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Ramallah HQ attacked: Arafat considering retirement: diplomat
RAMALLAH, June 6: Israeli troops stormed up to the doorstep of Yasser Arafat’s West Bank headquarters on Thursday, killing one of the Palestinian leader’s bodyguards and wounding six other men in...
Defence budget to go up
ISLAMABAD, June 6: The federal budget, which is being presented on June 15, will have an increased allocation for defence spending for the first time in three years....
Bush trying to ease tension: president
ISLAMABAD, June 6: President Gen Pervez Musharraf presided over a meeting here on Thursday which discussed the latest situation obtaining in the region with special reference to his meeting with the...
Kashmir dispute must be justly settled: US senator
WASHINGTON, June 6: The current India-Pakistan crisis has led to an increasing realization here in the past few days for the need to address the Kashmir issue, with a leading member...
US proposes new rules for visitors
NEW YORK, June 6: Thousands of visitors from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and some other Middle-Eastern countries would have to register with the US government and be fingerprinted according to new rules...
FSC acquits Zafran of adultery
ISLAMABAD, June 6: A three-member Federal Shariat Court bench acquitted on Thursday Zafran Bibi, who had been awarded stoning to death punishment by the district and sessions judge, Kohat, for having...
Nine killed in Valley
SRINAGAR, June 6: Nine people, including two Indian soldiers, were killed in occupied Kashmir on Thursday night and Wednesday....
Fernandes denies Vajpayee made offer
NEW DELHI, June 6: India has baffled its foreign interlocutors by proposing the idea of a joint-patrolling of the volatile Line of Control in Kashmir with Pakistan one day and denying...
Washington welcomes New Delhi’s proposal
WASHINGTON, June 6: The United States considers Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s proposal for joint military border patrols as a “welcome sign” that peaceful means of resolving differences between Pakistan...
5 children buried alive in roof collapse
LAHORE, June 6: Five children were buried alive and their mother was injured when the roof of a room in a factory in Gujjarpura collapsed late on Wednesday night....
Six die, 14 wounded in Indian shelling
MUZAFFARABAD, June 6: Six persons, including five children, were killed and 14 others were injured, some of them seriously, in different areas of Azad Kashmir in unprovoked Indian shelling with heavy...
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ISLAMABAD, June 6: US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said on Thursday that although the situation was quite complicated and volatile, President Gen Pervez Musharraf had assured him he would...
