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Accord to revive business council
NEW DELHI, April 17: India and Pakistan held “positive and businesslike” talks on Sunday, agreeing to boost trade and transport links to bolster the peace process. Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran,...
Islamabad, Delhi sideline Iran pipeline issue in talks
NEW DELHI, April 17: The much discussed Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline has given way to its reference now coming usually in the company of its rivals such as the Qatar and Turkmenistan...
Majority of Kashmiris want independence: poll
NEW DELHI, April 17: A majority of Kashmiris, asked to choose between staying with India or going to Pakistan or becoming an independent country, have supported the latter, a rare opinion...
Kashmir remains core issue, Musharraf assures APHC
NEW DELHI, April 17: President Pervez Musharraf said on Sunday that Pakistan would never betray the Kashmiri people and continue to provide moral, diplomatic and political support to their just cause....
Musharraf visit itself ‘a breakthrough’: US media
WASHINGTON, April 17: The Sunday newspapers in the United States pointed out that President Gen Pervez Musharraf’s visit to India was “itself a breakthrough”, even if it the talks do not...
Nepra invites tariff petitions
ISLAMABAD, April 17: The government has asked the power distribution companies to immediately submit fresh petitions to the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra)...
Taliban hit trucks taking oil for US forces
KANDAHAR, April 17: A bomb planted by Taliban militants destroyed five trucks carrying oil for the US military in Afghanistan and wounded three drivers, a senior Afghan army official said. The...
Musharraf, joins Singh, Sonia at Delhi stadium
NEW DELHI, April 17: President Gen Pervez Musharraf joined Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress leader Sonia Gandhi in a bullet-proof glass enclosure to catch the opening overs of the...
Talks to continue with establishment: Asif
LAHORE, April 17: Stating that the army was a permanent reality in the country, Asif Ali Zardari said here on Sunday the PPP would value the opinion of the institution and...
India offers new talks on Baglihar
NEW DELHI, April 17: India said on Tuesday it was open to a new round of talks to try and resolve differences with Pakistan over the construction of a hydroelectric dam...
Saudi beheaded for killing Indians, Pakistani
RIYADH, April 17: A Saudi national was beheaded on Sunday in the kingdom’s eastern province after he was convicted of murdering two Indians and a Pakistani, the interior ministry said. Abdul...
Leaders congratulate cricket team
KARACHI, April 17: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, Chairman of Senate and Acting President Mohammadmian Soomro, federal ministers Mohammad Ajmal Khan and Sheikh Rashid Ahmed...
Minster to visit China to settle issue of locomotives
BEIJING, April 17: Federal Minister for Railways Mian Shamim Haider Siddiqui will visit China from Monday to meet the Chinese authorities to settle the issue of defective locomotives. The visit is...
Over 150 fishermen released
AHMEDABAD, April 17: India on Sunday released 156 Pakistan fishermen jailed in
the western state of Gujarat as a humanitarian gesture. The fishermen, arrested
during the past...
Dostum to take govt post
MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan, April 17: Afghan warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum on Sunday resigned as head of his feared northern militia to take up a post in President Hamid Karzai’s...
Australian troops for Iraq reach Kuwait
KUWAIT CITY, April 17: An advance group of some 40 Australian soldiers, part of a deployment of 450 extra troops, arrived on Sunday at an airbase in Kuwait on their way...
US commander due today
ISLAMABAD, April 17: The commander of the US-led troops in Afghanistan, Lt-Gen David Borno, will arrive here on Monday to hold talks with Pakistani officials. Lt-Gen Borno is expected to hold...
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