Islamabad, Aug 1: The schedule of the Indo-Pak rail link Samjhauta Express has been changed. According to the new schedule, the train will leave for India from Lahore in the morning on Mondays and Thursdays and return later the same day.
The new schedule would come into effect on August 7, the Daily Times quoted Railway Chief Operating Superintendent Javed Anwar as saying in a TV interview.
The train will now leave the Lahore Railway Station at 8:00 am on Mondays and Thursdays and return at 4:45 pm the same day, added the paper.
After CIA deputy chief Stephen R. Kappes had visited Islamabad in mid-July to convey the message that Washington had evidence supporting ISI’s hand in July 7 suicide blast on Indian embassy in Kabul, CIA top boss Michael V. Hayden held an exclusive meeting with Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to present him a “charge-sheet” on Pakistani intelligence agency’s alleged involvement in jihadi activities.
After Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s first US visit, American think tanks, lobbyists, Congressmen, retired diplomats and bureaucrats are said to be a disappointed lot, and Washington has reportedly decided not to take him seriously as the premier appeared “remote controlled” by someone in the background, said an article in The News.
A couple of days after senior PML-N leader and former premier Nawaz Sharif said that he will be soon holding “decisive talks” with PPP Co-chairman Asif Zardari over the judges’ restoration issue, the latter has said that he would every possible effort to continue the alliance with Nawaz, but “without bowing to any pressure tactics”.
Islamabad - Security forces, backed by helicopter gunships and artillery, pounded several militant hideouts Friday as the death toll in three days of fighting in Pakistan's north-western Swat Valley rose to 70, officials and media reports said.
Lahore, Aug 1: Pakistan has been ranked fourth and India fifth in the list of countries most hit by terror in the second quarter of 2008, a report released by the Centre of Excellence - Defence Against Terrorism (COE-DAT), a Turkey based anti-terror organisation, has said.
