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Billions wiped off on KSE’s ‘black Friday’
KARACHI, May 23: The Karachi Stock Exchange index of 100 shares plunged by 615 points or close to the maximum of five per cent on what many investors thought was ‘black Friday’ for the market....
Bugti’s grandson Shahzain freed
QUETTA, May 23: Mir Shahzain Bugti, son of Nawabzada Talal Akbar Bugti, was released from the Mach jail on Friday....
PML-N, ANP back Asif’s tirade
LAHORE: Two coalition partners of the PPP, the PML-N and ANP, share the assertion of its leader Asif Ali Zardari that people want President Pervez Musharraf ousted for the sake of a genuine democratic system....
Food crisis: Unicef calls for saving children
ISLAMABAD, May 23: The United Nations has warned that children in Pakistan are vulnerable to the effects of global food crisis and called upon the government to take urgent action to protect them....
Gilani urges world support for peace initiatives
ISLAMABAD, May 23: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Friday that Pakistan would never be lacking in its resolve to combat extremism and terrorism in all its forms and...
97 fishermen freed as goodwill gesture
KARACHI, May 23: Prison authorities on Friday released 97 Indian fishermen as a goodwill gesture, a few days after peace talks between India and Pakistan, officials said....
S. America unites to create regional EU version
BRASILIA, May 23: A new South American union was born on Friday as leaders of the region’s 12 nations set out to create a continental parliament....
China, Russia denounce US missile shield
BEIJING, May 23: Russia and China on Friday denounced US plans for a global missile defence shield and signed a billion-dollar nuclear contract as Russia’s new President Dmitry Medvedev made his diplomatic debut....
Backing for Al Qaeda on the wane: study
PARIS, May 23: Terrorist violence markedly declined around the world in 2007 while popular backing for Al Qaeda was slipping, according to the authors of a Canadian study based on US statistics....
Power conservation in factories opposed
ISLAMABAD, May 23: The provinces have warned that there may be massive cuts in daily-wage employment in several industries if the government tries to reduce the duration or change the hours...
PBA, penalised banks asked to submit report
ISLAMABAD, May 23: The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) on Friday asked the Pakistan Banking Association (PBA) and seven banks which had been penalised on April 10 for acting in a cartel-like manner to submit a compliance report by May 28....
Some soil, memories for Indian premier
ATTARI, May 23: A boyhood friend of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, hailing from the Chakwal district, crossed over into Indian territory on Friday in the hope of meeting his former classmate after a gap of nearly six decades....
India tests Ballistic missile
BHUBANESWAR, May 23: India’s military on Friday conducted a successful test of a short-range nuclear-capable ballistic missile, defence sources said....
Pirates release hijacked ship
MOGADISHU, May 23: Somali pirates have released a Jordanian-flagged cargo ship hijacked last week off the lawless coast of the Horn of Africa nation, a shipping agent said on Friday....
S. Africa apologises over anti-immigrant violence
JOHANNESBURG, May 23: South Africa made its first public apology on Friday for anti-immigrant violence that has left more than 40 dead and 17,000 displaced, as unrest spread to seven of the country’s nine provinces....
Violation of border to be dealt with firmly: Patil
SRINAGAR, May 23: India will deal “resolutely and firmly” with any border violations, President Pratibha Patil said on Friday as she addressed soldiers guarding the Line of Control....
Evidence in nuclear smuggling case destroyed
BERN, May 23: The Swiss government destroyed sensitive evidence in a high-profile nuclear smuggling case linked to Libya’s now-abandoned effort to build an atomic bomb because of security reasons, Switzerland’s president said on Friday....
$500m Saudi aid for UN food fund
UNITED NATIONS, May 23: Saudi Arabia on Friday announced a contribution of $500 million to the United Nations World Food Programme in response to the urgent appeal made by the UN body....
QUETTA, May 23: Mir Shahzain Bugti, son of Nawabzada Talal Akbar Bugti, was released from the Mach jail on Friday....
KARACHI, May 23: Prison authorities on Friday released 97 Indian fishermen as a goodwill gesture, a few days after peace talks between India and Pakistan, officials said....
BRASILIA, May 23: A new South American union was born on Friday as leaders of the region’s 12 nations set out to create a continental parliament....
