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Peace key to region’s progress: PM: Talks with India
ISLAMABAD, April 19: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Tuesday said that President Gen Pervez Musharraf’s successful visit to India would help improve atmosphere between the two countries. Talking to parliament’s Kashmir...
Govt negotiating deal with PPP, PML-N: report
WASHINGTON, April 19: President Pervez Musharraf has been engaged in secret negotiations on a power-sharing deal with the People’s Party Parliamentarians and Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz)...
Kashmir moderates to resume talks
SRINAGAR, April 19: Moderate separatists in Kashmir said on Tuesday they were willing to resume talks with New Delhi to end the long-running dispute over the restive region’s future. But hardliners...
Report on Balochistan delayed
ISLAMABAD, April 19: The parliamentary committee on Balochistan is unlikely to finalize its report soon with little possibility of it meeting this month. The committee’s chairman, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain...
US asked to check border violations: Miscreants from Afghanistan
ISLAMABAD, April 19: Pakistan has asked the US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan to check the movement of miscreants into Pakistan which has increased recently. In a statement issued here on Tuesday,...
WB shortlists panel of experts for Baglihar dam
ISLAMABAD, April 19: The World Bank has short-listed a panel of experts for arbitration on the Baglihar dam dispute, Dawn learnt through Washington-based diplomatic sources on Tuesday. The move has come...
Explosions in Quetta, Kalat
QUETTA, April 19: A bomb exploded in the lawn of the residence of journalist Amanullah Kasi in Wahdat Colony here on Tuesday evening. Windowpanes of the house were smashed by...
Journalists continue NA session boycott
ISLAMABAD, April 19: Journalists covering the National Assembly continued their
boycott of the sitting of the lower house for the second day on Tuesday to
protest against maltreatment...
Safma calls for press freedom in Nepal
ISLAMABAD, April 19: The South Asian Free Media Association (Safma) has called upon the media community in all countries of South Asia to jointly observe the Press Freedom Day falling on...
8 Taliban killed
KABUL, April 19: Afghan forces and US-led warplanes and troops killed eight Taliban and Al Qaeda-linked rebels and captured 16 others following a gunbattle in southeastern Afghanistan, officials said on Tuesday....
Attacks in Iraq leave 12 dead
BAGHDAD, April 19: Guerilla attacks killed at least 12 people in Iraq on Tuesday as a resurgence in violence piled pressure on politicians struggling to form a government more than 11...
17 Afghan prisoners freed
KABUL, April 19: The United States has released 17 Afghan detainees from military custody at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and they will be handed to Afghan authorities after arriving home on...
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