Aziz vows efforts to carry opposition along: Pledge to be tough on ministers' performance
 ISLAMABAD, Sept 6: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has promised to offer an olive branch to opposition parties which boycotted his recent election to the office and vowed to make a 'very serious effort' to seek consensus on national issues. In a panel interview with Dawn on Sunday evening, he promised to be a tough task-master for his newly formed big cabinet.
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96pc people want me as COAS: President
ISLAMABAD, Sept 6: President Pervez Musharraf on Monday said the vast majority of Pakistanis do not want him to quit the post of the army chief and become a civilian ruler. "You should go and ask the people, 96 per cent will say 'should not shed' the uniform," General Musharraf, who has held the dual posts of army chief and president since June 2001, told a private television channel. Gen Musharraf has agreed to give up his military uniform by Dec 31 under a deal with a powerful religious political alliance....
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Shujaat wants Musharraf to stay in uniform
LAHORE, Sept 6: PML President Chaudhry Shujaat Husain on Monday supported his party's Punjab General Council request to President Musharraf that he should not shed his military uniform for another five years
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ARD to raise uniform issue in NA
ISLAMABAD, Sept 6: The Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy (ARD) has taken strong notice of the statements of senior government functionaries on the issue of Gen Musharraf's uniform
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Aziz arrives in S. Arabia
JEDDAH, Sept 6: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz arrived in Jeddah on Monday evening, on his first foreign visit after taking over as the head of government.
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Balochistan minister withdraws resignation
QUETTA, Sept 6: Provincial Home Minister Mir Mohammad Shoaib Nausherwani unconditionally withdrew his resignation after meeting Chief Minister Jam Yousaf on Monday.
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2 soldiers, tribesman killed in mine blast
WANA, Sept 6: Two soldiers and a tribesman were killed and two others wounded in a landmine explosion in the South Waziristan tribal region on Sunday night.
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Arrest warrants of Mari, sons reissued
QUETTA, Sept 6: An anti-terrorism court of the city has reissued warrants for the arrest of five persons, including prominent Baloch nationalist leader Nawab Khair Bakhsh Mari and his three sons in a subversive act case.
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Rohi Express derails
MULTAN, Sept 6: Rail traffic on the main line between Karachi and Lahore was suspended on Monday evening after four bogies of the Rohi Express (131-UP) derailed near Khanpur.
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Jacobabad air base on 'high alert'
SUKKUR, Sept 6: The Shahbaz Air Base in Jacobabad was placed on high alert when unidentified people threw fire-crackers from the special force ground into the air base on Monday and some bushes caught fire near the tower No 11.
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Pakistan, India to intensify peace search: Absence of rancour at talks
NEW DELHI, Sept 6: The foreign ministers of India and Pakistan ended a landmark meeting here on Monday, agreeing to intensify their search for durable peace in South Asia
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Oil ministers to discuss gas project
NEW DELHI, Sept 6: Indian and Pakistani Oil Ministers are to meet to discuss the gas pipeline project that has been hanging fire for some years, Indian Foreign Minister Kunwar Natwar Singh said on Monday.
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7 marines, three Iraqi guards die in Fallujah
FALLUJAH, Sept 6: Seven US marines and three Iraqi national guards were killed on Monday in the deadliest anti-coalition attack in months, as Iraqi officials sheepishly retracted claims Saddam's deputy had been captured.
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Israeli spy satellite fails
AL QUDS, Sept 6: An Israeli spy satellite meant to boost the Jewish state's surveillance over arch-enemy Iran met a watery end on Monday as a launch malfunction hurled it out to sea rather than space, officials and defence sources said.
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90 dead in China rain
BEIJING, Sept 6: At least 90 people were killed and 77 were missing in torrential storms lashing southwest China, disaster relief officials said on Monday.
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Izvestia editor sacked
MOSCOW, Sept 6: The editor of Russia's top daily Izvestia was forced to resign on Monday after its owner ruled that the paper's coverage of the Beslan school hostage crisis was "too emotional". -AFP
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