PML-Q, MMA come closer to agreement
LAHORE, June 1: Differences between the MMA and the PML-Q narrowed and chances of an agreement appeared to have improved on Sunday as the ruling party chief accepted all 10 demands...
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25 Karachi picnickers drown in Keenjhar
 THATTA, June 1: At least twenty-five picnickers, majority of them women and children, all residents of Federal-B Area and Jafar-i-Tayyar Society...
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Fernandes hopeful of summit talks
NEW DELHI, June 1: India and Pakistan are slowly but surely moving towards a summit that would eventually help resolve key differences that have divided them, Indian Defence Minister George Fernandes...
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District Nazims in NWFP resign
PESHAWAR, June 1: Nazims of all the 24 districts of the NWFP on Sunday claimed to have resigned in protest against the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal government’s what they termed mala fide restrictions...
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Resolution on Iraq brought consensus at UN: Pakistan
UNITED NATIONS, June 1: Pakistan’s ambassador to the United Nations, Munir Akram, said on Saturday that there had been “a dawn of a new spirit in the UN Security Council with...
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Rs64bn used to cover budget deficit
ISLAMABAD, June 1: The total disbursement of external financing for the first three quarters (up to March 2003) amounted to Rs108.84 billion, which included Rs44.67 billion for repayment of loans while...
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Positive signal from India awaited: Train service resumption
LARKANA, June 1: Federal Railways Minister Ghaus Bakhsh Mahar has said his ministry will resume the Samjhota Express service once a positive signal from India is received....
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UAE cracks down on overstayers
DUBAI, June 1: The United Arab Emirates launched a crackdown on illegal immigrants on Sunday after an amnesty failed to weed out more than 300,000 estimated overstayers, most of them Asians,...
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Bush, Chirac term rift over Iraq ‘history’
 EVIAN (France), June 1: Leaders from a dozen developing countries, including China and India, met their counterparts from rich Group of...
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Two MQM ministers to take oath today
ISLAMABAD, June 1: In the first expansion of Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali’s cabinet, two more ministers are to take oath at the President’s House on Monday....
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Palestinian PM arrives in Jordan
AMMAN, June 1: Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmud Abbas arrived on Sunday in Jordan for talks with his Jordanian counterpart on the preparations for the US-Palestinian-Israeli summit which the...
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Iraq interim setup within six weeks
BAGHDAD, June 1: The US-led team in Iraq said on Sunday that an interim Iraqi administration would be put in place within six weeks, headed by a political council that would...
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Pakistanis’ plight voiced in US Congress
WASHINGTON, June 1: Pakistanis living in the United States have urged Congress to help fight the wave of backlash and discrimination they have faced since the 9-11 terrorist attacks....
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Bush assures Vajpayee on infiltration: report
NEW DELHI, June 1: US President George Bush has indicated he would talk to Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on the need to end “cross-border terrorism” in India when the two meet...
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Two US troops injured, two Iraqis killed
BAGHDAD, June 1: Two United States soldiers were wounded and two Iraqis killed on Sunday in a grenade attack here in front of a mosque, US troops and witnesses told AFP....
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US calls for cooperation from Saudi Arabia
WASHINGTON, June 1: US Senator John McCain said on Saturday that the United States was not getting the cooperation it needs from Saudi Arabia and urged the Bush administration to bring...
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