreement on May 30 to construct trans-Afghanistan oil and gas pipelines from energy rich central Asian republic to...
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Shaikh Omar’s men helped recover body
KARACHI, May 17: Three detained activists of a banned militant group on Friday helped the police recover a chopped-up body, supposedly of the US journalist Daniel Pearl, from a vacant plot...
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No cut in defence budget, EU envoys informed
ISLAMABAD, May 17: The ambassadors and representatives of the European Union countries were briefed here on Friday by a senior defence ministry official about the prevailing security situation in the region...
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Arafat rules out polls till occupation ends
RAMALLAH, May 17: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said on Friday elections will be held in the Palestinian territories after “the end to the occupation of our lands” by the Israeli army....
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British, Australian troops fight Taliban, Al Qaeda men
 BAGRAM AIR BASE (Afghanistan), May 17: About 1,000 British and Australian forces battled Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters in a major new operation in eastern Afghanistan in which a number of...
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Musharraf, Sikandar discuss uplift plans
 ISLAMABAD, May 17: Azad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan here on Friday apprised President Gen Pervez Musharraf about the projects for development and poverty alleviation being undertaken...
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War against US has only started, says Mulla Omar
RIYADH, May 17: Taliban leader Mulla Omar, in an interview carried in the Arabic daily Sharq Al-Awsat, has warned that his war with the United States has only started and its...
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Jordanian online journalist sent to jail
PARIS, May 17: Jordan’s first woman member of parliament Toujan el-Faisal has apparently become one of the world’s first Cyber-journalists to be sentenced to jail for having “published” an article on...
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PLC to consider draft laws today
ISLAMABAD, May 17: Pakistan Law Commission, a statutory body with a mandate to suggest reforms in laws, will meet on Saturday to consider an 11-point agenda, including a draft law proposing...
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US sought Pakistan help over pre-Sept 11 threats
WASHINGTON, May 17: Pakistan was believed to have been kept informed by the United States of intelligence leads coming in throughout the summer of 2001 about a possible Al Qaeda terrorist...
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Four killed in Indian shelling
SIALKOT, May 17: Four villagers, including an old woman, were killed and 40 others wounded when India intensified mortar shelling on Pakistani villages along the Working Boundary on Friday....
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US trying to ease tension, says Boucher
WASHINGTON, May 17: The United States remains concerned about the increase in tensions between Pakistan and India and is looking at how it can contribute in some way to lessening these...
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PLO warns of more suicide attacks
 BEIRUT, May 17: A new wave of suicide bombings will hit Israel if the Jewish state does not withdraw from Palestinian territory, the Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) political chief said on...
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S. Arabia, GCC to review ME issue on 26th
RIYADH, May 17: Saudi Arabia will host a consultative summit of the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council on May 26. The summit has been convened by Saudi Arabia to discuss and study...
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Two killed in Kashmir blast
SRINAGAR, May 17: Two people were killed and 15 wounded on Friday when a bomb allegedly planted by mujahideen exploded in Srinagar, police said....
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