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Aziz urges strategic restraint in S. Asia
ISLAMABAD, May 15: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Sunday highlighted the importance of South Asia’s human capital and urged leaders to cash in on it and build a viable architecture for...
Musharraf to meet top PML leaders today
ISLAMABAD, May 15: President General Pervez Musharraf has invited members of the central executive committee of Pakistan Muslim League and other leaders at the Aiwan-i-Sadr on Monday to discuss the overall...
‘Pakistan’s domestic security weakened’
WASHINGTON, May 15: Pakistan’s domestic security and political stability appears to have weakened in 2005, particularly in Balochistan where the government faces an increasingly restive armed uprising, says...
S. Asian MPs optimistic about cooperation
ISLAMABAD, May 15: Parliamentarians from South Asian countries on Sunday sounded optimistic about greater regional cooperation in the future at the start of a six-day conference that will discuss some pivotal...
US chain doubles textile order
LAHORE, May 15: The biggest US chain of multinational department stores has decided to buy home textile products and readymade garments worth Rs8 billion from Pakistan every year....
Veto power for new members opposed
NEW YORK, May 15: The United States has warned Japan, India, Germany and Brazil — aspirants for permanent seats in the expanded UN Security Council— that it will not support their...
Budget ‘to focus on poor’
ISLAMABAD, May 15: The next federal budget will focus on five neglected sectors — village electrification, gas supply, education, health and clean drinking water — with an objective to pass on...
22 die, 100 missing as ferry sinks in BD
DHAKA, May 15: At least 22 bodies were recovered on Sunday after a ferry, caught in a storm, capsized in the River Bura Gauranga in Patuakhali, 300km south of Dhaka. Reports...
Rice visits Iraq amid raging violence
BAGHDAD, May 15: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday flew to Baghdad to give the new Iraqi government a strong vote of confidence even as dozens of corpses turned...
Sacrilege report may be wrong: magazine
WASHINGTON, May 15: The US magazine whose story of desecration of the holy Quran sparked deadly protests in Muslim countries, said on Sunday that its report might have been wrong. Newsweek...
600 Uzbeks killed in crackdown
NAMANGAN (Uzbekistan), May 15: At least 600 people were killed in a military crackdown following protests in the Uzbek city of Andijan, the head of a local non-governmental organization who saw...
10 die in Pasni accident
QUETTA, May 15: At least ten passengers were killed and 22 injured in a head-on collision between two coaches near Pasni airport early on Sunday. One coach was coming from Karachi...
Man, three sons shot dead
SRINAGAR, May 15: A father and his three sons were shot dead as they left a coal mine in occupied Kashmir, police said. The four men were returning home from work...
Two newsmen executed in Iraq
MAHMUDIYAH, Iraq, May 15: Two Iraqi journalists working for the Kuwait-based Al-Rai television network and their driver were executed south of Baghdad on Sunday, an Iraqi army officer said....
29 Indian prisoners freed
QUETTA, May 15: Pakistan on Sunday freed 29 Indian nationals from a prison in Balochistan after they completed their jail terms for border violations, officials said. “Twenty-nine Indian prisoners, who were...
Increase in minimum wage not implemented
ISLAMABAD, May 15: The government’s decision to increase minimum wage from Rs2,500 to Rs3,000 is yet to be implemented as differences between representatives of workers and those of employers in WEBCOP...
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Editor: Tahir Mirza
ISLAMABAD, May 15: President General Pervez Musharraf has invited members of the central executive committee of Pakistan Muslim League and other leaders at the Aiwan-i-Sadr on Monday to discuss the overall...
NAMANGAN (Uzbekistan), May 15: At least 600 people were killed in a military crackdown following protests in the Uzbek city of Andijan, the head of a local non-governmental organization who saw...
