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Pipeline work from April next year
ISLAMABAD, July 7: Pakistan and Iran agreed on Thursday to start construction of $4.16 billion Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline by April 2006 and decided to invite India for trilateral talks....
Egyptian envoy to Iraq executed
DUBAI, July 7: Al Qaeda group in Iraq said on Thursday it killed Egypt’s top envoy to Iraq for representing a “tyrannical” government allied to the “Jews and crusaders”....
10 killed in Kashmir violence
SRINAGAR, July 7: Ten people were killed in fresh violence in Occupied Kashmir, officials said on Thursday. Indian troops shot dead three Kashmiri militants, army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Vijay Batra said....
US raises terror alert, sends FBI team to UK
WASHINGTON, July 7: The United States raised the terror alert a notch to code orange for the nation’s mass transit systems on Thursday, responding to a spate of rush-hour bus and...
Blair vows to bring bombers to justice
LONDON, July 7: A defiant Prime Minister Tony Blair vowed on Thursday to bring those behind Britain’s deadliest peace-time attacks to justice and said the country would not bow to terrorism....
Pakistan condemns attacks
ISLAMABAD, July 7: Pakistan condemned the deadly bomb attacks on London’s transport network on Thursday and said it would stand side by side with Britain in the fight against international terrorism....
‘Embassy in Iraq to remain open’
WASHINGTON, July 7: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice telephoned Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri on Thursday and assured him that the United States would remain responsive to Pakistan’s security concerns....
Probe into voters’ list ordered
ISLAMABAD, July 7: The Election Commission is investigating a difference of nine million voters between the updated electoral lists for the local government polls and those prepared for the 2002 general election, sources have told Dawn....
Australia may send new force to Afghanistan
SYDNEY, July 7: Australia will soon decide whether to send a new military force to Afghanistan, Prime Minister John Howard said on Thursday, as the United States came to terms with its worst single death toll there since the 2001 invasion....
Gastroenteritis: 18 killed in Zhob
QUETTA, July 7: Gastroenteritis has claimed 18 lives and about 150 patients are under treatment in the Zhob Civil Hospital, where an emergency has been declared....
KPT rescues sinking Indian ship
KARACHI, July 7: An Indian container ship in distress was rescued by Karachi port on Thursday. The ship, MV Orient Prosperity, coming from the Jawahar Lal Nehru Port, was safely brought into the harbour....
Ex-minister’s arrest ordered
QUETTA, July 7: The Supreme Court on Thursday directed police to arrest former Balochistan education minister Abdur Rehman Khetran and produce him on Friday in a corruption case....
London blasts test new US security set-up
WASHINGTON, July 7: Explosions in London on Thursday also tested Washington’s new security management team set up by President Bush. As soon as they learned about the explosions...
LONDON, July 7: Four blasts tore through packed underground trains and a bus during London’s rush hour on Thursday...
MURREE, July 7: Inaugurating a Rs600 million gas line project for Murree hills, President General Pervez Musharraf on Thursday...
KARACHI, July 7: An Indian container ship in distress was rescued by Karachi port on Thursday. The ship, MV Orient Prosperity, coming from the Jawahar Lal Nehru Port, was safely brought into the harbour....
