KARACHI, July 4 (Reuters) - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf hit back at calls for his resignation on Friday, saying he was needed to help political parties avoid an economic meltdown and tackle a militant threat gripping the country.
"We cannot
Managing the Afghan war is not going to be easy for the U.S. The Taliban is back — “refit, retrained, and rearmed.” Even an intrepid traveller will fail to realise the half-hour on the crowded highway leaving Peshawar, by when he is already in the
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistan's army under President Pervez Musharraf supervised a shipment of uranium centrifuges to North Korea in 2000, the disgraced architect of Pakistan's atomic weapons program said Friday.
The claim is the most
Islamabad, July 04: A court on Friday asked the Pakistan
government to respond to a plea by wife of disgraced nuclear
scientist A Q Khan challenging his "illegal detention" and
fixed July 15 for a hearing on it and a habeas corpus petition filed on
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had Jewish Israeli girlfriend
MONGOLIA-ELECTION. Post-election riot underscores Mongolian poverty, high inflation
MYANMAR-FERRY SINKING. 38 dead as ferry sinks in cyclone-devastated Myanmar delta
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DEATH PENALTY-PAKISTAN:
KARACHI, Jul 4 (IPS) - Some 7,000 death row inmates -- a quarter of the estimated condemned prisoners worldwide -- are expected to be spared and eventually freed following a call by Pakistans prime minister to
Two Indians now settled in the US - Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen and acclaimed journalist Fareed Zakaria - are among the top 20 intellectuals in the world today, according to a poll conducted by a US magazine.
Sen and Zakaria, Newsweek
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea says it won't dismantle any other part of its nuclear program until it receives more of the fuel and other benefits the U.S. and other countries promised under an aid-for-disarmament deal.
North Korea issued a
Hundreds of Islamists gathered outside Islamabad's Red Mosque on Friday and chanted slogans against President Pervez Musharraf to mark the anniversary of the bloody storming of the building.
Government forces laid siege to the hardline mosque on July 3,
ISLAMABAD: President Pervez Musharraf on Thursday urged member countries of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) to boost