No consensus in sight on terror war policy: Joint session to resume on Monday
ISLAMABAD, Oct 9: If the government aims at creating a national consensus on its strategy in the “war on terror” through the joint session of parliament, it seems to have failed...
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Suicide attacker destroys police HQ in Islamabad
ISLAMABAD, Oct 9: A suicide bomber rammed an explosive-laden car into headquarters of the Anti-Terrorist Squad of police on Thursday, injuring eight policemen....
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Schoolgirls among 12 killed in Dir bomb blast
UPPER DIR, Oct 9: Twelve people, four schoolgirls among them, were killed and 10 others injured when a roadside bomb hit a prison van and a school bus in Upper Dir district on Thursday....
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21 militants dead in Swat bombing
MINGORA, Oct 9: Twenty-one militants and five civilians were killed in bombing by jet fighters and mortar shelling in various areas of Swat on Thursday....
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President briefed about missile, N-programmes
ISLAMABAD, Oct 9: President Asif Ali Zardari was briefed on Thursday about the nuclear programme and the missile defence system....
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‘US drone attack’ claims nine lives
MIRAMSHAH, Oct 9: Two missiles fired by a suspected US drone hit a residential compound in Tapai area of North Waziristan on Thursday, killing at least nine people....
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Settled areas a worry for US
WASHINGTON, Oct 9: Two senior US officials have warned that Al Qaeda has expanded its influence from the tribal belt to the settled areas of Pakistan, attacking targets inside the country’s capital city....
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Karzai’s brother confirms presence at Saudi talks
KANDAHAR, Oct 9: A brother of President Hamid Karzai said on Thursday his visit to Saudi Arabia last month was part of an Afghan push for the kingdom to convene peace talks with the Taliban....
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Confusion over KESC tariff hike
ISLAMABAD, Oct 9: The ministry of water and power has clarified that the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) has not been authorised to increase tariff by 71 per cent....
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GDP growth may fall to 3.5pc next year: IMF
ISLAMABAD, Oct 9: Pakistan’s economic growth rate may slip to 3.5 per cent in 2009 as countries in South Asia are not totally immune to the financial crisis in the US and its subsequent fallout, International Monetary Fund data suggest....
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21 die in Upper Dir accident
UPPER DIR, Oct 9: At least 21 people were killed and four others were injured when an overloaded pick-up truck fell into river Kohistan in Upper Dir district on Thursday....
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AJK trade team in occupied Kashmir
MUZAFFARABAD, Oct 9: A delegation of traders from Azad Jammu and Kashmir left for occupied Kashmir on Thursday to finalise modalities of trade between the two sides of the Line of Control....
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Literature Nobel goes to France’s Le Clezio
STOCKHOLM, Oct 9: French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, whose world travels form the poetic and descriptive backdrop for his body of work, on Thursday won the 2008 Nobel Literature Prize....
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Three more polio cases detected
LAHORE, Oct 9: Three more cases of polio — two in Punjab and one in the NWFP — were confirmed on Thursday....
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Attaur Rehman to resign
ISLAMABAD, Oct 9: Higher Education Commission (HEC) chairman Dr Attaur Rehman has decided to step down and send his resignation to the Prime Minister Secretariat, an HEC official told Dawn....
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Zardari to visit China next week
BEIJING, Oct 9: President Asif Ali Zardari will visit China next week to hold talks with his counterpart Hu Jintao, China’s foreign ministry announced on Thursday....
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Kohala power project attracts Chinese firm
ISLAMABAD, Oct 9: A Chinese company has shown interest in investing in the $2 billion Kohala hydro-electric power project in Azad Kashmir....
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Toxic milk sent 10,700 children to hospital
BEIJING, Oct 9: Nearly 10,700 Chinese infants and children were still in hospital after drinking toxic milk and milk formula, China said on Thursday, but urged foreign customers to take a ‘scientific’ approach to the safety of its products....
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