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Provinces’ NFC share may be raised to 50pc in phases
ISLAMABAD, April 3: The federal government is to suggest a structured and step-by-step approach to provinces to increase their share in the federal divisible pool to 50 per cent in a...
Kashmir bus to roll out under heavy guard
ISLAMABAD, April 3: Following threats of violence by Islamic militants, watertight security will surround the launch of the first buses after nearly six decades between the Indian and Pakistani zones of...
Over 100,000 attend mass for Pope in Vatican
VATICAN CITY, April 3: Pope John Paul II’s body, its pale hands clutching rosary beads, was put on display before the world on Sunday after more than 100,000 people packed St...
‘7 Al Qaeda bombers struck Abu Ghraib’
DUBAI, April 3: Al Qaeda’s wing in Iraq said on Sunday seven suicide bombers spearheaded its brazen overnight raid on Abu Ghraib prison that wounded 44 US soldiers, according to an...
‘India not to turn aside from peacemaking’
NEW DELHI, April 3: India on Sunday said that it could not be deflected from the path of peace with Pakistan by any threat to thwart Muzaffarabad-Srinagar bus link....
7 killed in Kashmir violence
SRINAGAR, April 3: Seven militants and a political party member were killed in occupied Kashmir at the weekend in the latest violence, a police spokesman said on Sunday....
Musharraf’s photo on Srinagar billboards
SRINAGAR, April 3: President Pervez Musharraf’s picture popped up on billboards around Srinagar on Sunday as part of a publicity campaign to hail the launch of a bus service across Kashmir....
Chinese PM for steps to upgrade ties
BEIJING, April 3: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said on Sunday that he was looking forward to holding extensive talks with the Pakistani leadership in Islamabad, taking friendship and cooperation of the...
MMA men disrupt women’s marathon
GUJRANWALA, April 3: Declaring girls’ participation in public sports as an un-Islamic act, hundreds of activists of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal, led by a member of the National Assembly, disrupted a mini-marathon...
3 militants killed in S. Arabia
RIYADH, April 3: Saudi security forces killed three suspected militants holed up in a house in northern Saudi Arabia on Sunday, state television said....
Foreigner among four killed in Iraq attacks
MOSUL, April 3: Four people, including a foreign security contractor, were killed on Sunday and the body of two army officers were discovered north of Baghdad, hospital and security sources said....
Border dispute with Delhi to be resolved: Beijing
NEW DELHI, April 3: Chinese premier Wen Jiabao has said that a solution to the boundary dispute is possible if Beijing and New Delhi show mutual accommodation “while taking the reality...
100 firearms seized in Gilgit
GILGIT, April 3: Law-enforcement personnel continued the search for illegal weapons here and seized about 100 firearms, Northern Areas Chief Secretary Manzoor Nadeem said on Sunday....
Afghan dies in bomb blast
KABUL, April 3: An Afghan national died in a bomb explosion near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, while another blast in eastern Afghanistan caused no casualties on Sunday, officials said....
Syria to quit Lebanon by 30th
DAMASCUS, April 3: Syria has pledged to complete its troop withdrawal from Lebanon by the end of this month, bringing to a close almost 30 years of military presence in the...
UN observers hail bus service
SRINAGAR (Occupied Kashmir), April 3: The United Nations military observer group in India and Pakistan has welcomed resumption of bus service between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad and other confidence-building measures taken in...
Two FC men injured in blast
QUETTA, April 3: Two soldiers of Frontier Corps were injured when a landmine exploded in the Kahan area of Kohlu district, some 380km east of Quetta on Sunday....
President, PM condole Pope’s death
ISLAMABAD, April 3: President Gen Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz have expressed their deep condolences over the demise of Pope John Paul II on Saturday....
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