UN suspends DPs’ repatriation : Staff in Afghanistan grounded
ISLAMABAD, Nov 17: The UN refugee agency UNHCR on Monday suspended its aid programme for returning Afghan refugees for security concerns a day after gunmen killed a French woman officer on...
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Islamabad rejects Kabul allegation: Support to Taliban
ISLAMABAD, Nov 17: Pakistan rejected on Monday Afghan foreign minister’s allegations that Islamabad was supporting Taliban’s regrouping, and asked Afghanistan to cooperate, and not quarrel, in the fight against terrorism....
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137 seminaries, offices sealed
ISLAMABAD, Nov 17: Law-enforcement agencies have sealed about 137 offices and seminaries of recently-banned extremist outfits throughout the country, director-general of the National Crisis Management Cell (NCMC) Brigadier Javed Iqbal Cheema...
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US attacks targets near Tikrit
TIKRIT, Nov 17: US troops unleashed tank and mortar fire at suspected guerilla hideouts in Saddam Hussein’s hometown overnight, after the broadcast of an audio tape purportedly from the fugitive dictator...
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Hameed tipped as Wapda chief
ISLAMABAD, Nov 17: Former Punjab finance minister Tariq Hameed has been tipped as the new chairman of the Water and Power Authority (Wapda), to fill the post having fallen vacant after...
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Iran says no reason for reporting to UN: Israel worried over N-plan
BRUSSELS, Nov 17: A top Iranian security official said on Monday there were no grounds to report Iran to the UN Security Council over its nuclear programme and he did not...
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Briton held over Al Qaeda links, LHC told
ISLAMABAD, Nov 17: The federal government informed the Lahore High Court, Rawalpindi Bench, on Monday that it had taken into custody a British national, Tariq Mahmood, on the suspicions of having...
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PPP-S, Patriots’ merger on Thursday
PESHAWAR, Nov 17: The Sherpao and Patriots groups of the Pakistan People’s Party are going to announce their merger on forthcoming Thursday in Islamabad, an informed source said....
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Blasts in Riyadh, other states not linked: Naif
RIYADH, Nov 17: Saudi interior minister Prince Naif bin Abdulaziz has ruled out any possible link between the recent Riyadh blast and explosions in other countries....
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London turns into fortress
 LONDON, Nov 17: Armed police turned the British capital into “Fortress London” on Monday amid heightened fears of a guerilla attack on the eve of US President George W. Bush’s visit....
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MMA gives one-month ultimatum on LFO
KARACHI, Nov 17: The Supreme Council of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal gave one-month ultimatum to the government on Monday night warning it that if it failed to present the agreed formula on...
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First NFC meeting today
ISLAMABAD, Nov 17: The first meeting of the newly-constituted National Finance Commission (NFC) will be held here on Tuesday to evolve a consensus on a resource-sharing formula for the next five...
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Hashmi’s bail plea rejected
ISLAMABAD, Nov 17: Justice Mansoor Ahmad of Lahore High Court, Rawalpindi Bench on Monday turned down the plea for the grant of bail to ARD President Javed Hashmi and asked the...
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A.B.S Jafri passes away
 KARACHI, Nov 17: Senior journalist A.B.S. Jafri, a prolific writer and commentator who authored at least 10 books, died after a short illness on Monday morning. He was 76....
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PPP chalks out plan for post-Eid protest today
ISLAMABAD, Nov 17: A joint meeting of the central executive committee and federal council of the People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) will be held here on Tuesday morning (today) to chalk out...
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China denies support to Pakistan’s N-plan
BEIJING, Nov 17: A spokesman of the Chinese foreign office, Liu Jianchao, has termed the report of the US Central Intelligence Agency regarding China’s alleged support to Pakistan’s nuclear power programme...
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American fire kills 6 Afghans
KABUL, Nov 17: Six Afghan civilians were killed in an aerial bombardment by US-led forces hunting Taliban militants in the eastern province of Paktika, provincial governor Mohammad Ali Jalali said on...
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Two US soldiers killed
BAGHDAD, Nov 17: Two US soldiers were killed and two others wounded in two separate attacks north of Baghdad on Monday, a US military spokesman said....
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