President warns West against anti-Muslim bias: Joint anti-terror alliance urged
CAMBRIDGE (MASS), Sept 9: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Sunday slammed increasing anti-Muslim bias and warned that it can split the Muslim world and the West. He called for an alliance...
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APHC seeks meeting with AJK leaders
NEW DELHI, Sept 9: It all seemed to be happening on the Kashmir front on Monday as Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee left for New York....
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Benazir foresees sympathy vote
KARACHI, Sept 9: The Pakistan People’s Party and the Pakistan Muslim League (N) will poll anti-military regime votes in their respective strongholds in the general elections, the PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto...
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French move to seek UN approval for Iraq attack
WASHINGTON, Sept 9: The United States faced new international objections on Monday to unilateral military action against Iraq as President Jacques Chirac revealed that France was drafting a two-stage plan that...
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New condition blocks officials’ promotion
ISLAMABAD, Sept 9: The ministry of information and media development has challenged the revised promotion policy of senior civil servants claiming that its approval was obtained from the president without a...
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Judge asked to consider Mianwali convicts deal
ISLAMABAD, Sept 9: The Supreme Court has directed the district and sessions judge of Mianwali to consider, in accordance with law, the compromise deal reached between the two parties for granting...
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EC not interfering in campaigns: CEC
ISLAMABAD, Sept 9: The Election Commission said on Monday that it had neither interfered nor had any intention to interfere with the election campaign of the political parties....
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Talks must involve Pakistan, India: FO
ISLAMABAD, Sept 9: Pakistan said on Monday that any talks to resolve the Kashmir dispute have to be held between the governments of India and Pakistan with the participation of the...
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Water level in dams going down
LAHORE, Sept 9: Water started depleting in major dams on Sunday in the wake of a decreasing combined rivers’ flow and increasing requirement for irrigation....
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Reforms in judiciary soon: acting president
ISLAMABAD, Sept 9: The Acting President, Justice Sheikh Riaz Ahmed, said on Monday the government had prepared a comprehensive package of judicial reforms to provide speedy justice to the people....
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Powell asks Pakistan to help in polls
WASHINGTON, Sept 9: US Secretary of State Colin Powell told his Indian counterpart on Monday that Washington was asking Pakistan not to interfere with voting in Jammu and Kashmir, overshadowed by...
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5 Pakistanis arrested in Kuwait freed
KUWAIT CITY, Sept 9: Authorities have released five Pakistanis arrested last week for filming the coastal residence of Kuwait’s First Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, a newspaper...
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Fata senators to be elected by direct vote
ISLAMABAD, Sept 9: The President on Monday issued two enactments providing for holding of direct elections in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas....
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23 cities declared sensitive
ISLAMABAD, Sept 9: Twenty-three cities of the country have been declared as highly sensitive regarding law and order situation during the forthcoming general elections....
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