ISLAMABAD, 19 June 2006 — Kuwait is set to invest over two billion dollars in Pakistan. This was revealed by Minister of State for Board of Investment and Special Initiatives Omar Ghuman prior to Kuwait
NEW YORK, 19 June 2006 — US officials received intelligence that Al-Qaeda operatives had been 45 days away from releasing a deadly gas into the city’s subways when the plan was called off by Osama
LONDON, 19 June 2006 — Several hundred protesters took to the streets of an east London neighborhood yesterday to demand an apology for an anti-terrorist raid that turned up nothing. Mohammed
FORT ERIE, Ontario, 19 June 2006 — A group of American military deserters publicly embraced their new lives in Canada on Saturday with the support of “peace mom” Cindy Sheehan, who said she wished
JERUSALEM, 19 June 2006 — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday rejected calls for an international inquiry into a blast on a Gaza beach nearly two weeks ago in which eight Palestinians were
MOGADISHU, 19 June 2006 — Somalia’s interim government yesterday accused the Islamic militia, which has become a major threat to its limited authority, of lying about an Ethiopian troop incursion as
BAGHDAD, 19 June 2006 — US and Iraqi forces were surrounding the town of Ramadi yesterday by setting up new checkpoints on all the entry and exit roads in a bid to bottle up the insurgents. A
WASHINGTON, 19 June 2006 — US airstrikes in Afghanistan have surged in the past three months as fighting has spread, The Washington Post reported yesterday. Washington carried out 340 airstrikes
GAZA CITY, 19 June 2006 — Palestinian factions are moving toward agreement on a statehood initiative implicitly recognizing Israel and could reach a deal early this week aimed at ending deadly internecine
ISTANBUL, 19 June 2006 — The EU criticizes the Turkish military’s role in politics, a lack of reform and minority rights and relations with Cyprus in the draft of a progress report due later this year,
ISLAMABAD/KHAR, 19 June 2006 — Hundreds of Pakistani tribesmen staged a protest yesterday against the killing of a journalist, abducted last year after reporting that an Al-Qaeda leader had been killed... Full Story
RAE BARELI, 19 June 2006 — Having successfully returned to the Lok Sabha, winning a bypoll held last month with a record margin of more than 400,000 votes, Congress party President Sonia Gandhi is
JEDDAH, 19 June 2006 — Unless the trend is halted, three out of every five heart patients around the world would be from India by the year 2020, a leading heart specialist from Kerala has warned. ... Full Story
NAGPUR, 19 June 2006 — The Nagpur Police found itself placed in the dock by a fact-finding team comprising members of several nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) which challenged the authenticity
KARACHI, 19 June 2006 — A professional young gymnast Jameel threw acid on his friend Asma’s face after the girl’s family rejected the boy’s proposal. The girl Asma, who is also a gymnast by profession,
JEDDAH, 19 June 2006 — Pakistan’s defense budget is of 250 billion Pakistani rupees ($4.167 billion) for the financial year 2006-07 and not 2,150 billion rupees ($35.9 billion) as was mentioned in
