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INTERNATIONAL
Pakistan test-fires Ghauri
ISLAMABAD: President Pervez Musharraf reiterated on Friday that his country was capable of thwarting all threats to its sovereignty and nuclear capability, even as the Pakistan Army Strategic Force Command (ASFC) conducted a training launch of ...

Rights group slams U.S., U.K.
LONDON: Britain and America have been accused of paying lip service to democracy by propping up “autocrats” such as Pakistan’s President Parvez Musharraf for political convenience. In its hard-hitting annual report, ...

Pakistan unable to confirm killing of Al-Qaeda leader
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan government said it could not confirm that a top Al-Qaeda operative was among those killed in a missile strike in the North Waziristan tribal area of the country on Monday. Al Ekhlaas, an Al-Qaeda-affiliated Internet ...

Pakistan lawyer set free
ISLAMABAD: Realising it may be on shaky legal ground, the government hurriedly withdrew a detention order for Aitzaz Ahsan, a legal luminary and one of the leaders of the 2007 lawyers’ agitation, freeing him after three months of ...

Scores of LTTE bunkers destroyed: Colombo
COLOMBO: The Sri Lanka military has claimed that at least 29 cadres of the LTTE were killed and scores of bunkers of Tigers destroyed in continued fighting along the Forward Defence Lines (FDLs) in the north amid an air raid on an LTTE ...

When vital cable links gave way
Both the main route and the back-up got cut for a lot of companies in this instance

Indian sailors rescued
MANAMA: Rescue workers managed to save all 17 Indian sailors after their dhow capsized off the coast of Bahrain in the Persian Gulf waters, said an Interior Ministry official here on Friday. Narendra Shial, a Dubai-based businessman and ...

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