Asif re-arrested, flown back from Islamabad
 KARACHI, Dec 21: Pakistan Peoples' Party leader Asif Ali Zardari was arrested after his bail in the Justice Nizam murder case was cancelled on Tuesday. He was lodged at the Bilawal House which has been declared sub-jail. The arrest, however, did not come before an action-packed drama in which first his Islamabad-bound flight was delayed by an hour and a half at Karachi and then he was flown back under police custody to Karachi from the federal capital where PPP workers were baton-charged, tear-gassed and detained....
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Militancy will be curbed: president
PESHAWAR, Dec 21: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday said the government had successfully handled the issue of foreign militants in the South Waziristan Agency. "The foreign terrorists had threatened the national integrity and if we had not taken strong action , they would have created problems for us," he said in a speech at the golden jubilee function of Khyber Medical College. The president said that Pakistan was not a 'soft' country which would allow anyone to do anything he liked. The military operation in Wana, he stressed, was not against local tribesmen, rather it targeted foreign militants and their collaborators. ...
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$800m sought from donors for power project: 963MW to be generated
ISLAMABAD, Dec 21: Pakistan has sought $800 million from international donors to help construct a massive Rs84.5 billion Neelum Jhelum hydroelectric project which after completion would generate 963 MW of electricity.
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Terrorism, N-issue discussed with Russia
ISLAMABAD, Dec 21: The second session of the Pakistan-Russia Consultative Group on Strategic Stability concluded its meeting here on Tuesday after talks on various issues including terrorism
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Iraq polls to help restore peace: PM
ISLAMABAD Dec 21: Pakistan earnestly desires early restoration of peace in Iraq to end Iraqi people's sufferings, says Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz.
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Tourists rescued
ABBOTTABAD, Dec 21: All 53 tourists who were stranded in the Changla Gali when roads were blocked by heavy snowfall on Sunday, were rescued by police and taken to Murree early on Tuesday.
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Relations moving forward: Singh
NEW DELHI, Dec 21: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told parliament on Tuesday that his government was taking relations with Pakistan forward and that the second round of India-Pakistan foreign secretary level talks would be held in Islsmbad on Dec 27.
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Delhi sees better ties with Islamabad: Sustained dialogue sought
NEW DELHI, Dec 21: India wanted 'practical and mutually acceptable' solutions to all disputes with neighbours, and the atmosphere with Pakistan had 'considerably improved' as the composite dialogue process moved on
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Singh says gas pipeline via Pakistan good for both
NEW DELHI, Dec 21: India's prime minister said on Tuesday that a long-running proposal to build a natural gas pipeline from Iran across Pakistani territory would help both India and Pakistan.
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Indian major dismissed over Siachen scandal
NEW DELHI, Dec 21: An Indian Army officer accused of faking the killings of Pakistani soldiers in the Siachen Glacier, has been found guilty by an army court martial in Jodhpur, NDTV news channel reported on Tuesday.
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India tests missile
NEW DELHI, Dec 21: India on Tuesday successfully test-fired for the first time a surface-to-surface version of the supersonic missile BrahMos it jointly developed with Russia, the Press Trust of India reported.
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India deploys Israeli drones
NEW DELHI, Dec 21: The Indian army has deployed for the first time Israeli-built spy planes to track militants in occupied Kashmir. Officials on Tuesday said unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) were first used over the Kishtwar mountain heights in southern Kashmir on Dec 17
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Afghans may need foreign troops indefinitely: US
WASHINGTON, Dec 21: Afghanistan's fledgling government is making good progress in developing its national security forces but may need at least some foreign troops indefinitely, the US ambassador to Kabul said here on Tuesday.
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19 troops killed in attack on US base
BAGHDAD, Dec 21: Nineteen US military personnel were among the 22 people killed on Tuesday when a blast ripped through a dining hall at a US base in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, a US army spokesman said.
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'Americans turning against Iraq war'
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21: Americans who believe that the war in Iraq was not worth fighting now outnumber supporters of the US invasion, says a survey released on Tuesday.
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Kidnappers free French journalists
PARIS, Dec 21: Two French journalists who had been held hostage in Iraq since August were freed Tuesday and would return to Paris on Wednesday, a French foreign ministry spokesman said.
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