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Fort was not abandoned, says ISPR
RAWALPINDI: An ISPR spokesman on Friday strongly denied a foreign agency report that security forces had abandoned the Siplatoi fort in South Waziristan Agency on Thursday....
Consensus govt after polls: Asif
PAKISTAN cannot afford bitterness in its polity, according to Asif Ali Zardari, the co-chairman of the Pakistan People’s Party....
UK contacted Nawaz thrice: Shahbaz
LONDON, Jan 18: PML-N president Shahbaz Sharif who is here for medical check-up confirmed on Thursday evening that British Foreign Secretary David Miliband had telephoned former prime minister Nawaz Sharif thrice after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto....
No change in election date: Musharraf
RAWALPINDI, Jan 18: President Pervez Musharraf on Friday said that the general election would be held on February 18 as planned and there was no possibility of rigging....
Jhangvi activists escape from jail
QUETTA, Jan 18: Two prominent members of a banned sectarian organisation escaped from a sub-jail located inside the headquarters of the Anti-Terrorist Force (ATF) in cantonment area on Friday....
Khuzdar jail chief killed
QUETTA, Jan 18: Khuzdar Central Jail superintendent Sher Zaman Khan Tareen was shot dead by gunmen when he was returning home in his official vehicle after offering Friday prayers....
CIA blames Baitullah and Al Qaeda: Assassination of Benazir
WASHINGTON, Jan 18: The CIA has concluded that members of Al Qaeda and allies of tribal leader Baitullah Mehsud were responsible for the Dec 27 assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, the agency’s director said....
Aitzaz ‘refused to yield’ in meeting with AG
LAHORE, Jan 18: Attorney-General Malik Qayyum, who met detained SCBA president Aitzaz Ahsan here on Thursday, is reported to have stopped short of unfolding a government offer he had brought with...
PHC Chief Justice passes away
RAWALPINDI, Jan 18: The Chief Justice of the Peshawar High Court, Justice Talat Qayyum Qureshi, died at the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology here on Friday. He was 56....
Clean drinking water project yet to take off
ISLAMABAD, Jan 18: A project for providing ‘clean drinking water to all’ has been marred by delays and complaints of unfair treatment to investors during the post-bidding process....
Inflation, deficit to dog economy: IMF
RAWALPINDI, Jan 18: The International Monetary Fund says in a new report on Pakistan’s economy that although the outlook for 2007-08 remains favourable, the policies of the government may not be...
12 convicted in riots case
MUMBAI, Jan 18: A Mumbai court convicted 12 men on Friday of gang-rape, murder and fabricating evidence in the killing of 14 people during one of India’s worst religious riots....
Top Bush aide Nicholas Burns quits
WASHINGTON, Jan 18: US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns, who played a key role in negotiating America’s nuclear deal with India, has decided to quit the Bush administration in the last year of its eight-year reign....
ADB says lending to poor states failed
MANILA, Jan 18: The Asian Development Bank admitted in an internal study released on Friday that some of its loans to poor countries over the last few years had failed to achieve all their goals....
Taliban hang Afghan for ‘spying’
KANDAHAR, Jan 18: Taliban militants hanged a man from an electricity pole in southern Afghanistan after accusing him of spying for US troops and the Afghan government, a district chief said on Friday....
Kuwait urged to free cross-dressers
DUBAI, Jan 18: The Human Rights Watch urged the Kuwaiti authorities on Friday to release from prison 14 men jailed in recent months for having dressed as women in public....
UN rights council to meet on Israeli actions
GENEVA, Jan 18: The UN Human Rights Council will hold an emergency meeting next week to examine whether Israel is committing abuses in the Palestinian territories, officials said on Friday....
UAE president lands in Nawabshah
NAWABSHAH, Jan 18: UAE President Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahiyan arrived here on Friday. He was received at the airport by caretaker Sindh Chief Minister Justice (retd) Abdul Qadir Halepoto....
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GAZA, Jan 18: Israel bombed the Hamas-run interior ministry in Gaza and closed border crossings with the strip on Friday....
