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Joint plan likely to confront challenges: OIC summit begins today
JEDDAH, Dec 6: Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have expressed the hope that the Muslim leadership will be able to develop a consensus on a ‘realistic’ programme enabling the Ummah to face challenges it is confronting in the 21st century while seeking dialogue with the West to remove misperceptions about Islam....
116 killed in Iranian military plane crash: 78 journalists among dead
TEHRAN, Dec 6: Around 116 people were killed on Tuesday when an ageing Iranian military transport plane suffered engine failure and smashed into a densely populated area of Tehran, setting a high-rise block ablaze....
India, Russia evoke ‘strategic partnership’
MOSCOW, Dec 6: Russia and India intensified cooperation on defence and energy as Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Russian President Vladimir Putin met at the Kremlin on Tuesday and evoked a ‘strategic Partnership’....
Norway offers help in gas pipeline project
ISLAMABAD, Dec 6: Norway has offered technical help in construction of the proposed Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline and financial support for education in areas affected by the October earthquake. Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg told journalists after meeting Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Tuesday....
Rail track blown up in Quetta
QUETTA, Dec 6: Rail traffic was restored between Quetta and Sibi on Tuesday after remaining suspended on Monday night following a powerful explosion on the main rail track linking Quetta with other parts of the country....
‘Involvement of Taliban likely in journalist’s kidnapping’
MIRANSHAH, Dec 6: Authorities in North Waziristan have not been able to trace the whereabouts of a local journalist who was kidnapped on Monday. Speaking to a delegation from the Tribal...
Indian troops kill two in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, Dec 6: Indian troops on Tuesday shot dead two militants near LoC, the Indian army said. “The two were killed when they were trying to cross into Azad Kashmir,” Indian army spokesman Vijay Batra said....
Two lakes created by landslides pose flood threat
ISLAMABAD, Dec 6: Two lakes created by a landslide from a mountain blocking two streams in the Chakkar area of the Hattian Bala tehsil near Muzaffarabad, were posing threat to people...
Natwar Singh quits cabinet
NEW DELHI, Dec 6: India’s former foreign minister Kunwar Natwar Singh on Tuesday announced his decision to quit as minister without portfolio but said that the move did not mean an acceptance of his guilt in the oil-for-food scandal....
Govt comes under fire in NA over gender bias
ISLAMABAD, Dec 6: The government on Tuesday came under fire over gender bias issue as a result two private members bills proposing concessions to women were sent to the National Assembly standing committee on human rights and law....
36 policemen die in Iraq suicide attack
BAGHDAD, Dec 6: Thirty-six Iraqi police and cadets were killed in a double suicide bombing in Baghdad on Tuesday as insurgents claimed to have kidnapped an American amid escalating violence nine days before key elections....
4 accords signed with Yemen
SANA’A, Dec 6: Pakistan and Yemen on Tuesday signed four agreements and MoUs on security cooperation, technical education, vocational training, cooperation in air transportation, oil and mineral development....
Afghan general injured in blast
KHOST, Dec 6: A bomb tore through an Afghan military vehicle, killing one person and injuring two others including a general, an official said on Tuesday....
Full autonomy for varsities proposed
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 6: Speakers at a seminars on education in Pakistan on Monday called for vastly increased spending on education (from the present two per cent to five or six...
Four shot dead in Barkhan
QUETTA, Dec 6: Three women and a man of Khetran tribe were gunned down in Barkhan area on Tuesday night. According to levies sources, armed men barged into the house of...
‘UK to keep seeking Kashmir settlement’
LONDON, Dec 6: Britain will continue to urge Pakistan and India to find a permanent settlement of the Kashmir issue, said British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) here....
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TEHRAN, Dec 6: Around 116 people were killed on Tuesday when an ageing Iranian military transport plane suffered engine failure and smashed into a densely populated area of Tehran, setting a high-rise block ablaze....
