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Rebuilding cost may exceed $5.2bn: Preliminary assessment
ISLAMABAD, Nov 11: Multilateral donor agencies have estimated the preliminary relief and reconstruction cost of the devastating October 8 earthquake at $5.2 billion which is “likely to rise as more damaged areas are surveyed”....
Aziz, Singh to discuss Kashmir: Riaz
DHAKA, Nov 11: Leaders of Pakistan and India will discuss the Kashmir peace process on the sidelines of a regional summit in the Bangladesh capital this weekend, a senior Pakistani official said on Friday....
Pakistan-India joint fund-raiser held
WASHINGTON, Nov 11: At the first Pakistan-India joint fund-raiser for the earthquake victims, the World Bank announced a $200 million supplemental financing to help Pakistan cope with the disaster....
Senators criticize army’s control of relief effort
ISLAMABAD, Nov 11: Opposition lawmakers in the Senate strongly criticised on Friday what it called the bypassing of parliament, the cabinet and even prime minister in assigning complete control of the...
Minister asks Fazl to quit as leader of opposition
ISLAMABAD, Nov 11: The government blew hot and cold in the National Assembly on Friday as it sought to persuade sceptical opposition parties to join a proposed parliamentary committee to oversee earthquake relief....
Saarc ministers discuss economic union plan
DHAKA, Nov 11: Seven South Asian foreign ministers met on Friday ahead of a weekend summit in the Bangladesh capital to push a free trade agreement and a possible “economic union”, officials said....
India opposes China’s entry into Saarc
ISLAMABAD, Nov 11: Two days after declaring its support for Afghanistan’s entry into Saarc, India has opposed inclusion of China as a dialogue partner or observer of the seven-nation regional grouping, according to diplomatic sources....
Donor meeting: Israel not invited
ISLAMABAD, Nov 11: Chief Relief Commissioner Maj-Gen Farooq Ahmad Khan has said there is no physical presence of Israel in Pakistan. Addressing a press briefing here on Friday, he said that...
S. Asian summit to promote peace: PM
ISLAMABAD, Nov 11: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Friday that Pakistan in its capacity as current chairman of Saarc had made sincere efforts to make the grouping more effective for...
Pace of relief operation reviewed
RAWALPINDI, Nov 11: President Pervez Musharraf on Friday presided over a meeting to review the pace of relief operation in the earthquake-hit areas of the NWFP and Azad Jammu and Kashmir....
AJK police break up tent protest
MUZAFFARABAD, Nov 11: The AJK police on Friday baton-charged a rally of earthquake survivors who were protesting against the government move to evict them from a camp and arrested 10 people for violating a ban on public meetings and processions....
Region faces danger of failed states, warns Singh
DHAKA, Nov 11: India issued a blunt warning on Friday that failed states could emerge in South Asia, as leaders gathered in Dhaka for 13th summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation....
Saddam’s top aide Izzat Ibrahim dies
BAGHDAD, Nov 11: Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, one of military dictator Saddam Hussein’s top deputies and a man who eluded US capture despite a hefty bounty on his head, reportedly died on Friday at the age of 63....
Afghan deputy governor killed
KABUL, Nov 11: Suspected loyalists of Afghanistan’s ousted Taliban regime shot dead a deputy provincial governor travelling to a conference in the capital about national reconciliation, an intelligence official said Friday....
Activism can improve other things, as it did textbooks
ISLAMABAD, Nov 11: School textbooks in Sindh have been cleaned of bias — though not entirely — under the pressure of the country’s civil society and foreign aid donors....
Rs30 billion needed to revive farm sector
ISLAMABAD, Nov 11: Two working groups have assessed that around $500 million (Rs30 billion) would be needed over a period of five years for the recovery of agricultural sector in the...
Musharraf links Israel’s recognition to independent Palestine
ISLAMABAD, Nov 11: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has reiterated that Pakistan will not recognize Israel or establish trade links with it till the establishment of an independent state of Palestine....
Half of quake dead were children: Unicef
MUZAFFARABAD Nov 11: Children likely make up half of the 74,000 people who died in the quake, the United Nations said on Friday, confirming fears that the disaster had claimed a “lost generation.”...
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