NSC will work under parliament: President
LAHORE, April 17: President Gen Pervez Musharraf said on Saturday that the National Security Council was a consultative body which would work under parliament and help strengthen democracy in the country.
...
|
|
PML-N meeting likely to be postponed
ISLAMABAD, April 17: A meeting of the Pakistan Muslim League- N, scheduled to be held in London on Sunday (today), is likely to be postponed because of the late departure of several important party leaders
...
|
|
Wanted men agree to live peacefully: Zalikhels insist on surrender
WANA, April 17: In a dramatic development, the five most wanted men in the volatile South Waziristan tribal region on Saturday offered to live peacefully under tribal guarantees as their own Zalikhel tribe gave them until Sunday evening to surrender or face action.
...
|
|
'US balancing relations with Pakistan, India'
WASHINGTON, April 17: The US decision to announce granting of non-NATO status to Pakistan without informing India was intended to convey a message to both the nations that Washington wants to deal with them individually, diplomatic observers told Dawn on Saturday.
...
|
|
|
Pakistan calls for special peacekeeping meeting
UNITED NATIONS, April 17: Pakistan has proposed a special UN Security Council meeting on peace-keeping in May when it assumes the presidency of the Council, Pakistan mission sources told Dawn.
...
|
|
5.8pc GDP growth projected
ISLAMABAD, April 17: Pakistan would achieve a 5.8 per cent GDP growth rate during the current fiscal year as against its budgeted target of 5.3 per cent, Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz said here on Saturday.
...
|
|
|
14 killed in Kashmir violence
SRINAGAR, April 17: Fourteen people died on Saturday in violence in occupied Kashmir ahead of upcoming elections, as 22 freedom fighters surrendered, police said.
...
|
|
Indian film star dies in copter crash
BANGALORE, April 17: An Indian movie star campaigning in upcoming elections was among four people killed on Saturday when their helicopter crashed after take-off near Bangalore, police said.
...
|
|
|
8 die in attack on Afghan security post
ISLAMABAD, April 17: Suspected Taliban militants attacked a security post in southwestern Afghanistan killing eight security officials, a private news agency reported on Saturday. The assailants arrived in three vehicles after sunset on Friday and opened fire on the security post on the Herat-Kandahar highway
...
|
|
Iraqi captors release two Japanese: Tokyo asked to withdraw troops
BAGHDAD, April 17: Two Japanese held hostage in Iraq were released by their captors here on Saturday and turned over to an association of Sunni Muslim scholars just hours after a detained US soldier, flanked by hooded gunmen, was paraded on an Arabic satellite channel.
...
|
|
|
Attack feared on Najaf as mediation efforts fail
NAJAF, April 17: Tension mounted in Najaf on Saturday as backers of wanted Shia leader Moqtada Sadr said mediation efforts with the US-led authority had failed and they feared American troops were poised to attack. Military commanders and officials also opened a second day of talks with civic leaders in Fallujah in a bid to end a bloody standoff in the guerilla bastion west of Baghdad.
...
|
|
Israel kills new Hamas chief: Second assassination after Yassin's murder
GAZA, April 17: An Israeli helicopter missile strike on a car in Gaza City on Saturday killed top Hamas leader Abdel Aziz al Rantissi. Witnesses said two of Mr Rantissi's bodyguards were also killed in the attack in which two missiles were fired.
...
|
|
|
ME roadmap only way to peace: EU
TULLAMORE, April 17: The European Union said on Saturday that the 'roadmap' to Middle East peace was the only way to end the conflict, after a controversial deal struck this week between Israel and the United States.
...
|
|
Landslide for ANC in S. Africa
PRETORIA, April 17: The ruling African National Congress party won 69.68 per cent of the vote in South Africa's third democratic elections, its biggest win in 10 years of power, the Independent Electoral Commission said on Saturday.
...
|
|
|
