‘Friends’ unveil initiative to avert collapse: Over $15bn needed: media
NEW YORK, Sept 26: A permanent forum was launched in New York on Friday to help raise billions of dollars to avert a possible economic collapse in Pakistan....
|
|
Three terror suspects, kidnap victim killed in Karachi
KARACHI, Sept 26: Three suspected terrorists and a man kidnapped by them more than four months ago were killed when police raided their hideout in Saeedabad on Friday morning....
|
|
14 militants killed in Bajaur
KHAR, Sept 26: Fourteen people were killed and 20 others injured when security forces, backed by helicopter gunships and artillery, pounded suspected militant positions in the troubled Bajaur region on Friday....
|
|
Tribals up in arms against militants; capture 9
LANDI KOTAL, Sept 26: A tribal lashkar captured nine militants and rescued a kidnapped cleric after an exchange of fire in the Malagori area of Khyber Agency on Thursday night....
|
|
Four die as blast derails train
BAHAWALPUR, Sept 26: A woman, her two children and a railway police constable were killed and nine other people were injured when a train derailed after a blast near Hasilpur on Friday....
|
|
US, Pakistan need to solve problem: Rice
NEW YORK: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said the United States and Pakistan need to deal with the situation that led to a clash between their troops....
|
|
Border incident not to affect relations, says Mullen
WASHINGTON, Sept 26: Pakistani military leaders had assured the Americans recently that they didn’t intend to use force against US troops along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, the top US military officer said on Friday....
|
|
Bush rejected Israel’s idea of attack on Iran
LONDON, Sept 26: Israel gave serious thought this spring to launching a military strike on Iran’s nuclear sites, but was told by US President George Bush he would not support it...
|
|
Stocks fall as bailout battle rages
WASHINGTON, Sept 26: The Bush administration tried to tighten the screws on squabbling members of Congress on...
|
|
Pirates seize tank-laden ship; Russia calls in navy
NAIROBI, Sept 26: Somali pirates have seized a Ukrainian ship carrying at least 30 tanks and some Russian crew, a maritime group said on Friday, and Russia announced it was sending a warship to the region to combat piracy....
|
|
Two suspects held aboard aircraft in Germany
BERLIN, Sept 26: German police boarded a Dutch airliner at Cologne airport on Friday and arrested two men suspected of planning to take part in terrorist attacks....
|
|
Troops kill seven militants in Assam
NEW DELHI, Sept 26: Indian troops shot dead on Friday seven militants belonging to a guerrilla outfit that New Delhi said was based in neighbouring Bangladesh, the defence ministry said....
|
|
Adventurer flies ‘like bird’ across English Channel
DOVER, Sept 26: A Swiss adventurer flew into the history books on Friday by crossing from France to Britain on only a jet-powered wing, describing afterwards how he felt “like a bird” over the English Channel....
|
|
China pulls popular candy off shelves as milk scandal deepens
BEIJING, Sept 26: China’s toxic milk scandal escalated on Friday as one of the nation’s famous candy brands was pulled off shelves and four more people outside the mainland were thought to have fallen ill....
|
|
‘Chicago company swindled Muslims’
CHICAGO, Sept 26: State regulators say they are investigating a development firm suspected of bilking Muslim investors, many from an Indian and Pakistani neighborhood, out of as much as $50 million....
|
|
118 kidnapped Afghan labourers freed
HERAT, Sept 26: Suspected Taliban on Friday freed 118 of about 150 Afghan carpenters, masons and other workers abducted in western Afghanistan, one of the men and a governor said....
|
|
‘Pakistan, US working to overcome weaknesses’
NEW YORK, Sept 26: President Asif Ali Zardari said on Friday that the United States and Pakistan were working together to overcome the ‘weaknesses’ they confront in the war against terror....
|
|
Kayani meets Chinese defence minister
BEIJING, Sept 26: Chief of Army Staff Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani said on Friday that Pakistan was ready to enhance strategic cooperation with China....
|
|
