Protests mark Sharon’s visit: Closer Indo-Israel ties top agenda
 NEW DELHI, Sept 9: Amid nationwide protests against the visit to India by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the two countries on Tuesday renewed their resolve to build closer ties, a...
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Days of N-showdown are over: Musharraf
MOSCOW, Sept 9: President Pervez Musharraf has said that the time of nuclear showdown between Pakistan and India had passed....
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IMF concerned at rising poverty
ISLAMABAD, Sept 9: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday expressed its concern over rising poverty in Pakistan and called for improving governance, financial system, public finance and social sector indicators....
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ARD expresses reservations about Govt-MMA talks
ISLAMABAD, Sept 9: The ARD on Tuesday expressed reservations about MMA-government Lahore talks on the LFO and said it would give its opinion on the matter when and if the proposed...
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APHC to hold truce meeting: Mirwaiz
NEW DELHI, Sept 9: All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC), facing a revolt by some of its smaller constituents over ideological issues, has called a grand meeting of likeminded Kashmiris next week...
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Greater intelligence exchange must: FM: Curbing extremists in Afghanistan
ISLAMABAD, Sept 9: Pakistan on Tuesday said it was ready to do more to pacify Afghanistan’s concern that Taliban were regrouping and organizing attacks from its territory, but urged Kabul to...
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Water reservoirs getting silted: study
ISLAMABAD, Sept 9: The storage capacity of three major water reservoirs — Tarbela, Mangla and Chashma — would be eroded by 25 per cent by 2005 due to silt and other...
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Britain, France give Iran deadline: Disclosure of nuclear material
VIENNA, Sept 9: France, Germany and Britain jointly called on Iran to fully disclose its contested nuclear programme by the end of October, according to a draft resolution submitted to the...
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Libya boycotts as Iraq gets AL seat
BAGHDAD, Sept 9: The Arab League decided on Tuesday to allow Iraq’s US-installed government to take Baghdad’s seat....
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Wali Khan invited to visit Kabul
PESHAWAR, Sept 9: Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai in his telephonic contact with the veteran Pukhtun nationalist leader Wali Khan extended him an invitation on Monday to visit Kabul....
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N. Korea renews nuclear threat
SEOUL, Sept 9: North Korea celebrated its 55th birthday on Tuesday with a huge parade and a fresh vow to boost its nuclear deterrent force, but put no military hardware on...
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Thousands pay homage to Masood in Kabul
KABUL, Sept 9: Thousands of Afghans led by President Hamid Karzai paid tribute to anti-Taliban commander Ahmad Shah Masood on the second anniversary of his assassination by suspected Al Qaeda suicide...
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MMA calls for change in foreign policy
ISLAMABAD Sept 9: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) parliamentary party has asked the government to bring basic changes in the foreign policy vis-a-vis Pakistan’s relations with the United States and Afghanistan....
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2 bomb blasts kill 12 in Israel
TZRIFIN MILITARY BASE, Sept 9: Twelve people, including the suicide bomber, were killed in Israel in two separate bombing incidents, on Tuesday night....
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Over 70 die in Nigeria road crash
LAGOS, Sept 9: At least 70 people have been killed, most burned to death, in a road crash involving a bus and several other vehicles in central Nigeria, state television reported...
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Mujahideen apologise for killing civilians
SRINAGAR, Sept 9: Kashmir’s dominant rebel group Hizbul Mujahideen apologised on Tuesday to the people of the region for a weekend explosion that killed seven and injured 36 others....
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