Lahore—Indian forces fired across the Pakistani border on Friday night after mistakenly believing Pakistani troops had fired rockets into India, a Pakistani security force spokesman said. But a senior Indian Border Security Force official claimed Pakistan had started the clash by firing two rockets into Indian territory. No one was hurt and border force commanders later met to discuss the incident, the Pakistani spokesman said. The

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Akhtar Jamal

Islamabad—Australian Royal Air Force in a bid to boost its operational intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capability in Afghanistan by early next year will start operating Israeli UAVs to monitor the activities of militants. According to a defence source, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has won a contract to supply its Heron Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) to MacDonald, Dettwiler

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Tanvir Siddiqi

Islamabad—President Asif Ali Zardari Saturday said Pakistan can gain a lot from the Chinese experiences for achieving greater development. He was talking to Chinese ambassador in Pakistan Luo Zhaohui, who called on him here at the Presidency and exchanged views on bilateral relations. The President said Pakistan attaches high value to its relations with china and takes pride in the success story of China. He said that Pakistan was keen to

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Beijing—After completing all procedures for entry into force, China and Pakistan have exchanged diplomatic notes on the Free Trade agreement on Trade in Services. The Agreement will come into effect on October 10, this year. The FTA on Trade in Services was signed by Pakistan and China during President Asif Ali Zardari’s visit to Wuhan in February. The diplomatic notes were exchanged by Secretary Commerce Suleman Ghani

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Amanullah Khan

Karachi—Competitive Commission of Pakistan (CCP) which made headlines by imposing penalty of over Rs6 billion on cement manufacturers recently has initiated probe against sugar mills responsible for creating artificial shortage of the commodity which ultimately resulted in ugly sugar crisis. Informed sources said that actually CCP aimed to find out from these investigations as to how sugar mills owners determined sugar prices and how

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Tariq Saeed

Peshawar—Operation Bia Daralam ( Here I come again), against the militants of banned outfit Lashker-e-Islam in Bara Khyber agency, was intensified on Saturday with the security forces killing around 22 more insurgents. A number of militants hide outs were destroyed. In Operation Rah-e-Rast, 8 terrorists including foreigners were killed In Swat and Bajaur agency. However, a soldier also embraced Shahadat and another was

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Srinagar—At least four persons were killed late Saturday in a powerful car bomb blast set off by militants near the main jail in Indian occupied Kashmir’s summer capital Srinagar, police said. So far we have three policemen and a woman dead and 15 others injured,” police spokesman Prabhakar Tripathi told AFP. The militants had planted an Improvised

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Staff Reporter

Karachi—PNS Zulfiquar, Pakistan’s first F-22 frigate has reached Karachi on Saturday. Commander Pakistan Fleet Rear Admiral Asif Sandela received Pakistan Navy’s newly acquired state-of-the art missile frigate. Pakistan Navy Spokesman Salman Ali talking to media said PNS Zulfiquar participated in exercises with other naval ships.  The F-22P

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Tanvir Siddiqi

Islamabad—The Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Saturday that Pakistan would respond to India’s current dossier about the Mumbai terror attacks next week. The Interior Minister said this while chairing a high level meeting held to examine the Indian document.  The high level meeting discussed investigations carried out so far and the

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