Blast sets ablaze Iraq gas pipeline
BAGHDAD, June 22: One of Iraq’s domestic gas pipelines was torn open by an explosion, while officials delayed pumping oil for export through a major link to Turkey on Sunday....
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President hints at giving up army office: Talibanization won’t be allowed
LONDON, June 22: President Pervez Musharraf on Sunday hinted at relinquishing the office of the chief of army staff before the three years time....
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Camp David talks: India awaits result
NEW DELHI, June 22: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee said on Sunday India would await the outcome of talks between Pakistan President Gen Pervez Musharraf and US President George W. Bush,...
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Jamali asks opposition to let NA function
DOMAILI (Jehlum), June 22: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali expressed on Sunday the hope that the government would defeat the no-confidence motion against the Speaker of the National Assembly....
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Iraq WMDs hearing begins
WASHINGTON, June 22: The chairman of the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Senator Pat Roberts, said on Sunday that the committee has already started hearings into the reports that President...
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Ruling on LFO not ill-timed: Speaker
ISLAMABAD, June 22: National Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Amir Hussain regretted on Sunday that his ruling on the LFO instead of his conduct in the house had formed the basis of the...
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Sino-India ties not to affect Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, June 22: Foreign Office spokesman Masood Khan said on Sunday that Pakistan understood that growing relations between China and India were not at the expense of Pakistan-China friendship....
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Khogakhels resist entry of forces
PESHAWAR, June 22: The Khogakhel tribe of Mohmand Agency is offering resistance to the paramilitary forces as sporadic firing continued on the second consecutive day along the Pakistan-Afghan border on Sunday,...
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Vajpayee in China to build ties
BEIJING, June 22: Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee arrived in Beijing on Sunday for talks aimed at building trust and economic ties between the two countries....
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No N-tech transfer to North Korea, Japan assured
CHIANG MAI (Thailand), June 22: Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri has assured his Japanese counterpart Yoriko Kawaguchi that Pakistan is not providing North Korea with nuclear or missile technology, a...
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Eight killed in Nepal clash
KATHMANDU, June 22: Seven Maoists and a civilian were killed in a gunfight between rebels and the army last week in western Nepal during the deadliest clash since the two sides...
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US base attacked
KABUL, June 22: A bomb went off outside a US military base in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz, an Afghan military official said on Sunday, in the first known attack...
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India tests new SAM
BHUBANESWAR (India) June 22: India on Sunday tested its homegrown short-range surface-to-air Trishul missile from the eastern coastal state of Orissa, officials said....
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Musharraf due today in Washington
WASHINGTON, June 22: President Gen Pervez Musharraf, now in Boston on a private stay, arrives here on Monday evening to begin his six-day official visit to the United States....
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