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Indo-Pakistan ties need to be normalized: PM
RAWALPINDI, July 28: President General Pervez Musharraf while talking to newspaper editors and columnists in Lahore on Monday had claimed that Pakistan had effectively dismantled the Al Qaeda network, making it...
Musharraf, Bush discuss war on terror
WASHINGTON, July 28: US President George W. Bush and President Pervez Musharraf spoke by telephone on Thursday, after Pakistani authorities nabbed a suspect in the murder of a US reporter, the White House said....
India’s heaviest rains leave 786 dead
MUMBAI, July 28: Floods, landslides and building collapses caused by India’s heaviest-ever recorded rainfall have killed...
Blast on Indian train; nine die
LUCKNOW, July 28: At least nine people were killed and up to 40 injured in an explosion on a long-distance passenger train in northern India on Thursday, a senior police officer said....
Anti-terror declaration today
ISLAMABAD, July 28: Pakistan is all set to sign a joint declaration on combating international terrorism with the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) on Friday....
‘Terrorism violates Islam’s spirit’: North American scholars’ edict
WASHINGTON, July 28: In the most far-reaching ruling of its kind in North America, the region’s largest association of Islamic legal scholars issued a Fatwa (edict) on Thursday declaring that terrorism and extremism violated the spirit of Islam....
Advani charged in Babri Mosque case
RAE BAREILLY (India), July 28: India’s former deputy premier Lal Krishna Advani and seven Hindu leaders were charged in court on Thursday with inciting a mob to tear down Babri Mosque,...
Withdrawal date extended
ISLAMABAD, July 28: The Election Commission on Thursday extended till July 29 the date to receive applications for withdrawal of candidature from candidates in the first phase of local body elections....
Human smuggling deadlier than Al Qaeda
RAWALPINDI, July 28: President General Pervez Musharraf while talking to newspaper editors and columnists in Lahore on Monday had claimed that Pakistan had effectively dismantled the Al Qaeda network, making it...
‘Zambia holds bombing mastermind’
WASHINGTON, July 28: CNN television reported on Thursday that a suspected organizer of the London bomb attacks, Haroon Aswat, had been detained in Zambia. The report, which quoted US and Zambian...
Nine more held in London
LONDON, July 28: British police interrogated their first captured London bombing suspect, arrested nine more men, and poured officers into London underground stations on Thursday as chilling details emerged of a large-scale terrorist battle plan....
Algerian diplomats’ killing condemned
ISLAMABAD, July 28: Pakistan on Thursday strongly condemned the killing of two Algerian diplomats in Baghdad by Iraqi insurgents and expressed its deep sense of shock....
114 militants held in Quetta
QUETTA, July 28: Mass detentions overnight in the city took the number of suspected militants and activists arrested nationwide to over 700 during the past week, police said on Thursday....
Aiyar says no US pressure on gas project
NEW DELHI, July 28: Indian Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar on Thursday informed parliament that there was no US ‘pressure’ on New Delhi about the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project....
Fahd to leave hospital soon
RIYADH, July 28: The health of Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd has improved after over two months in hospital, officials said on Thursday, with several common prisoners set to be released to mark his apparent recovery....
Heavy rain forecast for Sindh
KARACHI, July 28: Karachi and most other parts of Sindh are likely to receive heavy downpours. A weather advisory issued by the Met office on Thursday said that a significant monsoon...
IRA ceasing all armed activity
DUBLIN, July 28: The Irish Republican Army (IRA) guerilla group formally announced an end to its armed campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland from 4pm (0800pm PST) on Thursday....
Founder: Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah
Editor: Tahir Mirza
MUMBAI, July 28: Floods, landslides and building collapses caused by India’s heaviest-ever recorded rainfall have killed...
