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Team to visit Gaza next month: FO
ISLAMABAD, Sept 5: A Pakistani delegation will visit Gaza and Al Quds next month at the invitation of Palestinian Authority’s and the trip would be facilitated by the Israeli government, Foreign...
Israel eyes ties with 10 Muslim states
WASHINGTON, Sept 5: Israel hopes to establish diplomatic ties with at least 10 more Arab and Muslim states once the withdrawal of its troops and Jewish settlers from Gaza and the West Bank is completed, according to diplomatic sources....
Kasuri hails Indian PM’s statement
ISLAMABAD, Sept 5: Foreign minister Khurshid Kasuri on Monday welcomed the Indian Prime Minister’s statement that his talks with the APHC leaders would have a positive effect on the Kashmir issue and said Pakistan was in favour of the meeting....
Night curfew in Miramshah: Gunmen kill agency officials
MIRAMSHAH (North Waziristan), Sept 5: Armed men gunned down three officials of the political administration and wounded one Khasadar (personnel of the Levy force) and two passers-by here on Monday....
149 killed as plane crashes in Indonesia
MEDAN (Indonesia), Sept 5: A domestic airliner crashed in a busy residential area of Indonesia’s third biggest city just after takeoff on Monday, killing 102 people aboard and 47 local residents in an inferno on the ground....
Govt move to undo defeat in NA backfires
ISLAMABAD, Sept 5: A government move to undo a parliamentary defeat backfired in the National Assembly on Monday, sparking more opposition protests forcing an early adjournment of the house in commotion....
PML fails to resolve row over LG polls
ISLAMABAD, Sept 5: A meeting of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League (PML) failed on Monday to resolve a row in the party over nomination of candidates for district, tehsil and town nazims....
Aziz criticizes strike call
LAHORE, Sept 5: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has criticized the opposition for practising “negative politics” and threatening a nationwide strike and has urged all lawmakers to use the floor of parliament...
ADB concerned over poverty in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Sept 5: Poverty reduction and lack of implementation capacity remain major challenges to Pakistan and require a lot of effort and strategies in the right direction, according to President Asian Development Bank Haruhiko Kuroda....
Govt focused on people’s uplift, says president
ISLAMABAD, Sep 5: President General Pervez Musharraf said on Monday Pakistan was focused on socio-economic development of its people and pursuing a series of mega-projects to translate recent economic gains into improvement in the lives of the common man....
Six killed in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, Sept 5: Suspected rebels killed six people and injured sixteen in held Kashmir, police said on Monday. Three brothers were shot dead at point-blank range in the southern district of...
India-BD meet on gas project fails
DHAKA, Sept 5: New Delhi on Monday raised objection to linking Dhaka’s three conditions with the proposed tri-nation gas pipeline from Myanmar to India through Bangladesh, while Dhaka continued to stick to its earlier stance on the conditions....
China rejects Indian minister’s remarks
NEW DELHI, Sept 5: India and China were locked in a rare wordy duel on their border dispute on Sunday when a Chinese diplomat publicly rejected Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee’s version...
Russian gas giant sending team for pipeline talks
ISLAMABAD, Sept 5: A high-level delegation of the Russian firm, Gazprom, will visit Pakistan early next month to begin discussions to lead a consortium for the construction of the $7.4...
SC moved on oil price hike
ISLAMABAD, Sept 5: The Supreme Court was moved on Monday to declare pricing formula of the Oil Companies Advisory Committee (OCAC) inconsistent and in derogation of fundamental rights of the people....
Indian minister to visit Murree
NEW DELHI, Sept 5: Indian Commerce Minister Kamal Nath will travel to the hill resort town of Murree, 40kms from Islamabad, on September 8-10 for another round of negotiations among the Group of 20 (G-20) developing countries on global trade talks....
‘More troops on Afghan border’
ISLAMABAD, Sept 5: Pakistan has sent thousands of troop reinforcements to its western border to help stop a Taliban-led insurgency during the Afghan parliamentary election scheduled for Sept 18, according to a military spokesman....
NEW DELHI, Sept 5: India offered hopes on Monday of a widely sought reduction in its troops in Jammu and Kashmir...
MIRAMSHAH (North Waziristan), Sept 5: Armed men gunned down three officials of the political administration and wounded one Khasadar (personnel of the Levy force) and two passers-by here on Monday....
MEDAN (Indonesia), Sept 5: A domestic airliner crashed in a busy residential area of Indonesia’s third biggest city just after takeoff on Monday, killing 102 people aboard and 47 local residents in an inferno on the ground....
