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India calls for release of 450 prisoners
ISLAMABAD, Aug 20: The Indian government has called for immediate release of 450 Indian prisoners languishing in different jails of Pakistan. A request through diplomatic channels has already been made to...
Drive to cleanse judiciary likely
ISLAMABAD, Aug 20: A meeting of the Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan on Saturday proposed substitution of punishment in the Zina (Enforcement of Hudood Ordinance) and sought a report from...
Islamabad, Dhaka vow to curb terror
ISLAMABAD, Aug 20: Pakistan and Bangladesh have reiterated their resolve to make efforts to curb terrorism in all its forms and manifestations. According to a joint statement issued at the conclusion...
Pope urges Muslims to fight intolerance
COLOGNE (Germany), Aug 20: Pope Benedict XVI called on Muslim leaders on Saturday to fight the rancour and intolerance which he said was at the root of the terrorist violence seeking to poison ties between Christians and Muslims....
Pakistan team to meet IAEA officials: Iranian uranium
VIENNA, Aug 20: The UN nuclear watchdog is to meet here next week with Pakistani officials as part of its efforts to determine if Iran was using smuggled Pakistani equipment to...
Investment climate conducive: PM
ISLAMABAD, Aug 20: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Saturday said that Pakistan had turned into a hub of foreign investment owing to the government’s privatisation and investor-friendly policies....
‘Extremism in US prisons a threat’
NEW YORK, Aug 20: The arrest of three Muslims in an alleged terror plot in Los Angeles has put the focus on religious instruction given to inmates in the California’s state corrections system, a newspaper said on Saturday....
11 Pakistani workers kidnapped in Iraq
KUWAIT CITY, Aug 20: Insurgents in Iraq have abducted a bus including 11 Pakistanis and demanded in return KD 60,000 to release them, sources told Dawn....
BD paralysed by strike over blasts
DHAKA, Aug 20: Bangladesh was hit on Saturday by a nationwide strike called by the opposition to protest at a wave of bombings earlier in the week which has been linked to an Islamic extremist group....
Need for inter-faith talks stressed
LAHORE, Aug 20: Ruling Pakistan Muslim League president Chaudhry Shujaat Husain would soon meet President Pervez Musharraf to request him to take an initiative to avert ‘an imminent clash of civilizations’....
Kashmir leader invited to OIC meeting
NEW DELHI, Aug 20: The Organization of Islamic Conference has invited Democratic Freedom Party president Shabir Ahmad Shah to attend the forthcoming ministerial meeting of the OIC in New York next month....
20 killed in Afghan bus crash
KANDAHAR, Aug 20: At least 20 people were killed and 28 injured on Saturday when two buses collided on a highway in the southern Afghanistan, police said....
Diplomat drowns
KARACHI, Aug 20: A Russian diplomat was feared drowned on Saturday off the Sandspit beach. Officials in the fire brigade emergency rescue centre said Russian diplomat Vissile, 43, his wife, son...
Expansion plan
RIYADH, Aug 20: Newly crowned Saudi King Abdullah has allocated 1.25 billion dollars for expansion work at the Prophet’s Mosque in Madina, official media said on Saturday....
Armyman hanged
MULTAN, Aug 20: An army man accused of plotting to kill President Gen Pervez Musharraf was executed inside the New Central Jail here early Saturday morning....
2 die in French aircraft crash
LYON, Aug 20: A fire-fighting aircraft crashed on Saturday as it was tackling a blaze in southeastern France, killing the two crew members on board, French officials said....
BD offered support for Saarc summit
ISLAMABAD, Aug 20: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Saturday that Pakistan looked forward to the summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation in Dhaka and assured full support to Bangladesh to make it a success....
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ISLAMABAD, Aug 20: A meeting of the Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan on Saturday proposed substitution of punishment in the Zina (Enforcement of Hudood Ordinance) and sought a report from...
COLOGNE (Germany), Aug 20: Pope Benedict XVI called on Muslim leaders on Saturday to fight the rancour and intolerance which he said was at the root of the terrorist violence seeking to poison ties between Christians and Muslims....
