28 killed as train hits bus near Malikwal
 SARGODHA, Sept 20: Twenty-eight people were killed and 10 others injured when a Sargodha-bound train smashed into a bus at an unmanned level-crossing near Malikwal station, 60km from here, on Saturday....
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Uniform is only hurdle: MMA
LAHORE, Sept 20: A Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal leader said on Saturday that the uniform of Gen Musharraf was the only obstacle left to an overall agreement between the alliance and the ruling...
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India not sincere about dialogue, says Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, Sept 20: President General Pervez Musharraf has criticized India for being “insincere” about holding dialogue with Pakistan and made it clear on New Delhi that relations could never be normalized...
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17 foreigners arrested in pre-dawn raids
KARACHI, Sept 20: Authorities on Saturday arrested at least 17 Malaysians and Indonesians in pre-dawn raids on different religious educational institutions....
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MMA consults legal experts on package
ISLAMABAD, Sept 20: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal’s top leaders have started consultation amongst themselves as well as with their legal advisers on the draft constitutional package handed over to the alliance by...
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EU big three fail to mend fences: Summit on Iraq
BERLIN, Sept 20: Britain, France and Germany joined forces on Saturday to call for a transfer of power in Iraq “as quickly as possible” and a central role for the United...
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Pakistan-India tension impedes economic progress
CAMBRIDGE, Sept 20: The risk of a conflict in South Asia between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, social and economic divide between the haves and have nots, woeful education system, women...
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US airstrikes kill 17 Afghans
KABUL, Sept 20: Eight nomads and a Taliban commander were among 17 people killed by US bombing in southeast Afghanistan’s Zabul province, the local governor said on Saturday....
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‘Syria won’t bow to US pressure’
DAMASCUS, Sept 20: Vice President Abdel Halim Khaddam said on Saturday that Syria would not bow to US pressure at the expense of its...
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President leaves for US
ISLAMABAD, Sept 20: President Pervez Musharraf left for New York late Saturday night on a week-long visit to the United States and Canada....
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N-link with S. Arabia denied
ISLAMABAD, Sept 20: A Foreign Office spokesman on Saturday dismissed as “factually incorrect” a news report appeared in the Guardian on Sept 18, alleging visit of a Saudi defence team to...
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Unification points to early polls, says Pagara
KARACHI, Sept 20: Veteran politician Pir Pagara has said that the unification of some groups of the Muslim League is an indication of earlier general elections....
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17 more killed in Valley
SRINAGAR, Sept 20: Twelve Mujahideen, two Indian soldiers and three civilians were killed on Saturday in violence in occupied Kashmir, including an army raid on a meeting of top freedom fighters,...
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ARD hopes MMA will reject package
ISLAMABAD, Sept 20: The Alliance for Restoration of Democracy (ARD) has expressed the hope that the Muttahida Majlis- i-Amal (MMA) will reject the proposed constitutional package of the government as it...
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GC member shot at in Baghdad
BAGHDAD, Sept 20: Gunmen shot and seriously wounded a woman member of Iraq’s Governing Council here on Saturday, the first attack on an official of the US-installed administration since the fall...
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Five US troops wounded in Iraq attacks
FALLUJAH, Sept 20: Five US soldiers were wounded in a spate of attacks at trouble spots in north and central Iraq on Saturday with an explosion and an exchange of gunfire...
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Vajpayee invited to summit
ISLAMABAD, Sept 20: Pakistan on Saturday formally invited India’s Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to the Saarc summit scheduled to be held here in January....
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Afghan police commander shot dead
KANDAHAR, Sept 20: An Afghan police commander was killed and his two bodyguards severely wounded in a drive-by shooting by alleged Taliban in southern Afghanistan, local officials said on Saturday....
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