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Nuclear CBM talks begin
NEW DELHI, Aug 5: India and Pakistan on Friday held a third round of experts-level talks on nuclear confidence-building measures (CBM) here with extensive interaction on the issue of pre-notification agreement on missile tests....
UK unveils steps to curb terror: Two radical groups to be banned
LONDON, Aug 5: Britain will ban two radical groups from operating in the country as part of a raft of measures to be introduced following bomb attacks on London last month, Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Friday....
Hizb plans legal battle against ban
LONDON, Aug 5: Hizb ut-Tahrir slammed Prime Minister Tony Blair’s announcement on Friday that it was to be banned in Britain, a move that also prompted concern from a more mainstream Muslim organisation. UK Hizb ut-Tahrir spokesman Imran Waheed branded Mr Blair’s remarks...
Some foreign students engaged in unwanted activities: PM
ISLAMABAD, Aug 5: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Friday that the decision to expel foreign students of madressahs had been taken in view of involvement of some of them in activities which were against national interests....
President stresses debt-reduction policy
ISLAMABAD, Aug 5: President General Pervez Musharraf on Friday appreciated decline brought about in Pakistan’s debt burden in the last six years and underscored the need for having a borrowing strategy...
Rally against Kashmiri’s death sentence
SOPORE, Aug 5: Several hundred Muslims took to the streets in Indian-held Kashmir on Friday to call for the lifting of a death sentence imposed on a man convicted of conspiracy in a deadly 2001 raid on India’s parliament....
Iran rejects EU package on N-issue
TEHRAN, Aug 5: Iran on Friday rejected a broad package of trade and technology incentives offered by the European Union if it agreed to abandon nuclear fuel work, a move that risks an international crisis....
IAEA to discuss Iran on 9th
VIENNA, Aug 5: The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will meet on Aug 9 to examine Iran’s threats to resume nuclear fuel cycle work....
Updated voters’ list to be used: EC
ISLAMABAD, Aug 5: The Election Commission said on Friday returning officers had not been authorized to use under their discretionary powers the electoral rolls prepared for the 2000-01 local government elections....
Britain issues list of ‘unacceptables’
LONDON, Aug 5: Britain’s government on Friday published a list of so-called ‘unacceptable behaviour’ which could see foreign nationals such as militants deported or barred from the country....
Man held by US for jihad training in Pakistan
NEW YORK, Aug 5: A Maryland man, Mahmud Faruq Brent, was arrested on Thursday in Newark, New Jersey, and charged with conspiring to aid terrorism by training to become a jihadi...
Minister accused in ’84 riots case
NEW DELHI, Aug 5: An Indian cabinet minister has been accused of encouraging the violence that saw 2,000 Sikhs killed in a wave of 1984 rioting, media reports said Friday....
Race to save trapped crew of submarine
VLADIVOSTOK, Aug 5: Russia raced on Friday to save seven crewmen trapped on the ocean floor in a submarine with dwindling oxygen supply as three other countries scrambled to help in a deep-sea drama reminiscent of the 2000 Kursk tragedy....
Two US troops drown
KABUL, Aug 5: Two US soldiers drowned when their Humvee vehicle slid into a river in Afghanistan, the military said on Friday. Two other soldiers escaped before the vehicle entered the...
N-CBM talks to yield positive results: FO
ISLAMABAD, Aug 5: Foreign Office spokesman Muhammad Naeem Khan on Friday hoped that the ongoing nuclear confidence-building measures talks with India would yield positive results....
NEW DELHI, Aug 5: India and Pakistan on Friday held a third round of experts-level talks on nuclear confidence-building measures (CBM) here with extensive interaction on the issue of pre-notification agreement on missile tests....
