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Export to be doubled in five years: PM
ISLAMABAD, April 29: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Friday that the government was focussing on diversification of export base, exploring new markets and improving the country’s image to hit the...
US making really good progress in Iraq: Bush
WASHINGTON, April 29: President George Bush said on Thursday that US-led forces were making “really good progress” in Iraq, but acknowledged they were still facing a stubborn resistance run by “hard-nosed...
Provinces move to borrow from banks
ISLAMABAD, April 29: Provinces have asked the centre to allow them to borrow from banks to repay the high-cost Cash Development Loans (CDLs) worth about Rs100 billion, it is learnt. The...
Koizumi due today for talks with Aziz, Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, April 29: Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi who is scheduled to arrive here on Saturday morning will hold talks with his Pakistani counterpart Shaukat Aziz and President General Pervez Musharraf...
Apartment fire kills eight of family
KARACHI, April 29: Eight members of a family died when a fire engulfed a flat on the fourth floor of an apartment block in Gulshan-i-Iqbal early on Friday morning. The fire...
Car bombs kill 23 in Baghdad
BAGHDAD, April 29: A string of car bombs killed at least 23 Iraqis and wounded 90 in the Baghdad region on Friday, as guerillas stepped up attacks after the formation of...
Report sought on seminary board
ISLAMABAD, April 29: The federal ombudsman has taken notice of a ‘deliberate delay’ on the part of the administration of the Pakistan Madressah Education Board (PMEB) in making the board fully...
Proposals for budget discussed
ISLAMABAD, April 29: A high level meeting, with Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz in the chair, was held at the Prime Minister’s House on Friday to review various proposals for the next...
Time running out for N-talks: Iran
LONDON, April 29: The time for negotiating over Iran’s nuclear program is quickly running out, Iranian official Cyrus Nasseri said on Friday before talks with the EU on Tehran’s determination to...
Japan, India back each other’s UNSC bid
NEW DELHI, April 29: Japan and India renewed their support on Friday for each other’s bids for UN Security Council seats while pledging to work for much closer economic and strategic...
‘Musharraf was asked not to meet Vajpayee’
NEW DELHI, April 29: India’s main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party has accused Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s government of having tried to stop a courtesy call President Gen Pervez Musharraf paid on...
4 militants shot dead in Valley
SRINAGAR, April 29: Indian troops on Friday shot dead four militants who infiltrated into Indian Kashmir from the Pakistani-zone of the divided Himalayan state, a police spokesman said. He said the...
Eight killed in accident
NAWABSHAH, April 29: Eight people, including three women and a child, were killed and over 17 injured in a head-on collision between a passenger coach and a trailer near Qazi Ahmed...
6 held for stoning woman to death
KABUL, April 29: Police have arrested six people for killing an Afghan woman suspected of adultery, reportedly by stoning her to death in one of the first cases of its kind...
14 countries on US watch over copyright
WASHINGTON, April 29: The United States said on Friday it was putting China on a blacklist of countries guilty in its view of “rampant” copyright abuses and warned that WTO action...
Speculation over fate of Osama
DUBAI, April 29: A posting on a Website stirred speculation over the fate of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, and prompted a flurry of denials on Friday that the world’s...
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Editor: Tahir Mirza
KARACHI, April 29: Eight members of a family died when a fire engulfed a flat on the fourth floor of an apartment block in Gulshan-i-Iqbal early on Friday morning. The fire...
