$12.1bn export target fixed Trade policy for 2003-04 announced
ISLAMABAD, July 19: Pakistan’s new trade policy unveiled here on Saturday seeks to further liberalize foreign trade...
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Haj pilgrims’ number slashed by 10,000: Expenses cut by Rs5,100: Haj policy unveiled
ISLAMABAD, July 19: As many as 1,30,000 persons, including 10,000 under Open Haj Scheme, will proceed on pilgrimage this year....
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Kelly died of slit wrist, say police: Judicial probe pledged
LONDON, July 19: The British weapons expert at the centre of a row over the British government’s Iraq arms dossier bled to death after apparently slashing his own wrist, police said...
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Annan asks US, UK to end occupation
UNITED NATIONS, July 19: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, on Friday called for a broader role for the United Nations in Iraq and asked the United States and Britain to quickly...
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10 more die as rains again hit Karachi
KARACHI, July 19: At least 10 more people died when heavy rain again hit Karachi on Saturday, bringing the death toll to 33 in the current wet spell....
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Maghreb states agree on common line: Tackling Muslim world’s issues
RABAT (Morocco), July 19: President Gen Pervez Musharraf said here on Saturday that Pakistan and the maghreb countries — Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco — concurred on the need for a common...
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Iran questions report on uranium enrichment
TEHRAN, July 19: Iran said on Saturday reports that enriched uranium was found in samples taken by UN nuclear inspectors in Iran, were questionable and called on the International Atomic Energy...
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Blair silent on resignation
 HAKONE (Japan), July 19: British Prime Minister Tony Blair refused to say on Saturday whether he might resign...
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BJP recommits to build temple
RAIPUR, July 19: India’s ruling Hindu nationalists on Saturday recommitted themselves to building a temple on the ruins of razed Babri mosque but tried to place the burden for a law...
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Police called out after rumpus in US House
WASHINGTON, July 18: Irate Democrats and Republicans swapped insults and accusations during a stormy congressional committee meeting on Friday that saw one member called “a fruitcake” and the chairman summon police....
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Embassy in Kabul to start issuing visas
ISLAMABAD, July 19: Pakistan Ambassador to Afghanistan Rustam Shah Mohmand said on Saturday that Pakistan’s embassy in Kabul would start issuing visas from Monday....
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Fazl, Umar call for Kashmiris’ role in talks
NEW DELHI, July 19: JUI chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Friday met Kashmir’s spiritual head and former APHC chief Maulvi Umar Farooq and both called for the participation of Kashmiris in...
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Saddam’s message authentic: US
WASHINGTON, July 19: Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s latest message was recorded this week and is authentic, US intelligence agencies believe....
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Kabul frees 16 detenus coming from Guantanamo
KABUL, July 19: Sixteen Afghans detained by the American military at Guantanamo Bay were freed here on Saturday following their return from Cuba three days earlier, an Afghan police official said....
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Another US soldier killed in Iraq
BAGHDAD, July 19: Another US soldier was killed in Iraq on Saturday as the violence showed no signs of abating and a UN report urged the US-led coalition to set out...
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Mine blast kills one in Kabul
KABUL, July 19: One man was killed and another wounded when they set off a landmine while digging a well in a war-battered area of the Afghan capital on Saturday, police...
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