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IAEA asks Iran to freeze enrichment: Tehran rejects resolution
VIENNA, Aug 11: The governing board of the UN nuclear watchdog unanimously called on Iran on Thursday to halt sensitive atomic work it resumed this week, a demand Tehran immediately rejected as unacceptable and illegal....
Pakistan test-fires its first cruise missile
ISLAMABAD, Aug 11: Pakistan on Thursday successfully test-fired its first nuclear-capable Ground Launched Cruise Missile (GLCM), Hatf VII, and joined a select group of countries capable of developing the ground-hugging projectiles....
Pakistan pavilion at Nagoya expo disappoints Aziz
HONG KONG, Aug 11: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz arrived here on Thursday on the second leg of his week-long visit to Japan and Hong Kong to market Pakistan as an investment...
Committee to review foreign-funded plans: Reducing debt burden
ISLAMABAD, Aug 11: The government has decided to review major foreign-funded development projects worth around $10 billion with a view to reducing the country’s debt burden and ensuring its transparent usages....
APC warns of joint action, resignation
ISLAMABAD, Aug 11: Opposition parties on Thursday announced to launch ‘a movement for an active struggle against dictatorship from a single platform’ and said their lawmakers ‘might consider resigning from the assemblies’ as part of the movement....
No terror link to Pakistani suspect held in Paris
PARIS, Aug 11: A Pakistani man arrested with forged British passports at a Paris airport has no apparent link to any terrorist plot, French prosecutors said on Thursday, adding that his case was now being handled as a standard criminal matter....
Doubts raised over probe findings: Attack on Indian parliament
NEW DELHI, Aug 11: Leading Indian human rights activists on Thursday raised serious doubts about the mysterious attack on the Indian parliament in December 2001 and alleged that the ensuing war...
Singh apologises to Sikhs for riots
NEW DELHI, Aug 11: Eager to limit damage to his Congress party, India’s first Sikh prime minister, Manmohan Singh, apologised on Thursday for riots two decades ago that killed nearly 3,000 Sikhs and were blamed on the Congress....
10 in UK face deportation
LONDON, Aug 11: Ten foreigners were detained on Thursday and face deportation from Britain on national security grounds, signalling the start of an expected crackdown on hard line Islamists in the wake of last month’s bombings in London....
Bush hints at US visa for Iranian president
WASHINGTON, Aug 11: US President George Bush indicated on Thursday that the new Iranian president would receive a US visa to attend the annual session of the UN General Assembly in New York....
Afghan DPs defy order to leave camps
PESHAWAR, Aug 11: Thousands of Afghan refugees are defying orders of the Pakistani authorities to leave camps in the border region which are being closed because of security concerns, representatives said on Thursday....
Washington says missile test not provocative
WASHINGTON, Aug 11: The US State Department said on Thursday that Pakistan’s latest missile test was neither threatening nor provocative. Commenting on the test hours after Pakistan confirmed that it had...
UN’s mission for Iraq renewed
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 11: The UN Security Council on Thursday unanimously renewed the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI). Tasks of the mission range from coordinating various humanitarian operations to...
SC seeks EC opinion on sanads
LAHORE, Aug 11: The Supreme Court on Thursday sought the opinion of the Election Commission of Pakistan on the question of entertaining the ‘sanads’ of Shahadatus Sanvia as qualification of candidates contesting local elections as nazims or naib nazims....
Oil prices surge to record $66
LONDON, Aug 11: World oil prices rocketed to historic peaks as high as 66 dollars on Thursday, owing to huge speculative buying, sky-high global demand and continued refinery outages in the US, analysts said....
Lebanon detains radical cleric Omar Bakri
BEIRUT, Aug 11: Radical Muslim cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed, who risks possible treason charges in his adopted home country of Britain, was detained in Lebanon on Thursday, security sources said....
Saddam trial may start in two months
BAGHDAD, Aug 11: The trial of Saddam Hussein could begin within the next two months, a source close to the Iraqi Special Tribunal that will try the former dictator, said on Thursday....
Four killed in Ferozwala election rally
GUJRANWALA, Aug 11: Four people were killed and 17 injured when election rivals traded fire in union council 113, Ferozwala, on Thursday night. Police said an election meeting of Chaudhry Iqbal...
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Editor: Tahir Mirza
ISLAMABAD, Aug 11: Pakistan on Thursday successfully test-fired its first nuclear-capable Ground Launched Cruise Missile (GLCM), Hatf VII, and joined a select group of countries capable of developing the ground-hugging projectiles....
