Saturday
Islamabad: Pakistan seeks some additional information from India on David Headley, the Pakistani-American LeT operative who has confessed to his involvement in the Mumbai attacks.
New York: In a quiet move, China deploys about 11,000 troops in the strategic Gilgit-Baltistan region in the Occupied Kashmir to take de-facto control of the key area, where a rebellion is simmering against the Pakistani rule.
Sunday
Islamabad: After vacillating on India's offer of USD five million aid for victims of Pakistan's devastating floods for over two weeks, Islamabad decides not to directly accept the assistance and instead asked that it should be routed through the United Nations.
London: World-famous Gurkha regiment, part of the British army for almost 200 years, may be among those axed unless the Ministry of Defence's demands for more money to fund the replacement of Trident nuclear missile submarines are answered.
Monday
Islamabad: Pakistan releases 100 Indians, the first batch from the 442 Indian fishermen languishing in a jail in Karachi, after rights activists fight a legal battle in the Supreme Court against their unlawful detention.
Islamabad: A Pakistani anti-terrorism court conducting the trial of seven suspects charged with involvement in the Mumbai attacks dismisses a bail petition filed by Lashker-e-Taiba operations commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi.
Tuesday
Washington: The United States Postal Service announces release of a postage stamp honouring Mother Teresa on September 5.
Colombo: India assures Sri Lanka's war-displaced Tamils of all kind of assistance, as Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao visits the IDP camps in the country's north to get an overview of the process of their resettlement.
Wednesday
Geneva: Switzerland is scheduled to host an informal summit of 40 countries, including India, on global warming on Friday to discuss modalities for a new Climate Fund that is expected to unblock the stalled negotiations on the issue.
Lahore/Karachi: Taliban suicide bombers strike Shia religious processions in Lahore in back-to-back attacks, killing 29 people and injuring over 200, even as gunmen opened fire at a religious march in Karachi wounding seven.
Thursday
Beijing: China rejects reports of the presence of over
11,000 of its troops in the Gilgit area of Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir, saying that such "groundless" reports were being put out with "ulterior motives" to hurt Beijing's ties with New Delhi and Islamabad.
Colombo: Sri Lanka assures New Delhi that its army will return the land of the displaced Tamils of Indian origin in the country's northern Vavuniya district, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao says.
Friday
Colombo: Seeking to give a fillip to bilateral military ties, army chief General V K Singh is set to undertake a five-day visit to Sri Lanka from Sunday to discuss defence cooperation.
Islamabad: At least 60 people are killed and nearly 100 others injured when a Taliban suicide bomber blows himself up in a Shia procession organised to mark al-Quds day in Pakistan's southwest city of Quetta.
