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Pakistan invites APHC leaders
ISLAMABAD, May 23: The government has formally invited the entire leadership of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) to travel to Pakistan on the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus scheduled for June 2....
Security threat minimized: Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, May 23: President Pervez Musharraf said on Monday that as a result of tough but prudent and pragmatic decisions, the government had ensured that internal security threat in the country...
Imtiaz quits Sindh PML post
ISLAMABAD/KARACHI, May 23: Nadir Akmal Leghari on Monday replaced Imtiaz Sheikh as general-secretary of Pakistan Muslim League Sindh after the latter resigned from the senior post amid corruption controversy....
President, PM may visit US this year
WASHINGTON, May 23: Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri is expected to arrive here in the second week of June as Pakistan looks at the possibility of a series of high-level visits...
Rising inflation an area of concern: SBP
KARACHI, May 23: Rising domestic inflationary pressures, growing imbalances in the external sector and re-emergence of rigidities in the debt servicing cost because of soaring interest rates are three ‘areas of concern’ noted in the third quarterly report for the year 2004-05...
Cabinet to discuss trade liberalization tomorrow
ISLAMABAD, May 23: The federal cabinet meets here on Wednesday to consider a 17-item agenda including further liberalization of trade in services as part of the WTO negotiations under the Doha Development agenda....
President plans to meet Abbasi
ISLAMABAD, May 23: President General Pervez Musharraf is reported to have summoned chairman of the Technical Committee on Water Resources ANG Abbasi on May 25 to explain why had he quit...
EC asked to cancel PML factions’ registration
ISLAMABAD, May 23: The Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F) on Monday moved the Election Commission seeking cancellation of registration of all political entities that had merged to form the PML...
Washington, Kabul agree on strategic partnership
WASHINGTON, May 23: US President George W. Bush and Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Monday signed an understanding for strategic partnership that includes economic development and security guarantees for Afghanistan....
Karzai says Osama not in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON, May 23: Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Sunday Osama bin Laden “is certainly not around Afghanistan or he would have been caught”. He said this in response to a question by Wolf Blitzer in Late Edition. He was asked: “There are certain parts of Afghanistan that are remote...
Four killed in restaurant bomb blast
BAGHDAD, May 23: Insurgents bombed a restaurant in Baghdad on Monday, killing at least four and wounding over 100, as thousands of US and Iraqi troops fanned out west of the capital in a bid to bring the bombers under control....
Four killed in Kashmir violence
SRINAGAR, May 23: Two people were shot dead in occupied Kashmir, where a civilian died in an explosion and a Kashmiri fighter was killed by troops during a clash, police said on Monday. A police spokesman said insurgents had abducted and shot dead two civilians overnight in the southern district of Doda. “One of the victims was tortured and later shot dead,”...
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BAGHDAD, May 23: Insurgents bombed a restaurant in Baghdad on Monday, killing at least four and wounding over 100, as thousands of US and Iraqi troops fanned out west of the capital in a bid to bring the bombers under control....
