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India rejects Rashid’s travel application
NEW DELHI, June 24: India on Friday rejected a widely-watched request by Information Minister Sheikh Rashid to take the next Muzaffarabad-Srinagar bus across the Line of Control, saying the decision was...
APHC’s representative character questioned
MUZAFFARABAD, June 24: Azad Kashmir Prime Minister Sardar Sikandar Hayat on
Friday questioned representative character of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC)
saying it did not cover....
9 killed in Kashmir car bomb attack
SRINAGAR, June 24: Nine Indian soldiers were killed and 17 others wounded when a powerful car bomb exploded on Friday as a bus carrying troops drove past a popular tourist attraction...
Minister mobbed, manhandled
KARACHI, June 24: Minister of State for Religious Affairs Dr Aamir Liaquat Husain and provincial minister for Planning and Development Shoaib Bukhari were mobbed and manhandled when they visited the Jamia...
Musharraf pledges to quell terrorism
ISLAMABAD, June 24: President General Pervez Musharraf said on Friday that Pakistan remained firm in its commitment to root out terrorism but stressed the cooperation of international community and regional...
Afghan peace will boost peace: Aziz
ISLAMABAD, June 24: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Friday said that a strong
and stable Afghanistan was not only in the interest of its people but also in
the interest of its people but also in the interest of peace,...
Anti-Taliban offensive wound up
KANDAHAR, June 24: A group of top Taliban commanders appeared to have slipped the net on Friday as Afghan and US forces wrapped up one of the bloodiest offensives since...
Bush refuses to set pullout date
WASHINGTON, June 24: President George W. Bush on Friday refused to set a timetable for withdrawing US troops from Iraq because “it would allow Iraqi insurgents to wait us out.”...
Probe into stitching of prisoner’s lips ordered
MULTAN, June 24: Two separate inquiries have been ordered into an incident of alleged stitching of lips of a prisoner by the Vehari police. Multan Range DIG Malik Iqbal has asked ADIG Nawaz...
‘US admits torture of prisoners’
GENEVA, June 24: Washington has for the first time acknowledged to the United Nations that prisoners have been tortured at US detention centres in Guantanamo Bay,...
Blow-out at BD gas field
DHAKA, June 24: A blow-out at the Tengratila gas field in Shunamganj on Friday, gave rise to fears that it might have damaged the entire gas reservoir of 115 billion cubic...
Musharraf begins S. Arabia visit today
ISLAMABAD, June 24: President General Pervez Musharraf will pay an official visit to Saudi Arabia from June 25-26 at the invitation of the Saudi leadership. He will hold talks with Crown...
US interest in Pakistan-India talks sought
ISLAMABAD, Jun 24: Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri has called for continued US involvement for a result-oriented dialogue between Pakistan and India. He was talking to Dr Stephen...
Notices issued on Bhootani’s petition
QUETTA, June 24: A division bench of the Balochistan High Court has issued a pre-admission notice to the advocate general of Balochistan on a petition filed by Deputy Speaker Mir Aslam...
KANDAHAR, June 24: A group of top Taliban commanders appeared to have slipped the net on Friday as Afghan and US forces wrapped up one of the bloodiest offensives since...
