Post-test talks begin with no-first-use offer
Pakistan has said that it will not go in for "quick-fix solutions'' to problems with India and that the dialogue will be a step towards friendly relations between the two countries. Pakistan and India initiated dialogue after a year's break on Friday afternoon at the Punjab House in Islamabad.

Clinton invites Sharif to US
Widely ribbed as a patron-saint of crumbling regimes across the world, the United States has reached out to Pakistan's embattled Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for a visit to Washington in December.

Nobel Peace Prize unites Irish rivals
Northern Irish politicians John Hume and David Trimble have won the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize for their work "to find a peaceful solution'' to three decades of conflict in Northern Ireland.

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