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Musharraf offers India hand to fight extremism
NEW DELHI, March 2: President Pervez Musharraf said on Sunday he was willing to join hands with India to fight extremism, but warned he would lose power if he compromised too...
Iraq destroys six more Al Samoud missiles
BAGHDAD, March 2: Iraq used bulldozers to crush six more Al Samoud missiles under the supervision of UN inspectors on Sunday, stepping up efforts to avert a possible US-led attack....
Turkey mulls second vote on US troops
ANKARA, March 2: Turkey’s ruling party said on Sunday it was considering a new parliamentary ballot on the deployment of US troops here for a possible Iraq war, a day after...
Khalid Shaikh still in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD/RAWALPINDI, March 2: Interior minister Faisal Saleh Hayat said on Sunday that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the main Al Qaeda suspect who was arrested along with his colleagues in Rawalpindi on Saturday,...
PIA seeks increase in fares
RAWALPINDI, March 2: The Pakistan International Airlines has asked the government to give it permission to enhance fares on both international and domestic routes by 15 per cent to cope with...
US lauds Pakistan for arrest
WASHINGTON, March 2: President Bush celebrated the arrest of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept 11 terrorist attacks, with his colleagues on Saturday, while...
Israeli troops kill four Palestinians
GAZA CITY, March 2: Three Palestinians, including a nine-year-old boy, were killed by the Israeli army on Sunday in the Gaza Strip, and a woman died from injuries she sustained when...
Water issue to be discussed today
ISLAMABAD, March 2: Amid Sindh’s demand for the release of its full water share before March 18, the Indus River System Authority meets here on Monday to take provincial irrigation secretaries...
US to help start Indo-Pakistan talks: Powell
WASHINGTON, March 2: The United States will do all it can to broker dialogue between India and Pakistan, Secretary of State Colin Powell said in remarks released here on Saturday....
Lightning kills three
QUETTA, March 2: Lightning struck and killed a mother and her two children on Sunday evening in Rakhani, some 350 km north-east of here in Barkhan district....
Coldwave grips Quetta valley
QUETTA, March 2: Icy and gusty winds taken over the Quetta valley and many other parts of northern and central Balochistan as the temperature was dropped to seven degrees centigrade on...
Top Saudis won’t attend OIC moot
RIYADH, March 2: Saudi Arabia does not intend to send top representatives to an urgent Islamic nations summit called in Qatar this week to discuss the Iraq crisis, Saudi sources said...
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ANKARA, March 2: Turkey’s ruling party said on Sunday it was considering a new parliamentary ballot on the deployment of US troops here for a possible Iraq war, a day after...
