June 7, 2000

ECO FMs moot begins in Tehran Wednesday
ISLAMABAD (NNI): Foreign ministers of Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) gather in Tehran on Wednesday (June 7) to discuss and finalize agenda for the Organization's summit

Pakistani FM arrives in Tehran
Tehran, June 7, IRNA -- Pakistani Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar arrived here Wednesday to attend the ministerial meeting of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO).

UN seeks aid for drought victims in Afghanistan
UNITED NATIONS, June 6 (AFP) - The United Nations appealed Tuesday for 67 million dollars in aid for victims of the worst drought to hit Afghanistan in 29 years.

Refugees return to Afghanistan from Iran
TEHRAN, June 6 (AFP) - About 26,000 Afghan refugees in Iran have returned to Afghanistan since an agreement between Tehran and the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR)

taliban mercenaries ready for breakthrough from chechnya
makhachkala, june 7 irna-itar-tass-acsna --- up to two battalions of afghan mercenaries are staying in the eastern chechen districts adjacent to dagestan, a source in the dagestani interior ministry told itar-tass on wednesday.

US to work with Pakistan on terrorism
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States pledged Tuesday to maintain a vigorous security dialogue with Pakistan after the Islamabad government rejected a report which branded the country a 'safe haven'

The capture Osama plan - Jang (Pakistan)
ISLAMABAD, June 6 (Jang): Washington's expectations of Islamabad's role in "delivering" Osama Bin Laden are unwavering. No amount of 'plain talk' by Islamabad's foreign office, the ISI and General Musharraf