Pakistan calls for statement given by eye-witness: Mumbai terror attack
ISLAMABAD, Feb 23: Pakistan has asked India to provide the eye-witness account of police constable Arun Jadhav, who was the lone survivor of the attack on the car carrying Anti-Terror Squad...
|
|
Militants declare truce in Bajaur
KHAR, Feb 23: After talks with a tribal jirga, militants in Bajaur agreed on Monday to announce a ceasefire in the region....
|
|
US working on economic package for Pakistan
WASHINGTON, Feb 23: The United States is working on a major economic package for Pakistan and Afghanistan, besides involving the two countries in formulating a new security strategy for the region....
|
|
Constable killed in Bannu suicide attack
BANNU, Feb 23: A suspected suicide bomber blew himself up near a temporary office of the Cantt DSP on Monday, killing a policeman. Another policeman was injured....
|
|
Sino-Pak friendship to deepen, says Communist Party
ISLAMABAD, Feb 23: The Communist Party of China (CPC) reiterated on Monday its resolve to cement the already strong friendly ties and cooperation with Pakistan....
|
|
House-to-house search ordered in D.I. Khan
ISLAMABAD, Feb 23: The NWFP police chief has been ordered to carry out a house-to-house search operation in Dera Ismail Khan to curb sectarian violence, the prime minister’s adviser on interior affairs, A....
|
|
India for ratification of Saarc convention
NEW DELHI: India will ask a Saarc ministers’ meeting in Colombo this week to expedite the ratification of a convention on terrorism that their leaders had passed but their parliaments had not yet endorsed, a local report said on Monday....
|
|
TNSM chief asks govt, Taliban to free prisoners
MINGORA, Feb 23: Tehrik Nifaz-i-Shariat-i-Muhammadi chief Maulana Sufi Mohammad appealed to the government and Taliban on Monday to release each other’s prisoners and dismantle checkposts for restoration of durable peace in Swat....
|
|
Military option open, says ISPR
ISLAMABAD, Feb 23: The chief military spokesman, Maj-Gen Athar Abbas, said on Monday that the army had ceased its activities in Swat on orders of the government to facilitate the peace process, but the military option remained open....
|
|
India basks in Oscar limelight
MUMBAI, Feb 23: India basked in the reflected glory of “Slumdog Millionaire” after the movie’s Oscar success on Sunday, although there was little red-carpet glamour to be found in the Mumbai slums where it was set....
|
|
Gilani, Shahbaz agree not to act against each other
ISLAMABAD, Feb 23: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif agreed on Monday not to destabilise each other’s government and to stop leaders of their parties from issuing statements against each other....
|
|
Visa fee for study in Britain increased
LONDON, Feb 23: The Home Office has increased the fee for applying for a visa to study in the UK in 2009-10 from £99 to £145....
|
|
Australians flee as wildfires flare again
MELBOURNE, Feb 23: Several hundred Australians fled their homes on Monday as wildfires that killed more than 200 people flared again, destroying at least one home and injuring two fire-fighters....
|
|
Yashwant criticises Jaswant for disowning standoff
NEW DELHI, Feb 23: In an apparent rebuff to senior party leader Jaswant Singh, who had stated this week that he would “not defend Operation Parakram”, codename for the military mobilisation...
|
|
Pentagon says US military role in Pakistan no secret
WASHINGTON, Feb 23: The US Defence Department on Monday confirmed it has a team of military advisers training the Pakistani army in counter-insurgency operations but said the programme has been...
|
|
Sri Lanka rejects Tamil rebels’ call for truce
COLOMBO, Feb 23: Sri Lanka’s Tamil rebels, facing likely defeat on the battlefield, appealed for a cease-fire on Monday – a call immediately rejected by the government as a final effort by the separatists to “save their miserable skins”....
|
|
Guantanamo detainee freed after seven years
LONDON, Feb 23: A Guantanamo prisoner who claims he was tortured at a covert CIA site in Morocco returned to Britain a free man on Monday after nearly seven years in...
|
|
Three suspects arrested over Cairo bazaar blast
CAIRO, Feb 23: Egyptian police said on Monday they have arrested three suspects over a bomb attack at a famed Cairo bazaar that killed a French teenager and wounded 25 people, most of them tourists....
|
|
BD official fired for ridiculing Mujib
DHAKA, Feb 23: Bangladesh’s top information official was sacked on Monday for ridiculing the country’s founding leader in a poem which compared him to a ‘dried plum’, an official said....
|
|
Solecki alive but sick, say kidnappers
QUETTA, Feb 23: John Solecki, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Balochistan who was kidnapped on Feb 2, is alive, according to a spokesman for the Baloch Liberation United Front (BLUF) which has claimed to have abducted him....
|
|
CLICK HERE
