Iraq agrees to allow UN arms inspectors
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 17: Iraq, under intense worldwide pressure, agreed to allow UN weapons inspectors back into the country without conditions after almost four years, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced on...
|
|
Forces fully equipped to face enemy: Law & order has improved, says Musharraf
KARACHI, Sept 17: President Gen Pervez Musharraf said on Tuesday that Pakistan’s armed forces were fully equipped to face the enemy....
|
|
Nine labourers electrocuted
RAWALPINDI, Sept 17: Nine labourers were electrocuted and two others injured when a high-tension current passed through a double-storey building at the bustling Committee Chowk on Murree Road on Tuesday night,...
|
|
EC plans to motivate voters
ISLAMABAD, Sept 17: The Election Commission has decided to launch a voter education programme with a view to motivating them to cast their votes....
|
|
|
US says it will continue pressure
WASHINGTON, Sept 17: The White House on Tuesday rejected Iraq’s offer to allow the unconditional return of UN weapons inspectors saying that it was a tactical move by Saddam Hussein....
|
|
Former CBR chief indicted in SGS case
ISLAMABAD, Sept 17: Former chairman Central Board of Revenue A R Siddiqui was indicted by an accountability court here on Tuesday in the SGS corruption reference. The court adjourned the hearing...
|
|
|
Campaigners hope for Lankan Muslims’ return
SATTAHIP (Thailand), Sept 17: Sri Lanka’s Muslim rights campaigners, who are conducting an “informal monitoring” of the peace talks in Thailand, are advocating resettlement of Muslims driven out from the Jaffna...
|
|
Hyderabad MQM kicks off campaign
 HYDERABAD, Sept 17: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement on Tuesday night held its first public meeting at the GTC ground to kick off its election campaign....
|
|
|
Iraq can’t build nukes: France
PARIS, Sept 17: French Army Chief of Staff, Jean-Marc Kelche, says he’s “quite confident” that there are no nuclear weapons present in Iraq, and that as far as he knows Saddam...
|
|
Editor shot at, injured in Srinagar
NEW DELHI, Sept 17: A Kashmiri editor was shot in Srinagar on Tuesday. In a separate incident, a candidate from an assembly constituency whose ministerial hopeful was assassinated recently threatened to...
|
|
|
Beijing to buy MK-5 PK arms
KARACHI, Sept 17: China has shown keen interest in the purchase of MP-5 PK, indigenously developed by the Pakistan Ordnance Factories, Wah....
|
|
Defence accord signed with Azerbaijan
KARACHI, Sept 17: Pakistan and Azerbaijan on Tuesday signed an agreement to enhance defence cooperation between the two countries, on the second day of the defence exhibition ‘IDEAS-2002’....
|
|
|
‘India loses conventional superiority’
NEW DELHI, Sept 17: India has lost its conventional military superiority over Pakistan by going nuclear, Indian experts on the subject said on Tuesday....
|
|
EU plan for Palestinian state adopted
 UNITED NATIONS, Sept 17: The international diplomatic “quartet” on the Middle East adopted a EU roadmap that envisions that creation of a Palestinian state by 2005, but failed to reach anything...
|
|
|
Apex court asks Punjab to settle land dispute
ISLAMABAD, Sept 17: The Supreme Court on Tuesday suggested to the Punjab government to settle its dispute with the person whose precious land was “grabbed” by it for building the National...
|
|
Cabinet to meet on Friday
ISLAMABAD, Sept 17: A two-day meeting of the federal cabinet will be held on Friday and Saturday to discuss a number of important issues including the current political situation with special...
|
|
|
