Pak nurtured terror groups: Zardari
Pakistan deliberately created and nurtured militant and extremist outfits on its soil in order to achieve some short-term objectives, President Asif Ali Zardari said here in a remarkably candid statement.

Zardari to give up key powers: Report

Youth’s death triggers clashes in valley
15 securitymen among 40 hurt in violence
Srinagar, July 8
A missing youth of Maisuma, Asrar Dar, found murdered last night in a downtown locality sparked off day-long protests at several locations today.

ON THE BOIL: A police vehicle set on fire by a violent mob at Budshah Chowk in Srinagar on Wednesday. — Tribune photo by Amin War

Brown backs India’s bid for UNSC
L'Aquila (Italy), July 8
India's bid to become a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council got a boost when British Prime Minister Gordon Brown expressed his support for New Delhi's demand to restructure the UNSC.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh shakes hands with his British counterpart Gordon Brown at a meeting in L’Aqila on Wednesday. — PTI photo

World page: G-8 fails to agree to halve CO₂ by 2050

Ranbir Case
CM okays CBI probe
Dehradun, July 8
Buckling under pressure, the Uttarakhand government has asked the Union Government to initiate a CBI probe into the “fake encounter” of 24-year-old MBA Ranbir Singh of Ghaziabad.

Ethnic unrest continues in China
Hu Jintao cuts short G8 visit to deal with riots
Urumqi, July 8
The worst-ever ethnic clashes to hit Communist China continued unabated today as more people were injured as Uyghur Muslims and Han Chinese settlers fought pitched street battles as the government poured in Army troops into the restive northwest region to stem the violence.

Ayatollah holds sway in Kargil, Drass
Twenty years after his death, posters of hardline Islamic cleric of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini, dominate the Kargil-Drass National Highway that runs all along the Line of Control between India and Pakistan in the Himalayas.