Musharraf offers to facilitate truce in Kashmir
 ISLAMABAD, Aug 12: President General Pervez Musharraf has offered to facilitate a ceasefire inside occupied Kashmir if India reduces its troops in the territory, stops atrocities against innocent Kashmiris and allows...
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President not ready to meet Opposition: Prior consensus on LFO cited
ISLAMABAD, Aug 12: President General Pervez Musharraf has declined to meet opposition leaders, and said unless a package deal is worked out and agreed upon between the two sides, it would...
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Hotline for troop movement agreed: Afghan-Pakistan-US group meets
PESHAWAR, Aug 12: Pakistan, Afghanistan and the United States have agreed to establish a three-way hotline in an effort to coordinate military movements and preempt a recurrence of Monday’s incident...
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Suicide attacks kill 2 Israelis
ROSH HA’AYIN (Israel), Aug 12: Two Palestinian suicide bombers killed two Israelis in attacks barely an hour apart on Tuesday, shattering six weeks of relative calm ushered in by a ceasefire...
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New Delhi rejects LoC ceasefire proposal
NEW DELHI, Aug 12: India on Tuesday rejected President Pervez Musharraf’s proposal for an immediate ceasefire along the Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir, but analysts said they were puzzled by...
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ARD, MMA likely to join hands again over LFO
ISLAMABAD, Aug 12: The persistent deadlock in the talks on Legal Framework Order is likely to bring the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy and the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal back on the same...
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Israeli arms sale to India deplored: Islamabad fears strategic imbalance
ISLAMABAD, Aug 12: Pakistan on Tuesday deplored the United States announcement that it had no objection to the Israeli transfer of the Phalcon Airborne Early Warning System (AEWS) to India....
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Ukraine stops defence sales to Pakistan
NEW DELHI, Aug 12: Ukrainian Foreign Minister Anatoly Zlenko on Tuesday said his country had stopped supplying military hardware to Pakistan and wanted to discuss ways to enhance defence cooperation with...
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Building hydro power project on Jhelum river in jeopardy
ISLAMABAD, Aug 12: Pakistan is likely to lose its priority rights to build a 969mw hydro power project on River Jhelum owing to non-availability of finances, an official source told Dawn....
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Fazl blames govt for talks’ delay
ISLAMABAD, Aug 12: Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Tuesday said the government was deliberately delaying holding next round of talks on LFO, and the MMA was considering to give “time frame” to...
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Protest lodged with US
 ISLAMABAD, Aug 12: Pakistan on Tuesday lodged a formal protest with the US government over the Pakistan-Afghan border incident a day earlier that resulted in death of two Pakistani soldiers and...
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IAEA experts arrive in Iran
VIENNA, Aug 12: Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have arrived in Iran to conduct routine inspections of nuclear sites there, a spokesman for the United Nations agency said...
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Militants kill four Saudi soldiers
RIYADH, Aug 12: Four policemen and a militant were killed in clashes in Riyadh on Tuesday after Saudi security forces raided a militant stronghold in the city....
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Pakistan MPs to join vigil at border
NEW DELHI, Aug 12: A group of lawmakers from Pakistan will, this year, join peace activists in India for an Independence Day candlelight vigil....
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Hindus asked to return to Kashmir
SRINAGAR, Aug 12: An influential Kashmiri rebel group on Tuesday urged hundreds of thousands of Hindus who fled India’s Muslim-majority Kashmir to return to their homes....
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SGS offers out-of-court settlement
ISLAMABAD, Aug 12: Swiss company, SGS, has offered Pakistan to make an out of court settlement....
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