President calls for formation of water committees
KARACHI, Aug 25: President Pervez Musharraf on Monday called for the formation of a technical committee to look into the details of water-related issues and construction of dams and their locations....
|
|
Mumbai bomb blasts kill 47: Over 150 injured; Maharashtra put on high alert
 MUMBAI, Aug 25: Two bombs hidden in taxis killed at least 47 people in Mumbai on Monday, one ripping through a congested bullion market and a second exploding near a popular...
|
|
Pakistan condemns car explosions
ISLAMABAD, Aug 25: Pakistan on Monday condemned bomb blasts in Mumbai that reportedly left at least 46 people dead and scores of other wounded....
|
|
World Bank wants gas rates increased
ISLAMABAD, Aug 25: The World Bank has started putting pressure on the government to bring gas tariff in the country on a par with international prices, both for domestic and commercial...
|
|
|
Opposition presses anti-LFO protest
ISLAMABAD, Aug 25: In a last-minute change of tactics, opposition parties in the National Assembly skipped their complaint against the alleged insult of a woman member by a minister and instead...
|
|
Islamabad, Riyadh to jointly combat terrorism: PM
KARACHI, Aug 25: Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have contemplated to undertake a joint strategy to combat the menace of terrorism, Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali told reporters at the Karachi...
|
|
|
Rail fares increased by 10 per cent
LAHORE, Aug 25: The railway administration increased rail fares by 10 per cent from Monday. A decision to hike the fare was taken by the railway board a couple of days...
|
|
SC moved to order probe into ship disaster
ISLAMABAD, Aug 25: The Supreme Court was approached on Monday by a resident of Karachi for the appointment of an independent inquiry commission with the mandate to fix responsibility for the...
|
|
|
Blast leaves six dead in Muzaffarabad
MUZAFFARABAD, Aug 25: Six people were killed and more than a dozen injured in an explosion in a fireworks shop on a main road here on Monday evening, officials said....
|
|
Temple at mosque site existed, claim experts
LUCKNOW, Aug 25: Indian archaeologists claimed on Monday they had found evidence of a temple under the ruins of a 16th century mosque, in a new twist to a row at...
|
|
|
11 killed in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, Aug 25: Eleven people were killed in the latest violence in Kashmir, including a family of three whose throats were slit and three Indian soldiers, police said on Monday....
|
|
50 Taliban dead in Afghanistan
KABUL, Aug 25: Up to 50 Taliban fighters were killed in a big air and ground operation by US and Afghan forces against hundreds of guerillas on Monday in the southern...
|
|
|
50pc of aid to be spent for social uplift: Aziz
ISLAMABAD, Aug 25: The government has decided to spend half of the five-year $3 billion United States assistance package promised by President George Bush earlier this year at Camp David for...
|
|
Delivery of C-130s soon: US
WASHINGTON, Aug 25: The United States already has the six C-130 aircraft it plans to sell to Pakistan and would soon deliver these to that country, a State Department official told...
|
|
|
Bomb blast derails Assam train
NEW DELHI, Aug 25: A powerful bomb blast derailed 14 carriages of a cargo train in Assam on Monday, but there were no casualties....
|
|
Islamic Jihad, Hamas warn Israel
GAZA CITY, Aug 25: After the Israeli army’s chief of staff served notice that no militant was safe, leaders of the radical Palestinian movements Hamas and Islamic Jihad vowed on Monday...
|
|
|
