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Bush hopeful of Kashmir talks success
WASHINGTON, July 18: US President George W. Bush on Monday refused to guarantee the inviolability of the Line of Control saying that such a decision could only be taken by the leaders of India and Pakistan....
Search for militants in tribal village
MIRAMSHAH, July 18: The Pakistan army and paramilitary troops conducted a seven-hour search operation against foreign and tribal militants in Qutabkhel village, 5km south of Miramshah, on Monday, sources told Dawn....
Taliban leader held
PESHAWAR, July 18: A top Taliban leader Maulvi Abdul Kabir was arrested along with his two brothers and their aide from a refugee camp in Akora Khattak, about 51km east of Peshawar, sources told Dawn on Monday....
Pressure on Blair as study links blasts to Iraq war
LONDON, July 18: British Prime Minister Tony Blair came under fresh pressure on Monday for supporting the Iraq war after a respected think-tank linked the invasion to Britain’s worst terror attack in which at least 55 people died....
Jihad urged against extremists : Musharraf addresses youths
ISLAMABAD, July 18: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Monday asked the nation to reject religious extremists in the forthcoming local government elections and warned of a bleak future for Pakistan if such elements reached the echelon of power....
Three bombers visited Karachi last year
KARACHI, July 18: Three of the suicide bombers involved in the July 7 London attacks entered Pakistan through Karachi last year, immigration officials told Reuters on Monday....
5 arrested in Kenya for terror links
MOMBASA (Kenya), July 18: Kenya has arrested five men on suspicion of terrorism links after they were seen taking photos from a ferry, police sources said on Monday....
Two militants killed in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, July 18: Indian troops shot dead a freedom fighter in occupied Kashmir and found the body of another said to be part of a group that infiltrated in the region a week ago, the army said on Monday....
India rejects OIC stand on Kashmir
NEW DELHI, July 18: India on Monday rejected recent criticism by the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) of its Kashmir policy. “The OIC has once again commented upon Jammu and Kashmir at the OIC Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Sana’a, Yemen....
Separate groups for pipeline likely
ISLAMABAD, July 18: Pakistan, India and Iran are likely to firm up separate consortiums to develop 2670-km of gas pipeline in their respective territories for the delivery of Iranian gas to India, it has been learnt....
Nazim polls may be party-based: Arbab
HYDERABAD, July 18: Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim has indicated that elections of taluka and district nazims may be held on party basis and said that parties in the...
Three rivers in high flood
ISLAMABAD, July 18: The Swat river was flowing in very high flood at the Monda headworks on Monday while the Kabul and Indus rivers were in high flood at Nowshera and Chashma, respectively....
18 killed in Iraq attacks
BAGHDAD, July 18: Eighteen people, mostly policemen, were killed in Iraq on Monday, after a three-day bombing frenzy as a top US military official warned of increased violence in the days ahead....
Owner of school shot dead in Quetta
QUETTA, July 18: Two men riding a motorbike gunned down the owner of a school, Syed Tahir Reza Rizvi, and injured his wife on Monday. The assailants opened fire on Tahir...
No Pakistani involved in UK bombings, says Rashid
RAWALPINDI, July 18: Information and Media Development Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad has said that no Pakistani was involved in the bomb blasts in London. Talking to journalists at a function on...
WASHINGTON, July 18: US President George W. Bush on Monday refused to guarantee the inviolability of the Line of Control saying that such a decision could only be taken by the leaders of India and Pakistan....
MIRAMSHAH, July 18: The Pakistan army and paramilitary troops conducted a seven-hour search operation against foreign and tribal militants in Qutabkhel village, 5km south of Miramshah, on Monday, sources told Dawn....
QUETTA, July 18: Two men riding a motorbike gunned down the owner of a school, Syed Tahir Reza Rizvi, and injured his wife on Monday. The assailants opened fire on Tahir...
