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Vajpayee will visit Pakistan: Fernandes
BANGALORE, Oct 20: Indian Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, will go to Islamabad to attend the 12th Saarc summit due to be held in January 2003, Defence Minister, George Fernandes, said...
PPP hints at national govt with PML-Q: Nasrullah disappointed
LAHORE, Oct 20: People’s Party Parliamentarians chairman Makhdoom Amin Fahim on Sunday reiterated that his party would try to form a “government of national unity” in cooperation with all democratic forces,...
PML-N seeks fresh polls on 274 seats
ISLAMABAD, Oct 20: Pakistan Muslim League (N) has demanded fresh elections on 90 seats of the National Assembly and 184 seats of all the four provincial assemblies. On all those seats...
‘Law on PM’s election clear’
ISLAMABAD, Oct 20: The law on the election of the prime minister is clear and the government is trying to create confusion to buy more time to manoeuvre simple majority for...
National govt not practicable, says Azhar
ISLAMABAD Oct 20: Pakistan Muslim League (Q) president Mian Mohammad Azhar has allayed the fears of western diplomats about the imposition of another martial law if the ongoing deadlock continued and...
PML-Q may nominate Jamali for PM’s office
ISLAMABAD, Oct 20: Pakistan Muslim League (Q), despite having won 77seats in the National Assembly and emerged as the single largest
parliamentary group in the Punjab Assembly...
Voters’ trust should be respected, says Fahim
KARACHI, Oct 20: Makhdoom Amin Fahim, chief of the People’s Party Parliamentarians, who returned from Dubai after consultations with Benazir Bhutto on Sunday, said that he had got the mandate of...
MMA govt to change status quo, says Fazl
ISLAMABAD, Oct 20: Maulana Fazlur Rehman, the general secretary of the Mutthida Majlis-i-Amal, said on Sunday that a government headed by the MMA would bring an end to the status quo...
Girl killed in Kamra bomb blast
ATTOCK, Oct 20: A girl was killed and 20 other people, including employees of Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC), Kamra, were injured in a bomb blast at Sunday Bazaar, Kamra Cantt, on...
India-US air defence exercises soon
AGRA, Oct 20: India and the United States are due to conduct joint air defence exercises here in this Taj Mahal town this week, officials said Sunday....
Saddam pardons political prisoners
BAGHDAD, Oct 20: Iraq began releasing political prisoners under an unprecedented amnesty issued on Sunday by President Saddam Hussein to inmates and exiles to mark his perfect 100 percent win in...
Soldier killed in Philippines bomb attack
ZAMBOANGA, Oct 20: A soldier was killed and at least 17 people were injured when a bomb exploded outside a Roman Catholic shrine in this southern city late on Sunday, in...
Britain to close Karachi airbase
KABUL, Oct 20: Britain is closing an airbase in Pakistan used to supply peacekeepers in Afghanistan and transferring its operations to Kabul, a peacekeeping spokesman said Sunday....
Gen Franks witnesses wargames
ISLAMABAD, Oct 20: Commander in Chief US Central Command Gen Tommy R. Franks on Sunday witnessed the ongoing Pakistan-US joint military exercise named Inspired Gambit III....
4 Palestinians wounded in Gaza clashes
GAZA, Oct 20: At least four Palestinians and one Israeli army officer were injured on Sunday during clashes in the Khan Younis town, medical and security sources reported....
N-material not supplied to N. Korea, Powell assured
NEW YORK, Oct 20: US Secretary of State, Colin Powell, said on Sunday that Pakistan has assured that no nuclear technology has been supplied to North Korea by it, nor will...
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Editor: Tahir Mirza
BAGHDAD, Oct 20: Iraq began releasing political prisoners under an unprecedented amnesty issued on Sunday by President Saddam Hussein to inmates and exiles to mark his perfect 100 percent win in...
ISLAMABAD, Oct 20: Commander in Chief US Central Command Gen Tommy R. Franks on Sunday witnessed the ongoing Pakistan-US joint military exercise named Inspired Gambit III....
