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Pakistan, India agree to open five LoC points
ISLAMABAD, Oct 29: Pakistan and India have agreed to open foot crossings at five points across the Line of Control that divides Kashmir from November 7....
Series of blasts rocks Delhi: 50 dead, over 70 injured
NEW DELHI, Oct 29: At least 50 people were killed in three bomb attacks in New Delhi on Saturday that both India and Pakistan, locked in talks to reach out to Kashmir’s earthquake victims, condemned as an act of terrorism....
Quake survivors face long wait in Neelum valley
ISLAMABAD, Oct 29: Thousands of people left stranded in the Neelum valley in the wake of the Oct 8 earthquake will have to wait for at least four months to be...
APC plan may be abandoned
LAHORE, Oct 29: The government may abandon its plan for an all-party conference on the post-quake situation in case the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) and the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy (ARD)...
Radicals tried to take over Pakistan: Bush
WASHINGTON, Oct 29: President George Bush has said that Pakistan was one of the few countries that radicals had specifically targeted for a takeover. “The terrorists’ goal is to overthrow a...
100 killed as train derails in India
NALGONDA (India), Oct 29: More than 100 people were killed on Saturday and 20 to 30 more were feared dead when a passenger train derailed and toppled into swirling floodwaters in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh....
$2.6 billion PTCL deal collapses
ISLAMABAD, Oct 29: Pakistan’s largest-ever $2.6 billion privatization transaction of Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has failed to materialize despite last-minute government intervention, it was officially confirmed....
SBP revises economic targets
KARACHI, Oct 29: The State Bank has revised downward major economic targets set for 2005-06 and estimated that GDP growth could drop to 6.3 per cent while current account deficit could enlarge from original 2.2...
Growth targets will be met, hopes Aziz
ISLAMABAD, Oct 29: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has expressed the hope that the country will achieve its growth targets. He was talking to the president of US Import and Export Bank,...
23 killed in Afghan violence
KABUL, Oct 29: A US and a British soldier were gunned down in Afghanistan on Saturday in a deadly series of attacks that claimed 23 lives, including those of 14 suspected Taliban insurgents, officials said....
Islamabad condemns explosions
ISLAMABAD, Oct 29: Pakistan on Saturday moved swiftly to condemn a series of bomb blasts in New Delhi late afternoon, killing a number of innocent people and injuring many others....
Pakistani team to visit Israel: report
AL QUDS, Oct 29: A 200-member delegation of Pakistani officials and businessmen is to visit Israel in early November, in a bid to bring closer the two countries which have no diplomatic relations, Israeli military radio said....
BD offers reward in hunt for militants
DHAKA, Oct 29: Bangladesh, hit by a wave of bombings over the past two months, has put up a reward of $152,000 for information leading to the arrest of two fugitive militants....
Aid efforts should be intensified: Rania
MUZAFFARABAD, Oct 29: Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan on Saturday underlined the urgency of the situation arising out in Pakistan’s quake-hit region and called upon the international community to speed up aid efforts for the rehabilitation of victims....
Benazir to return in January, says PPP
ISLAMABAD, Oct 29: Information Secretary of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Punjab chapter Naveed Chaudhry says Benazir Bhutto is expected to return to the country by January and the next general elections will be held in March....
61 tent villages set up in NWFP
RAWALPINDI, Oct 29: The Pakistan Army has established 61 tent villages comprising 3,455 tents in various earthquake-battered areas of the NWFP. According to a statement of Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR),...
Unicef chief due today
ISLAMABAD, Oct 29: United Nations International Children Emergency Fund (Unicef) Executive Director Ann M. Venemah will arrive here on Sunday to express her sympathies with the earthquake devastated people....
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