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US, Kabul scramble as endgame nears 27 Jun 2013 - 11:17 pm

KABUL: The US, the government in Kabul and Taliban insurgents are scrambling for advantage as the clock ticks down in the search for...

Musharraf treason probe committee set up 27 Jun 2013 - 11:16 pm

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan yesterday moved a step closer to putting former military leader Pervez Musharraf on trial for treason, appointing a committee to investigate...

International donors reluctant 27 Jun 2013 - 11:16 pm

KARACHI: Pakistan has only been able to secure $1.953bn of the total donor commitments of $14.313bn, a status report by the Ministry of...

Pakistan’s top problem outages, not militancy 27 Jun 2013 - 11:16 pm

ISLAMABAD: For Pakistan’s new government, the biggest challenge isn’t taming the many militant groups that mount near daily attacks across the country. “Our...

Sharif declines bullet-proof cars 27 Jun 2013 - 11:15 pm

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif yesterday declined to take new bullet-proof cars for his motorcade, ordered by the previous government. A source...

Police patrol 27 Jun 2013 - 10:52 pm

Armed police patrol the road to the riot-hit town of Lukqun, in Xinjiang Province in China yesterday. Twenty-seven people died in the restive...

China, S Korea push for denuclearisation 27 Jun 2013 - 10:52 pm

BEIJING: China and South Korea yesterday agreed to push for denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula, Chinese President Xi Jinping said at a summit...

Cambodia begins election campaign 27 Jun 2013 - 10:52 pm

PHNOM PENH: Cambodia yesterday officially started campaigning for next month’s general election, expected to be won by strongman Prime Minister Hun Sen who...

China urged to end forced resettlements in Tibet 27 Jun 2013 - 10:51 pm

BEIJING: A human rights group appealed to China yesterday to end what it called forced “mass rehousing and relocation” of ethnic Tibetans that...

Lecturer jailed for death threat to PM 27 Jun 2013 - 10:51 pm

DHAKA: A Bangladeshi university lecturer was sentenced to jail in absentia yesterdayfor threatening to kill Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and defaming her on...

Indonesia prepares cases against eight firms over fires 27 Jun 2013 - 10:51 pm

JAKARTA: Indonesian investigators are building criminal cases against eight Southeast Asian companies they suspect of being responsible for raging fires that have blanketed...

Jakarta jails terror leader 27 Jun 2013 - 10:50 pm

JAKARTA: An Indonesian court yesterday jailed an Islamist militant with links to one of Asia’s most notorious terror leaders for 10 years for...

Manila to give US, Japan access to bases 27 Jun 2013 - 10:47 pm

Filipino rescue workers aboard a rubber raft conduct a search drill as the US Navy destroyer USS Fitzgerald docks behind them at the...

Push for statute change 27 Jun 2013 - 10:47 pm

MANILA: Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr is not giving up on efforts to push for amendments to the restrictive economic provisions of the Constitution...

Mail-order brides saved 27 Jun 2013 - 10:44 pm

MANILA: Philippine police rescued 29 women and arrested five people accused of illegally supplying mail-order brides to South Korea, an official said yesterday....

23 provinces at high risk for disaster: World Bank 27 Jun 2013 - 10:43 pm

MALOLOS CITY: At least 23 provinces are considered to be at high risk for disasters due to the hazards of climate change, a...

China urged to spare Filipina’s life 27 Jun 2013 - 10:43 pm

MANILA: The Philippines said it had appealed yesterday to China to spare the life of a 35-year-old woman who had been sentenced to...

Rebels target army chopper 27 Jun 2013 - 10:42 pm

ZAMBOANGA CITY: Fighting erupted when the Abu Sayyaf group fired at a military helicopter providing supply to marines shortly before noon yesterday in...