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Iran retracts relating nuke issue to Gas project

NEW DELHI — Tehran has removed the political hurdle it created by taking out nuclear politics from the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project. At the October 24 meeting of the Special Joint Working Group, Tehran had asked New Delhi to ‘’compensate the past default >> >>
 

PM set out to build consensus in Sindh
From Zeeshan Mirza

KARACHI—Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz Friday held separate meetings with legislators of Sindh Provincial Assembly belonging to Pakistan Muslim League, Independents, PML (F) and MQM at Chief Minister House. The Prime Minister discussed the steps required to be taken to overcome shortage of water reservoirs in the country. The Prime Minister, on the occasion said, government has received >> >>


 

SAFTA ready to get final shape
From Meerza Iqbal Baig

NEW DELHI—Seven South Asian countries have finalised an agreement to set up a free trade area, the Indian government said, a move predicted to more than double the size of the regional market. The landmark deal to create a South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) was signed in Islamabad in January 2004 during a summit of regional leaders with January 1, 2006 set as a deadline for >> >>

 

• Series of management courses begin at PIEAS
• DART donates health clinic before heading back home
• 40,000 shelter homes constructed at quake-hit areas
• Sultan urges tin shelters for quake survivors
• 33000 AIDS patients in country, says Nasir
• 90% tents vulnerable to cold at quake-hit areas: UN
• Special love gives fresh aroma to Pak-Turkey emotional relations
• Int'l Day for Disabled today

• Sundance fields Friends in opening slot
• Destiny made Namrata actor
• Morissette, Finn contribute to Narnia disc
• Garner, Affleck have baby girl
• The Colour Purple set to please Broadway crowds

      SPORTS NEWS 

• Yousuf, Akmal put Pakistan in command
• Senate body calls for more sports facilities to youth
• Zee gets telecast rights for Sri Lanka Tests
• Pak rules out six-day Tests against India
• ICC plans to add umpires to elite panel