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G-20 calls for end to unfair trade terms: Joint declaration
BHURBAN, Sept 10: The G-20 ministers’ conference on Saturday adopted a joint declaration, calling upon developed countries to show flexibility in their stance on agriculture issues, which was central to the Doha Development Agenda (DDA)....
Dissolution of NA echoes in house: Lack of quorum mars proceedings
ISLAMABAD, Sept 10: The government faced another embarrassing day in the National Assembly on Saturday when Speaker Chaudhry Amir Hussain had to adjourn the sitting without taking up a single item on the agenda due to lack of quorum....
Dutch court loses Dr Qadeer’s files, judge suspects CIA
AMSTERDAM, Sept 10: The Amsterdam court, which sentenced the father of Pakistan’s nuclear programme Abdul Qadeer Khan to four years in prison in 1983, has lost Khan’s legal files and the...
Quaid’s death anniversary today
KARACHI, Sept 10: The 57th death anniversary of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah will be observed on Sunday with due solemnity....
Fingerprint system at local level from Dec
ISLAMABAD, Sept 10: The national Automated Fingerprints Identification System (AFIS) will be linked with all provincial headquarters and 52 districts by December 2005 to fight terrorism and other organized crimes, says an official report....
Troops move into Shawal; seven held
MIRAMSHAH (North Waziristan), Sept 10: Regular troops moved into the mountainous Shawal region in the North Waziristan Agency on Saturday to search for militants and bust their hideouts....
Helicopter fired at
QUETTA, Sept 10: A helicopter of the federal interior ministry escaped a firing incident in Marwar area of Mach, some 65 km, east of here on Saturday....
Five killed as firework material explodes
SHEIKHUPURA, Sept 10: Five people, including two women, were killed and three received critical burn wounds when firework material exploded in a Sharqpur village on Saturday....
President leaves for NY today
ISLAMABAD, Sept 10: President Gen Pervez Musharraf who is all set to leave for New York on Sunday will have an extremely busy schedule there and would visit the US Centcom Headquarters in Tampa, Florida on his way back to Pakistan....
150 dead as US, Iraqi forces attack Tal Afar: Border with Syria sealed
BAGHDAD, Sept 10: Iraqi and US troops pressed on Saturday with an all-out offensive to wrest control of a town from Sunni Arab insurgents, with the Iraqis reporting nearly 150 rebels killed and the town mayor resigning in protest....
30 militants killed in Afghanistan: Candidate survives attempt on life
KABUL, Sept 10: At least 30 suspected Taliban militants have been killed during an ongoing operation by Afghan and US-led forces in southern Afghanistan a week before parliamentary elections, the defence ministry said on Saturday....
Bush to hold bilateral talks with Musharraf next week
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 10: US President George W. Bush will hold only three bilateral meetings with international leaders, including Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf, during his shortened stay at the UN General...
Americans remember 9/11 as deadly day
NEW YORK, Sept 10: As the families of victims of the Sept 11 attacks prepare to mark a fourth anniversary of the deadly day, plans for the World Trade Centre site remain mired in controversy....
Singh to raise spy issue with president
NEW DELHI, Sept 10: Indian Foreign Minister Kunwar Natwar Singh reaffirmed on Saturday that the issue of a death sentence on an alleged Indian spy in Pakistan would be discussed in...
Four students die in roof collapse
VEHARI, Sept 10: Four students of a religious institution were killed while nine others received injuries on Saturday when the roof of their classroom collapsed at Chak 435/EB, Burewala tehsil....
Morocco and Bahrain PMs briefed
ISLAMABAD, Sept 10: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Saturday talked to Prime Minister of Bahrain Shaikh Khalifa Bin Salman Al-Khalifa and Prime Minister of Morocco Driss Jetto by telephone....
Pakistan bans arrival of Surbajeet’s family
AMRITSAR, Sept 10: Pakistan has banned the arrival of the family of a prisoner and spy of Indian agency RAW, Surbajeet Singh, who has been sentenced to death....
371 Indians released
KARACHI, Sept 10: The government has released 371 Indian fishermen from Landhi prison following an agreement between Pakistan and Indian foreign secretaries in New Delhi last week, officials said here on Saturday....
KARACHI, Sept 10: The 57th death anniversary of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah will be observed on Sunday with due solemnity....
