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Pakistan not to go for arms race: PM: Credible defence to be ensured
ISLAMABAD, July 2: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Saturday Pakistan was a peaceful country and committed to arms race reduction in the region but at the same time it would maintain a credible defence for its territorial sovereignty....
D.I. Khan put on flood alert : Tarbela inflow rises
PESHAWAR, July 2: With the water level of all rivers in the NWFP rising ever higher on Saturday, the district administration of Dera Ismail Khan has asked people living near the danger zone to be ready for evacuation....
Nawaz applies for passport
ISLAMABAD, July 2: Chief of the Pakistan Muslim League (N) Nawaz Sharif and his wife Kulsoom Nawaz have formally requested the government to issue them passports...
Procedure outlined for visa to Indians
ISLAMABAD, July 2: The government of Pakistan has decided to issue new criteria for obtaining Pakistani visa by Indian nationals. According to a press release issued here on Saturday...
Testing of Internet link begins
KARACHI, July 2: Sonic testing of the defective portion of the undersea SEA-ME-WE-3 cable began as the repair ship sent by the consortium that runs the world’s longest fibre-optic link arrived...
‘Pakistan, China to work jointly on UN reforms’
ISLAMABAD, July 2: Pakistan would closely work with China to develop a consensus among developing countries on United Nations reforms, said Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz while talking...
US frees 57 more Taliban suspects
KABUL, July 2: Another 57 Afghans detained as Taliban suspects were freed from US military custody on Saturday under an Afghan government reconciliation programme...
6 activists killed in Kashmir
JAMMU, July 2: Indian troops shot dead six suspected militants after they crossed into held Kashmir from Azad Kashmir, a defence spokesman said on Saturday. The gunbattle took place...
Rain suspends train service
QUETTA, July 2: Heavy rain in Sibi has damaged the railway tracks on the Sibi-Hurnai railway section as a result of which train service between the two cities has been suspended, a Pakistan Railways (PR) official said...
Raise in salaries notified
ISLAMABAD, July 2: The government on Saturday notified increase in salaries and pensions of federal government employees, with revision in basic pay scales (BPS) and allowances, to be effective from July 1....
Two tribesmen held; weapons seized in Fata
MIRAMSHAH (North Waziristan), July 2: Army troops detained two local tribesmen and recovered rocket shells and hand-grenades, beside other weapons, during a search operation near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Dattakhel tehsil here on Saturday....
Suicide bombs kill 25 in Iraq
BAGHDAD, July 2: A suicide bomber killed up to 20 people at a police recruitment centre in Baghdad on Saturday, while across town an angry crowd of Shia Muslims buried a senior cleric gunned down by insurgents....
4 killed in Khost
KHOST, July 2: Four security personnel were killed and a senior police official wounded when a roadside bomb tore through their 20-vehicle convoy in restive southeastern Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said....
Bodies of 16 US troops flown home
KABUL, July 2: American and Afghan forces searched mountains in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday for a missing unit of US soldiers after the bodies of 16 Special Forces troops were flown home....
Five Turkish soldiers die
TUNCELI (Turkey), July 2: Five soldiers were killed and eight people were injured on Saturday when a bomb planted by Kurdish guerillas exploded on a train in eastern Turkey....
US troops kill cousin of Iraq’s UN ambassador
UNITED NATIONS, July 2: Iraq’s Ambassador at the United Nations on Friday accused the US marines of killing his unarmed cousin in “cold blood” and demanded investigation and punishment for his killers....
Early polls in Lanka sought
COLOMBO, July 2: Sri Lanka’s main opposition United National Party on Saturday launched a campaign to force the government into calling an early presidential election. Thousands of UNP...
Venus wins Wimbledon
LONDON, July 2 : Venus Williams won her third Wimbledon title on Saturday when World No.1 Lindsay Davenport saw her championship dream sabotaged due to a crippling back injury just when she sensed victory in the longest women’s final in history....
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