14 die in Karachi mosque bombing: 96 injured; inquiry ordered
KARACHI, May 7: Fourteen people were killed and 96 others wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a mosque on the premises of Sindh Madressatul Islam here on Friday, officials said.
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Govt has no right to deport me: Shahbaz
LAHORE, May 7: Exiled PML-N President Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif says the detailed judgment issued by the Supreme Court on his petition doesn't give the government a right to deport him on his return to his country
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No accord on Sharifs produced by govt: SC
ISLAMABAD, May 7: The Supreme Court in a detailed judgment in the Mian Shahbaz Sharif case on Friday observed that the government had not produced any agreement under which the Sharif family had been sent on exile to Saudi Arabia.
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Tribesmen ask govt to extend deadline: Registration of foreign militants
WANA, May 7: Tribesmen on Friday sought a further one-week extension in the deadline to resolve the ticklish issue of registration of foreign militants hiding in the volatile tribal region, official sources said.
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Jamali urges consensus candidate for OIC post
ISLAMABAD, May 7: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali on Friday said Pakistan would prefer appointment of the new OIC secretary-general by the member states with consensus rather than election.
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Minimum deterrence being maintained, says Naval chief
KARACHI, May 7: Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Shahid Kareemullah said on Friday that a doctrine of minimum deterrence was being maintained for country's defence and there was no need of power projection.
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Owais briefs president on Gwadar blast
ISLAMABAD May 7: President Gen Pervez Musharraf summoned Balochistan Governor Owais Ahmed Ghani on Friday to discuss law and order situation in the wake of Gwadar incident.
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Macedonia 'murder minister' in Croatia
ZAGREB, May 7: A former Macedonian interior minister accused of ordering the murder of seven migrants (Six Pakistanis) in a bid to win Western approval for fighting "Islamic terrorism" is in Croatia, police in Croatia said on Friday.
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Bodies of Chinese engineers reach home
BEIJING, May 7: The bodies of three Chinese nationals who were killed in the Gwadar bomb blast on Monday arrived in their hometown, Tianjin, some 100km from here, on Friday.
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Indian army admits faking Siachen encounters
NEW DELHI, May 7: The Indian defence establishment was shaken to its roots on Friday over revelations by a newspaper that its officers on duty in the Siachen Glacier had routinely stage- managed encounters with imaginary Pakistani troops.
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Two newsmen killed in Iraq
WARSAW, May 7: Television reporters from Poland and Algeria have been shot dead and another Polish journalist was injured in an attack in central Iraq on Friday, a source close to Polish public television said.
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It was on my watch, admits Rumsfeld
WASHINGTON, May 7: US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld admitted on Friday that America failed to meet its obligations in Iraq and apologized to the Iraqi nation for abuses committed by some US soldiers.
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Nepal PM quits
KATHMANDU, May 7: Nepal's royalist prime minister, Surya Bahadur Thapa, announced his resignation on national television on Friday, a move the opposition said could open the way to resolving a long-running political crisis. -Reuters
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North Korea agrees to hold military talks with South
SEOUL, May 7: North Korea's military agreed on Friday to hold its highest-level talks in decades with senior officers of the South's armed forces to help ease tension along the world's most heavily fortified frontier, officials said.
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