Musharraf tells MMA to stop threats: LFO talks in progress
 QUETTA, Dec 11: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has said that the LFO issue will be resolved through mutual understanding and warned the MMA leadership against hurling threats of starting an anti-government...
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Maulana Noorani passes away: Funeral prayers at Nishtar Park today
 ISLAMABAD, Dec 11: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) president senator Maulana Shah Ahmed Noorani died here on Thursday after suffering a heart attack. He was 78....
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Equal distribution of funds proposed: NRB unveils formula
ISLAMABAD, Dec 11: The National Reconstruction Bureau on Thursday proposed to the 6th National Finance Commission to consider distributing resources from the divisible pool on a 50-50 basis....
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UK calls for durable resolution of Kashmir issue: £200m aid promised
KARACHI, Dec 11: British Minister Mike O’Brien, while welcoming the moves to normalize relations between Pakistan and India, has called for a durable resolution of the Kashmir issue....
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Three environment studies planned
ISLAMABAD, Dec 11: The parliamentary committee on water resources on Wednesday conceded to Punjab’s demand that a study on environmental needs of the country be conducted with two studies on water...
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Sindh to buy wheat from Punjab
SUKKUR, Dec 11: The Sindh government has decided to purchase 200,000 tons of wheat from Punjab and 60,000 tons from the Pakistan Agriculture Storage and Supplies Corporation to overcome shortage of...
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13 die in Kashmir violence
SRINAGAR, Dec 11: Thirteen more people have been killed in continuing separatist-related violence in Indian-held Kashmir despite a two-week truce by the Indian and Pakistan armies on the Line of Control...
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Indian peaceactivists arrive
 LAHORE, Dec 11: Hoping for a lasting peace and friendlier relations between Pakistan and India, about 235 Indian peace and human rights activists reached here via Wagah border on Thursday to...
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Khaleda meets Jamali
GENEVA, Dec 11: Bangladesh Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia called on Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali here on Thursday on the sidelines of the World Summit on Information Society....
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President, PM express grief
ISLAMABAD, Dec 11: President Gen Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali on Thursday expressed grief over the demise of Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal chief Senator Maulana Shah Ahmad Noorani....
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Farid acting JUP chief
LAHORE, Dec 11: Professor Shah Farid ul Haq will act as JUP chief till the appointment of a new party head, according to JUP’s general-secretary K.M. Azhar....
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US adamant over Iraq contracts bar
PARIS, Dec 11: The United States and some of its key allies turned up the volume on their transatlantic slanging match on Thursday over whether opponents of the US-led invasion could...
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Car-bomb explodes outside US base
BAGHDAD, Dec 11: A car bomb exploded outside an American army base west of Baghdad on Thursday, causing some US casualties and killing three Iraqis believed to be in the vehicle,...
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Report on power tariff reduction delayed
ISLAMABAD, Dec 10: The report on power tariff reduction is likely to be delayed by about 15 days after inclusion of two more parliamentarians in the 20-member task force, power ministry...
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Intelligence agencies interrogate KRL officers
ISLAMABAD, Dec 11: Intelligence agencies were interrogating senior officials of the Khan Research Laboratories (KRL) to know who leaked the news about two missing senior nuclear scientists of the KRL to...
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Lawyer to meet Guantanamo detainee
WASHINGTON, Dec 11: A civilian lawyer was to meet for the first time on Thursday with a detainee from the US war on terror at the Guantanamo detention camp, with the...
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