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Rain wreaks havoc in Lahore; eight killed
LAHORE, July 1: The first heavy rain of the monsoon season lashed the city on Friday morning, resulting in the death of at least eight people, including three children....
Floods claim two lives in Nowshera
PESHAWAR, July 1: With the River Kabul continuing to rise to dangerous levels on Friday, flood waters inundated the suburbs of Nowshera city and engulfed 200 houses of a village in the neighbouring Mardan district....
Plea to boost missile capability
WASHINGTON, July 1: Pakistan will either have to acquire its own missile defence system or increase its missile capabilities if the United States provides a missile defence system to India, Ambassador Jehangir Karamat told Dawn on Friday....
Bad weather delays repair ship’s arrival: Internet disruption
ISLAMABAD, July 1: Bad weather has delayed for another 24 hours arrival of a ship to Karachi from Dubai to repair the faulty undersea optic fibre cable, Pakistan’s sole Internet link with the rest of the world, excepting satellite links recently acquired...
Shujaat hints at joining hands with other parties
ISLAMABAD, July 1: Ruling Pakistan Muslim League (PML) president Chaudhry Shujaat Husain has said that his party must be ready to join hands with any political party or group because strengthening of democratic institutions was the need of the hour....
‘Local polls will be transparent’
ISLAMABAD, July 1: President General Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz at a meeting held at the president’s camp office in Rawalpindi on Friday reiterated their commitment to ensure that local bodies elections would be held in a free, fair and transparent manner....
New code of conduct for candidates under study
ISLAMABAD, July 1: A proposed code of conduct for candidates for local government elections 2005 restrains them from inciting parochial or sectarian feelings, controversy or conflicts in their campaign speeches....
POL price rise not to affect economy
ISLAMABAD, July 1: Prime Minister’s Adviser on Finance Dr Salman Shah has said that there will be no serious effect on the country’s economy due to increasing international oil prices, but...
Chittagong airport closed for two days
DHAKA, July 1: Some 200 passengers narrowly escaped unhurt, as an international flight of the Biman Bangladesh Airlines skidded off the runway of Shah Amanat International Airport in Bangladesh’s....
Russia, China to boost security, economic ties
MOSCOW, July 1: The Chinese and Russian presidents held a summit on Friday aimed at strengthening security in volatile Central Asia and toughening economic ties between these two countries once seen as the West’s main threat in Cold War days....
American team missing in Afghanistan
KABUL, July 1: US forces searched on Friday for a small reconnaissance team which has been missing since a helicopter sent in to extract them was shot down in Afghanistan, as the Taliban claimed they had captured a US soldier....
94 die in rains, flash floods in Gujarat
AHMEDABAD, July 1: At least 94 people have died and some 200,000 have been evacuated due to heavy rains and flash floods in India’s western coastal state of Gujarat, officials said on Friday amid warnings of worse to come....
PM’s helicopter did not cross LoC: spokesman
ISLAMABAD, July 1: The government on Friday denied the press reports that the helicopter of Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz crossed the Line of Control (LoC) near Chakothi on Thursday....
Imran seeks independent poll body
QUETTA, July 1: Tehrik-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan has said that opposition parties should forge unity on a one-point agenda of forcing the government to establish an independent election commission....
Quake jolts Peshawar
PESHAWAR, July 1: An earthquake of moderate intensity measuring 5.5 on Richter scale jolted Peshawar, Dir and Chitral districts, the Regional Met Centre said here on Friday....
LAHORE, July 1: The first heavy rain of the monsoon season lashed the city on Friday morning, resulting in the death of at least eight people, including three children....
