PM reaffirms stand on Iraq: •Offers talks to India •Land reforms ruled out •No victimization
ISLAMABAD, March 11: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali appealed to the United Nations on Tuesday that more time should be given to peace so that the Iraqi crisis could...
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Stormy Senate session on LFO today
ISLAMABAD, March 11: The parliamentary battle over the sweeping presidential powers will move to the Senate on Wednesday when the newly elected 100-seat upper house meets for its inauguration and election...
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Rumsfeld to press Saudi leaders
RIYADH, March 11: US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld is expected to arrive here within a couple of days to hold talks with Saudi officials on issues of mutual concern, the...
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US ready to amend resolution
UNITED NATIONS, March 11: The United States on Tuesday called for a UN vote authorizing an invasion of Iraq by the end of this week and scrambled with its allies to...
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Erdogan named Turkish premier
 ANKARA, March 11: Turkey’s governing party leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan was appointed prime minister on Tuesday and charged with forming a new government whose immediate task will be to decide whether...
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Bush wants Musharraf to back on Iraq issue
ISLAMABAD, March 11: The Bush administration conveyed through Pakistani embassy in Washington that the US President planned to call President Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday night, sources close to the Aiwan-i-Sadr told...
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Visa period cut for pilgrims to Saudi Arabia
RIYADH, March 11: In order to curb overcrowding and overstaying, Saudi Arabia has fixed the number of visas to be issued each month for Umrah, and pilgrims will be allowed only...
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Jamali asks opposition to shun differences
ISLAMABAD, Mar 11: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali on Tuesday hinted at expansion of his cabinet after Moharram....
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Forces closing in on Osama: envoy
WASHINGTON, March 11: Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States indicated on Tuesday that Pakistani security forces were closing in on Osama bin Laden and might catch him soon....
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Khalid’s harbourer sent to jail
RAWALPINDI, March 11: An Anti-Terrorism Court remanded on Tuesday Mr Aqeel Ahmed Abdul Qudoos, the alleged harbourer of top Al Qaeda ‘operator”, Mr Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, to jail....
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Ten held on border
SPIN BOLDAK, March 11: US-led coalition forces have captured two people suspected of links with the Al Qaeda and the Taliban on Afghanistan’s border with Pakistan, an Afghan official said on...
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CIA denies holding children
WASHINGTON, March 11: A CIA official on Tuesday termed “utterly false” a report claiming the spy agency is holding two sons, aged seven and nine, of suspected Al Qaeda mastermind Khalid...
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No Pakistan support to Iran’s N-plan: US
 WASHINGTON, March 11: The United States believes that Pakistan is not providing any assistance to Iran’s nuclear programme, a State Department spokesman said on Monday....
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Acting HC takes charge in Delhi
NEW DELHI, March 11: Pakistan’s new acting high commissioner to New Delhi took up his post here on Tuesday, a month after India expelled his predecessor over charges he funded Kashmiri...
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Britain support not needed: US
WASHINGTON, March 11: The United States is ready to go to war against Iraq without Britain if necessary, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said here on Tuesday....
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Sanctions clamped on Indian firm
WASHINGTON, March 11: The United States on Tuesday slapped sanctions on a Jordanian man and an Indian-registered firm for alleged illegal arms sales, proscribed by the Iran-Iraq Arms Non-Proliferation Act....
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