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Lankan air force Mig-27 crashes, pilot safe

Staff Reporter · Jun 10, 2004 · 2 min read

COLOMBO, June 9 (UNI): A Sri Lankan Air Force Mig-27 crashed today while on a routine training sortie after the engine of the plane developed some problem, a de...

Speedy solution to labour dispute involving Indians assured

Staff Reporter · Jun 10, 2004 · 1 min read

DUBAI, June 9 (UNI): Saudi Arabia's eastern province Governor Prince Muhammad Ibn Fahd has promised the Indian Embassy speedy solution to a labour dispute with ...

Militants, Pakistanis exchange fire in tribal zone

Staff Reporter · Jun 10, 2004 · 2 min read

WANA, PAKISTAN, June 9 (REUTERS) Islamic militants and Pakistani troops exchanged fire in a remote mountainous region near Afghanistan today where authorities h...

Iraq's Kurds angered by UN vote, say may resign

Staff Reporter · Jun 10, 2004 · 2 min read

BAGHDAD, June 9 (REUTERS) Kurdish members of Iraq's government will resign if called upon to do so by their leaders after the failure of the latest UNresolution...

Pakistan province elects new chief after bloodshed

Staff Reporter · Jun 10, 2004 · 1 min read

KARACHI, June 9 (REUTERS) A member of Pakistan's ruling pro-military coalition was elected Chief Minister of volatile Sindh province today after a wave of milit...

Freed Italian hostages arrive home from Iraq

Staff Reporter · Jun 10, 2004 · 1 min read

ROME, June 9 (REUTERS) Three hostages freed from their Iraqi kidnappers by US-led coalition forces returned to Italy today after nearly two months in captivity ...

Victorious Putin pledges media freedom,growth

Staff Reporter · Apr 17, 2004 · 2 min read

MOSCOW, MARCH 15 (Reuters) Russian president Vladimir, speaking after winning a second four-year term in the Kremlin, pledged early today to maintain economic g...

No democracy is perfect, Putin tells America

Staff Reporter · Apr 17, 2004 · 3 min read

MOSCOW, MARCH 15 (Reuters) Russian president Vladimir Putin today rebuffed US criticism of his landslide re-election, saying no democracy was perfect, not even ...

Pakistan opposition leader handed 23-year sentence

Staff Reporter · Apr 13, 2004 · 9 min read

RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN, Apr 12 (Reuters) A Pakistani opposition leader was today sentenced to 23 years in prison after he was accused of defaming the military and...

SEVEN CHINESE KIDNAPPED IN IRAQ

Staff Reporter · Apr 13, 2004 · 1 min read

Beijing, April 12 (NNN) : Chinese media has reported the kidnapping of seven Chinese citizens by armed men in central Iraq. The seven Chinese entered Iraq via J...

PAK WANTS NUKE RESTRAINT AGREEMENT WITH INDIA : REPORT

Staff Reporter · Apr 13, 2004 · 3 min read

Islamabad, April 12 (NNN): Pakistan says it wants to strike an agreement on "Nuclear Restraint Regime" with India, adding that it was out of this strong desire ...

Pak stocks open up on talks with India

Staff Reporter · Mar 11, 2004 · 2 min read

KARACHI, Feb 16 (Reuters) Pakistan stocks opened higher on Monday on hopes of improved ties with nuclear-armed neighbour India as the two countries resumed peac...

Jamali instructs administration to gear up for Indo-Pak series

Staff Reporter · Mar 11, 2004 · 2 min read

ISLAMABAD, Feb 16 (UNI) Hailing New Delhi's decision to clear India's full tour of Pakistan in one-and-a-half decade, prime minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali ...

Lost child still unclaimed by parents after Haj

Staff Reporter · Mar 11, 2004 · 1 min read

CAIRO, Feb 16 (DPA) A total of 132 children were 'lost' during the Haj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia in mid-January, but only one has not been reunited with his pa...

All but one body claimed among 13 in Sharjah air crash

Staff Reporter · Mar 11, 2004 · 2 min read

DUBAI, Feb 17 (UNI) Bodies of all but one of the 13 Indians who died in the Sharjah air crash have been claimed. Body of Purshottam Lal, whose passport details ...

Thaw in Indo-Pak ties boosts tourism in Kashmir

Staff Reporter · Mar 11, 2004 · 4 min read

DUBAI, Feb 17 (UNI) The thaw in ties between India and Pakistan has boosted tourism in Kashmir, said Mohammed Ashraf, adviser to the Jammu and Kashmir Tourism (...

India-US air exercises directed at Musharraf: US analysts

Staff Reporter · Mar 11, 2004 · 4 min read

WASHINGTON, Feb 18 (UNI) The ongoing joint Indo-US exercises are aimed at warning Pakistan that if its much-talked of spring offensive against the Al Qaeda does...

Indian fishermen's fast unto death enters third day

Staff Reporter · Mar 11, 2004 · 1 min read

COLOMBO, Feb 18 (UNI) The fast unto death by sixty seven Indian fishermen, who were arrested by the Sri Lankan navy five months back while illegally poaching in...

Pakistan says no interest matching India nuke programme

Staff Reporter · Mar 11, 2004 · 5 min read

LONDON, Feb 18 (Reuters) Pakistan has no interest in matching India's Nuclear Weapons Development and does not need outside help to maintain or advance its prog...

Musharraf told of proliferation in 2002: State department

Staff Reporter · Mar 11, 2004 · 2 min read

WASHINGTON, Feb 19 (UNI) US secretary of state Colin Powell had taken up with Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf the question of nuclear proliferation as early...

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