NSC bill moved in Senate
ISLAMABAD, April 9: Overcoming initial objections, the government moved the National Security Council (NSC) bill in the Senate on Friday where it expected to meet stiff opposition.
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PML-N discusses Shahbaz's return
ISLAMABAD April 9: The central leadership of the Pakistan Muslim League-N on Friday held an emergency meeting with party chairman Raja Zafarul Haq in the chair .
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Warning of operation in North Waziristan
ISLAMABAD, April 9: The government on Friday gave tribesmen a 15-day ultimatum to hand over foreign suspects believed to be hiding in the North Waziristan border region, locals said.
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Faisal wants Musharraf to stay in uniform: Tribes reminded of deadline
ISLAMABAD, April 9: Interior Minister Makhdoom Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat has said that a fresh operation would be launched in the South Waziristan area.
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JCSC meeting
RAWALPINDI, April 9: President Gen Pervez Musharraf presided over a special session of Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee meeting here on Friday to discuss important matters relating to Defence and National Security.
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Pakistan reaffirms pledge for peace
ISLAMABAD, April 9: Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has vowed to press ahead with a tentative peace process with India, despite recent remarks that he would pull out of talks if there was no progress on resolving the sticky Kashmir dispute.
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Pakistani pilots test-fly JF-17 fighter
ISLAMABAD, April 9: Two Pakistan Air Force pilots have completed the first test flight of prototype fighter jet developed jointly with China, a military statement said on Friday.
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Per capita income to reach $600 this year, says Shaukat
ISLAMABAD, April 9: Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz on Friday told the Senate that the per capita income in Pakistan would reach $600 this year, though the exact figures would be announced at the time of the coming budget.
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Powell seeks $700m for Pakistan next year
WASHINGTON, April 9: US Secretary of State Colin Powell presented before the Senate's appropriations subcommittee on foreign operations on Thursday a $31.5 billion budget proposal for US foreign engagements
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Security in Kashmir to be tightened
SRINAGAR, April 9: Police in held Kashmir pledged on Friday to safeguard candidates and voters in upcoming national elections after freedom fighters attacked a political rally, killing 11 people and wounding over 70.
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Solution of Babri mosque row likely
NEW DELHI, April 9: Indian Hindu and Muslim leaders are considering a proposal to build a Hindu temple close to the ruins of a razed mosque in northern India and give Muslims a nearby tract of land
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Suspected sites bombed in Afghanistan
ISLAMABAD, April 9: Allied warplanes in Afghanistan have carried out a sustained bombing of suspected terrorist sites in eastern Khost province, Afghan Islamic Press reported on Friday.
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BJP, allies may fall short of majority: Survey
NEW DELHI, April 9: India's ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA), unleashed a volley of calibrated attacks on opposition leader Sonia Gandhi on Friday
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Armed groups told to leave Faryab
KABUL, April 9: In a bid to restore uneasy control over a northern province overrun by a powerful warlord, Afghanistan's government ordered armed groups quit the area, as the governor said on Friday he was preparing to flee.
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Allies toil as Iraqi resistance stiffens: More US troops killed
BAGHDAD, April 9: At least two US soldiers and a civilian truck driver were killed by guerillas in Iraq on Friday and three more Marines were killed west of Baghdad the previous day, the US military confirmed in a statement.
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Koizumi says no troop withdrawal
TOKYO, April 9: Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi vowed on Friday not to pull troops out of Iraq despite a tearful appeal from relatives of three Japanese hostages being held by militants for an immediate withdrawal.
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