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EU draft ready for world bodies: Iran reacts angrily
VIENNA, Sept 20: The EU turned up the pressure on Iran on Tuesday with a draft resolution reporting Tehran’s nuclear programme to the UN Security Council, but Russia and China said the UN nuclear watchdog can handle the issue....
Package of proposals ready: PM: More powers to provinces
ISLAMABAD, Sept 20: The National Reconstruction Bureau (NRB) has prepared a package of proposals for transferring certain powers of taxation and services to the provinces, the prime minister said in a speech....
Pakistan ready to go extra mile for Kashmir solution
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 20: Pakistan is willing to go an extra mile to achieve a just and lasting final settlement of the Kashmir dispute, Foreign Minister Khursheed Kasuri told the Organization of Islamic Conference’s contact group here on Monday....
Kashmir solution needs trust: Qayyum
NEW DELHI, Sept 20: Former AJK prime minister Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan on Tuesday underscored the need for an ambience of trust between Pakistan and India to ensure forward movement towards lasting and durable resolution of Kashmir dispute....
Move to back Kashmir cause, says Mirwaiz
NEW YORK, Sept 20: Pakistan’s decision to engage Israel in a dialogue will also help the Kashmir cause rather than hurting it, APHC Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq told a news conference here on Tuesday after a meeting with OIC foreign ministers....
Tariff raise offered to 12 private power firms
ISLAMABAD, Sept 20: The federal government decided on Tuesday to offer an enhanced tariff of 4.7 cents per unit to about 12 hydel power projects in the private sector instead of 3.1...
Soldier among two dead in Shakai valley blasts
WANA, Sept 20: A soldier and a tribal elder were killed and eight others wounded in two separate bomb blasts in the remote valley of Shakai in South Waziristan Agency, officials said here....
Sindh, Balochistan sections declared most troubled: Security tightened
ISLAMABAD, Sept 20: Railways Minister Mian Shamim Haider said on Tuesday that the Balochistan and Sindh sections of the Railways were the ‘most troubled’ and announced a string of measures to protect trains and rail stations from sabotage attempts....
Witnesses to be called in Benazir’s Swiss case
GENEVA, Sept 20: Pakistan’s former prime minister, Benazir Bhutto, aims to call up to a dozen witnesses on her behalf, the first time she has done so, in Swiss hearings into charges of money laundering, her lawyer said on Tuesday....
N. Korea’s demand for reactor raises stakes
BEIJING, Sept 20: North Korea said on Tuesday it would not dismantle its nuclear weapons until the United States delivered light-water reactors, casting doubt on an agreement heralded as a breakthrough for peace....
German politicians still in disarray
BERLIN, Sept 20: Fears of continuing political instability continued to cast a pall over Germany on Tuesday as politicians struggled to come to terms with unprecedented weekend poll results which have...
UK eases visa policy for Pakistanis
ISLAMABAD, Sept 20: British High Commissioner in Pakistan Mark Lyall Grant has said that his country has eased visa policy for Pakistanis and now the applicants fulfilling the criteria will get visa in five days’ shortest time....
British tanks smash Iraqi jail to free soldiers
BASRA, Sept 20: British tanks smashed the walls of an Iraqi prison to free two undercover British soldiers seized earlier on Monday by Iraqi forces, an Interior Ministry official said....
UK embassy employee behind blast
ZAGREB, Sept 20: Croatian police said on Tuesday that a bomb blast at Britain’s diplomatic mission in Zagreb was caused by an employee who smuggled in the explosive device and set it off in the mailroom, injuring himself in the incident....
14 soldiers die in Manipur ambush
GUWAHATI, Sept 20: Fourteen soldiers were killed in an ambush by heavily-armed militants in one of the deadliest attacks in India’s restive northeastern state of Manipur in years, officials said on Tuesday....
6,000 leave houses in BD for tidal surge
DHAKA, Sept 20: Tidal surge triggered by the depression inundated low-lying areas at Sandwip in Chittagong and forced over 6,000 people to take shelter at local cyclone centres in the past...
3 policemen, 4 Taliban killed
KANDAHAR, Sept 20: Seven people were killed on Tuesday in two separate ambushes in southern Afghanistan, officials said. In the first incident, Taliban rebels attack district police chief Haji Said Wali...
Israel vies for UN seat
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 20: Israel ‘s Deputy Prime Minster and Foreign Minister, Silvan Shalom on Tuesday praised Pakistan for extending “their hand of friendship and recognition” towards the Jewish State as...
UN reform pledge reaffirmed
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 20: Pakistan on Monday reaffirmed its commitment to the reform of the UN Security Council on the basis of formula submitted by Uniting for Consensus (UFC) resolution which stipulates increase of 10 non-permanent seats in the Security Council....
President returns
ISLAMABAD, Sept 20: President General Musharraf returned here on Tuesday evening after attending the 60th UN General Assembly session in New York. He also held meetings with several world leaders....
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NEW DELHI, Sept 20: Former AJK prime minister Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan on Tuesday underscored the need for an ambience of trust between Pakistan and India to ensure forward movement towards lasting and durable resolution of Kashmir dispute....
BASRA, Sept 20: British tanks smashed the walls of an Iraqi prison to free two undercover British soldiers seized earlier on Monday by Iraqi forces, an Interior Ministry official said....
