President, PM urge progress in talks
ISLAMABAD, Sept 3: President Gen Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Friday reviewed the progress of the ongoing composite dialogue with India at a meeting called to 'delineate a strategy' for carrying the process forward.
...
|
|
Pakistan to table more proposals
ISLAMABAD, Sept 3: Pakistan will table more proposals related to Jammu and Kashmir and peace and security during the foreign ministers' talks with India in New Delhi this week, it is learnt.
...
|
|
Khokhar in Delhi for new round of dialogue
NEW DELHI, Sept 3: Foreign Secretary Riaz Khokhar arrived here on Friday to set the stage for the first formal talks on the Kashmir dispute between the foreign ministers of India and Pakistan.
...
|
|
Musharraf asks for end to militancy
KARACHI, Sept 3: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has said that as the world is passing through a 'tumultuous period' his two- pronged strategy of "enlightened moderation" was aimed at shunning militancy
...
|
|
|
Aziz stresses fiscal transparency
ISLAMABAD, Sept 3: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Friday called for a paradigm shift in administrative policies to ensure a system that could produce results.
...
|
|
24 ministers of state take oath today
ISLAMABAD, Sept 3: President Gen Pervez Musharraf will administer oath of office to 24 ministers of state at a ceremony at the president's house on Saturday morning.
...
|
|
|
Foreign militants told to surrender: No suspects handed over to US - Rashid
ISLAMABAD, Sept 3: Information and Broadcasting Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Friday asked the foreigners hiding in the country to surrender unconditionally and said the government had not handed over any suspect to the United States.
...
|
|
Sectarianism is Ummah's curse, says Mahathir
KARACHI, Sept 3: Former Malaysian prime minister Dr Tun Mahathir bin Mohammad has said that growing sectarianism and aversion to seeking knowledge, as ordained in the Holy Quran, are the biggest challenges facing the Ummah
...
|
|
|
NRB chief's status elevated
ISLAMABAD, Sept 3: National Reconstruction Bureau chairman Daniyal Aziz was accorded the status of a federal minister on Friday, states a notification.
...
|
|
Bush lauds Pakistan's role
WASHINGTON, Sept 3: In his acceptance speech for a second term in the White House, President George W. Bush referred to his administration's ties to Pakistan to demonstrate his policies against terrorism were succeeding.
...
|
|
|
School siege ends in carnage: Over 200 killed; Russia blames Chechens
BESLAN, Sept 3: More than 200 people - dozens of them children - were killed and hundreds wounded on Friday as a result of the fighting here to end a standoff with militants holding hundreds of hostages, Interfax news agency reported quoting health officials.
...
|
|
Afghan dies in attack on UN vehicle
KABUL, Sept 3: An Afghan man died and four people were hurt in a bomb attack on a UN vehicle in Kandahar on Friday, an official said.
...
|
|
|
Clinton in hospital
NEW YORK, Sept 3: Former US president Bill Clinton was admitted to a New York hospital on Friday to undergo heart bypass surgery, his wife Hillary Clinton said.
...
|
|
Saudi security man killed in clash
RIYADH, Sept 3: A Saudi security man was killed and three others were wounded in clashes with suspected militants in the northern town of Buraidah, an official source said on Friday.
...
|
|
|
