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Time for survivors running out: UN: Many yet to get relief
ISLAMABAD/MUZAFFARABAD, Oct 22: Two weeks after the Oct 8 earthquake, the United Nations on Saturday warned that all the money in the world could not buy time for survivors and called for still more tents and helicopters....
Islamabad, Delhi to reopen LoC
NEW DELHI, Oct 22: India and Pakistan agreed on Saturday to open at least three sectors along the Line of Control (LoC) for aid to reach the victims of the October...
‘5-route plan presented’
ISLAMABAD, Oct 22: Pakistan on Saturday presented to India a formal document containing a comprehensive proposal to allow Kashmiris to move across the Line of Control (LoC) in the aftermath of devastating Oct 8 earthquake....
Kashmir leader says he will breach LoC
SRINAGAR, Oct 22: Hardline separatist leader Nayeem Khan said on Saturday he and his supporters would cross the Line of Control (LoC) from the Indian zone next week to help earthquake...
Nato offer accepted
ISLAMABAD, Oct 22: Pakistan on Saturday said it had accepted an offer by Nato to deploy its forces in quake-affected areas “mainly for reconstruction” of destroyed infrastructure....
Six kidnapped villagers shot dead in Khairpur
KHAIRPUR MIRS, Oct 22: Six people were killed by the gang of bandit Ghazi Khan Jagirani in Katcha area of the Gulo Siyal police station on Saturday....
WB to step up quake aid
HELSINKI, Oct 22: The World Bank will significantly increase aid to Pakistan to help reconstruct regions devastated by the Oct 8 earthquake, its president Paul Wolfowitz said here on Saturday....
Hurricane Wilma pounds Mexican coast
PLAYA DEL CARMEN (Mexico), Oct 22: Hurricane Wilma relentlessly pounded Mexico’s Caribbean coast on Saturday, destroying homes and flooding beach resorts as it meandered slowly over the Yucatan peninsula....
Five die as relief helicopter crashes
BAKU, Oct 22: The five people aboard a Russian military helicopter taking relief supplies to Pakistan died when the aircraft crashed shortly after taking off from a refuelling site in Azerbaijan on Saturday, an Azeri official said....
Emirates firm seeks more concession in PTCL deal
DUBAI, Oct 22: The $2.598 billion privatization deal in Pakistan between the Emirates Telecommunications Corporation (Etisalat) and the PTCL is reportedly not out of troubled waters as, according to sources here, the ‘issues’ are still being sorted out....
UK copters being sent for relief
LONDON, Oct 22: Britain sent the first of three giant helicopters to Pakistan on Saturday to help in the relief effort following the massive earthquake that devastated parts of south Asia nearly two weeks ago....
US troops kill 20 fighters
BAGHDAD, Oct 22: US forces in Iraq killed 20 insurgents on Saturday near the Syrian border while conducting raids on houses believed to be hideouts for Al Qaeda foreign fighters, the US military said....
Over 25,000 Iraqis killed in two years
BAGHDAD, Oct 22: Over 4,300 Iraqis, nearly 70 per cent of them civilians, were killed by insurgents in the first nine months of this year, an Interior Ministry official said on Saturday....
4pc GDP pledged for education
RAWALPINDI, Oct 22: A top-level meeting on Saturday decided to commit at least four per cent of the GDP to the education sector from next fiscal year and start tent schools...
Three held in UK for ‘terror probe’
LONDON, Oct 22: Three men in their 20s arrested during investigations into international terrorism were being questioned on Saturday in a London police station, police said....
Bush wants UN session on Syria
WASHINGTON, Oct 22: US President George Bush on Saturday called upon the United Nations to convene a session as soon as possible to deal with a UN report implicating Syrian officials in the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri....
6 battalions working day and night: ISPR
ISLAMABAD, Oct 22: Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director-General Maj-Gen Shaukat Sultan on Saturday said that at least six battalions of the Pakistan army are busy round-the-clock to restore the roads network in quake-affected areas of Azad Kashmir and the NWFP....
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ISLAMABAD/MUZAFFARABAD, Oct 22: Two weeks after the Oct 8 earthquake, the United Nations on Saturday warned that all the money in the world could not buy time for survivors and called for still more tents and helicopters....
BAGHDAD, Oct 22: US forces in Iraq killed 20 insurgents on Saturday near the Syrian border while conducting raids on houses believed to be hideouts for Al Qaeda foreign fighters, the US military said....
