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| 05 April 2004 | Monday | 14 Safar 1425 |
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Government offers to host nuclear talks with India next month: ISLAMABAD, April 05: Government today formally offered to host nuclear disarmament talks with India next month, the foreign ministry said. "Pakistan has today proposed 25-26 May as the dates for hosting expert-level talks on nuclear CBMs (confidence building measures)," a formal statement said. The proposal was conveyed to the Indian High Commission, it added. (AFP) (Posted @ 16:30 PST) 
Programme chalked out to equip Armed Forces with latest systems to maintain minimum deterrence level : President - RAWALPINDI, Apr 5 : President General Pervez Musharraf said today that a comprehensive programme had been chalked out to equip Pakistan Armed Forces with the state-of-the art weapon systems in order to maintain minimum deterrence level both in conventional and unconventional fields. The President reiterated that there was no question of either freezing or rollback of the country's nuclear programme as it was in national interest. He said that nuclear capability was in safe institutional and custodial controls and would be enhanced as per defense requirements. (APP) (Posted @ 22:40 PST)
Qazi Hussain, Fazal vow to oppose NSC bill: SUKKUR, April 05: Qazi Hussain Ahmed and Maulana Fazal-ur-Rahman, the acting president and general secretary respectively of Muttehida Majlis-e-Amal, said here today that their alliance was opposed to National security Council bill as it was aimed at providing a permanent share to armed forces in the power. " This would sabotage the democratic values in the country and that is why we have resolved to oppose it for which we are also prepared to cooperate with all other opposition parties". (PPI) (Posted @ 14:35 PST)
Karachi Police on high alert, fear more attacks: KARACHI, April 05: Police stepped up security at police stations in Karachi on today after gunmen killed five policemen. Senior government officials said they suspected extremists were involved in Sunday's attack. "The level of alert has been heightened at all police stations because we do not rule out more such attacks," said Fayyaz Leghari, a deputy inspector-general of police. (Reuters) (Posted @ 17:15 PST)
Government links foiled US consulate attack with police slayings: KARACHI, April 05: Police said today that the gunmen who killed five policemen in Karachi at the weekend may be linked to a foiled car bomb plot against the US consulate. "We have found some clues and the initial probe suggests that it could be the same group which attempted an attack on the US consulate last month," a senior police investigator told AFP. (AFP) (Posted @ 17:15 PST)
Operation against Al-Qaeda to continue: JHANG, April 05: Government would not allow any organization or agency to use its territory for destablizing any country, said Interior Minister Syed Faisal Saleh Hayyat. "We would not allow such agencies or organizations to destablize Pakistan," he told this scribe briefly on telephone from Islamabad. Replying to a question, he said operation against Al-Qaeda was continued with full pace and would not be abandoned till the desired results were achieved. (PPI) (Posted @ 12:50 PST)
Troops close in on mountain stronghold: ISLAMABAD, April 05: Forces are closing in on Afghan frontier where some people believe Osama bin Laden could be hiding. Now, Pakistani forces, as part of their campaign to clear foreign militants from the swathe of tribal lands along the border, seem to have set their sights on Shawal. "There has been some speculation, it's one of the places mentioned as a possible hideout," said Pakistani Afghan expert and journalist Rahimullah Yusufzai, referring to the hunt for bin Laden and his deputies. But Yusufzai and other analysts doubt bin Laden would stay there if he knew a sweep was being mounted. (Reuters) (Posted @ 10:45 PST)
Cricket: India 287 all out v Pakistan: second test - LAHORE, April 05: India were all out for 287 on the first day of the second test against Pakistan today. ....Score Card (Reuters) (Updated @ 15:20 PST)
Cricket: Pakistan calls for curb on match-fixing allegations: LAHORE, April 05: Pakistan will ask the International Cricket Council (ICC) for a code of conduct to prevent former cricketers from making match-fixing allegations without substantial evidence. Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief executive Rameez Raja said today a letter would be sent to the ICC this week asking for the issue to be put on the agenda of the next executive board meeting of the sport's governing body. (Reuters)(Posted @ 17:15 PST)
Government to receive six C-130 aircraft from U.S. this year: ISLAMABAD, April 05: Government is set to receive six C-130 military transport aircraft from the United States before the end of this year, officials from the air force said today. Pakistan Air Force (PAF) sources told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa today that both countries have already worked out the modalities for the planes. (DPA) (Posted @ 17:15 PST)
One Afghan soldier killed, 5 injured in Afghanistan: KABUL, April 05: At least one Afghan National Army soldier was killed and five others injured by a roadside explosion in southern province of Zabul, a U.S. military spokesman said today. Coalition forces are still searching for those responsible for the blast. (DPA) (Posted @ 16:35 PST)
Shiite followers seize governor's office in Basra: BAGHDAD, April 05: Followers of Shiite leader Moqtada Sadr took over control of the governor's office building in the British-controlled southern main port city of Basra today, an AFP correspondent on the scene said. (AFP) (Posted @ 10:45 PST)
Arrest Warrant Issued for Radical Iraq Cleric: BAGHDAD, Apr 5: An Iraqi judge issued an arrest warrant for radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in connection with the murder of another cleric last year, a senior spokesman for the U.S.-led authorities in Iraq said today. Dan Senor said the arrest warrant had been issued several months ago. U.S. officials have accused Sadr of inciting violence, and shut down his newspaper in Baghdad last week. Asked when Sadr would be arrested, Senor said: "There will be no advance warning." One of his senior aides was detained on Saturday in relation to the same assassination. (Reuters) (Posted @ 22:35 PST)
U.S. hlicopters attack targets in Baghdad: BAGHDAD, April 05: Fresh fighting between U.S. forces and militiamen erupted in a Baghdad neighbourhood today, with two Apache helicopters firing on targets in the area, Reuters journalists at the scene said. (Reuters) (Posted @ 14:25 PST)
Several killed, wounded as US troops clash with Fallujah insurgents: FALLUJAH, April 05: Several people were killed and others wounded early today when US troops fought insurgents in Fallujah, a witness said. "US forces bombed the Goland residential neighbourhood after coming under mortar attack from unknown assailants," Borhan Abed, a resident of the northern Fallujah neighbourhood, told AFP by telephone. Several people were killed, others wounded and some houses hit, said Abed, adding that he went on to the roof of his house when the fighting started and saw US aircraft overhead. The AFP correspondent said US forces erected sand barricades on roads and bridges leading in and out of Fallujah. The US-led occupation forces said meanwhile that they had closed the highways linking Baghdad to Jordan that run through Fallujah and the neighbouring town of Ramadi. (AFP) (Posted @ 12:50 PST)
Purported al-Qaeda letter demands Spain withdraw troops from Iraq: MADRID, April 05: A letter reportedly from al-Qaeda demanded Spain withdraw its troops from Iraq and Afghanistan or face new acts of terrorism, the Spanish newspaper ABC reported today. The letter threatened to turn Spain into a hell with blood running in rivers, and was signed by a group calling itself Abu Najaf al Afgani. (DPA) (Posted @ 14:30 PST)
Sharon blames Arafat for "murder of Jews" in new threat: JERUSALEM, April 05: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in a new threat against Yasser Arafat said the Palestinian leader was to blame for "the murder of Jews for decades", in an interview broadcast by public radio today. "We know Yasser Arafat has been to blame for the murder of Jews for decades," said the premier. (AFP) (Posted @ 11:30 PST)
Sharon says all Gaza enclaves and 4 in W.Bank to go: JERUSALEM, April 05: Israel plans to remove all its settlements in the Gaza Strip and four in the West Bank under a plan to "disengage" unilaterally from the Palestinians, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said today. "There are some details still to work out, but I believe our intention is to leave all of them," Sharon told Army Radio in reference to 21 fortified Gaza enclaves. Previously the prime minister was quoted as saying Israel would remove 17 of them. (Reuters) (Posted @ 10:45 PST)
Israeli troops kill three Palestinians in Gaza: GAZA, April 05: Israeli forces killed three Palestinians outside a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip, medical officials said today. (Reuters) (Updated @ 16:35 PST)
Nine police, eight rebels killed in attack on Nepal police post: KATHMANDU, April 05: At least nine policemen and eight Maoists were killed in attack by rebels on a police post in southeastern Nepal near the Indian border, police said today. (AFP) (Posted @ 10:00 PST)
Twenty-nine killed in road accident in Iran: TEHERAN, April 05: Twenty-nine people were killed and 38 critically injured in a road accident today in northeast Iran, state news agency IRNA reported. The accident was caused after a bus collided with a trailer on the Gonabad-Torbat Haydarieh road, police told IRNA. (DPA) (Posted @ 11:30 PST)
27 killed in China bus crash: BEIJING, April 05: Twenty-seven people were killed and four injured today when two buses collided on a mountain road in China and plunged down a gully, state press reported. (AFP) (Posted @ 16:30 PST)
60 injured in Kashmir grenade blast: SRINAGAR, April 05: Some sixty people were injured today when Mujahideen hurled a hand grenade that exploded near a bus terminal in Kashmir, police said. The Mujahideen tossed the grenade at a passing security force patrol in Pulwama town, a police spokesman said. "Some 57 civilians and three security force personnel were injured in the explosion," he said. (AFP) (Updated @ 15:20 PST)
Karachi Stocks up 66.44 points: KARACHI, April 05: At close of trading the KSE-100 index was at 5228.04, up 66.44 points from Friday's close. The Pakistani Rupee was traded at Rs 57.75 to the US Dollar in the open market. (Bureau Report) (Updated @ 16:20 PST)   Editor: Tahir Mirza The DAWN Group of Newspapers Haroon House, Dr. Ziauddin Ahmed Road, Karachi 74200, Pakistan. Phone:+92 (21) 111-444-777 Fax: +92 (21) 568-3188 webmaster@dawn.com Make sure to reload these pages so you're viewing the current version. |
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