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Pakistan, India agree to free prisoners: FIA, CBI to cooperate
NEW DELHI, Aug 30: India and Pakistan have agreed to release hundreds of fishermen and other prisoners held in each other’s jails to strengthen their peace process, a joint statement and an Indian official said on Tuesday....
Energy treaty to be signed with India: Move towards gas pipeline plan
ISLAMABAD, Aug 30: Pakistan and India have agreed to sign the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), a global arrangement for security to energy-related trade and investments, as observers to ease import of natural gas through pipelines from Iran, Qatar or Turkmenistan....
Ulema reject registration law
ISLAMABAD, Aug 30: The Tanzimul Madaris Ahle Sunnat (Barelvi) on Tuesday rejected registration of seminaries under the amended law and said it would not cooperate in the process unless their reservations about changes made in the law were removed....
Opposition keeps up assault in NA
ISLAMABAD, Aug 30: Opposition members said they feared worse days ahead while President Pervez Musharraf ruled the country as they kept up their assault on the government on Tuesday in a...
PPP calls off protest against rigging
KARACHI, Aug 30: The Pakistan People’s Party on Tuesday called off the protest rallies it had planned to organize against the “blatant acts of rigging and abuse of power by the state” during the local body polls....
‘Differences in MMA deepen’
ISLAMABAD, Aug 30: Differences in the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA), particularly between its two main components, the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam and Jamaat-i-Islami, appear to be far from resolved, despite ‘all is well’ pronouncements...
Indian HC team meets convict
LAHORE, Aug 30: A two-member delegation of the Indian High Commission on Tuesday visited a fellow countryman who is on death row in the Kot Lakhpat Jail....
Pakistan asked not to pressurize DPs
KABUL, Aug 30: Pakistan should not put pressure on Afghan refugees to return home, Afghanistan said on Tuesday, the eve of a Pakistani deadline for camps to close in a remote region where troops have been battling Islamic militants....
Pakistan may also get N-cooperation from US: expert
WASHINGTON, Aug 30: Pakistan can also receive civilian nuclear cooperation from the US if it can offer guarantees similar to what India is offering in return for the deal it has signed with the US, Stephen P....
Petrol price increase likely today
ISLAMABAD, Aug 30: The federal government is likely to make a sizable increase in prices of petroleum products on Wednesday to partially pass on to consumers the impact of rising international oil prices, now touching $71 a barrel....
Indian official due today
NEW DELHI, Aug 30: The Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran arrives in Islamabad on Wednesday on a three-days official visit to discuss a host of issues with his Pakistani counterpart....
US air strikes leave 56 dead in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Aug 30: US air strikes on suspected Al Qaeda hideouts in Iraq near the Syrian border left at least 56 people dead on Tuesday, an Iraqi security source said....
US hurricane: hundreds feared dead
BILOXI (USA), Aug 30: Helicopters plucked frantic survivors from rooftops of inundated homes on Tuesday and officials said hundreds of people may have died in Hurricane Katrina’s attack on the US...
12 die in bus crash
RAHIM YAR KHAN, Aug 30: Twelve people were burnt alive and eight others injured when a bus caught fire after it touched 11-KV transmission wires on Tuesday....
Nine killed in accident
THATTA, Aug 30: Nine workers were killed and 12 others injured, seven of them critically, on Tuesday when a dumper truck collided head-on with a pick-up coming from the opposite direction...
Expelled Malaysian students face ban
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 30: Some 200 Malaysians expelled from Pakistan’s seminaries will not be allowed into local institutions of higher learning, local media said on Tuesday....
‘280,000 held along Saudi border in six months’
RIYADH, Aug 30: The Saudi authorities have announced that about 280,000 intruders and smugglers were arrested over the past six months by the Saudi border forces, thanks in part to the use of hi-tech cameras placed along the border....
US watching Dawood, says envoy
NEW DELHI, Aug 30: The United States is keeping Indian fugitive Dawood Ibrahim in its sights, US Ambassador to India David Mulford was quoted as saying on Tuesday....
G4 drops plan for UN vote
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 30: The G-4 Japan, Germany, India and Brazil on Monday abandoned efforts to seek a vote on their framework resolution on UN Security Council reforms after their campaign...
Women plan long march against detention
QUETTA, Aug 30: A woman has threatened to organize a long march of women to the Governor’s and Chief Minister’s Houses on Sept 6 in protest against alleged illegal confinement of...
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KABUL, Aug 30: Pakistan should not put pressure on Afghan refugees to return home, Afghanistan said on Tuesday, the eve of a Pakistani deadline for camps to close in a remote region where troops have been battling Islamic militants....
BILOXI (USA), Aug 30: Helicopters plucked frantic survivors from rooftops of inundated homes on Tuesday and officials said hundreds of people may have died in Hurricane Katrina’s attack on the US...
