India agreed to give up the Poonch salient as well as Uri. To the north India also proposed to give up land in the Gurez sector giving the entire Neelam/Kinshanganga valley to Pakistan. In return India sought control of the post dominating Kargil town, points out Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
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Wasim Qadir, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI)-backed candidate who defeated PML-N's stalwart Sheikh Rohail Asghar from Lahore's National Assembly-121 constituency, joined the PML-N after a meeting with Maryam Nawaz, daughter of the party supremo Nawaz Sharif, at her residence.
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Nearly 50 children, locked up in chains, were rescued by the Pakistani police following a raid on a religious seminary, which officials fear was forcing militant training on them. Senior police officials said the children apparently were being prepared for illegal and extremist activities at the seminary. During the raid in the notorious Sohrab Goth area of Karachi on Monday, police personnel recovered the children from a basement where they were chained.
The PML-N, however, rejected the demand and claimed that it was winning Thursday's elections.
China Thursday offered to play a 'constructive role' to ease tension between Pakistan and Iran following their missile strikes against each other over the last two days and asked the two countries to 'exercise restraint and calmness and avoid escalation'.
The attacks on Karachi airport and the Airport Security Force camp are growing signs how Pakistan's home-made monster, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, is growing stronger and is no longer under the tight grip of the Inter-Services-Intelligence, its godfather. Vicky Nanjappa reports how these attacks are just the beginning and there are many more to come.
Chandio Munir Ahmad is an activist of All Pakistan Trade Union Organisation. He has been a grassroots' worker for many years. He, like the overwhelming number of grassroots activists in Pakistan, is upset with the Indian government for giving tacit support to President Musharraf's regime and America's gameplan in the region.
Two suicide bombers struck the famed Sufi shrine of Abdullah Shah Ghazi in Karachi on Thursday, killing at least eight people and injuring several others.
Shinwari rattled the top order as he scalped three of the opening five wickets.
Millions of people in Pakistan were left without electricity when a major power outage occured on January 23.
Pakistan has stringently denied the fact that underworld don Dawood Ibrahim is running his terror operations from Karachi. But terrorists arrested by Indian intelligence agencies have repeatedly admitted that India's most wanted man has taken refuge in Pakistan, with active assistance from the ISI. Ahmed Khwaja, the Lashkar-e-Tayiba militant in the custody of the Hyderabad police, recently revealed that the fugitive is protected by an impenetrable layer of security.
The blast was at the office of the honorary consul general to Macedonia, and three bodies were recovered with throats cuts and hands and feet tied together.\n\n\n\n
In unprecedented scenes, supporters of former prime minister Imran Khan on Tuesday stormed the Pakistan Army headquarters in the garrison city of Rawalpindi and the Corps Commander's residence in Lahore after his dramatic arrest in a corruption case.
Security at the airports across the country has been tightened following a terrorist attack on Pakistan's largest airport in Karachi in which at least 28 people, including 10 terrorists, were killed.
During an action-packed day one of second Test between India and South Africa, a total of 23 wickets fell, which is the second highest number of wickets falling on day one of a Test.
At least 92 people have been killed in the last five days in a fresh wave of ethnic strife and gang wars in Pakistan's financial capital Karachi, with nine more deaths reported on Monday.
Notwithstanding Pakistan's denials, India on Thursday said underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, the main accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, resides in Karachi where he spends most of his time. A day after the government released a list of 50 fugitives who are in Pakistan, Home Minister P Chidambaram said India will maintain pressure on it to bring all perpetrators of 2008 Mumbai attacks to justice and build international opinion in this regard.
Supporters of President Pervez Musharraf and suspended chief justice Chaudhry Iftikar had a free run in Karachi.
Debutant leg-spinner Mansoor Amjad took three wickets in his only over to propel Pakistan to a 102-run win over Bangladesh in their Twenty20 international on Sunday.
The three main political parties in Pakistan on Sunday intensified their efforts for the formation of a coalition government after it became clear that the coup-prone country faced a hung Parliament after general elections marred by allegations of rigging.
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As mayhem continued in the financial hub, reports said nearly 60 people have been killed since Friday in the city that has been in the grip of violence for the past few months.
Very few know of his scintillating mind, the outpouring of fresh ideas, the attention to detail in every endeavour, the extraordinary administrative and organisational skills, and a limitless stamina and energy with which he pursues every interest and commitment, notes Ambassador Talmiz Ahmad.
"We must show the world that this is an emerging, progressive and dynamic country and we are second to none," Musharraf said.
The attack occurred near the Gwadar police station in Balochistan when the convoy carrying 23 Chinese engineers was passing the police station and an IED blast took place.
The death toll in Monday's suicide attack which targeted a Muharram procession at MA Jinnah Road in Karachi has reached 40.
Senior Pakistani TV journalist Hamid Mir, who faced threats from Taliban and other terror groups, was on Saturday shot at in Karachi by 4 unidentified motorcycle-borne gunmen near a bridge on way to his office.
Pakistan opened its account in 'shoe-gaming' with a Karachi student flinging his shoe at an American journalist.
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With thaw in bilateral relations, India and Pakistan decided this year to reopen their consulates in Karachi and Mumbai, respectively.
Three suicide bombers blew up their explosives-laden van when they were challenged by police on the seafront of Karachi in southern Pakistan on Wednesday night, killing two policemen.
The PCB said security concerns are the main reason for their rejection of the venue.
The delegation after reviewing arrangements will hold final talks with Pakistani officials in Lahore.
There was no progress in the formation of a new coalition government in Pakistan on Tuesday as top leaders of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) failed to agree on a power-sharing deal in their latest round of talks, indicating deepening fissures in the country's political landscape.
Pakistani authorities have released 198 Indian fishermen, who were languishing at a jail in Karachi after being arrested for allegedly fishing illegally in the country's waters, and handed them over to India at the Wagah border.
A reporter of Geo television channel was gunned down by unidentified persons in Karachi on Friday. Wali Babar was returning home from work when he was intercepted by some people in a car and gunned down from close range in the Liaquatabad area of the city.Pehlwan Goth has been in the grip of violence for the past three days after three people with political affiliations were killed, stirring unrest in the area. Firing continued in the area on Friday.
Taliban militants on Tuesday attacked a training camp of the Airport Security Force near Karachi international airport in Karachi, but fled after Pakistani forces repulsed the assault, a day after an all-night siege at the facility left nearly 40 people dead.
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