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Decision on dam likely in a week: Musharraf holds high-level meeting
ISLAMABAD, Nov 29: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has taken Sindh and Punjab into confidence about his decision to construct Kalabagh or Bhasha dam and asked the two governments to take on board their respective cabinets on the issue....
US may play visible role in Kashmir
NEW DELHI, Nov 29: The United States may play a more visible role in bringing India and Pakistan towards a settlement on Kashmir issue, sources close to the visit of a high-level delegation of US Congressmen said on Tuesday....
Progress urged on core issue
ISLAMABAD, Nov 29: Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri on Tuesday told the visiting British Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Dr. Kim Howells, that despite the ongoing Indo-Pakistan peace process...
Aziz backs self-rule in Valley
LAHORE, Nov 29: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Tuesday that Pakistan supported demilitarization and self-governance in Kashmir in an effort to bring its long-standing dispute with India to an end....
10 killed in BD suicide attacks
DHAKA, Nov 29: Ten people, including a lawyer, were killed and about 100 others wounded in three bomb attacks in two districts of Bangladesh on Tuesday....
Nato asks how long troops should stay
ISLAMABAD, Nov 29: Nato has asked Pakistan whether it would like the western alliance’s 1,000-strong contingent to continue earthquake relief here beyond the present 90-day mandate, a senior alliance official said on Tuesday....
Gorbachev confers award on Benazir
ISLAMABAD, Nov 29: Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto on Tuesday received the World Tolerance Award for “her vision, personal strength, commitment to her ideals and passion for creating a better and peaceful world in the 21st century.”...
Consortium takes over control of KESC
ISLAMABAD, Nov 29: The government on Tuesday handed over the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation to a consortium after receiving Rs15.9 billion of the Rs20.24 billion highest matched bid....
43,300 died, 3 million displaced in AJK: report
ISLAMABAD, Nov 29: The October-8 earthquake killed 43,399 people and injured 31,069 in Muzaffarabad, Neelum, Bagh, Rawlakot and Palandri districts of Azad Jammu and Kashmir....
Nawaz not to be denied visa: UK
ISLAMABAD, Nov 29: The British Government was not opposed to grant of visa to former prime minister Mohammad Nawaz Sharif and had no intention to deny it to him and his other family members....
UK MPs support sustained aid plea
LONDON, Nov 29: The British parliamentarians on Monday assured Pakistan of their assistance to sustain the post-earthquake relief effort and suggested inter-faith fund-raising plans in which the church and the mosque could be utilized for sponsorship schemes in Pakistan....
14 arrested in Mianwali vani case to help girls
ISLAMABAD, Nov 29: Fourteen people have been arrested on the directive of the prime minister following an appeal for help by the families of five girls of Mianwali to the president...
Iraq frees seven Pakistanis
KUWAIT, Nov 29: Iraqi authorities have released seven Pakistanis who were imprisoned in Basra jail. All are the employees of a Kuwaiti construction company, Al-Hamra....
Two soldiers injured in Wana blast
WANA, Nov 29: Two soldiers were critically injured in a bomb blast near an army outpost in the Hamrang area close to the Afghan border, some 25 kilometres west of the South Waziristan Agency headquarters on Tuesday....
BJP leader, seven others shot dead in Lucknow
LUCKNOW, Nov 29: Gunmen shot dead an opposition Hindu nationalist legislator and seven others on Tuesday in northern India, a senior state official said....
Pilgrim from UK killed in Iraq
LONDON, Nov 29: A third Briton was confirmed dead on Tuesday following a gun attack on a bus packed with Shia pilgrims in Baghdad on Monday....
Five judges confirmed
ISLAMABAD, Nov 29: President Gen Pervez Musharraf confirmed on Tuesday the services of five judges of the Lahore High Court and extended the services of three additional judges of LHC for a period of one year, source said....
Northern Iran jolted
TEHRAN, Nov 29: A moderate earthquake jolted northern Iran on Tuesday, but there were no immediate reports on possible casualties or damage, state-run television reported....
New French law on terror
PARIS, Nov 29: France’s lower house of parliament on Tuesday adopted a new terrorism law drawn up following the London transport bombings, that is set to allow greatly increased video surveillance of public places....
US diplomat to contact Iran
NEW YORK, Nov 29: The United States has affirmed that its envoy to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, would make contacts with Iran but stressed that the dialogue would focus on Iraq and have little impact on ruptured bilateral ties....
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LAHORE, Nov 29: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Tuesday that Pakistan supported demilitarization and self-governance in Kashmir in an effort to bring its long-standing dispute with India to an end....
DHAKA, Nov 29: Ten people, including a lawyer, were killed and about 100 others wounded in three bomb attacks in two districts of Bangladesh on Tuesday....
