Special NA session convened on 26th: • MMA given draft package
ISLAMABAD Dec 20: The government has decided to convene a special session of the National Assembly....
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Libya to give up WMDs: Bush By Anwar Iqbal: Qadhafi vows to fight terror
WASHINGTON, Dec 20: US President George W. Bush revealed on Friday that Libyan leader Moammar....
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Loya Jirga about to end debate
KABUL, Dec 20: Delegates to the historic loya jirga said on Saturday that they were close to winding up a clause-by-clause deliberation on the draft constitution with most members favouring the...
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Vajpayee-Aziz talks raise Saarc hopes
NEW DELHI, Dec 20: Pakistan’s High Commissioner Aziz Ahmed Khan on Saturday met Indian Prime Minister Vajpayee in what both sides described as a courtesy call, but the much-awaited meeting was...
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ARD pledges to continue struggle against LFO
KARACHI, Dec 20: The Chairman of the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy, Makhdoom Amin Fahim, has urged the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal not to enter into any deal with the government on...
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Khokhrapar route revival to take time: Tracks, rolling stock out of order: minister
KARACHI, Dec 20: The Pakistan Railways needs one-and-a-half year to revive the operation of another train service to India from...
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Qazi links support to Sept 6 deal
KARACHI, Dec 20: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal acting president Qazi Hussain Ahmed has said the MMA will support the constitutional amendment bill only if it is in accordance...
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11 killed in Belgium bus crash
HENSIES (Belgium), Dec 20: Eleven passengers were killed when a bus carrying mainly young people from Germany to France hit a highway crash barrier in southern Belgium and burst into flames...
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Bail plea of French journalists rejected
KARACHI, Dec 20: A court on Saturday rejected bail requests by two French journalists who were arrested for violating their visa restrictions by visiting Quetta....
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US, India finalize high-tech agreement
WASHINGTON, Dec 20: Senior US and Indian officials met at the White House on Friday to finalize an agreement that would allow India to obtain sensitive defence technology from the United...
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Jamali sure Musharraf will get trust vote
LAHORE, Dec 20: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Jamali, rejecting allegations that the government was using delaying tactics in solving the Legal Framework Order problem, indicated...
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Three shot dead in Iraq
NAJAF, Dec 20: Three people, including an official of the Baath party, were shot dead and a fourth seriously wounded in separate attacks in Najaf on Saturday and Friday night....
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Border talks resume after two years
 WAGAH, Dec 20: Pakistani and Indian officials resumed routine talks on Saturday on border...
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100 feared dead in Philippine landslides
CEBU, Dec 20: Almost 100 people were killed or feared dead after landslides hit the central Philippine island of Leyte on Friday night....
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Taliban want 50 men freed for two Indians
ISLAMABAD, Dec 20: The Taliban have offered to release the two Indian engineers kidnapped two weeks ago in exchange for 50 militants, a report said here on Saturday....
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39 fishermen held, boats impounded
KARACHI, Dec 20: Pakistani maritime authorities arrested 39 Indian fishermen in six boats Saturday for encroaching into Pakistani territorial waters in the Arabian Sea, police said....
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Karachi gets new corps commander
RAWALPINDI, Dec 20: Lt-Gen Tariq Waseem Ghazi, corps commander Karachi, has been appointed commandant of the National....
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India testfires Trishul fourth time
BHUBANESWAR, Dec 20: India tested its Trishul anti-aircraft missile on Saturday for the fourth time in three days, a defence spokesman said....
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