MMA set to launch anti-govt drive today: LFO deadline passes
 MULTAN, Dec 17: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal is all set to launch its anti-government movement from here on Thursday after the...
|
|
Truck blast leaves 17 dead in Baghdad
 BAGHDAD, Dec 17: A fuel truck bomb killed 17 people in a huge fireball in Baghdad on Wednesday as violence gripped Iraq in the wake of Saddam Hussein’s capture....
|
|
President, PM vow to fight terrorism
ISLAMABAD, Dec 17: President Gen Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali met in Rawalpindi on Wednesday to discuss the government-Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal....
|
|
Opposition resumes protest in Senate
ISLAMABAD, Dec 17: Opposition parties resumed their noisy anti-LFO protest in the Senate on Wednesday as a deadline set by the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal for the government to bring forth an agreed...
|
|
|
Land allotment not in line with rules: SC
ISLAMABAD, Dec 17: The Supreme Court has ruled that allotment and lease of state’s agricultural lands to the members of armed...
|
|
PAF adds new bombs to its arsenal
ISLAMABAD, Dec 17: Pakistan Air Force has integrated the H-4 out-of-sight target bombs in its arsenal of fighter aircraft, official sources said....
|
|
|
Track-II meeting to discuss cut in defence budgets
ISLAMABAD, Dec 17: The governments of India and Pakistan have given a go ahead to their former senior army generals, diplomats and leading intellectuals to develop an early understanding for the...
|
|
Special device saved Musharraf’s life
ISLAMABAD, Dec 17: Special security equipment installed in vehicles in the motorcade of President Pervez Musharraf saved his life when a bridge was blown up just after he crossed it, an...
|
|
|
Samjhota Express to start in January
NEW DELHI, Dec 17: The only train link between India and Pakistan, suspended since an armed attack on the Indian parliament in December 2001, is expected to resume next month, possibly...
|
|
Dept to be set up for president’s security
ISLAMABAD, Dec 17: A decision had been taken to establish a new department for the security of President Gen Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Jamali, Interior Minister...
|
|
|
12 die as wagon, trailer collide
SUKKUR, Dec 17: Twelve members of a family were killed while 30 others injured when a passenger wagon collided head-on with a trailer on the National Highway in Dadloi near Pano...
|
|
Tehran will sign N-protocol today
TEHRAN, Dec 17: Iran will almost certainly sign a binding international protocol that allows intrusive snap inspections of its nuclear facilities on Thursday, ministers said on Wednesday....
|
|
|
Two French journalists face court
KARACHI, Dec 17: Two French journalists, Joel Marc Epstein and Jeon Paul Gullateau, reporter and photographer of the French weekly L’Express, were produced on Wednesday...
|
|
Chirac wants ban on headscarf in schools
PARIS, Dec 17: President Jacques Chirac of France said on Wednesday that a law was necessary to ban the Muslim headscarf and other religious insignia from the classroom....
|
|
|
Election on Noorani’s seat on Jan 10
ISLAMABAD, Dec 17: The Election Commission of Pakistan on Wednesday announced that election on the Senate seat falling vacant after the death of Maulana Shah Ahmed Noorani would be held on...
|
|
Large cache of drugs, explosives seized
QUETTA, Dec 17: The Frontier Corps personnel have seized a large cache of drugs, ammunition and explosive material from the border area in two raids, officials said on Wednesday....
|
|
|
Expressway project to be completed in 2004
ISLAMABAD, Dec 17: Communications Minister Ahmed Ali told the Senate on Wednesday that the Lyari Expressway project would be completed by November 2004...
|
|
Jamali asks PAF to keep full vigil
ISLAMABAD, Dec 17: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Jamali asked the Pakistan Air Force on Wednesday to maintain a full vigil to protect the country’s strategic assets against a surprise attack....
|
|
|
