Kayani warns US to keep its troops out
ISLAMABAD, Sept 10: Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has rejected US claims that the rules of engagement gave the coalition forces in Afghanistan the right to enter...
|
|
US includes Fata in its area of concern
WASHINGTON, Sept 10: The US military will revise its strategy for Afghanistan to include militant ‘safe havens’ in Pakistan in its area of concern, the top US military officer said on Wednesday....
|
|
Asif advised to accept PML-N ministers’ resignation
ISLAMABAD, Sept 10: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani advised President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday to accept the resignation of PML-N ministers submitted four months ago....
|
|
12 killed in attack on Taraveeh prayers
TIMERGARA, Sept 10: At least 12 people were killed and 20 were injured when suspected militants hurled hand-grenades and fired on people offering Taraveeh prayers in a mosque in the Miskene area on Wednesday night, police said....
|
|
Forces retake Lowi Sam, Rashakai
KHAR, Sept 10: More that 20 militants were killed in Bajaur on Wednesday as the army claimed to have destroyed their ‘command and control system’....
|
|
Decision on Punjab cabinet after Nawaz’s return: Nisar
LAHORE, Sept 10: The PML-N, which has been criticising the Pakistan People’s Party for not quitting the Punjab cabinet, changed its stance on Wednesday, saying the matter would be settled by its chief Mian Nawaz Sharif after he returned from abroad....
|
|
Battle for Punjab hotting up
LAHORE, Sept 10: Punjab Governor Salman Taseer met PML-Q leaders Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi on Wednesday and discussed the possibility of forming a PPP-led coalition government in Punjab....
|
|
Severe water crisis feared
LAHORE, Sept 10: With rivers’ flow dropping to a historic low for September and water in reservoirs of both the major dams depleting fast over the past few days, the country...
|
|
FO asked to pursue uplift agenda
ISLAMABAD, Sept 10: President Asif Ali Zardari has directed the Foreign Office to include promotion of the national development agenda in its goals and to expand its traditional role of a national security institution....
|
|
‘Big Bang’ experiment starts well
GENEVA, Sept 10: International scientists celebrated the successful start of a huge particle-smashing machine on Wednesday which aims to simulate the conditions of the “Big Bang” that created the universe....
|
|
Girl commits suicide over ‘Big Bang’ fear
BHOPAL, Sept 10: A teenage girl in central India killed herself on Wednesday after being traumatised by media reports that a “Big Bang” experiment in Europe could bring about the end of the world, her father said....
|
|
UK court to seek retrial of 7 suspects
LONDON, Sept 10: The Crown Prosecution Service on Wednesday decided to seek a retrial for seven men accused of plotting to bring down trans-Atlantic airliners bound for the United States and Canada....
|
|
Accord to double strength of Afghan army
KABUL, Sept 10: The Afghan government and its international partners agreed on Wednesday to expand the national army to 134,000 soldiers, almost double its current strength, the United Nations said....
|
|
Search on for new Thai PM
BANGKOK, Sept 10: Thailand slid deeper into political crisis on Wednesday as it searched for consensus on who should head the government after a court forced the prime minister from office for accepting payment for hosting a TV cookery show....
|
|
Ike gains strength over Gulf, heads for Texas
HAVANA, Sept 10: Hurricane Ike grew stronger as it barreled across the warm, energising waters of the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday and moved towards the Texas coast after crashing through Cuba’s tobacco country and toppling ageing Havana buildings....
|
|
Switzerland will return pharaoh’s ‘eye’ to Egypt
CAIRO, Sept 10: Switzerland is to return a pharaoh’s “eye” stolen 36 years ago from the statue of King Amenhotep III, Egypt’s culture minister announced on Wednesday....
|
|
11 ‘militants’ killed in Swat attacks
MINGORA, Sept 10: Security forces continued to target suspected militant hideouts in Swat on Wednesday, leaving 11 people dead and several others wounded....
|
|
‘Four mid-level Al Qaeda militants killed’
PESHAWAR, Sept 10: A US missile strike targeting a top Taliban commander in Pakistan’s northwest killed four mid-level Al Qaeda operatives, a security official and a militant source said on Wednesday....
|
|
