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Report on N-assets mischievous and absurd: Gen Majid
Dawn Report
ISLAMABAD, Nov 9: Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Gen Tariq Majid has dismissed as ‘absurd and plain mischievous’ a report by American journalist

Tuesday, 10 Nov, 2009
Suicide blast, explosion claim five lives
By Ali Hazrat Bacha & Anwarullah Khan
PESHAWAR/KHAR, Nov 9: A suicide attack in Peshawar and a bomb blast in Khar on Monday killed three security personnel and two civilians.

Tuesday, 10 Nov, 2009
Shujaat claims authorship of NRO and its name
By Shahzad Raza
ISLAMABAD, Nov 9: Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, the PML-Q chief, disclosed in an interview on Monday that the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) was his

Tuesday, 10 Nov, 2009
Palestinians breach Israeli barrier on Berlin Wall day
 
QALANDIYA (Occupied West Bank), Nov 9: Activists made a hole in Israel’s West Bank wall for the second time in less than a week on Monday in a demonstration to

Tuesday, 10 Nov, 2009
Merkel asks US to cast aside unilateralism
 
BERLIN, Nov 9: The United States should cede some of its powers to international organisations to create a “world order”, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on

Tuesday, 10 Nov, 2009
Aitzaz says he has been offered senior position
 
LAHORE, Nov 9: PPP leader and former president of the Supreme Court Bar Association Aitzaz Ahsan has confirmed reports that he has been offered a senior

Tuesday, 10 Nov, 2009
Women deprived of healthcare at key times: WHO
 
GENEVA, Nov 9: Women are often deprived of healthcare in the crucial years of adolescence and old age due to social inequalities and neglect in male dominated

Tuesday, 10 Nov, 2009
8 militants, four troops, killed in Makin
 
PESHAWAR, Nov 9: Eight militants and four troops were killed during the operation Rahi-i-Nijat in South Waziristan, officials said on Monday.

Tuesday, 10 Nov, 2009
3 US citizens facing spying charges in Iran
 
TEHRAN, Nov 9: Three American hikers taken into custody by Iranian guards near the border with Iraq on July 31 are facing charges of spying, Iran’s judiciary

Tuesday, 10 Nov, 2009
Help for good governance possible, says C’wealth: Pakistan and India should settle issues bilaterally
 
LONDON, Nov 9: A senior Commonwealth official said here on Monday it expected both Pakistan and India to settle their bilateral issues, adding that the

Tuesday, 10 Nov, 2009
Nasheed fears ‘suicide pact’ at Copenhagen
 
MALE, Nov 9: The president of the Maldives warned on Monday that the world was set to sign a “global suicide pact” unless it agreed a deal in Copenhagen next

Tuesday, 10 Nov, 2009
‘Gas production to level off by 2011’
By Kalbe Ali
ISLAMABAD, Nov 9: The Asian Development Bank has said that Pakistan’s natural gas production is projected to level off by 2011 and by 2030 more than 70 per cent

Tuesday, 10 Nov, 2009
India arrests 20 Pakistani fishermen
By Our Correspondent
THATTA, Nov 9: Twenty Pakistani fishermen were taken into custody along with three vessels and catch by Indian naval personnel near Kajhar and Sir Creek two

Tuesday, 10 Nov, 2009
Capitalism responsible for crisis: Ahmadinejad
 
ISTANBUL, Nov 9: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday slammed capitalism for the global financial meltdown as he joined Muslim leaders at a summit in

Tuesday, 10 Nov, 2009
British PM apologises to soldier’s mother over letter row
 
LONDON, Nov 9: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has apologised to the mother of a soldier killed in Afghanistan after she accused him of disrespect in a

Tuesday, 10 Nov, 2009
$1.6tr worth of corruption committed annually: UN
 
DUBAI, Nov 9: The United Nations is able to put a price tag on political corruption -- estimating that up to $1.6 trillion in public assets move across borders

Tuesday, 10 Nov, 2009
Terrorist attacks crowded market; at least 12 dead
By Zulfiqar Ali
PESHAWAR, Nov 8: At least 12 people, including a UC nazim, were killed and 35 others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up at the cattle market in

Monday, 09 Nov, 2009
‘Sharpshooter’ guns down suspected suicide bomber
By Munawer Azeem
ISLAMABAD, Nov 8: Police shot dead a suspected suicide bomber who ran towards a checkpoint on the outer ring of the city on Sunday night.

Monday, 09 Nov, 2009
No winner or loser on NRO, says Gilani
 
LAHORE, Nov 8: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said the issue of the 17th Amendment would be resolved in accordance with the Charter of Democracy.

Monday, 09 Nov, 2009
No deal with US on security of N-arsenal: FO
Dawn Report
ISLAMABAD, Nov 8: The Foreign Office has said that Pakistan will never allow “any country to have direct or indirect access to its nuclear and strategic

Monday, 09 Nov, 2009
Army consolidates gains in Waziristan
 
ISLAMABAD: Twenty Taliban insurgents have been killed as military tried to consolidate gains in its offensive against militants in South Waziristan, the army

Monday, 09 Nov, 2009
US healthcare reform approved by House
 
WASHINGTON, Nov 8: After a landmark win in the US House of Representatives, President Barack Obama’s push for healthcare reform faces a difficult path in the

Monday, 09 Nov, 2009
Big Jakarta rally backs anti-graft agency
 
JAKARTA, Nov 8: Hundreds of Indonesians gathered in Jakarta on Sunday to protest perceived moves to cripple the country’s once-powerful corruption watchdog.

Monday, 09 Nov, 2009
Most Britons believe Afghan war not winnable: poll
 
LONDON, Nov 8: Britons are not convinced the war in Afghanistan can be won, Britain’s chief of defence staff said on Sunday, as two new polls showed support for

Monday, 09 Nov, 2009
Military chief may run for president in Sri Lanka
By Frances Bulathsinghala
COLOMBO, Nov 8: Sri Lankan political circles and the media are vigorously discussing the possibility of the candidature of Gen Sarath Fonseka, currently Chief

Monday, 09 Nov, 2009
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