International community to impress India to call back troops: Musharraf
ISLAMABAD : President General Pervez Musharraf Monday urged the international community to impress upon India to call back its troops to the peacetime locations and for an early de-escalation in the larger interest of the people of this region.

Musharraf expresses regret over irregularities during referendum
ISLAMABAD : President General Parvez Musharraf in his nationwide address over Radio and Television on Monday has expressed dismay over some irregularities took place during referendum in some areas of Pakistan.

President Musharraf pins high hopes on air power
ISLAMABAD : President General Pervez Musharraf Monday expressing his confidence over the abilities of Pakistan Air Force and said the nation pins high hopes on its air power and is confident that it will give a good account of itself in the hours of need.

Russian Deputy Secretary holds bilateral talks
ISLAMABAD : The Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Antaoly Safnow has arrived Islamabad Monday afternoon and held bilateral talks with Additional Secretary Annisuddin Ahmed just after his arrival, an official in the Foreign Office said.

Unexploded bomb from US jets claims nine lives
MIRAN SHAH : Nine persons were killed and an other injured when an unexploded bomb they were working on went off at Loli Faqiroon village of Saidgi, on Pak-Afghan border near here

Nine killed in Indian shelling
ISLAMABAD : Nine persons including two women have embraced martyrdom and forty-two others have been injured due to unprovoked shelling and firing by the Indian troops along Line of Control and working boundary.

Jack Straw to visit Islamabad on Tuesday
ISLAMABAD : British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw is arriving here on Tuesday in an effort to bring Pakistan and India to the negotiating table, official said Monday.

Russian Deputy FM, Pakistan officials begin talks
ISLAMABAD : The visiting Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Anatoly Safanov held talks with senior Foreign Office officials in Islamabad Monday.

General Yusaf visits forward locations in Sialkot
RAWALPINDI : “Indiscriminate shelling on civilian population along Line of Control and Working Boundary and carnage of Muslims in Gujarat and Kashmir are part of the Indian design and a demonstration of the Hindu fundamentalists mindset.”

Memon set on voyage to get politicians’ support
ISLAMABAD : The Minister for Information and Media Development Nisar A. Memon has said that all the opposition Parties would be agreed on meeting with President Pervez Musharraf to show their full support with the President in the tense situation on border.

Two-day tripartite oil minister’s meeting starts
ISLAMABAD : A two-day tripartite Oil Ministers meeting between Pakistan, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan started Monday to discuss and prepare the draft Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the pre-feasibility study of the proposed Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan Oil & Gas Pipelines Project.

Pakistani delegation leaves for Delhi to talk Indus Basin Treaty
ISLAMABAD : A Six-member delegation of Indus water commission Monday left Islamabad for New Delhi via Dubai to settle the dispute of Indus Basin Treaty in the back drop of disputes arise over construction of Dam at river Chenab in India.

Memon hopes all including PPP, PML, JI to attend May 31 meeting
ISLAMABAD : Information Minister Nisar A. Memon Monday was confident that the political leaders of the country’s mainstream political entities would attend the consultative meeting convened on May 31 on the prevailing tension with India.

Relations with Bosnia in highway sector need promotion
ISLAMABAD : Federal Minister for Communications and Railways Lt. Gen. (Retd) Javed Ashraf Qazi has said that the present government wants to ensure participation of Muslim countries in the economic uplift of Pakistan.

Underestimate of military abilities to be corrected if war is there: Gen. Beg
ISLAMABAD : The US and India might be mistaken about the nuclear deterrence of Pakistan Armed Forces and underestimates of “our” abilities of strikes believed to be corrected if there is a war.

War to complicate Kashmir issue: Sardar Anwar
ISLAMABAD : War is not a solution to the long outstanding Kashmir issue because war would further complicate it, said AJK President Sardar Muhammad Anwar Khan.

Minister invites PML (N) for consultative meeting with President
ISLAMABAD : The Information Minister Mr. Nisar A. Memon has extended a formal invitation to Pakistan Muslim League(N) Leader Raja Zafarul-Haq for a consultative meeting with President Pervez Musharraf.