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Operation part of anti-terror war: Aziz
ISLAMABAD, July 20: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Wednesday said that the ongoing campaign against extremist elements was part of the fight against terrorism and in the national interest which would ensure peace in the country....
Blair says Pakistan dealing with threat
LONDON, July 20: British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Wednesday Pakistan was willing to deal with those madressahs which were preaching extremism. “I have spoken to President Musharraf about this....
UK plans new anti-terror laws
LONDON, July 20: Britain is to rush through new laws to beef up its anti-terrorism legislation following the London bombings, interior minister Charles Clarke said on Wednesday, also announcing moves to stop radical clerics from entering the country....
Arrest denied
ISLAMABAD, July 20: Pakistani government and intelligence officials on Wednesday denied media reports that a major suspected Al Qaeda figure linked to the July 7 London attacks had been arrested....
West radicalized Muslims, says London mayor
LONDON, July 20: Western foreign policy has fuelled the Muslim radicalism behind the bomb attacks which killed more than 50 people in London, the British capital’s Mayor Ken Livingstone said on Wednesday....
6 killed in Kashmir suicide attack
SRINAGAR, July 20: A suicide bomber slammed a car into a military jeep in occupied Kashmir on Wednesday, killing six people — including himself and four soldiers — and wounding 17, police and hospital officials said....
Peace efforts under threat: Manmohan
WASHINGTON, July 20: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh warned Pakistan on Wednesday that he might be forced to suspend peace efforts if Pakistan does not curb militant infiltrations into the Indian zone of divided Kashmir....
N-deal with India not aimed at Pakistan: US
WASHINGTON, July 20: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has assured President Pervez Musharraf that Washington’s nuclear agreement with India was not aimed at Pakistan, a State Department official told Dawn on Wednesday....
Chinese military might alarms US
WASHINGTON, July 20: The White House on Wednesday distanced itself from a Pentagon report which warned that China’s increasingly powerful military is a potential threat to other Asian countries, including India and Japan, and to US military presence in the Pacific....
10 die in Yemen unrest
SANAA, July 20: At least 10 Yemenis were killed and several others wounded in demonstrations on Wednesday over the government’s decision to more than double some fuel prices in the impoverished republic, witnesses said....
Saudi ambassador to US resigns
RIYADH, July 20: Saudi Arabian ambassador to the US, Prince Bandar Bin Sultan, has resigned, and his resignation has been accepted by King Fahd. Prince Bandar Bin Sultan resigned after two...
President’s address today
ISLAMABAD, Jul 20: President General Pervez Musharraf will address the nation over radio and television at 8pm on Thursday.—APP...
Benazir slates Musharraf for allowing fanaticism
ISLAMABAD, July 20: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairperson Benazir Bhutto has criticized President Gen Pervez Musharraf for allowing religious fanaticism to flourish under his nose. She was speaking at a gathering...
BAGHDAD, July 20: A suicide bomber blew himself up outside an army recruiting centre in Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least eight people, as four Sunni Arab members of a commission...
FAISALABAD, July 20: Shahzad Tanveer, the alleged mastermind behind the London bomb blasts, was angry with the killings of the innocent people in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kashmir....
