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Energy crisis forces India to join Iran gas pipeline project
ISLAMABAD, April 25: Differences between Pakistan and India over the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project were resolved on Friday and the two countries agreed to start work on laying pipelines next year for procuring gas from Iran by December 2012....
‘Valuable support’ against separatists praised by China
ISLAMABAD, April 25: China has thanked Pakistan for its ‘valuable support’ in effectively dealing with the East Turkestan Islamic Movement and the Xinjiang-based Uighur separatist movement regarded by the Chinese government as a terrorist organisation....
NA recess delays justice to judges
ISLAMABAD, April 25: The government virtually delayed a promised justice to deposed judges as it sent the National Assembly into an indefinite recess on Friday without getting a resolution passed for...
Bombers back in Mardan, kill three
MARDAN, April 25: A police officer and two civilians were killed and 37 people were injured when an explosives-laden car exploded near a police station here on Friday morning, ending respite...
Singh hopeful of building new bridges for peace
NEW DELHI, April 25: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh lauded Pakistan’s new leadership on Friday for its positive statements about the road ahead with India and offered hopes of building new bridges...
Senate condemns blasphemous cartoons, anti-Islam film
ISLAMABAD, April 25: The Senate on Friday unanimously adopted a resolution condemning the publication of blasphemous cartoons in some European countries and the release of an anti-Islam documentary by a Dutch parliamentarian....
NA to re-examine 2005 stock market crash
ISLAMABAD, April 25: The National Assembly on Friday decided to re-examine the March 2005 stock market scam after some members, mostly of the Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N), criticised policies of the...
Mirwaiz, other Kashmiri leaders under house arrest
SRINAGAR, April 25: Police in occupied Kashmir’s main city fired tear gas on Friday to disperse several thousand demonstrators protesting against alleged human rights violations by Indian security forces....
40-50pc medicines in ‘market counterfeit’
ISLAMABAD, April 25: About 40 to 50 per cent of medicines being sold in the country were counterfeit, which might cause prolonged illness or even death of patients, experts warned at...
Ministers at dinner with Musharraf irk Nawaz
LAHORE, April 25: PML-N leader Mian Nawaz Sharif has expressed displeasure at participation of ministers belonging to his party in a dinner which was attended by President Pervez Musharraf....
WB to raise $9 billion for water projects
ISLAMABAD, April 25: The World Bank has agreed to arrange $9 billion to help build one major water reservoir and two run-of-the-river projects, to enable Pakistan to cope with water and electricity shortages....
Rising food prices becoming global problem, says UN
UNITED NATIONS, April 25: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Friday that rising food prices had developed into a global crisis and the head of the World Food Programme issued...
China to hold talks with Dalai Lama aides
NYIMU COUNTY (China), April 25: China is to hold talks with envoys of the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of the Tibetan Buddhists whom it blames for a wave of unrest, state media reported on Friday....
Maoists emerge as largest party in Nepal assembly
KATHMANDU, April 25: Nepal’s Maoist former rebels won 220 seats in the 601-member special assembly, making them the single largest party, the Election Commission said on Friday....
Border post dispute resolved
KHAR, April 25: Border security forces of Pakistan and Afghanistan have returned to their respective outposts after successful talks held on Friday....
Gunmen kill three workers in Hub
QUETTA, April 25: Three workers of a cement factory were killed and eight others were injured, four of them seriously, when their bus came under fire in the industrial town of Hub on Friday....
New foreign secretary
ISLAMABAD, April 25: Amba-ssador to China Salman Bashir has been appointed foreign secretary. He will assume the new charge in June....
Four advisers appointed in Balochistan
QUETTA, April 25: The governor of Balochistan has appointed four advisers to the chief minister with the status of provincial minister....
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ISLAMABAD, April 25: Differences between Pakistan and India over the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project were resolved on Friday and the two countries agreed to start work on laying pipelines next year for procuring gas from Iran by December 2012....
ISLAMABAD, April 25: China has thanked Pakistan for its ‘valuable support’ in effectively dealing with the East Turkestan Islamic Movement and the Xinjiang-based Uighur separatist movement regarded by the Chinese government as a terrorist organisation....
MARDAN, April 25: A police officer and two civilians were killed and 37 people were injured when an explosives-laden car exploded near a police station here on Friday morning, ending respite...
