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Turkey offers $150m relief
ISLAMABAD, Oct 20: Turkey has announced a relief package of $150 million for the quake-hit people of Pakistan. The package was announced by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan while addressing...
All assistance welcome: Musharraf: Toll may cross 50,000
ISLAMABAD, Oct 20: President Gen Pervez Musharraf said on Thursday Pakistan would welcome financial assistance from international community for ‘monumental’ reconstruction effort the country is to mount in the areas devastated by October 8 deadly earthquake....
Joint operation with India ruled out
ISLAMABAD, Oct 20: Pakistan has ruled out a joint relief operation with India in Kashmir as proposed by Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh. “This would be tantamount to rubbing salt...
System to monitor quake data set up
WASHINGTON, Oct 20: An information-sharing web portal — Pakistan Relief and Information Systems for Earthquakes (RISE) — was launched this week to provide information about the 4,000 earthquake-affected villages in the largely rural areas of the NWFP and Azad Kashmir....
US probe into burning of Taliban bodies
WASHINGTON, Oct 20: The US Defence Department said on Thursday that it would “aggressively investigate” a report by an Australian television channel which showed US soldiers burning two dead Taliban fighters....
Rashid wants to take aid to held Kashmir
ISLAMABAD, Oct 20: A minister said on Thursday he would take 25 truckloads of relief goods to the quake-hit part of occupied Kashmir if New Delhi agree to open up the disputed border....
UK pledges £20m more relief
ISLAMABAD, Oct 20: Britain’s International Development Secretary Hilary Benn, who is here to assess the damage caused by the Oct 8 earthquake, announced on Thursday an additional assistance of 20 million...
‘Quake may have shifted landmines’
SRINAGAR, Oct 20: The devastating Oct 8 earthquake may have shifted thousands of landmines planted by Indian and Pakistani troops along their Kashmir border, a group warned on Thursday....
Defence lawyer in Saddam’s case kidnapped
BAGHDAD, Oct 20: A defence lawyer involved in the trial of Saddam Hussein and seven others has been kidnapped by gunmen, said police and Interior Ministry sources on Thursday....
Norwegian aid minister coming
OSLO, Oct 20: Norwegian Development Aid Minister Erik Solheim will next week visit the Pakistan regions devastated by the Oct 8 earthquake, the government announced on Thursday....
Annan to attend UN aid meeting
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 20: The United Nations is facing its worst logistical nightmare ever as it scrambles to save the lives of tens of thousands of quake survivors in inaccessible areas...
Steps to prevent bird flu under study: official
ISLAMABAD, Oct 20: Pakistan is considering a proposal to ban import of poultry to prevent any possible outbreak of bird flu in the country. Secretary Ministry of Food Agriculture and Livestock...
Malaysian PM’s wife dies
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 20: Endon Mahmood, the wife of Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, died on Thursday after a long battle with breast Cancer. The state Bernama news agency said she passed away at 7.55am...
Saddam’s nephew arrested
BAGHDAD, Oct 20: Iraqi security forces have arrested a nephew of former president Saddam Hussein in the northern city of Tikrit on suspicion of financing insurgents, national security adviser Mowaffaq al-Rubaie said on Thursday....
First Nato plane arrives with relief supplies
ISLAMABAD, Oct 20: The first Nato flight has arrived in Islamabad carrying urgent supplies for quake victims from UNHCR’s warehouse in Turkey. Up to five more Nato flights were expected to arrive at Islamabad on Thursday....
Protests against killing of Afghan clerics
KHOST, Oct 20: Thousands of people marched through the eastern Afghan city of Khost on Thursday to condemn the murders of three religious leaders blamed on Taliban insurgents and demand that Pakistan crack down on the “terrorists”....
Situation scary in villages: WFP
MUZAFFARABAD, Oct 20: The devastating earthquake in Pakistan’s northern mountains is turning into one of the toughest relief operations the world has ever known, according to international aid officials....
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ISLAMABAD, Oct 20: Turkey has announced a relief package of $150 million for the quake-hit people of Pakistan. The package was announced by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan while addressing...
ISLAMABAD, Oct 20: President Gen Pervez Musharraf said on Thursday Pakistan would welcome financial assistance from international community for ‘monumental’ reconstruction effort the country is to mount in the areas devastated by October 8 deadly earthquake....
