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Basic accord for Turkmen gas project signed
ISLAMABAD, April 24: Pakistan, India and Afghanistan on Thursday signed a framework agreement to buy natural gas from Turkmenistan, despite the cost of laying a pipeline from the Central Asian state having increased to $7.6...
Peace talks under way in Fata, Balochistan
ISLAMABAD, April 24: Prime Minister’s Adviser on Interior Affairs Rehman Malik has said the government is holding talks with all tribal leaders in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) and Balochistan,...
Troops withdrawn from Bugti graveyard
QUETTA, April 24: The government has withdrawn troops which were guarding the ancestral graveyard of late nationalist leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti in Dera Bugti and allowed relatives and other people to visit his grave....
Local govts under attack in NA
ISLAMABAD, April 24: The local government system enforced by President Pervez Musharraf as the centrepiece of his discredited political scheme faced its most serious challenge in the National Assembly on Thursday...
Musharraf, opponents come face to face
ISLAMABAD, April 24: President Pervez Musharraf and some of his bitter political opponents shared the table at a dinner hosted by Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani on Thursday for formation commanders and services chiefs at the lawns of the PM House....
Task force set up to curb hoarding and smuggling
ISLAMABAD, April 24: The Federal Committee on Agriculture (FCA) has set up a ‘national task force’ to curb hoarding of food items, particularly wheat, and their smuggling to neighbouring countries....
Panel formed to review FCR
ISLAMABAD, April 24: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani announced on Thursday formation of a nine-member cabinet committee to examine the Frontier Crimes’ Regulations (FCR) of 1901 and come up with suitable recommendations to repeal it....
Reprieve for death-row prisoners under study
ISLAMABAD, April 24: Death-row prisoners are likely to get a reprieve with the government actively considering a proposal to convert the capital punishment into life imprisonment....
‘US spy’ killed
MIRAMSHAH, April 24: A man was shot dead on suspicion of spying for the United States in the North Waziristan tribal region on Wednesday night....
Attempt to blow up railway track foiled
QUETTA, April 24: Security forces on Thursday foiled an attempt to blow up a railway track linking Quetta with Iran by defusing a powerful bomb planted on a railway line near Ahmedwal in Noshki district....
‘Indian Pemra’ acts against TV channels in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, April 24: Indian authorities have stopped cable TV operators from broadcasting four Pakistani television channels in occupied Kashmir, a move the Kashmiris described as “cultural aggression” by New Delhi....
Kabul wary of peace deal with militants
KABUL, April 24: Afghan Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta said on Thursday that any peace deal between Pakistan and Taliban fighters would only fail and terrorism should instead be tackled globally....
Britain hit hard by strikes
LONDON, April 24: Britain was hit on Thursday by the most wide-ranging wave of work stoppages since the Labour government came to power 11 years ago, with up to 400,000 public sector employees on strike....
Increase in prices of Thai rice fuels food fears
BANGKOK, April 24: Rice prices in Thailand, the world’s top exporter, surged to $1,000 a ton on Thursday, feeding concerns about food security after export curbs by governments worldwide....
UN driver shot dead in Darfur
KHARTOUM, April 24: A UN World Food Programme driver was killed in Darfur, the second fatal attack in two months on vital aid deliveries feeding millions in Sudan’s violent west, a statement said on Thursday....
Assad confirms Israeli offer on Golan
BEIRUT, April 24: Syrian President Bashar Assad said in an interview published on Thursday that his country might hold direct talks with Israel but not until a new US administration that can broker such negotiations took office....
Muslims rally around imam facing deportation
NEW YORK, April 24: The Muslim community in a New Jersey town is rallying around a hugely popular Imam who faces deportation from the United States on “contentious charges”....
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Editor: Abbas Nasir
ISLAMABAD, April 24: President Pervez Musharraf and some of his bitter political opponents shared the table at a dinner hosted by Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani on Thursday for formation commanders and services chiefs at the lawns of the PM House....
LONDON, April 24: Britain was hit on Thursday by the most wide-ranging wave of work stoppages since the Labour government came to power 11 years ago, with up to 400,000 public sector employees on strike....
