Musharraf gets support from Punjab PA: Resolution on uniform issue
LAHORE, Sept 13: Amid opposition walkout, the Punjab Assembly on Monday adopted with a majority vote a resolution urging Gen Pervez Musharraf to continue keeping the office of president and army chief simultaneously....
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Walkout as NA speaker disallows Wana debate
ISLAMABAD, Sept 13: The National Assembly speaker on Monday disallowed a debate on anti-militant military action in South Waziristan tribal area, provoking an opposition walkout and an embarrassing lack of quorum that cut short the house proceedings....
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Missile craft launched
 KARACHI, Sept 13: "Pakistan Navy has achieved yet another milestone in the indigenous construction of naval platform and has made a quantum leap towards self-reliance in building missile crafts by utilizing indigenous resources."
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'Arms for peace' expo opens: President vows to guard national honour
 KARACHI, Sept 13: President General Pervez Musharraf said here on Monday that Pakistan had no offensive designs against any country and only wanted to safeguard its honour and integrity.
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Relations with Dushanbe to be boosted: PM - Road link idea welcomed
DUSHANBE, Sept 13: Pakistan and Tajikistan on Monday reaffirmed a mutual desire to enhance trade and economic ties as Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz held cordial and constructive meetings with the Tajik leaders on a broad range of subjects.
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Larson, Aziz discuss $3 billion package
ISLAMABAD, Sept 13: United States Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agriculture Affairs Alan Larson on Monday discussed a $3 billion economic package and funds for defence co-operation, education, health and social sector with Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz.
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Waziristan clashes leave eight dead
WANA/MIRAMSHAH, Sept 13: Clashes between security forces and armed Mahsud tribesmen in the South Waziristan tribal region have claimed eight more lives, independent sources said on Monday.
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Pakistanis asked to avoid Iraq travel
ISLAMABAD, Sept 13: The Pakistan government on Monday warned its citizens not to travel to Iraq without a valid visa and until the security situation there improves.
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AJK CJ dies
MUZAFFARABAD, Sept 13: The Chief Justice of Azad Jammu and Kashmir Supreme Court, Mr Justice Muhammad Yunus Surakhvi, died of cardiac arrest in the southern AJK city of Mirpur on Monday. He was 62.
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Talks will be a watershed: FO
ISLAMABAD, Sept 13: A scheduled meeting in New York later this month between President Pervez Musharraf and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be an 'important watershed' in their relations, according to Foreign Office spokesman Masood Khan.
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India briefs EU on Kasuri's visit
NEW DELHI, Sept 13: Indian Foreign Minister Kunwar Natwar Singh met his counterpart in the European Commission, Chris Patten, in Brussels on Monday, and briefed him on the ongoing composite dialogue with Pakistan.
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Iran wants Kashmiris' wishes respected
DUSHANBE, Sept 13: Iranian President Syed Mohammad Khatami on Monday said Tehran wanted the Kashmir issue to be resolved in accordance with the wishes of the Kashmiri people.
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US envoy slams 'terrorism'
NEW DELHI, Sept 13: The United States sees the violent upsurge against Indian rule in Jammu and Kashmir as terrorism, which it believes is akin in spirit and form to the Al Qaeda attacks of 9/11, US Ambassador to India David Mulford has said.
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Four killed in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, Sept 13: Freedom fighters shot dead three members of a family including a woman and killed another woman in a house bombing in occupied Kashmir overnight, police claims on Monday.
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'22 militants killed in Afghanistan'
KABUL, Sept 13: Twenty-two suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda militants, including three Arabs, were killed in a fierce gun-battle with United States-led coalition forces in southeastern Afghanistan, the United States military said on Monday.
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Airstrike on Fallujah claims 15 lives
FALLUJAH, Sept 13: At least 15 people were killed as US jets spearheaded yet another assault on alleged Al Qaeda fighters in Fallujah on Monday while Iraq's premier warned that key elections may be delayed in areas of unrest.
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Ankara cautions Washington
ANKARA, Sept 13: Turkey on Monday warned the United States that it would halt cooperation over Iraq if US forces did not stop their assault on the mostly Turkmen populated Iraqi town of Tall Afar. -AFP
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Policewoman refuses to take off headscarf
PARIS, Sept 13: A Muslim policewoman in Paris has annoyed her superiors and stoked a national debate in France over headscarves after refusing to take off her own head covering on religious grounds, a police union said on Monday.
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