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India, Malaysia sign agreement on employment of workers
New Delhi, Jan 3 (ANI): India and Malaysia today signed an agreement for improvement of conditions of recruitment and employment of their workers in each other’’s country.
The MOU was signed by the Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi and the Malaysian Human Resources Minister Dato Dr. S. Subramaniam [...]

US again presses Pak to work with India to diffuse tension
Islamabad, Jan.3 (ANI): The United States has once again asked Pakistan to work together with India to reduce the rising tension between the two countries.
US Ambassador in Pakistan, Anne W Patterson has said that it is in the interest of both Pakistan and India to [...]

Mumbai attacks: Pak firmly denies presence of FBI on its soil
Islamabad, Jan.2 (ANI): The Pakistan Government on Friday firmly denied that a team of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was in the country to investigate possible leads connected with the November 26-29 terror attacks on Mumbai that caused the deaths of over 170 [...]

President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday assured his US counterpart George W Bush that Pakistan will not allow its territory to be used by “non-state actors” for launching attacks on other countries.
The assurance was conveyed by Zardari when Bush telephoned him on Wednesday evening, said a brief statement issued by the presidency.
“President Asif Ali Zardari [...]

In a bid to cut down its budgetary costs, the Pakistan Cricket Board has decided to replace Australia-made Kookaburra cricket balls with locally manufactured ones in its domestic competitions.
The Board has informed all the participating teams in the ongoing Quaid-e-Azam trophy that they would be provided Kookaburra balls only for the first two rounds after [...]

Senior Pakistani and Indian military officers have made contact in a bid to defuse tensions in the wake of the Mumbai terror attacks that almost sparked a sub-continental war, a media report here said on Monday.
“The lingering tension between India and Pakistan in the wake of the Mumbai attacks seems to have proved short-lived [...]

Mounting its diplomatic offensive, India has impressed upon the US and Pakistan’s two key allies, China and Saudi Arabia, to pressurise Islamabad to take concrete action against those behind the Mumbai attacks.
External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee is understood to have conveyed to US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jeichi and Saudi [...]

A French ship on Saturday took experts to repair broken undersea Mediterranean cables that caused severe disruption to telephone and Internet services across the Middle East and Asia, France Telecom said.
But many operators said that communications services had improved as alternative routes had been used to carry calls and Internet information.
The France Telecom cable ship [...]