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Musharraf urges plan for renaissance: Extremists asked to shun violence
MAKKAH, Dec 7: President General Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday urged the Muslim leaders to work out a strategy for Islamic revival and renaissance, and proposed a mandatory contribution by each member state for scientific and technological advancement....
Most of opposition’s proposals accepted
ISLAMABAD, Dec 7: The government has in principle accepted most of the terms of reference proposed by the combined opposition as a precondition for joining the parliamentary committee on earthquake relief and reconstruction....
Five BLA suspects arrested
LAHORE, Dec 7: Police claimed on Wednesday to have arrested five suspected terrorists belonging to the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) for carrying out bomb blasts in Punjab and Karachi....
‘Terrorist camps’ in Balochistan detected
KARACHI, Dec 7: The government has detected existence of five to six camps in Balochistan where people are being trained to carry out terrorists activities. The presence of the camps, known...
Four FC men kidnapped
WANA, Dec 7: Suspected militants kidnapped four militiamen of the Frontier Corps from a bazaar here on Wednesday, officials said. The militiamen were shopping in the market adjacent to the scouts’...
N. Waziristan ‘Taliban’ kill gangsters
MIRAMSHAH, Dec 7: A night-long clash between local militants and a group of alleged gangsters here left at least 14 people dead and three others wounded....
Tent fire kills 6 of a family
PESHAWAR, Dec 7: Six members of a quake-hit family were burnt to death and two others suffered injuries when a fire erupted in a tent in Chappar Plan village, some 60km from Mansehra, on Tuesday night....
Asian states agree to pool energy assets
TASHKENT, Dec 7: Asian countries, including central Asian republics, China and Russia, on Tuesday agreed to pool their vast energy resources and enhance regional cooperation by uniting financial resources and technical expertise to counter a looming energy crisis in the world....
Al Qaeda calls for attacks on oil targets in Muslim states
DUBAI, Dec 7: Al Qaeda’s deputy leader Ayman al Zawahri on Wednesday urged militants to attack oil targets in Muslim states and said Osama bin Laden was still directing its ‘holy war’ on the West....
US Congress threatens to throw out India N-deal
WASHINGTON, Dec 7: The chairman of the US Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee warned on Tuesday that Congress would throw out any ‘opaque’ plan by the Bush administration to forge unprecedented civilian nuclear cooperation with India....
Delhi to be thermonuclear club partner
NEW DELHI, Dec 7: India said on Wednesday it has been accepted as a full partner in the elite International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project by consensus....
Saddam refuses to attend trial
BAGHDAD, Dec 7: A defiant Saddam Hussein refused to attend his trial on Wednesday, forcing the court to convene without the former Iraqi president as it heard graphic witness testimony and adjourned for the next two weeks....
Bush concedes mistakes made in Iraq
WASHINGTON, Dec 7: In a rare acknowledgement that Iraq has not gone as planned, US President George Bush agreed on Wednesday that mistakes had been made, but warned that a US withdrawal now would be ‘a bigger mistake’....
PM launches clean water initiative
ISLAMABAD, Dec 7: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Wednesday launched a nationwide “clean water initiative” to provide safe drinking water to all under the Khushal Pakistan Programme....
Railway link discussed with Indian envoy
KARACHI, Dec 7: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement on Wednesday discussed Pakistan-India relations and other issues with the Indian High Commissioner here on Wednesday. According to a party press release, the MQM...
Army deployed in more areas: JWP
QUETTA, Dec 7: The Jamhoori Watan Party has urged the government to stop taking extra-constitutional measures in the province and said military operations cannot suppress the struggle of the Baloch people against usurpation of their resources....
Levies’ merger with police opposed
QUETTA, Dec 7: The Pukhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party has threatened to launch a protest movement against the planned merger of Levies with police. Speaking at a press conference at the press...
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MAKKAH, Dec 7: Leaders of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) opened a two-day extraordinary summit on Wednesday with a Saudi call for moderation and tolerance and a rejection of extremist violence....
