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Gas rate, transit fee discussed with India: Iran to India pipeline
ISLAMABAD, June 5: Pakistan and India on Sunday discussed wellhead gas price, transmission cost and transit fee of the Iran-to-India gas pipeline through Pakistan and agreed that land route was technically...
Support for Kashmir cause reaffirmed: APHC team meets Aziz
ISLAMABAD, June 5: Pakistan on Sunday reaffirmed its support to the Kashmiri leaders’ demand for making the people of Kashmir the third party in future parleys on the 57-year old dispute....
Advani stresses dialogue
KARACHI, June 5: President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Mr L.K. Advani, has said that peace should not be held hostage to the resolution of any of the disputes between India and Pakistan and there should be no going back on the realization that dialogue was the only way to resolve every single dispute, including the issue...
Budget outlay Rs1.17 trillion: Tax on real estate likely
ISLAMABAD, June 5: The government presents before National Assembly on Monday covering an outlay of slightly over Rs1.17 trillion federal budget for the next fiscal year, about 30 per cent up...
Caretakers to replace nazims
ISLAMABAD, June 5: The National Reconstruction Bureau (NRB) has asked the provincial governments to appoint caretakers by July for holding local bodies’ elections in the country, a source in the NRB...
Environment day gloom as forest fires engulf Margalla
ISLAMABAD, June 5: As the nation observed the World Environment Day on Sunday by planting trees and staging walks and rallies, fires engulfed afforested areas on two places on Margalla Hills...
Musharraf calls for curbing extremism, sectarianism
ABU DHABI, June 5: President Gen Pervez Musharraf said on Sunday that Pakistan had effectively countered terrorism but stressed that concerted and pro-active efforts were needed from all segments of the...
US troops find huge bunker in Iraq
BAGHDAD, June 5: US troops have discovered a huge insurgent bunker complex dug into a quarry in western Iraq, with air conditioning, showers and a large stockpile of weapons, the American...
Kuwait to change laws for foreign workers
KUWAIT CITY, June 5: The Gulf Arab state of Kuwait said on Sunday it may change labour laws that have come under fire for creating unfair conditions for Kuwait’s 1.8 million...
US running many secret prisons in world: AI
WASHINGTON, June 5: The US government is operating an “archipelago” of prisons around the world, many of them secret camps into which people are being “literally disappeared,” a top Amnesty International...
Pakistan 147 for 3
KINGSTON (Jamaica), June 5: Pakistan made 147 runs for the loss of 3 wickets and wiped off a 30-run deficit against the West Indies in the second and final Test match...
ISLAMABAD, June 5: Pakistan on Sunday reaffirmed its support to the Kashmiri leaders’ demand for making the people of Kashmir the third party in future parleys on the 57-year old dispute....
ISLAMABAD, June 5: As the nation observed the World Environment Day on Sunday by planting trees and staging walks and rallies, fires engulfed afforested areas on two places on Margalla Hills...
