Baghdad fails to satisfy US, UN: Declaration not up to requirement: diplomats
WASHINGTON, Dec 13: US and UN diplomats have reached a preliminary conclusion that Iraq’s declaration of its weapons programmeme failed to account for all of its chemical and biological agents, the...
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Senate elections next month
ISLAMABAD, Dec 13: The government has decided to hold the Senate elections in the third week of January, three months after the deadline fixed by the Supreme Court for the purpose....
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Gujarat Muslims flee homes
AHMEDABAD, Dec 13: Several hundred Muslims fled their homes on Friday in Gujarat, scene of the country’s worst communal bloodshed in a decade, fearing renewed violence if the Bharatiya Janata Party...
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Sindh speaker’s election today
KARACHI, Dec 13: After a joint candidate of the PPP and the MMA for the post of deputy speaker of the Sindh Assembly had remained unopposed when the time for filing...
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Border with Afghanistan sealed
 ISLAMABAD, Dec 13: The government has sealed its borders with Afghanistan for the security reasons and in order to check infiltration of suspected Al Qaeda and Taliban fugitives in the country....
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Washington sets aside funds for democracy in Mideast
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13: The United States has set aside $29 million to encourage democracy in the Middle East and has promised a “ significant increase” in the funds next. Announcing the...
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Pakistanis absolved of Kenyan attacks charges
MOMBASA (Kenya) Dec 13: Kenyan investigators on Friday cleared six Pakistanis and three Somalis who were detained following twin anti-Israeli attacks in the port city of Mombasa last month....
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422 Al Qaeda men held in Pakistan, says envoy
WASHINGTON, Dec 13: More than 400 Al Qaeda activists have been arrested in Pakistan since October 2001, said Ambassador Jehangir Qazi while elaborating Pakistan’s role in the war against terrorism....
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ATT revival under study: Humayun
ISLAMABAD, Dec 13: Commerce Minister Humayun Akhtar Khan said on Friday that the government was considering revival of the Afghan Transit Trade (ATT) in a manner that it may not be...
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Standoff sent strong signal to Islamabad: Delhi
NEW DELHI, Dec 13: India on Friday marked the anniversary of last year’s armed attack on parliament, spewing angry words at Islamabad even as Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee claimed that...
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Powell invites Kasuri to US
ISLAMABAD, Dec 13: United States Secretary of State Colin Powell on Thursday invited Foreign Minister Mian Khursheed Mehmood Kasuri to Washington and congratulated him on assumption of the office....
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Incentives on buses import withdrawn, says Naimat
KARACHI, Dec 13: The incentives offered by the federal government on the import of large buses are being withdrawn this month....
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Jamali extends stay in Karachi
KARACHI, Dec 13: Prime minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali has extended his stay in the city for a day, sources said....
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Membership: EU fails to set date for talks
COPENHAGEN, Dec 12: European Union leaders on Friday failed to set a firm date for opening membership talks with Turkey, rebuffing Ankara’s hopes of joining the bloc in the next decade....
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US concerned at Iranian nuclear sites
WASHINGTON, Dec 13: The White House on Friday expressed suspicions about two Iranian nuclear sites, alleging both could produce key elements of atomic weapons and serve no reasonable civilian energy purpose....
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Musharraf to open forum on water today
ISLAMABAD, Dec 13: President Gen Pervez Musharraf will inaugurate the Second South Asia Water Forum here on Saturday....
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