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Accord on nuke hotline, missile tests with India
NEW DELHI, Aug 6: India and Pakistan on Saturday agreed to set up a nuclear hotline between their foreign secretaries in September, the two sides officially announced at the end of two-day talks on nuclear confidence-building measures....
Convoy escapes bomb attack
MIRAMSHAH, Aug 6: Suspected militants blew up a small bridge on the main Bannu-Miramshah Road on Saturday, slightly damaging a paramilitary vehicle....
Peshawar airport shut as PAF jet crash lands
PESHAWAR, Aug 6: The Peshawar airport was closed for flights after a Pakistan Air Force fighter jet made crash landing on Friday damaging the runway, officials said....
Big water reservoirs needed: president
RAWALPINDI, Aug 6: President General Pervez Musharraf on Saturday said Pakistan needed large water reservoirs for its rapid development in agricultural and industrial sectors, and promised to safeguard interests of all provinces while moving ahead in this regard....
Pipeline ‘fog’ cleared: Aiyar
NEW DELHI, Aug 6: India’s uncertainty over the $7.4 billion gas pipeline from Iran is over and New Delhi is working to getting the project off the ground, Indian Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar said on Saturday....
NFC office awaits nominations
KARACHI, Aug 6: The composition of the National Finance Commission has not been finalized two weeks after its notification as the NFC directorate in Islamabad has been waiting for the nomination of private non-statutory members of the NFC by two provinces....
UN team to install cameras at Iran N-site
VIENNA, Aug 6: A UN inspection team is set to leave for Iran to install cameras “by the middle of next week” to monitor a crucial site where Iran wants to...
Tyranny will not be accepted: Mahmood
TEHRAN, Aug 6: An international crisis loomed Saturday after Iran rejected an EU deal to abandon its sensitive nuclear work as hardline new President Mahmood Ahmadinejad warned at his swearing in ceremony that Tehran would not accept “tyranny”....
US, UK join race to save sub crew
PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY (Russia), Aug 6: Russian, British and US specialists raced on Saturday to save seven sailors trapped in a mini-submarine on the Pacific Ocean floor before they ran out of oxygen....
13 killed in plane crash
ROME, Aug 6: Thirteen people were confirmed dead and three were missing after a plane carrying Italian tourists to Tunisia crash-landed on the sea off Sicily on Saturday, Italian and Tunisian officials said....
Altaf asks people to reject ‘mullahs’
KARACHI, Aug 6: Founder of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement Altaf Hussain on Saturday lashed out at hypocrites and extremist religio-political forces and asked people to overwhelmingly reject ‘mullahs’ in the upcoming...
Aziz meets Abdullah
RIYADH, Aug 6: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Saturday had an audience with King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz at the Royal Palace here. The prime minister expressed his heartfelt condolence over...
Rs6.5bn road plan for foreign trade
ISLAMABAD, Aug 6: The government has decided to promote trade with the Central Asian republics through Afghanistan by enhancing regional connectivity at a cost of Rs6.5 billion....
Annan urged to end deadlock on reform
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 6: The ‘Uniting for Consensus’ (UFC) group led by Pakistan and Italy on Friday urged UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to break an impasse on the Security Council reforms...
Former British FM Robin Cook dead
LONDON, Aug 6: Former British foreign secretary Robin Cook, who quit Prime Minister Tony Blair’s government in protest over the Iraq war, died on Saturday after collapsing on a Scottish mountain....
MIRAMSHAH, Aug 6: Suspected militants blew up a small bridge on the main Bannu-Miramshah Road on Saturday, slightly damaging a paramilitary vehicle....
PESHAWAR, Aug 6: The Peshawar airport was closed for flights after a Pakistan Air Force fighter jet made crash landing on Friday damaging the runway, officials said....
