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Afghan govt pays for mission’s damage
ISLAMABAD, July 18: The Afghan government has paid to Pakistan the equivalent of three million rupees in compensation for the armed attack on Pakistan embassy in Kabul early this month, Dawn...
Increase in power rates likely
ISLAMABAD, July 18: The electricity tariff is likely to increase next week by 10 paisa and 15 paisa per unit for Wapda and KESC consumers, respectively, under the automatic fuel adjustment...
Islamabad, Beijing to conduct war games
BEIJING, July 18: Pakistan and China have agreed to conduct joint maritime exercise strengthening their bilateral cooperation in the defence sector....
Shia leader rejects US-backed Iraq council
NAJAF, July 18: A leader of Iraq’s majority Shia sect urged thousands of his followers in a fiery mosque sermon on Friday to reject the country’s new US-backed Governing Council and...
Indian HC meets Khokhar
ISLAMABAD, July 18: The new Indian High Commissioner-designate to Pakistan, Mr Shiv Shankar Menon, who arrived here on Tuesday, met Foreign Secretary Riaz Khokhar at the Foreign Office on Thursday....
JKLF leader’s travel banned
ISLAMABAD, July 18: A Kashmiri leader said on Friday that Pakistan had revoked his passport, a move he said reflected Islamabad’s intolerance of the idea of independence for the occupied valley....
Opposition not hopeful about talks success
ISLAMABAD, July 18: The opposition parties are not very hopeful about the outcome of the proposed government-opposition talks on the Legal Framework Order (LFO), interviews with various leaders revealed on Friday....
11 released Pakistanis recovering in hospital
ISLAMABAD, July 18: Eleven Pakistanis, released on Thursday by US authorities from Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba after being held as al-Qaeda terrorist suspects, are recovering in an Islamabad hospital, a...
Eight Afghan troops killed
KHOST, July 18: Eight Afghan soldiers were killed on Friday in an attack by suspected members of the ousted Taliban regime in Khost, a military official said....
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LONDON, July 18: A formal judicial inquiry into the circumstances leading to the death of a top British expert on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction will be held, Prime Minister Tony...
