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PM seeks early end to Kashmir row: Delhi asked to show courage
ISLAMABAD Oct 4: Pakistan on Tuesday expressed satisfaction with the ongoing composite dialogue with India, but also underscored the need of an early solution of Kashmir dispute ‘so that both the...
ADB lowers Islamabad’s growth forecasts
ISLAMABAD, Oct 4: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Tuesday reduced Pakistan’s economic growth forecast to 6.5 per cent owing to higher deficits on fiscal, trade and current account fronts and...
Civil N-ties with UK to be discussed next week: Reid
ISLAMABAD, Oct 4: Pakistan and the United Kingdom will discuss civil nuclear cooperation next week, disclosed British Secretary of State for Defence John Reid. He was talking to newsmen on Tuesday before leaving here after a two-day visit to Pakistan....
Irsa refuses to close Taunsa for 10 weeks: Water-shortage sharing
ISLAMABAD, Oct 4: The Indus River System Authority (Irsa) on Tuesday rejected Sindh’s demand for distribution of water shortages in Rabi season under paragraph two of the 1991 water apportionment accord...
Baglihar dam report to be binding on both: experts
NEW DELHI, Oct 4: A Swiss expert, mandated by the World Bank to prepare a report on the controversial Baglihar dam in Kashmir, said on Tuesday that his conclusions would be binding on India and Pakistan....
3 Pakistanis among 6 killed in Afghan blast
QUETTA, Oct 4: At least six people including a woman and three Pakistanis were killed and 14 others wounded in a powerful bomb blast in Spin Buldak, the border district of Afghanistan close to Pakistan border, on Tuesday....
Four PAF employees awarded death
ISLAMABAD, Oct 4: A military court on Tuesday awarded death sentence to four Pakistan Air Force (PAF) employees for their involvement in an assassination attempt on President Gen Pervez Musharraf in Rawalpindi on Dec 14, 2003....
Pakistan, India pledge to make sincere effort
ISLAMABAD, Oct 4: Indian Foreign Minister Natwar Singh discussed the disputed Kashmir issue with Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday and they agreed to tackle the problem sincerely, an Indian spokesman said....
Natwar hints Singh won’t visit Pakistan this year
ISLAMABAD, Oct 4: Indian External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh made it quite clear on Tuesday that Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh would no visit Pakistan this year....
Consulates to begin work simultaneously, Indian FM
KARACHI, Oct 4: Indian External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh said on Tuesday that the Indian consulate in Karachi should start functioning by the end of December or early January....
FO gets new spokesperson
ISLAMABAD, Oct 4: Ms Tasnim Aslam, currently director-general of UN division at the Foreign Ministry, was on Tuesday appointed as the ministry’s spokesperson. Her appointment to the post was formally announced by the outgoing spokesman Mr Naeem Khan....
Ramazan moon not sighted
PESHAWAR, Oct 4: Chairman of Central Ruet-i-Hilal committee Maulana Mufti Munibur Rehman announced on Tuesday that Ramazan moon has not been sighted any where in the country therefore, first Ramazan will fall on Thursday, Oct 6....
Ramazan in Bannu
BANNU, Oct 4: The Ramazan begins in Bannu, FR Bannu and Sarai Naurang on Wednesday. After receiving evidence from some citizens, the Municipal Committee of Bannu finally announced the beginning of Ramazan....
Rockets fired at paramilitary facility
MIRAMSHAH, Oct 4: Saboteurs on Tuesday fired rockets on a paramilitary recruitment centre in Mirali town of the North Waziristan Agency. Sources said that eight rockets were fired on a recruitment...
Spokesman for Taliban held in Balochistan
QUETTA, Oct 4: The law-enforcement agencies have arrested Latif Hakimi, the chief spokesman of Taliban Movement with five other Taliban suspects from Balochistan. “Latif Hakimi has been arrested and was under...
12 killed as bus plunges into ravine
ABBOTTABAD, Oct 4: At least 12 passengers of a Rawalpindi-bound bus died and another 48 injured on Tuesday morning when a bus fell into deep ditch near Koza Gali....
Oct 6 polls challenged
ISLAMABAD, Oct 4: Former MNA Nawabzada Ghazanfar Mehdi on Tuesday requested the Supreme Court to stay the Oct 6 local body polls on the grounds that councillors and nazims of union...
Iran rejects conditional nuclear talks
TEHRAN, Oct 4: Iran said on Tuesday it would not accept resuming negotiations with Britain, France and Germany on its nuclear programme if the EU continued to insist the Islamic republic abandon fuel cycle work....
Japan embassy in Malaysia shut amid mail scare
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 4: A security scare swept Malaysia’s diplomatic community on Tuesday after seven embassies received suspicious packages, shutting the Japanese mission, police and diplomats said....
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ISLAMABAD, Oct 4: Foreign Ministers of Pakistan and India on Tuesday resolved to carry forward the peace process between their countries and to maintain its momentum following a round of talks here....
ISLAMABAD Oct 4: Pakistan on Tuesday expressed satisfaction with the ongoing composite dialogue with India, but also underscored the need of an early solution of Kashmir dispute ‘so that both the...
