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Foreigners among 32 killed in Bali blasts
BALI, Oct 1: Three bomb blasts ripped through popular tourist areas on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on Saturday, killing 32 people including foreigners and wounding nearly 90....
Forces enter embattled village
MIRAMSHAH, Oct 1: After overcoming stiff resistance from militants, security forces on Saturday moved into the embattled Khattaki village in the remote tribal region of North Waziristan and began house-to-house search, witnesses and officials said....
Malaysia to support Pakistan’s Asean bid
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 1: Malaysia will support Pakistan’s bid for a Full Dialogue Partner of the Association of South East Asian Nations. Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmed Badawi held out this...
Saarc plans energy centre in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Oct 1: Energy ministers from Saarc member states on Saturday decided to set up a Saarc Energy Centre in Pakistan and to examine the viability of electricity interconnection master plan,...
Expert begins Baglihar dam inspection today
JAMMU, Oct 1: A World Bank-appointed expert said he would begin inspecting on Sunday a controversial dam being built by India in occupied Kashmir. Pakistan fears the one-billion-dollar Baglihar project could deprive Punjab of vital irrigation water....
Natwar, Kasuri to review dialogue
ISLAMABAD, Oct 1: Indian External Affairs Minister, Natwar Singh, who arrives here on Sunday, will hold formal talks with his Pakistani counterpart, Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri, on Monday to assess progress made at the recently concluded second round of the composite dialogue....
Interaction among Kashmiris needed: FM
LAHORE, Oct 1: Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri has said that Kashmiri leaders on both sides of the Line of Control should be afforded more opportunities for interaction as they are in...
US working on incentive to thwart pipeline plan
WASHINGTON, Oct 1: The US is considering a proposal to help Pakistan meet its energy needs as part of its efforts to wean India and Pakistan away from building a pipeline for bringing gas from Iran, officials said....
Iraqi minister’s brother kidnapped
BAGHDAD, Oct 1: The brother of Iraq’s interior minister was kidnapped in Baghdad on Saturday. Abdul Jabar Sulagh, brother of Interior Minister Bayan Baqer Sulagh, was kidnapped in the Al Habibiyah...
US launches operation on Iraq-Syria border
BAGHDAD, Oct 1: Some 1,000 US soldiers on Saturday launched an operation against a ‘terrorist sanctuary’ near Iraq’s border with Syria as violence surged ahead of a referendum on a post-Saddam Hussein constitution....
Imam in NY resigns over 9/11 remarks
NEW YORK, Oct 1: An Imam appointed to New York City’s fire department resigned from his post on Friday before being sworn in amidst storm of controversy over his 9/11 conspiracy remarks....
UK mulls sending more troops to Afghanistan
LONDON, Oct 1: Britain is mulling a plan to send thousands more troops to Afghanistan to help efforts to combat insurgents and drug barons in the volatile south of the country, the defence ministry said on Friday....
Taliban suspect arrested
KABUL, Oct 1: Afghan and US forces arrested a Taliban commander, Gafar, suspected in bomb attacks against coalition forces, in a raid on his home in Ghazni, where he had tried...
Obscurantism must be defeated: Musharraf
KAKUL, Oct 1: President Gen Pervez Musharraf said on Saturday that obscurantist and anti-progress forces must be defeated militarily and socially as they posed the gravest threat to Pakistan’s progress and development....
Jirga helping recover stolen Afghan coins
LANDI KOTAL, Oct 1: Authorities are pressurizing a tribe to surrender millions of afgahnis stolen from containers shipped from France to Afghanistan, sources said....
Kashmir moot in Brussels
ISLAMABAD, Oct 1: The two-day Global Discourse on Kashmir is being held in Brussels, Belgium, from Monday. The discourse, being organized by the International Council for Human Rights, will be attended by leaders from India, Pakistan and both sides of Kashmir....
Amritsar, Lahore bus service in Nov
NEW DELHI, Oct 1: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will flag off the first bus from Amritsar to Lahore early November, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said on Saturday....
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BALI, Oct 1: Three bomb blasts ripped through popular tourist areas on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on Saturday, killing 32 people including foreigners and wounding nearly 90....
ISLAMABAD, Oct 1: Energy ministers from Saarc member states on Saturday decided to set up a Saarc Energy Centre in Pakistan and to examine the viability of electricity interconnection master plan,...
