Five Patriots meet Aziz without their seniors
ISLAMABAD, Aug 29: Five MNAs belonging to the Pakistan People's Party (Patriots) on Sunday met Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz without their seniors indicating a difference of opinion within the party over the issue of representation in the cabinet.
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3 held for bid to kill Musharraf
MINGORA, Aug 29: Law-enforcement agencies arrested three people suspected of being involved in an attempt on the life of President Pervez Musharraf. The arrests were made in a raid in Matta, about 250km north of Peshawar, in the early hours of Sunday.
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Two soldiers killed in rocket attack
WANA/MIRAMSHAH Aug 29: Militants attacked security forces in the South and North Waziristan tribal region on Sunday, killing two soldiers and wounding 12 others, sources said. Officials said that a soldier of the Northern Areas Regiment was killed and 10 were wounded
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Islamabad calls for strategic restraint
ISLAMABAD, Aug 29: Pakistan said on Sunday that it was against an open-ended arms race in South Asia. Reacting to reports of a surface-to-surface missile test by India earlier in the day, Foreign Office spokesman Masood Khan said a strategic restraint was in the interest of both India and Pakistan.
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ADB has doubts about execution of uplift plans
ISLAMABAD, Aug 29: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has expressed serious concern over Pakistan's incapacity and poor quality to spend its development allocations.
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Acts of terrorism condemned
ISLAMABAD, Aug 29: Pakistan has strongly condemned the acts of terrorism in Afghanistan and conveyed the deepest sympathies to the government of Afghanistan.
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India tests Agni II missile
NEW DELHI, Aug 29: India tested its Agni II surface to surface missile on Sunday in overcast conditions, PTI said quoting defence sources. It said the missile which has a range of 2000 to 2500 kms
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Nine killed in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, Aug 29: Six militants and three civilians were killed in a fresh bout of separatist violence in Kashmir, police said on Sunday.
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17 killed in Afghan blasts
KABUL, Aug 29: At least 17 people including children died in two explosions within 24 hours in Kabul on Sunday and overnight at a madressah in a south-eastern province of Afghanistan, officials said on Sunday.
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16 Iraqis killed in air raids, clashes
NAJAF/BAGHDAD, Aug 29: Sixteen Iraqis have died in US air raids on Fallujah and in battles between militia and US soldiers in the Baghdad Shia suburb of Sadr city since Saturday, a spokesman for the health ministry said in the Iraqi capital on Sunday.
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Big march in NY against war in Iraq
NEW YORK, Aug 29: Demonstrators carrying colourful banners and signs marched up to a New York's main avenue on Sunday to protest President George W. Bush's policies over the Iraq war and the economy the day before the Republican convention opens.
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Iran, Iraq want to bury the past
TEHRAN, Aug 29: Iran and Iraq want to bury the past and start a new era of neighbourly relations, visiting Iraqi interim Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih said here on Sunday.
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'Soldier says torture was encouraged'
BERLIN, Aug 29: A US soldier expected to plead guilty to charges of abusing Iraqi prisoners told a German magazine he deeply regretted his actions but said the abuses were encouraged by military intelligence services.
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Accident in France leaves six women, boy dead
BELIN-BELIET, Aug 29: Six women and a boy were among eight people killed on Sunday in a five-vehicle pile-up involving a Spanish coach carrying mainly Portuguese passengers, in one of France's worst motorway accidents in the last 10 years.
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