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Pakistan ready to freeze N-tests
ISLAMABAD, May 23: Pakistan has said that resumption of dialogue with India would enable the two sides to conclude substantive and result-oriented measures for arms restraint and promotion of security in...
Local govt system to stay: Musharraf
KARACHI, May 23: President Pervez Musharraf said on Friday that the local government system would stay as it was a futuristic system for the betterment of common man....
PPP opposed to report filing by NA speaker
KARACHI, May 23: The Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians is opposed to submission of any report on the constitutional committee’s deliberations on the LFO by the National Assembly speaker on his own,...
Afghanistan to tap oil, gas resources
KABUL, May 23: Afghanistan’s government is looking to tap all national sources of revenue, not just customs duty, Finance Minster Ashraf Ghani said on Friday....
ARD to join lawyers’ protest on June 9
ISLAMABAD, May 23: The Alliance for Restoration of Democracy (ARD) has decided to join lawyers’ protest on June 9, against the Legal Framework Order (LFO), Deputy Information Secretary Munir Ahmed Khan...
Tribal noble, three others killed
LARKANA, May 23: Four tribesmen, including the brother of the chief of the Chandio tribe, Nawab Shabbir Ahmed Chandio, were shot dead in a clash over a hunting dispute in the...
PM gets report on LFO
ISLAMABAD May 23: National Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Amir Hussain, who is also chairman of the 11-member joint parliamentary constitutional committee which discussed the LFO, has handed over the report of the...
Death toll in Algeria 1,600
ALGIERS, May 23: Hopes of finding survivors amid the devastation of Algeria’s earthquake faded on Friday as the death toll topped 1,600 despite frantic efforts by teams of foreign rescue workers...
Jamali to meet politicians
ISLAMABAD, May 23: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Jamali said on Friday that he had received recommendations from the 11-member joint constitutional committee and a meeting would soon be convened to discuss...
Fernandes rules out early talks
NEW DELHI, May 23: India will hold peace talks with Pakistan not in the near future, India’s defence minister was quoted as saying on Friday....
Delhi cool to offer
NEW DELHI, May 23: India on Friday responded to a Pakistani suggestion for a moratorium on nuclear testing by saying New Delhi already had a unilateral ban in place....
Killing toll in Kashmir rises to 14
SRINAGAR, May 23: Indian troops overnight killed two more freedom fighters near the Line of Control taking the toll in the ambush to 14, officials said on Friday....
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