Extremism biggest danger: Musharraf: Indigenously built Agosta inducted
 KARACHI, Dec 12: Gen Pervez Musharraf said here on Friday that Pakistan faced the biggest threat to its security from sectarian...
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Peace with Pakistan key to progress: Vajpayee proposes single currency for S. Asia
NEW DELHI, Dec 12: Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee told an international audience on Friday that peace with Pakistan was a key condition for the progress of South Asia....
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No nuclear link between Pakistan & Iran: US
WASHINGTON, Dec 12: The United States does not believe that Pakistan has shared nuclear technology with Iran, and the US administration has never spoken of any link between...
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Fencing issue taken up with India: Jamali
ISLAMABAD, Dec 12: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali said on Friday that Pakistan did not appreciate the Indian government’s decision to fence the LoC, “and we have taken up the...
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Maulana Noorani laid to rest
 KARACHI, Dec 12: Maulana Shah Ahmed Noorani, the president of Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal and chief of Jamiat Ulema-i-Pakistan, was laid to rest....
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Israel for immediate resumption of talks
WASHINGTON, Dec 12: Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom on Friday called for the immediate resumption of peace talks with Palestinians and said Tel Aviv would unveil new plans to promote dialogue...
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Provinces fail to reach consensus: NFC meeting today
LAHORE, Dec 12: Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz will preside over the second meeting of the
National Finance Commission here on Saturday...
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Need for disarmament, respect for rights stressed
KARACHI, Dec 12: The sixth convention of the Pakistan-India People’s Forum for Peace and Democracy began here with a call for....
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EU adopts watered-down defence plan
BRUSSELS, Dec 12: European Union leaders on Friday approved a defence pact strengthening the bloc’s ability to mount independent military operations but remained divided on...
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Package on LFO may be delayed
ISLAMABAD Dec 12: Representatives of both the government and the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal on Friday expressed serious doubts about the possibility of presentation of the...
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President hopeful of Indian PM’s visit
KARACHI, Dec 12: Gen Pervez Musharraf said on Friday he was hopeful that Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee would come to Islamabad for the Saarc summit, but he could not...
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US troops kill four in Jalalabad
BAGRAM AIR BASE, Dec 12: US troops killed four people who fired on them in Afghanistan’s main eastern city of Jalalabad, a US military spokesman said on Friday....
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Senate pays homage to Noorani
ISLAMABAD, Dec 12: Rivals made a temporary peace in the Senate on Friday to mourn Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal chief Maulana Shah Ahmad Noorani’s death, that has deprived the opposition of a second...
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‘Missing’ scientist of KRL returns
ISLAMABAD, Dec 12: One of the missing nuclear scientists of Khan Research Laboratories, Dr Farooq returned home on Thursday night after a week-long “disappearance,” family sources said on Friday....
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French govt, firm held equally responsible: Karachi attack
PARIS, Dec 12: Lawyers for the families of 11 French victims killed on May 8, 2002, in a terrorist attack in front of the Hotel Sheraton, Karachi, have said that the...
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PLO status in US downgraded
WASHINGTON, Dec 12: President George Bush on Friday retained a restriction on the Palestinian Liberation Organization, a diplomatic channel used by the Palestinian...
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Iraqi policeman killed, two Poles wounded
BAGHDAD, Dec 12: Roadside blasts wounded two Polish sappers in Iraq and killed an Iraqi policeman on Friday as US overseer Paul Bremer predicted an upsurge in attacks in the six...
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US embassy to fingerprint visa seekers
ISLAMABAD, Dec 12: The United States government has announced that visa applicants will be fingerprinted at the US embassy here from Monday....
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Accounts of three banned outfits frozen
KARACHI, Dec 12: The State Bank of Pakistan on Friday asked the banks to freeze accounts of three organizations which were banned by the government....
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Moot delayed
KABUL, Dec 12: A convention that was due to open on Saturday to debate and approve Afghanistan’s first post-Taliban constitution has been delayed by a day, with some delegates not yet...
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