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ISLAMABAD - The third round of Pakistan-Japan consultations on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation issues was held in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Dr Irfan Yusuf Shami, Director General, Disarmament, Ministry of Foreign Affairs was heading the Pakistani delegation, said a foreign office statement issued here.
It said the Pakistani side underscored the need for maintaining strategic and conventional stability in South Asia as well country's desire for non-discriminatory access to

LAHORE - Transparency International Pakistan (TIP) Chairman Syed Adil Gilani on Monday termed all allegations leveled against him by former National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) chairman Ayaz Khan Niaz and three other directors as "fabricated" while responding to the second questionnaire of the Federal Investigations Agency (FIA) in the NICL land purchase scam worth Rs 5.36 billion. According to sources, Adil, in his reply to the FIA, rejected claims of any deal with NICL

ISLAMABAD - The killer of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, Mumtaz Qadri, on Monday recorded his confessional statement before Police said Qadri before Magistrate Muhammad Ali Randhawa, saying he acted alone on his plan to kill Taseer. Qadri was later produced before ATC Judge Malik Akram Awan in Rawalpindi, who sent him on a 14-day judicial remand. Police said Qadri was produced before the magistrate under Section 164 as he wished to record his statement one day before his remand ended.

MANCHESTER - New Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish said critics who questioned his sanity in returning to the Anfield hotseat had got it all wrong, insisting it was a "no-brainer" of a decision. Dalglish's first game back in charge following the departure of Roy Hodgson barely a day earlier ended in 1-0 FA Cup third round defeat by arch-rivals Manchester United at Old Trafford, with Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard sent-off into the bargain. Dalglish, who received a hero's reception

ABU DHABI - Sanctions have set back Iran's nuclear programme, giving major powers more time to persuade Tehran to change tack, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Monday.
"The most recent analysis is that the sanctions have been working. They have made it much more difficult for Iran to pursue its nuclear ambition," Clinton said in Abu Dhabi, where she is on an official visit.
"Iran had technological problems that have made it slow down its timetable, so we do see

LAHORE - Former security manager of Pakistan cricket team Major (retd) Khawaja Javed Najam revealed on Sunday how Salman Butt and Kamran Akmal had violated the regulations to entertain bookmaker Mazhar Majeed in their hotel room during the tour of England last summer.
As the six-day hearing of the ICC's anti-corruption tribunal entered its fourth day, Najam, in his statement to the tribunal in Doha, said that some players went out of their way to maintain links with the Majeed

TUNIS - Two civilians were killed and eight injured in overnight clashes with police in a provincial town, the Tunisian government said on Sunday, the deadliest incident in a series of riots that started nearly a month ago.
Witnesses said crowds throwing stones and petrol bombs were clashing with police in another town nearby, and that three people there had been killed by gunfire, but there was no official confirmation of those accounts.
People taking part in the spate of

ISLAMABAD - Opposition Leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Saturday said that the Mutahidda Qaumi Movement should not have staged such a "drama" if it had to work at the "same salary".
Reacting to the decision by the Mutahidda Qaumi Movement to rejoin the ruling coalition, Nisar said that the country's politics had become hostage to those who used terror to impose their ideology. "The recent somersault of the MQM has revealed the nature of revolution its leaders want while sitting

DOHA - Pundits in Uzbekistan have rated Vadim Abramov's team as the country's best in a decade and their victory against hosts Qatar in their Asian Cup opener underlined those credentials.
Goals from Odil Akhmedov and evergreen captain Server Djeparov handed the Uzbeks a well-deserved 2-0 victory on Friday evening and Abramov believes better is still to come. "Our midfield in particular played very well but I hope this is not the best we can show. I think we can play better," he

PARIS/ABIDJAN - Ivory Coast's presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara said on Thursday he had proof his rival, Laurent Gbagbo, had instigated post-election violence and ordered foreign agents to carry out killings.
There was no immediate reaction from Gbagbo's camp but the United Nations said the confirmed death toll from the violence had risen to 210 and condemned the blocking of investigators trying to probe reports of further killings.
Ivory Coast has been in turmoil

ISLAMABAD - Ruling out any possibility of rejoining the government, JUI-F Senator Abdul Gafoor Haideri said Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani should opt for an honourable exit and dissolve the cabinet to let someone else form the government.
"The prime minister has a better option to dissolve the cabinet and let someone else form the government. Even the Awami National Party (ANP) has advised him to do so. If the no-confidence vote is moved against the prime minister, it will be

LAHORE - Leaders of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) foresaw a political controversy behind the assassination of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer and called it a "political murder", as the deceased was laid to rest at the Cavalry Grounds graveyard on Wednesday.
Leading the enraged onslaught, PPP Punjab Senior Minister Raja Riaz said the Punjab governor was killed for political reasons and his murder highlighted the failure of the provincial government. He said it was surprising

PARIS - Military intervention in Ivory Coast does not mean the country will descend into civil war, presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara said on Wednesday.
In his first television interview since the crisis unfolded, Ouattara told France 24 he preferred a peaceful solution to the crisis, but dismissed negotiating with incument Laurent Gbagbo saying he had to "leave power." "I think he will be responsible for the situation that he will face. Military intervention does not mean

KHARTOUM - The latest remarks by Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir on the upcoming referendum on southern independence are "extremely encouraging," US Senator John Kerry said on Wednesday in Khartoum.
Bashir on a visit to the southern capital Juba on Tuesday said he would celebrate the results of the referendum even if the south chooses to secede, and pledged last week to help build a secure, stable and "brotherly" southern state if it votes for independence.
Kerry hailed the

Lahore - Parents of students have expressed their reservations against the newly proposed uniform syllabus of medical entry test for both Fsc and A-levels students by the University of Health Sciences (UHS), Pakistan Today has learnt.
The medical entry test conducted by the UHS has been marred in controversies for a past few years, as A-level students claimed they were at a losing end in a test which they claimed favoured Fsc students. Several protests have been held in previous

MADRID - Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola believes playmaker Xavi Hernandez could go on to reach 700 games for the club after the Spanish World Cup star equalled the club's all-time appearance record in Barcelona's 2-1 win over Levante Sunday.
Xavi made his 549th outing in the famous shirt to draw level with legendary centre-back Migueli and at 30 the midfielder is set to go on and set a new benchmark for future generations to beat. "We wanted to win this game for him (Xavi)," said

LAHORE - The Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) will organise the first-ever AFC Level 1 Goalkeeping Coaching Course from March 10 at Lahore, under directives of President Faisal Saleh Hayat. Coaches will be trained in skills pertinent to goalkeeping. This course covers a more specialised aspect of football, as goalkeepers are of great importance for the outcome of the game. Coaches for this specialist course must have at least the AFC C-Coaching Certificate, and have to continue