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7,000 more troops to help in relief work: Chaos in New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS, Sept 3: President George Bush ordered thousands of more troops to New Orleans on Saturday to help pull desperate refugees out of the hurricane-ravaged city, force looting gangs off the streets and find the dead....
ARD MPs asked to get ready to resign
ISLAMABAD, Sept 3: Chairman Alliance for Restoration of Democracy Makhdoom Amin Fahim said on Saturday the alliance had asked the legislators belonging to it to get ready to resign from the assemblies....
PA denies backing Istanbul talks
WASHINGTON, Sept 3: The Palestinian Authority (PA) has denied that it gave approval to the Istanbul meeting between the foreign ministers of Pakistan and Israel. Commenting on reports that Pakistan had...
Pipeline pact in December: Natwar
NEW DELHI, Sept 3: Pakistan, India and Iran are expected to sign a pact in December, which will enable them to go ahead with the proposed $7.4...
Civil use of N-energy allowed
ISLAMABAD, Sept 3: The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has mandated Pakistan to extensively use nuclear energy for civilian purposes in agriculture, industrial, health, education and environment sectors....
18 killed in accident
PESHAWAR, Sept 3: Eighteen people, including women and children, were killed and another was seriously wounded in a head-on collision between an oil tanker and a coach on the Indus Highway near the southern Karak district....
Iran to solicit Pakistan’s support on nuclear issue
ISLAMABAD, Sept 3: Iran’s new chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani arrives here on Monday for important consultations with top Pakistani leadership and to solicit Islamabad’s support against possible UN Security Council...
‘Musharraf-Sharon talks not scheduled’
ISLAMABAD, Sept 3: Foreign Office on Saturday clarified that no meeting had been scheduled between President Gen Pervez Musharraf and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon during the coming session of Untied Nations being held in New York this month....
Israel to complete pullout by 15th
TEL AVIV, Sept 3: The Israeli military said on Saturday it would complete its withdrawal from the Gaza Strip by Sept 15, but threatened to strike the territory hard if the Jewish state came under threat....
Goods train derails near Rohri
LAHORE, Sept 3: Rail traffic on the main line connecting Karachi with the rest of the country remained suspended for two hours after a goods train derailed near the Rohri station on Saturday....
Singh vows to keep peace process on track
NEW DELHI, Sept 3: Observing that India-Pakistan ties are improving, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said that he and President Musharraf would ensure that the ongoing peace process between the two countries is irreversible....
Two Hizb men killed in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, Sept 3: Two top members of occupied Kashmir’s most powerful resistant group, Hizbul Mujahideen, were among five people killed in the latest bout of violence in the region, police said on Saturday....
Beslan victims remembered
BESLAN (Russia), Sept 3: Stifling anguished cries, survivors of the Beslan tragedy and relatives of more than 300 dead hostages observed a minute of silence on Saturday at the ruins of School Number One on the anniversary of the disaster....
Warrants for four Lebanese generals
BEIRUT, Sept 3: A Lebanese magistrate issued formal arrest warrants on Saturday against four pro-Syrian generals charged with murder over the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik al Hariri....
Bombs damage pipelines, oil well in Iran
TEHRAN, Sept 3: Small bombs damaged 15 pipelines and one oil well in restive southwestern Iran this week, an official said on Saturday, but quick repairs meant crude output from OPEC’s second exporter was unaffected....
ANP demands dissolution of FCR body
PESHAWAR, Sept 3: The Awami National Party, Khyber Agency has asked the government to abolish the FCR Reforms Committee for what it called due to its partiality....
‘APHC leaders’ talks with Singh to boost peace process’
ISLAMABAD, Sept 3: Islamabad on Friday expressed the hope that the meeting of APHC leaders with the Indian leadership next week would strengthen the ongoing Indo-Pakistan peace process....
BESLAN (Russia), Sept 3: Stifling anguished cries, survivors of the Beslan tragedy and relatives of more than 300 dead hostages observed a minute of silence on Saturday at the ruins of School Number One on the anniversary of the disaster....
