Joint team set up to look into border row: Pakistan-Afghanistan issues
KABUL/ISLAMABAD, July 15: Afghanistan and Pakistan agreed on Tuesday to send investigators to their border to try to end a row over alleged Pakistan incursions, while the United States urged them...
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Ummah asked to promote S&T: Musharraf meets Tunisian speaker
TUNIS (Tunisia), July 15: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday called for taking pragmatic steps for the promotion of science and technology in the Muslim world....
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Dialogue with opposition next week: PM
ISLAMABAD, July 15: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali said on Tuesday that talks with the opposition would be held next week, most probably on July 24 or 25....
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Political accord may face hurdles
ISLAMABAD, July 15: The new round of talks between the government and the opposition is unlikely to break the deadlock between the two sides as President Gen Pervez Musharraf has once...
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Petrol prices raised
KARACHI, July 15: The Oil Companies Advisory Committee (OCAC) has increased the prices of petrol by 33 paisa per litre to Rs31.52 from Rs 31.19 per litre. Pakistan State Oil (PSO)...
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Karachi seeks service fee on imports
ISLAMABAD, July 15: Naimat Ullah Khan, the Nazim of Karachi, on Tuesday asked Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali to allow the city government to collect one to two percent as...
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Talks won’t get stalled, hopes Jamali: Kashmir, other issues
ISLAMABAD, July 15: Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali asked for patience on Tuesday as he and his Indian counterpart Atal Behari Vajpayee walk a tightrope towards peace in South Asia....
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Kashmiri leader re-arrested
 JAMMU, July 15: Indian police on Tuesday arrested a top Kashmiri separatist leader for the second time over his alleged links to the funding of mujahideen groups in the disputed state,...
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Military role in politics opposed
ISLAMABAD, July 15: The Pakistan Muslim League-N on Tuesday criticised Gen Pervez Musharraf for taking unilateral decisions on controversial issues, thus “endangering the interests of the armed forces as well as...
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‘US to stay in Iraq no longer than necessary’
BAGHDAD, July 15: US overseer for Iraq Paul Bremer reiterated on Tuesday that coalition forces would stay in the country no longer than necessary, while welcoming a new Governing Council as...
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Fazl arrives in India
 LAHORE, July 15: A four-member delegation of the JUI-F led by its president Maulana Fazlur Rahman left for India via Wagah on Tuesday morning....
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New Indian envoy hopes for lasting friendship
 LAHORE, July 15: The Indian High Commissioner-designate to Pakistan, Mr Shiv Krishan Menon, arrived here on Tuesday via Wagah to take up his new assignment, hoping for lasting peace and friendly...
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Ex-weapons expert seeks US regime change
UNITED NATIONS, July 15: A former UN weapons inspectors on Monday charged the Bush administration with lying to the American people and the Congress on Iraqi weapons programme and called for...
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Another rally held against Pakistan
KABUL, July 15: Some 500 Afghans protested in Kabul on Tuesday against alleged border violations by Pakistani troops....
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