Suicide bomber kills 19 Israelis: Sharon says he’ll fight back
 AL QUDS, June 18: A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up on a bus packed with schoolchildren and office workers during morning rush hour on Tuesday, killing 19 people and wounding...
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Troops comb tribal areas for Al Qaeda men
 ISLAMABAD, June 18: Pakistani troops are patrolling remote areas of the tribal regions of the Frontier province for the first time in the hunt for Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters crossing...
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Iran worried over regional situation
TEHRAN, June 18: Iran’s influential Supreme National Security Council has said Tehran must do all in its power to ease tension between Islamabad and New Delhi, newspapers said on Tuesday....
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AJK ADP up by 34 per cent
MUZAFFARABAD, June 18: The Annual Development Programme of Azad Jammu and Kashmir for the next fiscal year, with a total outlay of Rs3300 million, including Rs2887.4 million local component and Rs412...
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18 drown as bus plunges into river
GILGIT, June 18: At least 18 passengers, including four personnel of Northern Light Infantry (NLI), died when a Rawalpindi-bound bus fell into the Indus River on Karakuram Highway at Pattan, 325...
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PML merger talks suffer setback
LAHORE, June 18: The chances of merger of various factions of the PML dimmed on Tuesday as the Functional Muslim League refused to recognize the PML(Q) as a party, and announced...
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President calls for reducing power prices
ISLAMABAD, June 18: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has called for reducing the prices of electricity by converting thermal power generation to hydelpower generation and also by opting for coal-fired power in...
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Pakistan to table four resolutions at ICFM
ISLAMABAD, June 18: Pakistan will push for adoption of a dozen resolutions, four of them on Kashmir, at the Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers (ICFM) meeting in Sudan next week, informed...
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US consulate in Karachi reopens
KARACHI, June 18: US Charge d’affaires Nancy J. Powell officially reopened the US Consulate here on Tuesday....
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Situation in Dera Bugti still tense as no breakthrough made
QUETTA, June 18: The federal government or the gas companies had not established any contact with Nawab Akbar Bugti to ease the situation in Dera Bugti, sources said....
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Tribal clash claims 10 lives
SUKKUR, June 18: Ten people, most of them Mehar tribesmen, were killed in a tribal clash in two villages falling in the jurisdiction of Habibkot police station on Tuesday....
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Loya Jirga postponed after rowdy session
 KABUL, June 18: Afghanistan’s Loya Jirga adjourned on Tuesday after a rowdy morning session in which plans and counter-plans were proposed for a new parliament, an issue that has occupied the...
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Delhi reacts to Musharraf remarks
NEW DELHI, June 18: India on Tuesday denounced President Musharraf’s comment that Pakistan’s nuclear deterrent has made India stand down, accusing him of “nuclear blackmail”....
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Troop recall depends on Pakistan’s steps: India
NEW DELHI, June 18: India is ready to pull back troops from its borders with Pakistan as soon as it sees evidence of Islamabad reining in militants and dismantling their training...
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Farooq says US wants its forces in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, June 18: US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld last week proposed the deployment of US troops in occupied Kashmir, but India rejected the suggestion, the head of the held state’s government...
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Younas Khan to be new AGP
ISLAMABAD, June 18: The government has decided to replace Federal Secretary Finance Younas Khan, who is being transferred as Auditor General of Pakistan, an official source said....
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Kalam files nomination
NEW DELHI, June 18: “Missile man” A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, who is certain to become India’s next president, filed his nomination papers on Tuesday for next month’s contest, the Press Trust of...
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US wants Jirga to okay cabinet
KABUL, June 18: US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad said on Tuesday Afghanistan’s Loya Jirga must have the final say on President Hamid Karzai’s key cabinet posts....
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