Saturday
Islamabad: An investigator informs the court conducting the trial of seven men charged with involvement in the Mumbai attacks how funds were transferred from Pakistan to the US to acquire Voice over Internet Protocol connections that were used by the terrorists who stormed India's financial hub.
Colombo: China says that it attaches "great importance" to developing military relations with its South Asian neighbours, but sought to assure that these were not targeted at any "third party".
Sunday
Islamabad: In a new twist to the blasphemy case involving a minor Christian girl, an imam in the Pakistani capital was arrested and remanded to 14-day judicial custody today for allegedly planting pages of the Quran in her bag and using it to implicate her under the controversial law.
Islamabad: Sixteen pro-Taliban militants are killed in clashes with security forces in Pakistan's restive tribal belt even as the country's northwest witnessed a string of violent incidents.
Monday
Islamabad/Peshawar: In one of the most brazen attacks against Americans in recent years, a suicide bomber ramms his explosives-laden car into a US Consulate vehicle in the Pakistani city of Peshawar today, killing three people and wounding 19 others, including two US nationals.
Islamabad: A young Christian girl arrested on a blasphemy charge that has sparked an international outcry will remain in a high-security jail till at least Friday as the court hearing her case is adjourned.
Tuesday
Islamabad: A new visa agreement between India and Pakistan will be signed during External Affairs Minister S M Krishna's upcoming visit to Islamabad to normalise people-to-people contacts says Interior Minister Rehman Malik.
Islamabad: Ahead of Foreign Minister S M Krishna's visit here, Pakistan says it has taken "bold and unprecedented" steps to improve ties with "vital neighbour" India and to resolve all bilateral disputes, including the key issue of Jammu and Kashmir.
Wednesday
Abuja: All 23 Indian sailors aboard an oil tanker are safe after the Nigerian navy rescued their vessel that was hijacked briefly by pirates off the coast of southern Nigeria.
New York: The World Bank appoints Kaushik Basu as its Chief Economist and Senior Vice President. Basu (60) will begin his term on October 1, World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim said in a statement.
Thursday
Islamabad: Ahead of External Affairs Minister S M Krishna's crucial talks with his counterpart Hina Rabbani Khar, eight technical sub-groups of the India-Pakistan Joint Commission meet here to discuss prospects for cooperation in less contentious areas like agriculture and health.
Washington: US lifts sanctions on Nepal's Maoists and removed it from the list of designated terrorist organisations, years after the rebels abandoned their armed struggle.
Charlotte: Emphatically endorsing Barack Obama for a second term, charismatic former US President Bill Clinton makes a passionate plea to voters to renew the contract of the incumbent, who was cool on the outside but "burns for America" inside.
Beijing: Terming Chinese Defence Minister Gen Liang Guanglie's visit to India a success, China says the two countries had agreed to push forwards relations and step up military to military exchanges.
Friday
Islamabad: Bringing some hope to the family of Sarabjit Singh, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari assures India that he will consider the case of the Indian prisoner who has been on death row in the country for over 20 years.
Islamabad: Pakistan plans to send a second judicial commission to India to cross-examine key witnesses in the Mumbai attack case to speed up the prosecution of seven Pakistani suspects, says Interior Minister Rehman Malik.
Islamabad: Ahead of Foreign Minister S M Krishna's visit here, Pakistan says it has taken "bold and unprecedented" steps to improve ties with "vital neighbour" India and to resolve all bilateral disputes, including the key issue of Jammu and Kashmir.
