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Geelani slams joint statement
NEW DELHI, April 18: Hardline Kashmir resistance leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Monday said the joint statement issued by India and Pakistan at the end of the three-day visit here...
Advani sees progress in peace process
NEW DELHI, April 18: Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha and BJP leader L.K. Advani has expressed satisfaction over the outcome of talks between Indian and Pakistani leaders and said that...
Visit ‘beyond expectations’: Musharraf
NEW DELHI, April 18: President Gen Pervez Musharraf declared here on Monday that his visit to India was ‘very successful’ and beyond his expectations. Talking to Pakistani journalists who accompanied him...
Singh says Baglihar design can be changed
NEW DELHI, April 18: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh assured a group of visiting Pakistani editors on Monday that the design of the controversial Baglihar hydroelectric project in Jammu and Kashmir...
Tensions can erupt again: president
NEW DELHI, April 18: President Gen Pervez Musharraf counselled India’s senior editors on Monday to press New Delhi to work for a genuine resolution of the Kashmir dispute because brushing it...
Action planned in N. Waziristan: US general’s briefing
ISLAMABAD, April 18: Pakistan is planning to launch an operation against terrorists in North Waziristan as US forces prepare to undertake a spring offensive in Afghanistan. This was...
Musharraf in Manila for talks to curb terror
MANILA, April 18: President Pervez Musharraf arrived in the Philippines on Monday for a visit expected to focus on cooperation against Muslim militancy and the US-led war against terrorism. He flew...
Afghan forces kill two Taliban
KABUL, April 18: Afghan soldiers on Monday killed two Taliban militants and captured three others, including a senior commander, during a gunfight which left three soldiers wounded in southeastern Afghanistan, officials...
US forces arrest 24 suspected militants
KABUL, April 18: The US troops have detained 24 suspected Taliban militants in Afghanistan’s south-eastern province of Khost, bordering Pakistan, according to the provincial governor. The men were picked up during...
Sectarianism consequence of state policies: report
BRUSSELS, April 18: Sectarian conflict in Pakistan is a “direct consequence of state policies of Islamization and marginalization of secular democratic forces,” says a report by the Brussels-based International Crisis Group....
30 chosen for 2nd bus trip
MUZAFFARABAD, April 18: The AJK authorities have selected 30 people for the second trans-Kashmir journey and are checking their availability for the tour, Dawn learnt here on Monday. Thirteen of those...
Pakistan plans 12 entry points: Afghan border
ISLAMABAD, April 18: The government plans to establish around 12 entry points on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border through a road network in a few years to boost trade activities with Afghanistan and...
Japanese envoy visits Baltistan
SKARDU, April 18: Japanese Ambassador Nobuaki Tanaka and Mrs Muriel Tanaka visited two cultural projects in Baltistan, sources told Dawn here on Monday. The asmbassador, who had arrived here on a...
HRW calls for release of PPP workers
UNITED NATIONS: April 18: The government must immediately release supporters of the opposition People’s Party Parliamentarians arbitrarily arrested in a countrywide crackdown last week, the Human Rights Watch said Monday. The...
Cardinals fail to elect new pope in first vote
VATICAN CITY, April 18: Black smoke billowed from the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel on Monday, signalling that Roman Catholic cardinals failed in their first vote to elect the new pope. The dark...
Sharon puts off Gaza pullout
AL QUDS, April 18: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon confirmed on Monday that he was postponing the start of Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, scheduled for July 20, by three...
Annan hails statement
UNITED NATIONS, April 18: The UN Secretary-General on Monday welcomed the joint declaration by India and Pakistan wherein both countries stated that “the dialogue had become “irreversible”. In a statement issued...
Bid on Advani’s life: 5 accused try to commit suicide
CHENNAI, April 18: Five people accused of masterminding a string of bomb blasts in 1998 aimed at killing Indian politician Lal Krishan Advani tried on Monday to kill themselves in protest...
200 arrested in Iran ethnic unrest
TEHRAN, April 18: Iran said on Monday that about 200 people were arrested in ethnic unrest in its southwest in recent days and closed the offices of the Arab language Al...
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