Fresh operation in Swat; five troops, 25 militants killed
SWAT, July 30: Security forces killed 25 Taliban and lost a major, a non-commissioned officer and three soldiers after they moved into Matta tehsil of Swat on Wednesday to flush out the entrenched militants....
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Malik blames Afghanistan, India for Fata unrest
WASHINGTON, July 30: India and Afghanistan are stirring troubles in Fata and Balochistan, Rehman Malik, adviser to the prime minister on interior, told journalists on Wednesday....
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Gilani hits back, cites US failure in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON, July 30: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has rebuffed demands for unilateral US action against suspected terrorist targets inside Fata, saying that such strikes further complicate an already difficult situation....
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Rockets fired from Afghan side land in Waziristan
MIRAMSHAH, July 30: Mortar shells and rockets fired from across the Afghan side of the border landed in the Spin Wam area of North Waziristan Agency on Wednesday....
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Duties on petroleum products slashed, but prices unchanged
ISLAMABAD, July 30: The government on Wednesday reduced customs and deemed duties on petroleum products by 25 per cent and capped dealer commission and marketing companies’ profit margin, but decided to use the average Rs4.30...
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Immigrants found dead in Turkey
ISTANBUL, July 30: Thirteen illegal immigrants, mostly Pakistanis, were found dead in a field on the outskirts of Istanbul on Wednesday, suffocated in a packed truck, Turkish police said....
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Independence of judiciary key to economic progress: Iftikhar
KARACHI, July 30: No country can progress in the real sense without the supremacy of its constitution, the rule of law and the independence of judiciary, deposed chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad...
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SC orders NAB officials’ release
ISLAMABAD, July 30: The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the release of two officials of the National Accountabilty Bureau, who had been arrested last week for harassing a man in the court premises....
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Pentagon says attacks on militant sites will continue
WASHINGTON, July 30: Two days after President George W. Bush assured Pakistan that the United States respected its sovereignty, a Pentagon spokesman told journalists that this respect would not prevent US forces from targeting militant sites inside Pakistani territory....
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Bush told Gilani of ISI link with militants
WASHINGTON, July 30: President George W. Bush told Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and members of his delegation during their formal meeting here on Monday that the US believed that the...
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Australia to offer military advisers
CANBERRA, July 30: Australia will offer military advisers to Pakistan to train security forces to fight Taliban and Al Qaeda militants taking sanctuary there from neighbouring Afghanistan, the government said on Wednesday....
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Turkish court rejects ban on ruling party
ANKARA, July 30: Turkey’s highest court on Wednesday rejected an attempt to close the governing AK Party on charges of trying to introduce Islamic rule but imposed financial penalties on it, the court’s chief judge said....
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Canadian ice shelf sheds big chunk
EDMONTON (Alberta), July 30: Officials have said that a big chunk of ice broke off Canada’s largest remaining ice shelf last week....
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Arctic ice thawing generally
OSLO: Arctic sea ice is unlikely to shrink this year below a 2007 record low, in a reprieve from the worst predictions of climate change even though new evidence confirms that a long-term thaw is under way, according to experts....
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Students planning to study in UK face tougher controls
LONDON, July 30: Foreign students planning to study in Britain will have to supply their fingerprints under new rules introduced by the Home Office in a crackdown on bogus students and colleges....
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In Zimbabwe, 10bn now equals 1
HARARE, July 30: In a sign of Zimbabwe’s dire financial crisis, its reserve bank announced on Wednesday it was knocking 10 zeros off the country’s hyper-inflated currency — a move that turns 10 billion dollars into one....
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Karadzic shifted to Hague cell for genocide trial
THE HAGUE, July 30: Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was taken to a prison cell in The Hague on Wednesday to face trial at a UN war crimes tribunal on charges of genocide during the 1992-95 Bosnia war....
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The next steps
GENOCIDE suspect Radovan Karadzic, who was transferred to the UN detention centre on Wednesday, faces several legal steps before his trial begins. Among those steps are:...
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PTCL accepts workers’ demands; strike ends
ISLAMABAD, July 30: The two-week tussle between the Pakistan Telecommunication Company and its employees ended when the management accepted the latter’s demands on Wednesday....
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Fresh Syria-Israel talks next month
ISTANBUL, July 30: Israel and Syria will hold their next indirect peace talks in Turkey in mid-August after failing to move on to face-to-face negotiations, a source close to the talks said on Wednesday....
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Indian reports about LoC clash rejected
SRINAGAR, July 30: Pakistan on Wednesday rejected reports that a firing incident had taken place in occupied Kashmir involving Indian and Pakistani troops....
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Ziarat child afflicted with polio
QUETTA, July 30: A child of 10 months has tested positive for polio, raising to three the number of victims of the deadly disease in Balochistan this year....
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