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Unfair profiling of Muslims criticized: Asean forum meeting
VIENTIANE, July 29: Foreign ministers at Asia’s largest security dialogue spoke out on Friday against tendencies to stereotype Muslims as possible terrorists, addressing growing concern among the group’s Islamic members....
US accepts need for pipeline: Singh
NEW DELHI, July 29: Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh appeared to assure parliament on Friday that the Iran gas pipeline project was no issue with the United States as President George W....
Suspected militant killed in Miramshah
MIRAMSHAH (North Waziristan), July 29: A suspected militant was killed and three others, including a foreigner, were arrested after security forces raided a house near a madressah here on Thursday night, sources said....
SC restores Balochistan assembly lawmaker
ISLAMABAD, July 29: The Supreme Court on Friday allowed Hafiz Hamdullah, the health minister of Balochistan, to stay in his office till the final disposal of appeal against his disqualification by the Balochistan High Court....
NWFP to accept SC verdict on Hasba
ISLAMABAD, July 29: NWFP Law Minister Malik Zafar Azam, who had piloted Hasba Bill in the provincial assembly, said on Friday that the MMA-led provincial government would accept as verdict whatever...
Pakistan is doing more than its share: FM: Fight against terrorism
VIENTIANE, July 29: Pakistan is doing ‘more than its share’ in the fight against terrorism, Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri told AFP on Friday after agreeing to cooperate with Southeast Asian nations against the violence....
White House slams remarks against holy sites
WASHINGTON, July 29: The White House has joined other government departments and civil rights groups in condemning a Republican lawmaker who had suggested that the US should target Islamic holy sites...
Rumours spark stampede in Mumbai; 18 dead
MUMBAI, July 29: Eighteen people died in a stampede in Mumbai on Thursday night after rumours that a lake had burst its banks. The deaths took the toll from days of rains flooding western India to over 900....
India reassured on militant camps
RAWALPINDI, July 29: President Pervez Musharraf tried on Friday to ease Indian concerns over reports that militant camps were re-opening on Pakistan’s side of the ceasefire line dividing the disputed territory of Kashmir....
Suicide attack kills 25 in Iraq
BAGHDAD, July 29: A suicide bomber blew himself up amidst a group of army recruits in northern Iraq on Friday, killing 25 people and wounding 35, In Baghdad, Sunnis staged a protest against alleged government torture....
Bombing suspect held in Rome
LONDON, July 29: British police on Friday arrested two more of the suspected bombers they had been hunting over failed attacks on London’s transport system. In Rome, Italy’s interior minister said...
Move to boost stock market
KARACHI, July 29: A decision taken by the Adviser to the PM on Finance, Dr Salman Shah, on Friday would enhance the investors’ capacity to trade in stocks using margin finance....
Washington hails edict against terrorism
WASHINGTON, July 29: Leading Muslim scholars across the world are condemning those who use their religion to commit acts of terror and violence, says the US State Department....
Militants slit throats of five in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, July 29: Suspected militants killed five Hindu men by slitting their throats in a remote village in held Kashmir, police said on Friday. They said three armed men attacked a...
Over 300 women file papers in Frontier
PESHAWAR, July 29: More than 300 women candidates have filed papers to stand in local elections in NWFP, defying a ban called by clerics in the region, activists said on Friday....
Saddam appears before tribunal
BAGHDAD, July 29: The Iraqi Special Tribunal trying Saddam Hussein on Friday released photographs of the toppled leader being questioned on the suppression of Kurdish and Shia uprisings in 1991....
Musharraf condoles with Manmohan
NEW DELHI, July 29: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Friday spoke to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and conveyed his condolences on the death and damage caused by heavy rains in Maharashtra....
Decision on dams after committee report: PM
ISLAMABAD July 29: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Friday that the work on construction of big water reservoirs would be taken in hand after the A.N.G...
Shahbaz sees Zardari
LAHORE, July 29: PML-N President Mian Shahbaz Sharif inquired after the health of PPP leader Asif Ali Zardari in London on Thursday night and also exchanged views with him on political situation in Pakistan....
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VIENTIANE, July 29: Pakistan is doing ‘more than its share’ in the fight against terrorism, Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri told AFP on Friday after agreeing to cooperate with Southeast Asian nations against the violence....
BAGHDAD, July 29: The Iraqi Special Tribunal trying Saddam Hussein on Friday released photographs of the toppled leader being questioned on the suppression of Kurdish and Shia uprisings in 1991....
