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Aziz briefs Sindh partners on dam
KARACHI, Dec 2: Amid strong criticism from the opposition to the government’s move to build large dams, including the controversial Kalabagh dam, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Friday briefed the provincial...
UN appeal for winter shelters
ISLAMABAD, Dec 2: Eight weeks after the South Asian earthquake, efforts to stop thousands of Pakistani survivors dying during the bitter Himalayan winter are on a knife’s edge, the United Nations said on Friday....
3 kidnapped in North Waziristan
MIRANSHAH, Dec 2: Armed men kidnapped an official of the Tribal Electricity Supply Company and his two bodyguards from Mirali in the North Waziristan Agency on Friday, officials said....
‘Senior Al Qaeda commander killed ’
PESHAWAR, Dec 2: A senior Al Qaeda commander has been killed in the Thursday missile attack at a house in the North Waziristan Agency, sources said....
Aziz orders Rs2.5bn for Balochistan
ISLAMABAD, Dec 2: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Friday ordered release of Rs2.5 billion for Balochistan province, says an official statement. Out of this amount, Rs1.5...
‘Nato troops to leave by end of next month’
ISLAMABAD, Dec 2: Chief Relief Commissioner Maj-Gen Farooq Ahmad Khan has said that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) forces will leave by the end of the next month after completing their relief operation in Pakistan....
Army starts ferry service in Azad Kashmir
RAWALPINDI, Dec 2: Pakistan army engineers have started a ferry service in the Patika area of Muzaffarabad and have set up two foot suspension bridges at Patika and Mandal to provide facility to people....
Afghan border at Chaman closed
CHAMAN, Dec 2: Pakistan closed its main border crossing with Afghanistan after a confrontation between the two countries’ frontier guards, a military official said on Friday....
Musharraf due in Kuwait today
KUWAIT CITY, Dec 2: President General Pervez Musharraf is scheduled to arrive here on Saturday on a visit aimed at strengthening relations between the two states....
OIC summit in Makkah to be held in camera
ISLAMABAD, Dec 2: The third extraordinary OIC Summit in Makkah Mukarramah, next week will be an in-camera event, it is learnt. The Summit will to be held on December 7-8....
Blair lobbies for trade concessions to Pakistan
LONDON, Dec 2: British Prime Minister Tony Blair has asked the European Union (EU) heads of states to consider a number of trade concessions and supporting aid for Pakistan, including lifting...
Israel test-fires anti-missile missile
AL QUDS, Dec 2: Israel conducted a successful test-firing of its Arrow anti-missile missile against an Iranian-style rocket on Friday, just a day after the Jewish state ratcheted up the rhetoric against Tehran over its suspected nuclear weapons programme....
India unveils naval plans to rule the ocean
NEW DELHI, Dec 2: India announced on Friday ambitious acquisition plans for its navy and said the new military hardware would give it greater clout in the strategic energy corridors of the Indian Ocean....
India and China hold joint naval exercises
NEW DELHI, Dec 2: Navy ships of India and China have conducted joint exercises off the Kochi coast in the first bilateral exercise in India, Indian naval sources said....
Ten Marines killed in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Dec 2: A roadside explosion killed 10 US Marines and wounded 11 outside the troubled Iraqi city of Fallujah, the US military said on Friday as they launched a new operation in the nearby city of Ramadi....
Iran buys Russian missiles
MOSCOW, Dec 2: Iran has signed a deal to buy Russian tactical surface-to-air missile systems, a Russian newspaper reported on Friday. Iran is to buy 29 TOR-M1 systems, designed to bring...
Singh pledges probe into new allegations
NEW DELHI, Dec 2: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pledged on Friday to probe new allegations that the country’s former foreign minister and ruling Congress party were involved in a scam to profit from a UN oil-for-food deal in Iraq....
US court closed after threat
NEW YORK, Dec 2: State courthouses in Connecticut were closed down on Friday due to a bomb threat, according to officials. The threat was telephoned into the state governor’s office in Hartford at mid-morning, said Judd Everhart, spokesman for Gov....
1,500 birds found dead
KIEV, Dec 2: Officials in Ukraine, so far free of bird flu, have sent experts to investigate the sudden deaths of more than 1,500 birds in the Crimea peninsula, the agriculture minister said on Friday.—Reuters...
Four injured in tent fire
MUZAFFARABAD, Dec 2: Four members of a family suffered severe burn injuries when their tent in a camp near here caught fire late on Thursday night....
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KARACHI, Dec 2: Amid strong criticism from the opposition to the government’s move to build large dams, including the controversial Kalabagh dam, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Friday briefed the provincial...
