Plan to attack Iraq in place: Approval of ME states not needed: US
RIYADH, July 8: The United States will inform its allies in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in advance about its plans to attack Iraq, a senior US General was quoted by...
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Joint LoC patrol idea workable, says India
NEW DELHI, July 8: Indian Defence Minister George Fernandes said on Monday that a proposal made recently by New Delhi for a join patrolling of the Line of Control was still...
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Party elections: PPP willing, PML not
LAHORE, July 8: The Pakistan People’s Party insisted on Monday that Benazir Bhutto was competent, notwithstanding the federal law ministers’s assertion, to head the party and participate in the general elections....
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Three suspects in Karachi blasts held
 KARACHI, July 8: Three activists of Harkatul Mujahideen Al Aalmi, implicated in bomb blasts outside the US Consulate and Sheraton Hotel and in an attempt to blow up President Pervez Musharraf’s...
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No Sharif family member can contest polls: Rashid
ISLAMABAD, July 8: No family member of the exiled Sharif family will be allowed to contest the forthcoming general elections, Maj-Gen Rashid Qureshi told Dawn on Monday....
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Wapda fails to win AJK govt support: Mangla dam project
ISLAMABAD, July 8: The Rs53 billion raising of the Mangla dam project has cost around Rs100 million over a period of one year, although it has remained a non-starter so far....
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Legal opinion sought in stoning case
FAISALABAD, July 8: The local police have reportedly sought legal opinion from the Law Department as to how to proceed in the case of stoning of a villager near Chak Jhumra...
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Gas pipeline moot to finalize details
ASHKABAD, July 8: Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources, Usman Aminuddin, arrived here to attend a three-day trilateral working group meeting of Pakistan, Turkmenistan and Afghanistan on oil and gas pipelines...
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5 children rescued from camel race ordeal
ISLAMABAD, July 8: Police have rescued five children aged between three and seven who were allegedly being smuggled to Dubai for use as camel jockeys, the FIA said on Monday....
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Graduation condition: SC hears pleas today
ISLAMABAD, July 8: A special bench of the Supreme Court will on Tuesday start hearing of two petitions challenging the condition of minimum educational qualification of BA or its equivalent for...
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Two gang-rape accused remanded in custody
MULTAN, July 8: Jatoi police have obtained physical remand for seven days of chief juror Faiz Bakhsh and main accused Khaliq Mastoi to interrogate them in the Meerwala gang-rape case....
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Minor girl assaulted
MULTAN, July 8: A minor girl was raped allegedly by a relative in Khangarh area of Muzaffargarh district on Monday....
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Pakistanis stopped from performing Umra
RIYADH, July 8: Saudi Arabia has slapped a temporary ban on all Pakistanis and Syrians from performing Umra to the kingdom because of visa irregularities, a newspaper reported on Monday....
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Police get remand of Jaranwala accused
FAISALABAD, July 8: Jaranwala police got two-day physical remand of all the three accused, including Imam of a mosque who issued a decree (fatwa) against an American engineer, on Monday....
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Kabul asks Isaf to probe VP’s murder
 KABUL, July 8: Afghanistan appealed to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) on Monday to help investigate the slaying of one of the country’s top leaders as officials admitted they had...
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FO condemns demolition of mosque in Ahmedabad
ISLAMABAD, July 8: Pakistan on Monday condemned the recent demolition of a century-old mosque in Ahmedabad, reportedly under the instructions of the chief minister of the Indian state of Gujarat....
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Seven shot dead in Parachinar
PARACHINAR, July 8: Seven people were killed and another was critically injured when two groups exchanged fire over a clash on water at Alisherzai area of FR Kurram on Sunday....
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Three killed in Kashmir blast
JAMMU, July 8: Three civilians, including two children, were killed on Monday in an explosion in held Kashmir, officials said....
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