Kashmiris to achieve goal, says Shujaat: Address to nation
 ISLAMABAD Aug 24: Prime Minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Tuesday said Pakistan had become a formidable state by attaining the status of a nuclear power, almost diminishing the chances of a war breaking out with India.
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Shujaat to step down as PM today
ISLAMABAD, Aug 24: Prime Minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain is likely to relinquish his office on Wednesday to allow Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz to be elected as new prime minister on Friday, sources told Dawn on Tuesday. They said the new prime minister would take the oath of his office on Saturday and obtain a vote of confidence from the National Assembly on Monday.
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ARD fails to name joint candidate
ISLAMABAD, Aug 24: The People's Party Parliamentarians (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-N on Tuesday again failed to nominate a joint ARD candidate for the election of prime minister's office against Shaukat Aziz, sources told Dawn.
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5 terrorists held: Faisal
ISLAMABAD, Aug 24: Interior Minister Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat has said the security agencies have arrested five more terrorists. "The security agencies arrested four Uzbeks from South Waziristan
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Hundreds of troops arrive in Bangi Dar
MIRAMSHAH, Aug 24: Hundreds of regular and paramilitary troops have been deployed in Bangi Dar area along the Afghanistan border to check possible incursion of terrorists from Afghanistan
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Karzai sure of Pakistan's help for peaceful poll: Fight against Al Qaeda praised
ISLAMABAD, Aug 24: Making a fine distinction between Al Qaeda-perpetrated terrorism and that of the Taliban, Afghan President Hamid Karzai told a group of editors
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Pakistan sets free 250 Afghans
ISLAMABAD, Aug 24: Prime Minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Tuesday ordered the release of nearly 250 Afghan imprisoned held in Pakistan..
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Karzai cancels speech
ISLAMABAD, Aug 24: Afghan President Hamid Karzai abruptly cancelled a speech to a state-run think tank in Pakistan on Tuesday, but officials denied security was a reason.
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Islamabad, Kabul to expand trade and economic ties
ISLAMABAD, Aug 24: Pakistan and Afghanistan pledged on Tuesday to take part in a regional electricity grid, remove irritants in the Afghan Transit Trade (ATT) and stop cross-border smuggling to enhance bilateral trade and economic relations.
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Pakistan, Bosnia to boost trade ties
ISLAMABAD, Aug 24: President Gen Pervez Musharraf and his Bosnian counterpart Sulejman Tihic on Tuesday agreed to enhance trade and economic cooperation through increased investments and joint ventures.
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ECC decides to keep oil prices stable
ISLAMABAD, Aug 24: The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet on Tuesday decided to keep the domestic oil prices stable despite a rising global trend to arrest inflation and protect the common man from its negative impacts.
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60pc water shortage feared
LAHORE, Aug 24: The country may suffer up to 60 per cent of water shortage if there are no flood-generating rains in the remaining monsoon season. According to the projections prepared by Punjab, the shortage may be anywhere between 50 to 60 per cent.
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Talks should move to logical end: FO
ISLAMABAD, Aug 24: Pakistan on Tuesday asked India not to have second thoughts about the composite dialogue it was holding with Pakistan to resolve contentious issues, including Kashmir
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Senate condemns Najaf attack
ISLAMABAD, Aug 24: The Senate unanimously passed a resolution on Tuesday condemning the attack on the holy city of Najaf by US forces and called upon them to restrain their action on holy shrines throughout Iraq.
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Osama's driver appears at US military trial
GUANTANAMO BAY US NAVAL BASE, Aug 24: A man said to be the driver of Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan appeared before a US military commission here on Tuesday at the start of the first military trials arising from the war on terror.
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Battle rages as US-led forces move close to Imam Ali mosque
NAJAF, Aug 24: Iraqi forces moved to within 400 metres of the Imam Ali (AS) Mosque and shrine in Najaf on Tuesday, just hours after the government warned fighters inside they would be killed if they did not surrender.
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Abu Ghraib an 'animal house,' says US panel
WASHINGTON, Aug 24: The Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq was like an 'animal house' at night where American guards tortured Iraqi prisons at will, an independent Pentagon panel reported on Tuesday.
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11 Yemeni troops killed
SANAA, Aug 24: Followers of an anti-US religious leader ambushed and killed 11 Yemeni soldiers searching for them in a mountainous area of the Arab state, an official said on Tuesday.
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