Launching of PN's missile craft today
KARACHI, Sept 12: The under-construction 'Fast Attack Missile Craft' for Pakistan Navy will be launched here on Monday. The launching of the craft would be another important landmark of the indigenous construction programme
...
|
|
Powell says Pakistan has an empowered PM
WASHINGTON, Sept 12: US Secretary of State Colin Powell has said that even though Pakistan did not have an ideal democracy it was "moving in the right direction" and now had "an empowered prime minister".
...
|
|
Waziristan clashes leave 13 dead
WANA, Sept 12: Thirteen people, including five soldiers, were killed in fierce clashes between security forces and militants in an area inhabited largely by the Mahsud tribe in South Waziristan on Sunday, sources said.
...
|
|
Maulana Salfi shot dead in Lahore
LAHORE, Sept 12: Two motorcyclists shot dead Maulana Ibrahim Salfi, a central leader of the Jamatud Dawa Pakistan, in Lahore's Township area on Sunday morning in what appeared to be an act of terrorism.
...
|
|
|
Pakistan backs closer ties among ECO countries
DUSHANBE, Sept 12: Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri on Sunday said that Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) has full potential to meet the challenges of the future.
...
|
|
Aziz leaves today for Tajikistan
ISLAMABAD, Sept 12: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz will visit Tajikistan from Sept 13 to 14 to represent Pakistan at the 8th summit meeting of the Economic Cooperation Organization.
...
|
|
|
Pakistan consulate not targeted: FO
ISLAMABAD, Sept 12: Pakistani diplomats and staff in the Afghan city of Herat were not affected by an attack on Sunday by a mob in an area near the Pakistan consulate.
...
|
|
Kabul sets free 368 Pakistani prisoners
PUL-I-CHARKI, Sept 12: Hundreds of Pakistanis who fought alongside the Taliban against US led forces after the Sept 11, 2001, attacks on the United States were released from an Afghan jail on Sunday after nearly three years as prisoners of war.
...
|
|
|
US endorses role of Islamabad, Riyadh in anti-terror
WASHINGTON, Sept 12: Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have played a greater role in taking the sting out of Al Qaeda than the US military actions, US counter-terrorism experts say.
...
|
|
Five bandits killed in shootout
MULTAN, Sept 12: Five alleged bandits were killed in what the Alipur police in Muzaffargarh district claim a shootout between law enforcers and the Bosan gang of outlaws.
...
|
|
|
Five of a family die in explosion
GUJRAT, Sept 12: Five members of a family were killed and six others injured critically in a fireworks explosion in Mohallah Kashmir Nagar of Jalalpur Jattan early Sunday morning.
...
|
|
Shab-i-Mairaj observed
ISLAMABAD, Sept 12: Special prayers were held in mosques and other places all over the country on Sunday night to mark Shab-i- Mairaj, the ascension of the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him).
...
|
|
|
Top aides to hold talks on Kashmir: Quiet meetings planned
NEW DELHI, Sept 12: Indian National Security Adviser Jyotindra Nath Dixit, engaged in back-channel diplomacy with his Pakistani counterpart Tariq Aziz, has been given Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's full authority to probe viable solutions to end the Kashmir dispute
...
|
|
Manmohan postpones Kashmir visit
NEW DELHI, Sept 12: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has postponed his visit to Srinagar, planned as a stock-taking tour of the disputed region ahead of his meeting with President Pervez Musharraf in New York on Sept 22, official sources said on Sunday.
...
|
|
|
'India may stall Dhaka summit'
NEW DELHI, Sept 12: Miffed by anti-Indian remarks attributed to Bangladesh Foreign Minister Morshed Khan, India is considering calling off its participation in the Saarc summit in Dhaka in January, the Hindustan Times said on Sunday.
...
|
|
India, Nepal to cooperate in curbing Maoists
NEW DELHI, Sept 12: India and Nepal agreed on Sunday to intensify cooperation in curbing the activities of the 'extremists and terrorists', a joint statement said at the end of a visit by Nepal's Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba.
...
|
|
|
Police disrupt rally near tomb
PANCHWAD, Sept 12: Police used a baton charge to drive back hundreds of slogan-shouting Hindu hardliners trying to make their way to the 17th century Muslim general's tomb they have threatened to demolish.
...
|
|
Herat under curfew after seven dead
HERAT, Sept 12: The western Afghan city of Herat was placed under a night curfew on Sunday after bloody clashes between US and Afghan forces and supporters of a powerful commander sacked as governor, Herat TV reported.
...
|
|
|
Fierce fighting in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Sept 12: At least 45 people died in a wave of bombings and battles between US troops and militants on Sunday, as Iraq's US-installed prime minister said over 3,000 had perished in the 'terrorism' washing over the country.
...
|
|
N-plant deal to go ahead: Iran
DUSHANBE, Sept 12: Iranian President Mohammad Khatami said here on Sunday that Iran was pushing forward with nuclear cooperation with Russia despite protests from the West.
...
|
|
|
