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Mediation offered on Iran N-issue
ISLAMABAD, Sept 7: Pakistan can mediate or facilitate a peaceful settlement of Iran’s nuclear row with the West if asked by the parties and is against any more violence near its...
Tehran to unveil new initiative: Larijani
ISLAMABAD, Sept 7: Dr Ali Larijani, Secretary of Supreme National Security Council of Iran and the country’s chief nuclear negotiator met the top Pakistani leadership here on Wednesday and held wide-ranging talks that focused on Tehran’s nuclear programme....
Aziz briefs more Arab leaders on contact with Israel
ISLAMABAD, Sept 7: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Wednesday continued with his ‘telephone diplomacy’ on Pakistan’s engagement with Israel, and briefed leaders of three Arab countries — Egypt, Jordan and Syria — on the Kasuri-Shalom meeting in Istanbul last week....
Steps pledged to protect women: Pakistan being unfairly demonized: Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, Sept 7: President General Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday assured government’s all-out support to curb violence against women but denounced individuals, groups and non-governmental organisations who singled out Pakistan on the issue....
Pakistan ranks 135th in human development
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 7: Among the 177 countries covered by the annual UN Human Development Report, Pakistan ranks at 135 while India ranks 127th and Bangladesh 139th....
WB gives $84m for financial reforms
WASHINGTON, Sept 7: The World Bank has approved a credit of $84 million to assist the continued reforms of Pakistan’s public financial management system. The objective of the second improvement to...
Rail track blown up
DERA GHAZI KHAN, Sept 7: Parts of a rail track was blown up by unidentified saboteurs near Cchabri Bala, 10km from here, on Tuesday night. It was the seventh sabotage activity in the district over the past six months....
Tribesmen hand over two suspects
MIRAMSHAH, Sept 7: Tribesmen have handed over two men accused of involvement in the Sept 5 killing of three officials of the political administration of North Waziristan Agency....
Lahore gets 2,000 tons of Indian sugar
LAHORE, Sept 7: A consignment of 2,000 metric tons of white sugar arrived at the local railway station from India on Wednesday after Pakistan lifted a four-year ban on the import....
Masked men kill Arafat’s cousin
GAZA, Sept 7: Scores of masked Palestinian militants dragged former security chief Moussa Arafat from his Gaza home and shot him dead in the street on Wednesday after battling his guards for more than half an hour....
Egyptians vote amid protests
CAIRO, Sept 7: Egyptians voted in their first presidential election on Wednesday, but President Hosni Mubarak’s most prominent rival said widespread abuses undermined the credibility of the vote, which Mr Mubarak is expected to win....-food programme for Iraq....
Annan accepts responsibility: Oil-for-food scandal
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 7: In a most critical report issued on Wednesday the Independent Inquiry Committee faulted the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, Deputy Secretary General Louise Frechette and the UN Security Council for disastrously managed UN oil-for-food programme for Iraq....
Car bomb kills four in Afghanistan
KABUL, Sept 7: A car exploded in a southern Afghan town on Wednesday, killing its three occupants and a passerby, in what appeared to be a bungled suicide attack, a provincial official said....
NSC meets today
ISLAMABAD, Sept 7: The National Security Council (NSC) will meet here on Thursday to discuss various important national issues. Leader of the opposition in the National Assembly Maulana Fazlur Rehman and...
$1m donated for hurricane victims
ISLAMABAD, Sept 7: Pakistan on Wednesday announced a donation of one million dollars to the American Red Cross for the victims of hurricane Katrina. “This contribution is a gesture of the...
Hillary rejects Katrina probe under Bush
WASHINGTON, Sept 7: Senator Hillary Clinton fuelled the political debate in the United States over Hurricane Katrina on Wednesday, insisting on an independent inquiry into the federal response and sharply rejecting President George Bush’s bid to lead the probe himself.... probe himself....
WB pledges $54m to fight polio
ISLAMABAD, Sept 7: The World Bank is preparing another $54 million credit to Pakistan to fight polio in 2005-2006 in addition to a $40 million already provided to the country to eradicate the disease....
Assurance given to ADB on key issues
ISLAMABAD, Sept 7: The visiting president of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Haruhiko Kurodo, has been assured by top Pakistani authorities that issues relating to governance, accountability and transparency were being given top priority to discourage corrupt practices in the country....corrupt practices in the country....
ISLAMABAD, Sept 7: Pakistan can mediate or facilitate a peaceful settlement of Iran’s nuclear row with the West if asked by the parties and is against any more violence near its...
CAIRO, Sept 7: Egyptians voted in their first presidential election on Wednesday, but President Hosni Mubarak’s most prominent rival said widespread abuses undermined the credibility of the vote, which Mr Mubarak is expected to win....-food programme for Iraq....
