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ARD demands joint probe: Slow response to quake crisis
ISLAMABAD, Oct 31: The Alliance for Restoration of Democracy (ARD) on Monday demanded that a joint inquiry commission of the government and opposition should probe what it called “the failure of...
Allegations without evidence: FO
ISLAMABAD, Oct 31: The Foreign Office on Monday rejected Indian allegations of cross-border terrorism and involvement of elements in Pakistan in the New Delhi bomb attacks, saying there was no evidence to support such allegations....
Pakistan offers full support in New Delhi attack probe
ISLAMABAD, Oct 31: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Monday offered India full cooperation to India in investigating the terrorist attacks in New Delhi and said Pakistan was willing to go as far as conducting joint investigations....
Support to Kashmiris pledged
MUZAFFARABAD, Oct 31: Pakistan said on Monday it would make special arrangements to give earthquake survivors easy access to held Kashmir, allaying concerns bureaucracy would hamper the efforts of thousands to cross the border....
Nato forces posing no security threat: PM
ISLAMABAD, Oct 31: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that the presence of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) forces in Pakistan does not pose a security threat to the country....
Nato troops issue raised again in NA
ISLAMABAD, Oct 31: The National Assembly on Monday resonated with fears and suspicions over arrival of Nato troops in the strategically-sensitive Azad Kashmir area, as lawmakers continued debate on the Oct 8 quake after a two-day break....
Musharraf rules out defence cut
ISLAMABAD, Oct 31: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Monday categorically stated there would be no cut in the country’s defence budget in the aftermath of the Oct 8 earthquake but clearly...
Shortage of food could kill more, warns WFP
ISLAMABAD, Oct 31: Earthquake survivors in Pakistan will start dying from lack of food within a month if the world fails to help, and women and children will be the worst hit, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Monday....
Pakistan receives first of six C-130s
WASHINGTON, Oct 31: First of the six C-130 military cargo planes that Pakistan is buying from the US left for Islamabad on Monday with relief goods for earthquake survivors, officials said....
Pakistani gets death for Delhi fort attack
NEW DELHI, Oct 31: An Indian court on Monday sentenced a Pakistani to death, one of seven people convicted for aiding a deadly militant attack on soldiers at Delhi’s historic Red Fort, a court lawyer said....
Tribunal set up to settle NWFP hydel-profit row
ISLAMABAD, Oct 31: The centre, NWFP government and Wapda on Monday set up through an agreement an arbitration tribunal to decide a longstanding dispute between the provincial government and the power utility over the computation of net hydel profit....
Police clash with angry youths in Paris
CLICHY-SOUS-BOIS (France), Oct 31: Police clashed with angry youths in a Paris suburb for the fourth straight night, police said on Monday, with accusations that teargas was thrown into a mosque...
20 killed in Basra market explosion
BASRA, Oct 31: At least 20 people were killed when a car bomb tore through a crowded market in the southern Iraqi port city of Basra late on Monday, security sources said....
UK to start citizenship test for immigrants
LONDON, Oct 31: Immigrants who want to become UK citizens will have to show a knowledge of British customs and history if they are to pass new compulsory tests unveiled by the government on Monday....
Nato to set up field hospital in Bagh
ISLAMABAD, Oct 31: Nato forces are working against time to bring aid to disaster victims, commander of the Nato disaster relief team, Vice Admiral John Stufflebeem said here on Monday....
Ministries vow to arrange artificial limbs
ISLAMABAD, Oct 31: The health, social welfare and women development ministries on Monday resolved to rehabilitate the paralysed patients and arrange artificial limbs for about 605 victims, who had undergone amputations due to delayed medical attention....
PM rules out volcanic eruption
ISLAMABAD, Oct 31: Prime Minister, Shaukat Aziz, on Monday said that according to the report of Geological Survey of Pakistan, there was no possibility of volcanic eruption in Allai....
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ISLAMABAD, Oct 31: President Gen Pervez Musharraf said on Monday that the government had prepared a multi-faceted plan and an implementation strategy to effectively meet the challenge posed by the Oct 8 earthquake....
