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Joint effort urged to deal with disasters: Saarc summit begins
DHAKA, Nov 12: The 13th Saarc summit on Saturday called for greater cooperation within the region to deal with the aftermath of disasters like the Oct 8 earthquake and the last year’s devastating tsunami....
Third LoC point opens for relief : Kashmiris await permission
MUZAFFARABAD, Nov 12: Hundreds of divided Kashmiris watched with despair from hilltops as Indian and Pakistani officials opened the third crossing point along the Line of Control on Saturday for exchange...
UN faces shortfall in relief funds
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 12: The United Nations said on Friday that it has so far received in contributions and commitments less than a fifth of the $550 million it needs to...
‘Extremism a serious threat’
ISLAMABAD, Nov 12: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has said extremism and terrorism pose serious threat to the country which needed to be checked urgently to avoid problems....
Mob torches 3 churches near Nankana
FAISALABAD/SHEIKHUPURA, Nov 12: A mob of 3,000 people, mostly youth, set to fire three churches and homes of two clergymen as well as destroyed a nursing hostel, nuns’ hostel, a convent...
Eight killed in Baghdad car bombing
BAGHDAD, Nov 12: Eight people were killed in Baghdad on Saturday when a car bomb ripped through a market moments after UN chief Kofi Annan arrived in the Iraqi capital’s heavily fortified ‘green zone’....
Abdullah says attackers came from Syria
AMMAN, Nov 12: Jordan’s King Abdullah said on Saturday logic dictated that the suicide bombers who killed dozens at luxury Amman hotels this week must have come from Iraq or Syria and called the act a ‘fight inside Islam’....
Bush slams opponents of Iraq war
WASHINGTON, Nov 12: US President George Bush said on Friday that those who accuse him of exaggerating intelligence on Saddam Hussein’s weapons programs to win support for the Iraq invasion were trying to rewrite history....
New Delhi proposes open skies accord
DHAKA, Nov 12: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday proposed a South Asian open skies agreement that would remove restrictions on flights operated by state-owned and private airlines from seven countries....
Azad’s condition for Kashmir pullout
JAMMU, Nov 12: New chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said on Saturday he would try to negotiate a withdrawal of troops from the troubled state provided separatist militants pledged to end violence....
Taliban kill 3 Afghan policemen
KHOST, Nov 12: Suspected Taliban militants killed three policemen and a former district chief in a mosque in fresh attacks in Afghanistan, officials said on Saturday....
Afghan polls result finalized
KABUL, Nov 12: The much-delayed result of Afghanistan’s first democratic parliamentary vote in more than three decades was finalized on Saturday and hailed as a step towards peace after years of war and fundamentalist rule....
Public meetings in Paris banned
PARIS, Nov 12: Police invoked emergency powers to ban public meetings in Paris on Saturday, amid rumours of plans to bring France’s smouldering suburban violence into the centre of the capital....
Shujaat may be asked to resign as PML chief
ISLAMABAD Nov 12: Pressure is being mounted to create a situation in which president of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, could be asked to resign his post to keep the party intact, informed sources told Dawn on Saturday....
Half of those killed in quake were children: report
WASHINGTON, Nov 12: Half of the 74,000 people killed in the Oct 8 earthquake in Pakistan were children, says a report distributed among US lawmakers in Washington....
150 Hindu pilgrims stranded at Wagah
LAHORE, Nov 12: Some 150 Hindu pilgrims were stranded at the Wagah border crossing on Saturday as authorities failed to make arrangements for their travel to the Katas Temple in Chakwal....
Former FPSC chief moves LHC for early hearing: Curtailment in tenure
ISLAMABAD, Nov 12: Former Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC) chairman Lt-Gen (retired) Jamshaid Gulzar on Saturday moved the Lahore High Court, Rawalpindi Bench, for early hearing of a joint petition challenging...
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DHAKA, Nov 12: The 13th Saarc summit on Saturday called for greater cooperation within the region to deal with the aftermath of disasters like the Oct 8 earthquake and the last year’s devastating tsunami....
