India monitoring Pakistan missile reportNEW DELHI - India has noted a US media report suggesting Pakistan had modified US Harpoon anti-ship missiles to hit possible targets in this country and is examining its impact on national security, a senior official said here Monday. India concerned over Pakistan’s action in Northern AreasNEW DELHI - India views Pakistan’s decision to grant province-like status to the disputed Northern Areas with concern as it believes these areas are an integral part of Jammu and Kashmir and India. India puts foreign secretaries talks on holdNEW DELHI - Unhappy with Pakistan’s lack of action against the Mumbai attackers after the Sharm el-Sheikh summit meeting, India has decided to put on hold a meeting between the foreign secretaries who were expected to meet this month. 29 bodies of militants recovered in PakistanSWAT - The security forces have recovered 29 bodies of militants from the Panjoot area in northwest Pakistan, the Online news agency reported Monday. Terrorists from tribal areas infiltrate into LahoreLAHORE - Intelligence agencies have warned that 17 terrorists from Pakistan’s tribal areas have entered Lahore to possibly target sensitive installations, mosques, Iftar parties and political personalities. Pakistan Army kills 15 militantsISLAMABAD - Fifteen militants were killed in fighting with the security forces in northwest Pakistan, officials said Monday. 25,000 Kalashnikovs for police in Pakistan’s northwestPESHAWAR - Police in Pakistan’s restive northwest, where a major military offensive against the Taliban is winding down, have been provided with 25,000 Kalashnikovs and 14,000 bulletproof jackets to aid in the war against terrorism. NATO supplies from Pakistan to Afghanistan resumeISLAMABAD - Supplies of fuel and other logistics to Afghanistan-based NATO forces from Pakistan resumed Monday, hours after 25 tankers were gutted in a blaze in Pakistan’s Chaman town in southwestern Balochistan province. Nawaz for more Pakistan-India intellectuals’ contactsLAHORE - Former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif has urged greater interaction between intellectuals of the two countries as the way forward in the stalled subcontinental dialogue process. Pakistani parliament to decide on Musharraf’s fate: PMDUBAI - Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said Monday that parliament would decide whether or not former president Pervez Musharraf should be tried for tampering with the constitution and sacking the Supreme Court judges after imposing an emergency in November 2007. PPP to support Musharraf’s trial by parliament: OfficialISLAMABAD - The ruling Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) will support the trial by parliament of former president Pervez Musharraf for tampering with the constitution and arresting the Supreme Court judges after declaring emergency in November 2007, the country’s top law officer said Monday. Pakistan has yet to take effective action: IndiaIndo-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE NEW DELHI - Days after India presented a fresh dossier on the alleged involvement of Hafiz Saeed in the Mumbai attacks, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna Monday asked Islamabad to honour its anti-terror pledge and take “effective steps” to dismantle the “infrastructure of terrorism” on its soil. Afghan journalist shot dead in PakistanISLAMABAD - Gunmen shot dead an Afghan journalist and wounded his colleague in Pakistan’s troubled north-western region Monday, officials said. Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud is alive, says rebel commanderWANA - A commander of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Monday said his organisation will select a new chief in the next five days according to the instruction of their leader Baitullah Mehsud, a media report said. No ceasefire during Ramadan, says PakistanISLAMABAD - Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik said Sunday the security forces will continue their offensives against the Taliban during the holy month of Ramadan, the Online news agency reported. New Taliban chief is ‘look alike brother’ of Hakimullah MehsudISLAMABAD - Pakistani intelligence agencies believe the new Taliban chief named by the militant group Saturday is a look alike brother of Hakimullah Mehsud and not the real one, the Online news agency reported. Hakimullah Mehsud appointed head of Pakistani TalibanISLAMABAD - A 42-member tribal gathering Saturday appointed Hakimullah Mehsud as the new head of the Pakistani Taliban though the group insists its previous head Baitullah Mehsud is still alive. India will send more 26/11 evidence to Pakistan: KrishnaNEW DELHI - More evidence on 26/11 will be provided to Pakistan as investigations continue, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna said Saturday, a day after India presented yet another dossier on the Mumbai terror attacks. Pakistani Taliban planned to target PM, others: Intelligence reportISLAMABAD - The banned Pakistani Taliban, against whom the security forces are engaged in a major offensive in the country’s restive northwest, had planned to target Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and other dignitaries, an intelligence report said Saturday. Pakistan loses $1.8 bn to corruptionISLAMABAD - Pakistan is estimated to have lost a staggering Rs.150 billion ($1.8 billion) thanks to the immunity granted to politicians, bureaucrats and senior military officers charged with corruption and the scrapping of the country’s corruption watchdog, a media report said Saturday. Indian dossier on Hafiz Saeed unsatisfactory: PakistanISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI - Pakistan said Friday an Indian dossier pointing to the alleged involvement of Jamaat-ud Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks did not contain anything substantial. The reference apparently was to a document handed over Aug 1 and not the one furnished only hours earlier Friday. 12 militants killed in PakistanBANNU - Twelve militants were killed and three security personnel were wounded Friday in fighting in northwest Pakistan, the Online news agency reported. Germany gives over $14 mn in aid to PakistanISLAMABAD - Germany has given Rs.1.17 billion (about $14 million) in aid to Pakistan to help the displaced people in the country’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), the Online news agency reported Friday. Pakistan mulls parliament, assembly seats for overseas citizensISLAMABAD - A bill reserving four seats in the lower house of parliament and one seat in each of the four provincial assemblies for overseas Pakistanis will be introduced in the National Assembly once the law ministry vets it. India hands over dossier on Saeed to PakistanNEW DELHI - India Friday handed to Pakistan a fresh dossier on Jamaat-ud Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed, accused by it of being the mastermind behind the Mumbai terror attack. 60 militants surrender in SwatISLAMABAD - Over 60 militants, including two cousins of Taliban commander Fazlullah, have surrendered before Pakistani security forces at Saidu Sharif airport in Swat, Online news agency reported Friday. Three Pakistanis booked for impersonating journalistsRAWALPINDI - Pakistani police have booked three men for posing as journalists and using the names of a private TV channel and a newspaper to blackmail residents of this garrison town adjacent to the federal capital Islamabad. Pakistan, US to revive and upgrade strategic dialogueISLAMABAD - Pakistan and the US have agreed to revive their strategic dialogue and raise it to the ministerial level, with the fourth round to be held here in October during the visit of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Pakistan seeks military training from Sri LankaISLAMABAD - Pakistan has sought training in counter-insurgency operations from Sri Lanka following the island nation’s decisive victory against the Tamil Tiger rebels, says a top commander. Musharraf may never be brought on trialISLAMABAD - Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf may have been booked for illegally detaining Supreme Court judges but he never may be brought on trial going by what Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani told parliament and new revelations about the deal struck under which he quit last year. |
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