LFO committee fails to reach consensus
ISLAMABAD, May 19: The joint government-opposition constitutional committee on Monday concluded its two-week-long deliberations on the Legal Framework Order without reaching a consensus or finalizing a constitutional package to be presented...
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Composite talks offer reiterated
ISLAMABAD, May 19: Pakistan reiterated here on Monday that Islamabad was ready for an early “composite dialogue” that covered all outstanding issues with India and expressed the strong hope that New...
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PML-N indicates limits to compromise
ISLAMABAD, May 19: Makhdoom Javed Hashmi, acting president of the Pakistan Muslim League-N, says the opposition parties have so far adopted the politics of compromise, but there could be no compromise...
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4 killed in suicide bombing
TEL AVIV, May 19: A suicide bomber killed three other people and injured around 30 in an attack at the entrance of a shopping centre in the northern Israeli town of...
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Landslides, floods kill 200 in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO, May 19: Floods and landslides in Sri Lanka have killed at least 200 people, left as many missing and driven tens of thousands more from their homes....
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Solution has to be found in talks: PM: Pakistan-India issues
NEW DELHI, May 19: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Jamali said on Monday that war between India and Pakistan would be inhuman and solutions to all issues, including Kashmir, had to be...
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Three cops gunned down
QUETTA, May 19: A constable went berserk and gunned down three policemen in police headquarters here on Monday....
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Roadmap for Kashmir sought
SRINAGAR, May 19: Kashmiri separatists and intellectuals on Monday called on the international community to draw up a “roadmap” to resolve the Kashmir dispute, and asserted peace would elude the region...
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US Consulate in Dhahran closed
WASHINGTON, May 19: The United States on Monday closed its consulate in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia to the public after a lone gunman was arrested at its front gate amid heightened fears...
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New mobile phone service launched in Quetta
QUETTA, May 19: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali announced on Monday that mobile telephone facilities would soon be introduced in rural areas of the country to provide maximum communication facilities...
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Pakistan, India to play hockey
NEW DELHI, May 19: Arch-rivals India and Pakistan will take part in the Champions Trophy field hockey tournament to be held in Amsterdam in August, officials said on Monday....
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MMA to give Musharraf deadline
ISLAMABAD, May 19: A top leader of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal said on Monday the alliance of religious parties would give President Pervez Musharraf a four-month deadline to quit the Army, placing...
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