Welcome to DAWN, Pakistan's most widely circulated English language newspaper
Updated round-the-clock, with a major update before 10:00 PST (05:00 GMT)
Aziz denies policy shift on Israel recognition: Heated debate in NA
ISLAMABAD, Sept 2: Rejecting opposition’s charges of a policy U-turn, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Friday that Pakistan would not recognize Israel before an independent Palestinian state was established and...
Musharraf’s ‘chance meeting’ with Sharon likely
WASHINGTON / NEW YORK, Sept 2: President Pervez Musharraf may have a “chance meeting” with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in New York later this month, Ambassador Gen (retd) Jehangir Karamat told Dawn on Friday....
Next round of composite talks from Jan
ISLAMABAD, Sept 2: Pakistan and India have agreed on a schedule for the third round of the composite dialogue that would commence in January 2006 and conclude by July the same year....
President calls for progress on Kashmir
ISLAMABAD, Sept 2: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Friday called for progress towards an ‘acceptable’ solution of the Kashmir problem when he received the Indian foreign secretary who said he drew...
Gas transit fee procedure agreed with Delhi
ISLAMABAD, Sept 2: Pakistan and India have agreed to adopt international standards for calculating transit fee for the Iran to India pipeline and to jointly ask Iran to get an independent third party certification of dedicated gas reserves for the $7.2...
Advani urges Musharraf to free spy
NEW DELHI, Sept 2: Indian opposition leader Lal Kishan Advani on Friday made a personal appeal to President Pervez Musharraf to spare the life of a condemned Indian spy Sarabjit after his family joined Mr Advani’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)....
ARD plans tough stand on ’07 polls
LAHORE, Sept 2: The PPP and the PML-N, two major components of the ARD, have decided not to take part in the general election to be held under the supervision of...
US lifts curbs on six Indian nuclear units
WASHINGTON, Sept 2: The United States has lifted curbs on exports to six Indian civilian nuclear and space units, a State Department official told Dawn in Washington on Friday....
Questions about Iran N-plan remain: IAEA
VIENNA, Sept 2: The UN nuclear watchdog said on Friday questions remained about Iran’s nuclear programme and that Tehran had resumed activities suspended under a deal with the EU, setting the stage for possible referral to the UN Security Council....
US soldier, interpreter killed in Afghanistan
KABUL, Sept 2: One US soldier and an Afghan interpreter were killed in a gun battle in southern Afghanistan, the American military said on Friday. The US and Afghan coalition forces...
Chaos grips US city
NEW ORLEANS, Sept 2: The authorities in Louisiana state on Friday deployed 7,000 soldiers, including 300 Iraq-hardened ones, to New Orleans with shoot-to-kill orders as the city fell deeper into chaos...
4 Russian troops die in Chechnya attacks
VLADIKAVKAZ (Russia) Sept 2: Four Russian soldiers were killed in the latest fighting in Chechnya, a government said on Friday. The four were killed, and one other soldier was injured, in...
Missing Japanese feared dead in Kandahar
KANDAHAR, Sept 2: The bodies of two people found shot dead in southern Afghanistan are likely to be those of Japanese tourists who vanished last month, a provincial governor said on Friday....
Bhagwandas acting CJ
KARACHI, Sept 2: Justice Rana Bhagwandas, senior most judge of the Supreme Court, took oath as acting Chief Justice of Pakistan at a simple and impressive ceremony held at the Karachi registry on Friday....
1,110kg opium seized
QUETTA, Sept 2: The Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) Balochistan raided a hut in the outskirts of Quetta and seized a large quantity of opium. According to sources, the ANF staff, on a...
NA condoles Iraq deaths
ISLAMABAD, Sept 2: The National Assembly on Friday condoled the death of some 1,000 Iraqis in stampede at the tomb of Imam Musa Kazim. Through a joint resolution tabled on behalf...
PIA suspends five flights
KARACHI, Sept 2: PIA on Friday announced cancellation of five Fokker flights during the period from September 4 to 12. According to a PIA announcement, the flights will remain suspended during...
Fingerprint identification system launched
ISLAMABAD, Sept 2: The National Police Bureau (NPB) has started a project to set up a scientific Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) to enhance operational capacity of the police in combating...
NEW ORLEANS, Sept 2: The authorities in Louisiana state on Friday deployed 7,000 soldiers, including 300 Iraq-hardened ones, to New Orleans with shoot-to-kill orders as the city fell deeper into chaos...
KARACHI, Sept 2: Justice Rana Bhagwandas, senior most judge of the Supreme Court, took oath as acting Chief Justice of Pakistan at a simple and impressive ceremony held at the Karachi registry on Friday....
