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Musharraf to continue after 2007: Rashid
LAHORE, May 17: President Pervez Musharraf will seek another term after his current tenure ends in 2007, federal Information Minister Sheikh Rashid told newsmen here on Tuesday....
8.3pc growth achieved, says Aziz
ISLAMABAD, May 17: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that Pakistan’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) had achieved an impressive growth of 8.35 per cent during the current fiscal year owing to...
Actual utilization of PSDP funds only 49 per cent
ISLAMABAD, May 17: The actual utilisation of the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) allocation has remained very low and stood at Rs72.5 billion or just 49 per cent of the total...
APCC sets growth target for 2005-06
ISLAMABAD, May 17: The government on Tuesday set a target of seven per cent growth rate of GDP for 2005-06 on the basis of an expected five per cent growth in...
Islamabad rejects Newsweek retraction
ISLAMABAD, May 17: Pakistan dismissed on Tuesday as inadequate an apology and retraction by the Newsweek magazine of a report that US interrogators at Guantanamo Bay had desecrated the Holy Quran....
Edict against suicide attacks
LAHORE, May 17: A group of 58 religious scholars belonging to all schools of thought issued here on Tuesday an edict (fatwa) against suicide attacks. However, they said that the fatwa...
New Delhi balks at accepting NPT
NEW DELHI, May 17: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday reaffirmed his support to efforts by the international non-proliferation regime to check clandestine trade of nuclear technology but stopped short of committing New Delhi...
Aspirants for permanent UNSC seat circulate resolution
UNITED NATIONS, May 17: Ignoring the calls for consensus on any UN Security Council expansion by many member states, including China and the United States, Japan, Germany, India and Brazil on...
Two girls schools blown up in Bajaur
KHAR (Bajaur Agency), May 17: Miscreants blew up buildings of two girls schools in Salarzai tehsil of the Bajaur Agency on Monday night, official sources said. They said the directorate of...
US reservist found guilty of jail abuses
FORT HOOD (Texas), May 17: A military jury has found army reservist Sabrina Harman guilty of mistreating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib in a scandal that badly damaged America’s image worldwide....
UK, Pakistan to enhance ties
ISLAMABAD, May 17: The United Kingdom (UK) and Pakistan have expressed the desire to enhance cooperation between the two countries in different fields, says a press release issued by the defence...
India to test Agni III this year
NEW DELHI, May 17: India would test-fire its 3,000km longest range Surface to Surface missile Agni III by the year end, PTI said on Tuesday quoting a senior defence official. The...
Iran, Iraq decide to mend fences
BAGHDAD, May 17: Iran’s foreign minister pledged on Tuesday that his country would act to stop guerillas crossing into Iraq. Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi, the most senior Iranian official to visit...
Asif, Raja Zafar assail Rashid’s statement
LAHORE, May 17: Pakistan People’s Party leader Asif Ali Zardari and PML-N chairman Raja Zafarul Haq have strongly criticized Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed for claiming that Gen Pervez Musharraf will...
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BAGHDAD, May 17: Iran’s foreign minister pledged on Tuesday that his country would act to stop guerillas crossing into Iraq. Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi, the most senior Iranian official to visit...
