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Accord reached on new bus route with India
NEW DELHI, Sept 28: India and Pakistan on Wednesday agreed to start a bus service in October linking two cities on either side of their only border crossing as part of an ongoing peace process, an official here said....
Aviation talks end without accord
RAWALPINDI, Sept 28: Pakistan and India on Wednesday held in-depth discussions on adding more destinations, designation of multiple airlines and increasing frequency of flights....
Positions’ verification delays Siachen pullout
NEW DELHI, Sept 28: India and Pakistan are agreed on the need to withdraw troops from the Siachen Glacier but are stuck on verifying each other’s positions before they pull back, the Indian defence minister said on Wednesday....
Iran move to keep IAEA out: Bill in parliament
TEHRAN, Sept 28: Iran’s parliament voted on Wednesday to speed discussion of a bill that would force the government to scale back its cooperation with the UN atomic watchdog, state media reported....
Iran-India gas deal ‘in trouble’
NEW DELHI, Sept 28: Iran has put India on notice over a controversial vote at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) governing board meeting on Saturday, saying that its offer to...
‘US offer changed India’s Iran policy’
WASHINGTON, Sept 28: A day after the White House publicly appreciated India’s support to its efforts to censure Iran over the nuclear dispute, a senior US lawmaker said on Wednesday that...
‘Most wanted terrorist’ arrested
ISLAMABAD, Sept 28: Security forces have arrested a man described by an official as the ‘most wanted terrorist’. The man has been identified as Asif Chotu, the chief of the banned Lashkar-i-Jhangvi outfit....
13 devotees die in accident
SUKKUR, Sept 28: Thirteen devotees, including five of a family, were killed and 20 others suffered injuries in a road accident near Dadloi, taluka Pano Aqil, some 35km from Sukkur, on Wednesday....
Irsa estimates 17pc water shortage
ISLAMABAD, Sept 28: The Indus River System Authority (Irsa) on Wednesday estimated about 17 per cent water shortage during Rabi, and Sindh demanded ‘full’ implementation of the 1991 Water Accord for...
Musharraf for women empowerment
RAWALPINDI, Sept 28: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday said that his government had been working for socio-economic reforms and empowerment of women in the country....
Aziz holds talks with S. Korean leaders today
SEOUL, Sept 28: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz arrived here on a three-day visit that would focus on boosting economic, trade and investment cooperation with the Pacific rim country ....
Seven killed as train rams into pick-up
HARIPUR, Sept 28: Seven occupants of a pick-up were killed and nine injured, four of them seriously, when the vehicle was hit by a train near Shah Maqsood, four kilometres from here, on Wednesday....
War not on agenda, says Britain
BRIGHTON (England), Sept 28: Military action against Iran over its nuclear ambitions is not on the agenda of the United States or Europe, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said on Wednesday....
Suicide bomber kills 12 in Afghanistan
KABUL, Sept 28: At least 12 people were killed and 29 wounded when a suicide bomber dressed in an army uniform rammed a motorcycle into a convoy of buses carrying Afghan army officers in Kabul on Wednesday....
Woman suicide bomber kills five in Iraq
TAL AFAR, Sept 28: An Iraqi woman suicide bomber blew herself up outside a US military office in the northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar on Wednesday, killing herself and at least five others and wounding 53, police said....
Terrorism bid foiled
MIRAMSHAH, Sept 28: Acting on a tif, paramilitary forces foiled an attempt of sabotage by defusing three missiles in the North Waziristan Agency....
Railway track blown up
HYDERABAD, Sept 28: A bomb blew up a one-foot portion of railway track near the Kotri railway station on Wednesday night. The bomb planted on the track exploded when a labourer who was crossing the line steped on it....
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Editor: Tahir Mirza
SUKKUR, Sept 28: Thirteen devotees, including five of a family, were killed and 20 others suffered injuries in a road accident near Dadloi, taluka Pano Aqil, some 35km from Sukkur, on Wednesday....
