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Pakistan-India peace vital for region: Karzai
KABUL, Aug 28: Peace between India and Pakistan is vital for the region, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Sunday, as he called for the three countries to work together to defeat terrorism....
New Delhi to seek extradition treaty
NEW DELHI, Aug 28: India will pitch for an extradition treaty with Pakistan on Monday when their home secretaries start a two-day discussion here on terrorism and drug trafficking mandated by the confidence building measures, Indian Home Secretary V....
Blast kills two soldiers
MIRAMSHAH, Aug 28: Two soldiers were killed when an army truck was blown up in the Shawal area, some 65km west of the North Waziristan Agency headquarters on Saturday....
NA session may be stormy
ISLAMABAD, Aug 28: Opposition members are expected to protest against alleged rigging of the local government elections during the National Assembly session beginning on Monday, adding to the political tension in the country....
MMA leadership in bid to save alliance
ISLAMABAD, Aug 28: A crucial meeting of the supreme council of the six-party Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal will be held on Monday in a bid to save it from breaking apart following decisions...
Power tariff may go up by 5pc in September
ISLAMABAD, Aug 28: The tariff for all companies of the Water and Power Development Authority is likely to be increased by an average of five per cent or more than 20 paisa per unit in the second week of September....
Mirwaiz may meet Musharraf, Singh
NEW DELHI, Aug 28: Jammu and Kashmir’s spiritual leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said on Sunday he expected to meet Indian and Pakistani leaders next month at the head of an All Parties Hurriyat Conference delegation....
Polling largely peaceful in Qila Abdullah
QUETTA, Aug 28: Polling was held amid tight security in 25 union councils of Qila Abdullah district in the second phase of local body elections on Sunday....
Sunnis reject Iraq constitution draft
BAGHDAD, Aug 28: Iraq’s Shia-dominated parliament on Sunday completed its work on a constitution, which was at once rejected by Sunnis, who said it would be thrown out in an October referendum....
Malaysia to keep an eye on expelled students
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 28: About 200 Malaysian students ordered out of Pakistan’s madrassahs, or Islamic seminaries, in July will be watched by police in case they have been exposed to militant activities, local media said on Sunday....
Indian troops kill four in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, Aug 28: Indian troops on Sunday killed four militants in a clash along the LoC, the Indian army said. “The militants were killed near the Line of Control by...
Afghan election candidate shot dead
KABUL, Aug 28: Taliban fighters on Saturday shot dead a parliamentary candidate amid a spate of violence that has raised security fears ahead of Afghanistan’s elections....
10 die in accident
BAHAWALPUR, Aug 28: Ten people, including a woman and her two children, were killed in a road accident near Ahmedpur East bypass, about 50 kilometres from here on Sunday....
Israeli bus station hit by suicide bomber
BEERSHEBA (Israel), Aug 28: A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up, critically wounded two guards at an Israeli bus station on Sunday in the first such attack since the eviction of Jewish settlers from Gaza and part of the West Bank....
US city faces threat of ‘catastrophic’ hurricane
NEW ORLEANS, Aug 28: Authorities ordered a massive evacuation of New Orleans on Sunday amid fears of a catastrophic hit by Hurricane Katrina, which barrelled toward the low-lying southern US city with winds of 280 kilometres....
Mujahideen seek release of Indian blast convict
MUZAFFARABAD, Aug 28: Kashmiri Mujahideen groups on Sunday called upon Islamabad to seek from New Delhi clemency for an innocent Kashmiri before accepting the mercy petition for an Indian terror convict....
JUI-F nominee claims majority support PESHAWAR, Aug 28: Haji Ghulam Ali,
nominated by Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (F) for the post of city district nazim, has
claimed to have backing of the 60 per cent of the nazims and councillors-elect.....
Alliances await CM’s nod for Khushab slots SARGODHA, Aug 28: In
the wake of union council elections, the two major rival groupings, Awan
alliance and Sumera-Tiwana alliance, have boosted their efforts to clinch top
slots in Khushab district and its tehsils, while awaiting Punjab chief ministers
patronage.....
BAGHDAD, Aug 28: Iraq’s Shia-dominated parliament on Sunday completed its work on a constitution, which was at once rejected by Sunnis, who said it would be thrown out in an October referendum....
NEW ORLEANS, Aug 28: Authorities ordered a massive evacuation of New Orleans on Sunday amid fears of a catastrophic hit by Hurricane Katrina, which barrelled toward the low-lying southern US city with winds of 280 kilometres....
