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Inflation at 9.3pc: survey
ISLAMABAD, June 4: An eight-year high inflation rate of 9.3 per cent has impacted the poor disproportionately during the first 10 months of the outgoing financial year, the government conceded on Saturday. According to the Economic Survey 2004-05, released here at a news conference the inflation, as measured by changes...
Hurriyat leaders call for tripartite talks
ISLAMABAD, June 4: Leaders of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) on Saturday stressed for a triangular dialogue between Pakistan, India and Kashmiri leadership while seeking to resolve the valley dispute....
A great leap forward, says Musharraf: Kashmiris’ visit Islamabad
ISLAMABAD, June 4: President Pervez Musharraf said on Saturday a visit to Pakistan by moderate Kashmiri separatist leaders was a “great leap forward” toward finding a solution to the Kashmir dispute....
L.K. Advani wants peace process to be irreversible
KARACHI, June 4: The visiting Indian opposition leader and President of the Bharatia Janata Party, L K Advani, has said that peace process between Pakistan and India shall be pursued without...
Gas pipeline discussions scheduled for today
ISLAMABAD, June 4: Pakistan and India would formally start two-day discussions on Iran to India gas pipeline project on the arrival of Indian Oil Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar here on Sunday. The Indian minister reached Lahore by road on Saturday. He would call on Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz...
Pakistan, UAE to enhance trade ties
ABU DHABI, June 4: President Gen Pervez Musharraf and his UAE counterpart Shaikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan on Saturday agreed to take their relationship to a new level through enhanced economic ties....
Experts to leave for Paris talks next week
ISLAMABAD, June 4: Attorney General of Pakistan Makhdoom Ali Khan will lead a four-member delegation to Paris next week for talks on controversial Baglihar hydropower project with the World Bank appointed...
US military issues final report on desecration
WASHINGTON, June 4: The US military has provided details of five incidents in which it says soldiers or interrogators at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp mishandled copies of the Holy Quran,...
Iraqi guards refuse to get army training
RUTBA (Iraq), June 4: An Iraqi national guard unit has been disbanded after it refused to attend a military training academy overseen by US advisers, former members of the unit said...
ANP for ‘open border’ with Afghanistan
PESHAWAR, June 4: Awami National Party chief Asfandyar Wali Khan on Saturday called for an ‘open border’ and free trade with Afghanistan to promote socio-economic ties between the two countries. Presenting...
Govt to extradite three accused wanted by UK
RAWALPINDI, June 4: The government has agreed to extradite three alleged fugitives to UK wanted in the murder case of a British citizen, a source said. Mohammad Serwar, a member of...
Balochistan budget on 22nd
QUETTA, June 4: The Balochistan budget for the financial year 2005-2006 will be announced by Provincial Finance Minister Syed Ehsan Shah on June 22 in the provincial assembly....
Palestinian poll delay angers Hamas
RAMALLAH, June 4: President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday announced a delay in the Palestinian parliamentary election, angering the militant group Hamas which had been expected to do well in its first...
West Indies 213 for 3
KINGSTON (Jamaica), June 4: West Indies reached 213 for 3 in a strong reply to Pakistan’s first innings total of 374 in the second and final Test here, till our going...
Eight of family drown in canal
VEHARI, June 4: Eight members of a family, including a woman and her four children, drowned when their car fell into Khader canal while crossing a bridge on the Pakpattan-Bahawalnagar road,...
Temperature touches 50.5°C in Nawabshah
NAWABSHAH, June 4: Nawabshah experienced the hottest day of summer as the temperature shot up to 50.5 degree centigrade. Roads and markets wore a deserted look as scorching heat forced the...
Founder: Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah
Editor: Tahir Mirza
ABU DHABI, June 4: President Gen Pervez Musharraf and his UAE counterpart Shaikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan on Saturday agreed to take their relationship to a new level through enhanced economic ties....
