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Indian PM hints at Siachen peace
NEW DELHI, June 12: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said during a visit to the Siachen glacier on Sunday it was time to convert the world’s highest battlefield into a “peace mountain”....
Iran pipeline cannot be abandoned, US told
WASHINGTON, June 12: Pakistan is believed to have informed the United States that it cannot abandon the Iranian gas pipeline project despite a strong US opposition to the scheme, diplomatic sources...
Stage not reached to talk of options: Mirwaiz
ISLAMABAD, June 12: Moderate Kashmiri leaders from Indian-held Kashmir said on Sunday the stage to take up options to resolve the 57-year-old Kashmir issue had not yet come and Pakistani leadership had not offered them a ready solution during talks between the two sides....
PTCL claims ‘smooth functioning’; over 250 workers held
ISLAMABAD, June 12: As the Pakistan Telecommunication Company claimed here on Sunday that its entire system was functioning ‘smoothly and uninterrupted’, police rounded up over 250 workers in Islamabad and Lahore...
HRCP wants Mukhtaran’s name taken off ECL
ISLAMABAD, June 12: Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has asked the government to remove, within 48 hours, the name of Mukhtaran Mai from the Exit Control List (ECL) and allow...
President leaves for Australia
ISLAMABAD, June 12: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Sunday left for Australia on the first leg of his two-nation tour that will also take him to New Zealand....
$10.5bn external debt obtained in six years
ISLAMABAD, June 12: Pakistan obtained $10.5 billion external debt in the last six years and repaid about $27 billion but the overall debt stock dropped by only $1.24 billion, official statistics suggest. In 1999-2000, Pakistan obtained $2.5 billion,...
‘Row over role of Jinnah may not help peace process’
KOLKATA, June 12: Indian Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Sunday that the controversy over the role of Pakistan’s founding father Mohammed Ali Jinnah in the division of the subcontinent may...
Seven killed in shootout during land feud jirga
HANGU, June 12: Seven people, four of them members of one family, were killed and four others suffered injuries in a shootout during a jirga in the Lower Orakzai Agency on Sunday....
8 killed, 73 hurt in Iran blasts
AHVAZ (Iran), June 12: Bomb blasts in Tehran and the southwestern oil city of Ahvaz killed at least eight people and wounded 73 on Sunday, five days before Iran’s presidential election....
Kidnapped journalist, interpreter freed in Iraq
BAGHDAD, June 12: French journalist Florence Aubenas and her Iraqi interpreter Hussein Hanun were freed on Sunday after a five-month kidnapping in Iraq. “She was thinner but surprisingly vivacious and smiling,”...
‘US was not prepared for Iraq occupation’
WASHINGTON, June 12: A briefing paper prepared for British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his top advisers eight months before the US-led invasion of Iraq concluded that the US military was not preparing adequately for a “protracted and costly” post-war occupation of that country,...
Kuwait names woman minister
KUWAIT CITY, June 12: The Kuwaiti government on Sunday named liberal academic Maasuma al-Mubarak as the Gulf emirate’s first woman minister, one month after women were granted full political rights. US-educated...
Experts plead role of Kashmiris in peace process
ISLAMABAD, June 12: Experts from both India and Pakistan as well as Kashmir on Saturday called for inclusion of Kashmiris in the current peace process for a settlement of the Kashmir...
‘UK to give £240m in three years’
KARACHI, June 12: Britain will offer Pakistan 240 million pounds over the next three years. This was stated by a British parliamentarian of Pakistani origin, Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar, in an interview with APP. Mr Sarwar, who is on a visit to Pakistan, said:...
Indian film import reaching decision-making stage
LAHORE, June 12: The question of importing Indian movies should reach the stage of decision making as a proposal by the Senate’s Cultural Committee on the issue is to be presented...
BAGHDAD, June 12: French journalist Florence Aubenas and her Iraqi interpreter Hussein Hanun were freed on Sunday after a five-month kidnapping in Iraq. “She was thinner but surprisingly vivacious and smiling,”...
