SIALKOT : Algerian Ambassador in Pakistan, Dr Ahmed Benflis has underscored further enhancing trade ties between Algeria and Pakistan.  Addressing members of the Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry  (SCCI) on Saturday, he called upon Pakistani business community to visit Algeria and ...

FAISALABAD - Ambassador of Algeria in Pakistan said that Pakistan and his country enjoy excellent political relations but their economic relations are not satisfactory, saying that his visit to the Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry aims to strengthen bilateral trade ties by establishing ...

IN AMENAS, Algeria (AFP) - Algiers said on Monday that 37 foreigners of eight different nationalities, as well as an Algerian, were killed by hostage-takers in a well-planned attack on a remote gas plant.Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal said five other foreigners were still missing and that several ...

NOUAKCHOTT  - Gunmen in Algeria who are holding about 60 hostages at a gas plant, want to swap the American hostages for prisoners held in the United States including Pakistani Aafia Siddiqui, the ANI news agency quoted sources close to their leader as saying on Friday.The abductors, who are ...

ALGIERS  - Algerian troops on Thursday launched strikes on a gas complex where Islamists are holding dozens of foreigners killing nearly 50 people, most of them hostages, the kidnappers said.Britain, France and Norway, all of which have nationals among the hostages, confirmed an operation was ...

ISLAMABAD - The Ambassador of Democratic People’s Republic of Algeria, Dr Ahmed Benflis, has hosted a welcome dinner in the honour of ambassadors of Australia, Spain and Hungary at his residence.Minister of States for Foreign Affairs Nawabzada Malik Amad Khan was the chief guest. A number of ...

ALGIERS (AFP) - An Algiers court on Sunday handed down a six-month suspended jail sentence and fined a 76-year-old head of a state television station accused of harassing three women journalists. Said Lamarni, who has been dismissed as director general of the Berber TV4 channel, was ordered to pay ...

ALGIERS  - Algeria’s former long-time president Chadli Bendjedid, acclaimed for having introduced democracy to government institutions, died of cancer on Saturday aged 83, APS news agency reported. Bendjedid had been admitted to the Ain Naajda military hospital in Algiers more than a ...

ISLAMABAD - Ambassador of Republic of Tunisia in Pakistan, Mourad Bourehla has discussed the utilization of existing trade potential between Pakistan and Tunisia during a meeting with Senior Commerce Minister Makhdoom Amin Fahim on Tuesday.The Tunisian Ambassador showed great interest in ...

Karima Bennoune In the wake of Fridays historic events in Cairo, over 1,000 peaceful demonstrators defied a ban on protests in Algiers on the Place de 1er Mai on Saturday. The goal of the National Coordination Committee for Change and Democracy, the organisers of what was supposed to have been a ...

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria promised to end a 19-year-old state of emergency and provide more political freedoms on Thursday, concessions designed to keep out a wave of uprisings sweeping the Arab world. The announcement by the energy exporting nation followed pressure from government opponents, ...

LUANDA (AFP) Not for the first time Didier Drogba and his Ivory Coast teammates turned up at the Africa Cup of Nations wearing the mantle of favourite only to flatter to deceive. In 2006 the Elephants suffered a shattering 4-2 penalty defeat to Egypt in the final in Cairo. Two years later in Ghana ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China has warned its citizens in Algeria about possible attacks from Al-Qaeda in retribution for a Chinese government crackdown in the Muslim region of Xinjiang, and security has been tightened around Beijings missions in the Philippines. The Chinese Embassy in Algeria on its ...

French Prime Minister Francois Fillon signed nuclear energy and military agreements with Algeria Saturday, ahead of talks aimed at persuading Algiers to back French plans for a Mediterranean Union. "In signing these two accords, our countries have set the seal on genuine long-term mutual ...

Al-Qaeda in Islamic North Africa claimed responsibility in an Internet posting for a recent attack on an Algerian train station that killed a French engineer. The statement also claimed responsibility for an attack on a military barracks and another at a cafe on June 4 and a roadside bombing June ...

ALGIERS (AFP) - A bomb attack blamed on "militants" killed six Algerian soldiers and wounded four in Cap Djinet, east of Algiers, security sources said Friday. The soldiers were returning to barracks on Thursday after a fishing expedition in the seaside town, about 80km from Algiers, when their ...