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Musharraf, Singh may agree on new CBMs
NEW YORK, Sept 13: Pakistan is hoping that Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh may announce dates for visiting Islamabad after his talks with President Pervez Musharraf here on Wednesday, diplomatic sources told Dawn....
De-escalation in Siachen, Kashmir to top agenda
NEW DELHI, Sept 13: Military de-escalation in the Siachen glacier is likely to get the elusive political clearance in New York on Wednesday at the summit talks between Indian Prime Minister...
End to inter-faith friction stressed: Palestine, Kashmir issues
NEW YORK, Sept 13: President Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday urged world governments to resolve long-standing disputes and ensure a just distribution of economic benefits if they wanted to fight extremism....
‘Fencing of border Kabul’s problem’
PESHAWAR, Sept 13: Corps Commander, Peshawar, Lt-Gen Safdar Hussain on Tuesday said that fencing of the border with Afghanistan was not Pakistan’s problem but he was sending 5,000 more troops to seal the frontier....
Victims’ kin can pardon Sarbajeet: FM
NEW DELHI, Sept 13: An Indian national on death row in Pakistan convicted as a spy and of setting bombs that killed several people could get mercy from the victims’ families,...
Indian spy’s sentence well-deserved, says SC
ISLAMABAD, Sept 13: The Supreme Court in its detailed judgment on Appeals filed by convicted Indian spy Manjeet Singh alias Sarbajeet Singh, said on Tuesday that his sentence well-deserved and he did not warrant any leniency....
‘Stranger in the chair’ row
ISLAMABAD, Sept 13: Opposition parties blocked the start of a Senate session for more than two hours on Tuesday and then drowned out brief proceedings the government pushed through amid protests...
Opposition not allowed to discuss rigging
ISLAMABAD, Sept 13: Opposition members on Tuesday staged a walkout and boycotted the National Assembly proceedings after Speaker Chaudhry Amir Hussain did not allow them to speak on the issue of...
Saarc should be made more viable: Aziz
ISLAMABAD, Sept 13: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Tuesday said the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) should be made more active to ensure progress and prosperity in the region for the benefit of one fifth of world population....
‘Black day’ to mark Musharraf’s UN address
ISLAMABAD, Sept 13: The representative steering committee of the National Leaders Conference has described the Sept 9 strike as successful and as a manifestation of public reaction....
Iraq army kills 14 in Tal Afar
TAL AFAR, Sept 13: The Iraqi army said it killed 14 insurgents and captured 35 on Tuesday as troops chased militants down the narrow streets of the rebel northern town of...
Two shot dead at London store
LONDON, Sept 13: Two people were shot dead in an attack at one of central London’s most exclusive department stores on Tuesday, police said. The victims, a man and a woman...
Shoot-to-kill policy is unchanged: London police
LONDON, Sept 13: A shoot-to-kill policy for suspected suicide bombers was reviewed following the death of an innocent Brazilian man in London but remains in place, Britain’s top police officer said on Tuesday....
Govt response was flawed: Bush: Hurricane havoc
NEW ORLEANS, Sept 13: Two weeks after Hurricane Katrina lashed the Gulf coast, President George W. Bush on Tuesday accepted responsibility for the first time for the government’s flawed rescue operation....
North Korea vows not to abandon N-plan
BEIJING, Sept 13: North Korea vowed on Tuesday to keep pushing for the right to peaceful atomic energy, putting it on a collision course with the United States as six-way talks on its nuclear weapons drive resumed....
Accord reached
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 13: Negotiators on the final outcome document on the UN reforms reached agreement at the last minute on the watered-down proposals on human rights, terrorism, global security and development diplomats here told Dawn....
PESHAWAR, Sept 13: Security forces have captured 21 militants in a major military operation in North Waziristan, Peshawar Corps Commander Lt-Gen Safdar Hussain said on Tuesday....
