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Kasuri welcomes Vajpayee’s statement
KARACHI, Feb 20: Pakistan on Thursday welcomed Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s statement against war and called for resuming meaningful dialogue between the two countries....
Russia may veto use of force
MOSCOW, Feb 20: Russia on Thursday raised the prospect of using its UN Security Council veto to thwart US plans for an invasion of Iraq....
Release from Mangla stopped
ISLAMABAD, Feb 20: The Indus River System Authority (Irsa) on Thursday stopped water releases from Mangla dam and reduced discharges from Chashma barrage from 40,000 cusec to 10,000 cusec....
US to move new UN resolution next week : Attack on Iraq
KENNESAW (USA), Feb 20: The UN Security Council, sharply divided over policy towards Baghdad, will receive a new resolution next week, paving the way for a possible US-led invasion of Iraq,...
Punjab plans to revive magistracy system
ISLAMABAD, Feb 20: The Punjab government is all set to revive the system of magistracy who would be answerable to district coordination officers in matters of law and order, and not...
A great national loss: Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, Feb 20: President Gen Pervez Musharraf expressed deep sorrow over the death of Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Mushaf Ali Mir in a plane crash on Thursday....
Eight Arabs indicted for terrorism
WASHINGTON, Eight people, including four US residents, were charged in a 50-count indictment for links with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, Attorney General Ashcroft announced on Thursday....
Islamabad protests HC staff harassment
ISLAMABAD, Feb 20: Foreign Ministry officials expressed dismay on Thursday at the continuing harassment of Pakistan High Commission staff in New Delhi, and conceded that India had responded to Pakistan’s confidence-building...
Qaiser acting Air Chief
ISLAMABAD, Feb 20: Vice Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal Syed Qaiser Hussain has taken over as acting Chief of Air Staff with immediate effect....
Iraq may lose Al Samoud II
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 20: The UN weapons inspectors are expected to order the destruction of Iraq’s Al Samoud II missiles, after experts determined their range exceeds UN resolutions, diplomats here told...
Five killed in Kashmir bomb blast
SRINAGAR, Feb 20: At least five civilians, one a high school student, were killed on Thursday when a bomb exploded in a crowded marketplace in occupied Kashmir....
Iran-India pipeline to bypass Pakistan
NEW DELHI, Feb 20: India will bypass Pakistan as it pursues a multi-billion-dollar gas pipeline project with Iran, Petroleum Minister Ram Naik said....
Rain claims 8 more lives in AJK
MUZAFFARABAD, Feb 20: An avalanche buried four people in the snowbound Neelum valley and four others were killed and three injured after their houses collapsed in different parts of Azad Kashmir...
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Editor: Tahir Mirza
ISLAMABAD/KOHAT, Feb 20: Pakistan Air Force chief Air Chief Marshal Mushaf Ali Mir, his wife and all the 16 others on board, including some senior PAF officers, perished when the plane...
SRINAGAR, Feb 20: At least five civilians, one a high school student, were killed on Thursday when a bomb exploded in a crowded marketplace in occupied Kashmir....
