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Russia rules out air corridor for combat aircraft

Staff Reporter · Oct 12, 2001 · 2 min read

MOSCOW, Oct 10 (UNI) Russian defence minister Sergei Ivanov has ruled out the possibility of Russia providing air corridors for combat aircraft of the member-co...

UN warns of unexploded bombs in Afghanistan

Staff Reporter · Oct 10, 2001 · 3 min read

ISLAMABAD, Oct 9 (DPA) At least 10 to 20 per cent of the bombs dropped by the US-led forces on Afghanistan will not explode and will have to be diffused after t...

Thatcher condemns UK Muslim response to US attacks

Staff Reporter · Oct 4, 2001 · 14 min read

LONDON, Oct 4 (Reuters): Baroness Margaret Thatcher has attacked British Muslims for not being vocal enough in their condemnation of the September 11 attacks on...

Musharraf wants to ditch Taliban for Zahir Shah

Staff Reporter · Oct 4, 2001 · 6 min read

ISLAMABAD, Oct 3 (UNI): Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf wants to "ditch" the ruling Taliban in Afghanistan and set a new course designed to align the countr...

dream of Afghan jihad

Staff Reporter · Oct 4, 2001 · 7 min read

CHITRAL (PAKISTAN), Oct 3 (Reuters) It was a hot, lazy morning at the Jamia Mosque in Chitral, high in Pakistans mountainous north, and the teenage boys here to...

Taliban place Stingers along Pak border

Staff Reporter · Oct 1, 2001 · 1 min read

ISLAMABAD, Oct 1 (UNI): The Pakistani army and the Taliban forces are face to face against each other as the Afghanistan leadership had started amassing troops ...

Pak air force aircrafts removed from Quetta airbase

Staff Reporter · Oct 1, 2001 · 10 min read

ISLAMABAD, Oct 1 (UNI): The Quetta airbase in Pakistan was vacated last night and all aircraft of the Pakistan air force flown out, according to a newspaper her...

US targets Taliban as protesters urge peace

Staff Reporter · Sep 30, 2001 · 21 min read

WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD, Sept 30 (Reuters): While anti-war protesters chanted for peace, members of the US government made clear the target in Afghanistan is not j...

No foreign-imposed regime can survive in Afghanistan: Pak

Staff Reporter · Sep 28, 2001 · 2 min read

ISLAMABAD, Sep 28 (UNI) Pakistan has said that no foreign-imposed government could survive for long in Afghanistan, which has been proved by history. "History h...

Guns, guns and more guns in Paks wild West

Staff Reporter · Sep 28, 2001 · 31 min read

PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN, Sep 28 (Reuters) Secret pen guns, pocket guns, handguns, shotguns, machineguns, anti-aircraft guns , the wild west of Pakistan is a gun love...

KOIRALAS RESIGNATION OVER CORRUPTION DEMANDED

Staff Reporter · Apr 10, 2001 · 26 min read

Kathmandu, Apr, 9 (NNN) : Demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala, lakhs of workers of opposition parties in Nepal took to the streets...

New UN Iraqi sanctions policy in trouble

Staff Reporter · Jan 19, 2000 · 6 min read

NEW YORK, Jan 18 (NNN) : The new Iraqi sanctions policy of the United Nations ran into trouble yesterday as Russia rejected the nomination of Swedish diplomat R...

Next round of Israel-Syria talks postponed

Staff Reporter · Jan 19, 2000 · 3 min read

DUBAI, Jan 18 (NNN) : Amid indications of Syrian protests against delay in withdrawal from the strategic Golan Heights, the crucial next round of Israeli-Syrian...

Russia asks Pak to nab hijackers

Staff Reporter · Jan 19, 2000 · 2 min read

MOSCOW, Jan 18 (UNI): Russia today accused Pakistan of adopting double standards by not nabbing the hijackers of the Indian Airlines flight IC-814 even though t...

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