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Country’s image to improve: PM
ISLAMABAD, Aug 18: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Thursday expressed satisfaction over the conduct of the first phase of local body elections in the country and said that these fair, free...
WB offers $2bn for projects
ISLAMABAD, Aug 18: The World Bank has indicated that it will provide $2 billion for infrastructure development in the country, including rehabilitation of roads, railways and port facilities....
Oil prices worrying govt
ISLAMABAD, Aug 18: The government is worried about high international oil prices owing to their inflationary impact but is hopeful that budgetary targets would not go out of hand and the prices would subside in the days ahead....
CEC postpones polling in two UCs of Bolan
ISLAMABAD, Aug 18: Acting Chief Election Commissioner Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar on Thursday deferred till August 21 elections on Muslim (General) seats in Union Councils Haft Wali and Kot Misri of Tehsil Sunni, District Bolan, Balochistan....
Extremist Jews clash with police
KFAR DAROM SETTLEMENT (Gaza Strip), Aug 18: Jewish protesters blockaded in a Gaza Strip synagogue on Thursday threw acid at police in the most violent confrontation since Israel began its pullout from the occupied territory....
China, Russia begin first joint military exercises
BEIJING, Aug 18: China and Russia began their first joint military exercises on Thursday aimed at boosting cooperation between the former adversaries and sending a message to the United States about their growing influence....
90 arrested in BD over bomb blasts
DHAKA, Aug 18: Police have arrested about 90 people in their hunt for criminals who carried out a countrywide wave of almost-simultaneous bomb explosions across Bangladesh on Wednesday....
Four US soldiers killed in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Aug 18: Four US soldiers were killed in Iraq on Thursday, a day after 43 people died in rush-hour Baghdad bombings which the government said sought to create a sectarian crisis in the war-torn country....
‘Kashmiri leaders may meet Singh next month’
ISLAMABAD, Aug 18: Leader of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) Maulana Abbas Ansari said on Thursday that a meeting between Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Kashmiri leaders would take place in September....
Seven die in Kashmir violence
SRINAGAR, Aug 18: Two militants, a policeman and four civilians have been killed in the latest bout of violence in occupied Kashmir, police said on Thursday....
Three told to leave German state
MUNICH, Aug 18: Three activists of the Tablighi Jamaat were ordered to leave the German state of Bavaria on Thursday as part of a crackdown on ‘hate preachers’....
US diplomat provided information to Israeli lobby
NEW YORK, Aug 18: The diplomat holding the second highest position at the United States embassy in Baghdad is one of the anonymous government officials cited in an Aug 4 indictment...
2 US troops killed in Afghanistan
KABUL, Aug 18: Taliban freed a Lebanese hostage and two United States soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan on Thursday. Both incidents involved reconstruction projects....
Top Al Qaeda man in Saudi Arabia dies in gunbattle
RIYADH, Aug 18: Security forces killed the leader of Al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia in a gunbattle in Madina just hours before a visit by newly crowned King Abdullah....
Taliban official arrested
PESHAWAR, Aug 18: A senior Taliban official is being interrogated after being arrested in the NWFP, a security official and the detained man’s son said Thursday....
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Editor: Tahir Mirza
KARACHI, Aug 18: At least 11 people were killed in sporadic incidents of violence in the first phase of the local body elections...
