Schedule set for Kashmir talks
ISLAMABAD, Feb 18: Foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan agreed here on Wednesday to hold talks on peace and security, confidence-building measures and Jammu and Kashmir in May-June this year.
...
|
|
Ulema told to promote harmony, root out extremism
ISLAMABAD, Feb 18: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday exhorted religious scholars to play a pro-active role in fostering unity and sectarian harmony and weeding out extremist elements from Pakistani society.
...
|
|
EU praises handling of N-issue
ISLAMABAD, Feb 18: Pakistan on Wednesday received approval and financial encouragement from the European Union Ministerial Troika over the country's recent steps to check nuclear proliferation and for the success of the Pakistan-India composite dialogue to resolve bilateral disputes.
...
|
|
Govt ready to show sensitive material, LHC told
ISLAMABAD, Feb 18: The Lahore High Court, Rawalpindi Bench, hearing petitions challenging the detention of six employees of the Khan Research Laboratories, directed the government to produce the sensitive material on the basis of which the government had detained these officials.
...
|
|
|
Operation in S. Waziristan
PESHAWAR, Feb 18: Not satisfied with the performance of tribal leaders in nabbing and handing over people harbouring and helping Al Qaeda remnants
...
|
|
Promotion of trade among D-8 states urged
TEHRAN, Feb 18: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali on Wednesday called on the member states of the D-8 group to take steps to get rid of dependence on aid.
...
|
|
|
Senate committee to study oil pricing system
ISLAMABAD, Feb 18: The government on Wednesday promised to undertake a study of the oil pricing system by a Senate standing committee after several members of the upper house criticised the current fortnightly review that they said hit the common man by frequent increases of rates.
...
|
|
Seven projects worth Rs25.5bn approved
ISLAMABAD, Feb 18: The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) on Wednesday approved seven projects worth Rs25.5 billion. The meeting, presided over by Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz
...
|
|
|
Shashank calls on Kasuri
ISLAMABAD, Feb 18: India's Foreign Secretary Shashank called on Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri here on Wednesday evening. Mr Kasuri expressed satisfaction at the outcome of foreign secretaries' meeting earlier in the day and the schedule agreed in a joint statement.
...
|
|
Seven die in accident
OKARA, Feb 18: Seven passengers died while 11 others received injuries on Wednesday when an Okara-bound bus overturned near Chak 34/2-RA, on the Okara-Satgarh road.
...
|
|
|
Ex-armymen sought for Iraq
KARACHI, Feb 18: The US AID Mission in Iraq is exploring the possibility of engaging 330 ex-servicemen from Pakistan in security jobs for the next three years.
...
|
|
11 killed in Iraq suicide attacks
HILLA, Feb 18: Suicide car bombers killed at least 11 Iraqis and wounded 58 foreign troops on Wednesday in twin attacks on a military base south of Baghdad.
...
|
|
|
Red Cross seeks to visit Saddam, contacts US
GENEVA, Feb 18: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is still discussing with the United States details of a planned visit to former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and no date has been fixed, officials said on Wednesday.
...
|
|
295 feared dead in Iran train blast
MASHHAD, Feb 18: Nearly 295 people are feared to have been killed and hundreds injured on Wednesday after runaway rail wagons loaded with an explosive cocktail of sulphur
...
|
|
|
