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Tearful reunion as Kashmiris cross LoC
PEACE BRIDGE (India-Pakistan border), April 7: Showered with tears and rose petals from relatives thought long lost, two groups of Indian and Pakistani Kashmiris walked over the ‘Peace Bridge’ on Thursday,...
‘Reopening of settled issues will undermine judiciary’
ISLAMABAD, April 7: Attorney-General Makhdoom Ali Khan on Thursday told the Supreme Court that reopening matters relating to independence of judiciary, already settled exhaustively by the apex court, would seriously undermine...
Pakistan criticizes UN reform report
UNITED NATIONS, April 7: Pakistan on Wednesday criticized the UN secretary-general’s reform report which, it said, “has not only endorsed, but further accentuated, a concept of collective security that is conceived...
US urged to stop issuing negative advisories
ISLAMABAD, April 7: Pakistan has urged the United States to stop issuing negative travel advisories to its citizens as it was hurting American investment as well as the tourism in the...
Japan wants to resume loan facility
ISLAMABAD, April 7: A Japanese official said on Thursday his country intended to resume the yen loan facility to Pakistan halted since 1988, but would like to share information about the...
Economic bond to grow, says Wen
LAHORE, April 7: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has said the economic bond between his country and Pakistan will grow stronger in the future. “Sino-Pakistan ties are based on geographical, political, cultural,...
PTA warns cell phone operators
ISLAMABAD, April 7: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on Thursday directed mobile phone operators to disclose all charges pertaining to calls made to other networks and applicable government taxes. In an...
Chinese minister calls on president
RAWALPINDI, April 7: Chinese Defence Production Minister Shang Yunchuan called on President General Pervez Musharraf here on Thursday. Talking to the minister, the president underlined close and fraternal relations between China...
Pakistan facing threat of locust attack
ISLAMABAD, April 7: Pakistan may face locust attack during June-July as recent widespread heavy rainfall has made conditions congenial for the locust breeding. A senior official in the ministry of food,...
Annan hails bus service
UNITED NATIONS, April 7: UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Thursday applauded the inauguration of a bus service between Muzzafarabad and Srinagar across the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir, despite...
Joys all around as buses cross LoC
CHAKOTHI, April 7: Heart-warming scenes of reunion of close relatives separated for over five decades were witnessed as a group of people from Azad Kashmir and another from Indian-occupied part crossed...
Attempt to sabotage bus service condemned
ISLAMABAD, April 7: The government has condemned firing on the first trans-Kashmir bus and termed it an attempt by the vested interests to sabotage and create obstacles in the way of...
Jaafari named Iraq’s PM
BAGHDAD, April 7: Iraq’s Shia leader Ibrahim Jaafari was named as Iraq’s next prime minister on Thursday, moving the country a step closer to its first democratically elected government in more...
Tribute paid to newsmen
KARACHI, April 7: The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) paid tributes yesterday to the courage and dedication of journalists killed during the US attack on a hotel in Iraq on...
Pemra detects 3 illegal cable TV companies
QUETTA, April 7: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) unearthed three illegal cable TV network companies operating in Balochistan without licence. A special team of Pemra headed by Assistant General...
Man kills wife, her parents
BAHAWALNAGAR, April 7: A man shot dead six members of a family, including his wife, her parents and her sister, over a family dispute in Macleod Ganj, Minchanabad tehsil, about 50km...
UN Council to probe into Hariri killing
UNITED NATIONS, April 7: The UN Security Council voted on Thursday to set up an international inquiry into the assassination of Lebanese former premier Rafik Hariri. The move...
Musharraf’s visit to enhance ties, says Philippines president
ISLAMABAD, April 7: President Gen Pervez Musharraf’s forthcoming visit to the Philippines will lend a new impetus to Pakistan-Philippine relations in many fields of mutual benefit, Franklin M. Dilon, president of...
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