ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – The government of embattled Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf said Thursday it may impose a state of emergency because of “external and internal threats” and deteriorating law and order in the volatile northwest near the Afghan border.

KABUL (AFP) – Afghan and Pakistani tribal leaders were set to open three days of talks Thursday on Taliban and Al-Qaeda violence along the border, in a key meeting marked by the absence of President Pervez Musharraf.

Turkey and Iraq agreed to try to end the presence of a Kurdish rebel group in Iraq, Turkey’s prime minister told a news conference Tuesday, while four more US soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq as US troop levels reached an all-time high of about 162,000. “We …

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, heading a high-ranking delegation, is scheduled to arrive here in Tehran on Wednesday.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel called on Afghan people, parliaments and government to confront petrification and extremism in that country.

Iranian and North Korean commerce ministers underlined the need for the pavement of the required grounds for the enhancement of trade activities and economic ties between the two countries.

The greatest sales and after-sale services agent of Iran’s Saipa Auto-Manufacturing Co. in Northern Africa started operation in Algeria on Tuesday concurrent with the visit to that country by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Tuesday ruled out his country’s retreat from nuclear stances, stressing that the Islamic Republic will not give up even an iota of its nuclear rights.

Iranian deputy commerce minister said that the total volume of Iran’s trade exchanges with the Arab countries of the Middle-East amounted to $16 bln during the last (Iranian) year.

Iranian government allowed Ministry of Road and Transportation to endorse a temporary agreement with Tajikistan on transportation of goods and passengers via the roads linking the two Persian-language-speaking countries.