India and Pakistan today signed a deal requiring them to notify each other of plans for ballistic missile tests, a key step in the peace process between the two nuclear-armed rivals. However, India warned that militant attacks in Kashmir could derail the thaw in relations.

EGYPTIAN president Hosni Mubarak plans to visit Israel in November, an Israeli official said yesterday, in what would be just his second visit to the Jewish state.

A mysterious blast after nightfall tonight levelled a building in Gaza City, killing four people and wounding at least 30, residents and hospital officials said.

The foreign ministers of Israel and Pakistan, a Muslim country that has long taken a hard line against the Jewish state, met publicly for the first time today, a diplomatic breakthrough that follows Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.

Four people were shot to death today in clashes with police as protests over allegations that interrogators in Guantanamo Bay desecrated Islam’s holy book spread to more Afghan cities, officials and witnesses said.

Pakistan and India agreed today to start a historic bus service between the capitals of divided Kashmir, the first direct link between the two sides of the Himalayan province that has been at the heart of decades of bloodshed.

India’s foreign minister met with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf today amid hopes the two sides could iron out an agreement to start a historic bus service between the capitals of divided Kashmir, the Himalayan province at the heart of decades of disagreement.

The foreign ministers of India and Pakistan prepared to resume talks today after harsh words over the weekend threatened to complicate the wide-ranging discussions that include their decades-old dispute over Kashmir.

India and Pakistan opened high-level talks yesterday aimed at solving their decades-old dispute over Kashmir with Pakistan denying it arms and trains a separatist insurgency in the region and accusing India of human rights abuses there.

India and Pakistan opened high-level talks today aimed at solving their decades-old dispute over Kashmir with Pakistan denying it arms and trains a separatist insurgency in the region and accusing India of human rights abuses there.

Pakistan’s former Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz, a close ally of President General Pervez Musharraf, was sworn in as prime minister today.

A powerful explosion ripped through India’s main space centre today, killing up to six people and seriously injuring three others.

PAKISTAN yesterday test-fired a nuclear-capable missile able to hit many targets inside its arch rival India.

Pakistan today test-fired a nuclear-capable missile able to hit many targets inside archrival India.

Hundreds of rebels in a convoy of trucks attacked a police headquarters in south-east Afghanistan today, triggering a gun battle that killed 22 people, officials said. It was one of the largest shows of anti-government force in over a year.