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Dates set for talks on Siachen, Sir Creek
NEW DELHI, May 5: Four sets of Pakistan-India talks, covering issues that include Siachen and Sir Creek, are to be held this month as a follow-up to last month’s meeting between...
Govt withdraws probe decision: Assault on journalists
ISLAMABAD, May 5: In a surprise move, the ruling coalition in the National Assembly on Thursday reversed a previous lower house decision to probe police assaults on journalists rallies staged on...
Absconding attack suspect captured
ISLAMABAD, May 5: Pakistani security officials said on Thursday they hoped the capture of a Libyan accused of being Al Qaeda’s number three and of planning to kill President Pervez Musharraf...
Credit for arrest goes to Pakistan: Rice
WASHINGTON, May 5: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said that Pakistan deserves most of the credit for arresting Al Qaeda’s third-ranking leader Abu Faraj Al Libbi. She described Al Libbi as an ‘important field general’...
Explosions outside UK consulate in New York
NEW YORK, May 5. Two small explosives went off outside a building housing the British Consulate in Manhattan on early Thursday, the election day in Britain, causing slight damage but injuring no one, city officials said....
Blair wins: exit poll
LONDON, May 5: Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Labour Party has won a historic third term in Thursday’s British election but with a much-reduced majority, an exit poll produced jointly by the...
Labour set for third term as Britons vote
SEDGEFIELD (England), May 5: Britons voted on Thursday in an election likely to hand Prime Minister Tony Blair a third term despite anger over Iraq, with blasts at the British consulate...
Concern over telemetry system hiccup
ISLAMABAD, May 5: The President and the Prime Minister have expressed their serious concern over the technical problems in running of the Rs320 million telemetry system for irrigation monitoring, it has...
AG opposes petition on extending age of judges retirement
ISLAMABAD, May 5: Attorney-General Makhdoom Ali Khan informed the Supreme Court on Thursday that any decision regarding extension in the retirement age of judges of the superior court would be controversial...
Two teenage girls killed in Kashmir blast
JAMMU, May 5: Two teenage girls were killed and 17 people were wounded in held Kashmir when a bomb planted by separatists went off at a Hindu wedding, police said on...
New corps commander for Multan
ISLAMABAD, May 5: President and Chief of the Army Staff Gen Pervez Musharraf on Thursday made some changes in the army command and promoted Maj-Gen Syed Sabahat Hussain to the rank...
22 killed in Baghdad attacks
BAGHDAD, May 5: Insurgents killed 22 people in a string of attacks in Baghdad on Thursday, capping a week that has left about 250 dead since Iraq’s first elected government in...
‘BJP lying about Musharraf visit’
NEW DELHI, May 5: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh accused the Bharatiya Janata Party-led opposition on Thursday of spreading the lie that his government had tried to block a meeting between...
Bid to settle row over UN Council expansion
UNITED NATIONS, May 5: In an effort to bridge differences among member states over the contentious expansion of the 15-member UN Security Council, the G-4 envoys — Japan, Germany, India and...
Taliban death toll rises to 40
KABUL, May 5: Forty suspected Taliban rebels were killed in a battle with US and Afghan troops, the US military said on Thursday, doubling the toll from the bloodiest firefights since...
India launches two satellites into orbit
SRIHARIKOTA(India), May 5: An Indian space rocket blasted off on Thursday in the country’s first bid to carry two satellites in a single launch, part of its ambitious space programme that...
Kidnapped embassy employee returns
ISLAMABAD, May 5: Malik Muhammad Javed, an employee of the Pakistan’s embassy in Iraq who was kidnapped and released in Baghdad, returned home on Thursday. Minister of State for Foreign Affairs...
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Editor: Tahir Mirza
NEW YORK, May 5. Two small explosives went off outside a building housing the British Consulate in Manhattan on early Thursday, the election day in Britain, causing slight damage but injuring no one, city officials said....
ISLAMABAD, May 5: Malik Muhammad Javed, an employee of the Pakistan’s embassy in Iraq who was kidnapped and released in Baghdad, returned home on Thursday. Minister of State for Foreign Affairs...
