Powell to address worries of India, Pakistan: Washington looking beyond present crisis
WASHINGTON, Oct 9: US Secretary of State Colin Powell leaves Washington for Islamabad at the weekend as part of a short trip to Pakistan and India designed to address worries about...
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Target list expanded, says Pentagon
 WASHINGTON, Oct 9: US forces struck at the heart of Taliban rule in Afghanistan on Tuesday, bombarding the home of the militia’s supreme leader during the first daytime strikes of the...
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Telephonic talk eases mistrust: Vajpayee may visit Islamabad
NEW DELHI, Oct 9: Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee could visit Pakistan as soon as the shooting war with Afghanistan abates, amid indications that a global consensus was shaping to...
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Sindh’s plea for water sharing rejected
ISLAMABAD, Oct 9: An advisory committee of the Indus River System Authority on Tuesday rejected Sindh’s demands for sharing of water shortages by all the four provinces and determining the provincial...
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US eyes Mazar to bring down Taliban
NEW YORK, Oct 9: The fall of Mazar-i-Sharif has become pivotal in the US campaign to oust the Taliban regime from power says the New York Times in an analysis of...
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Zaeef denies casualties in air raids
ISLAMABAD, Oct 9: The Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan, Mulla Abdul Salam Zaeef, has denied reports about any casualty in two days of airstrikes on Kandahar. He, however, confirmed killing of four...
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Germany keen to strengthen ties
ISLAMABAD, Oct 9: German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder talked to President Gen Pervez Musharraf by phone on Monday night and assured his full support to Pakistan for its stand on the war...
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Tropical cyclone forms in Arabian Sea
 KARACHI, Oct 9: A tropical depression in the Arabian Sea has turned into a tropical cyclone, which is moving in the North-westerly direction with a speed of seven knots....
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Four NGO employees killed in US attack
ISLAMABAD, Oct 9: Four employees of a NGO working under the United Nations Mine Action Programme for Afghanistan were killed in an air raid on Kabul on Monday night, UN officials...
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Three die in Balochistan firing
QUETTA, Oct 9: Three people, including a teenager, were killed and nine others were injured, two of them critically, as police opened fire on a protest demonstration of Afghan refugees, who...
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Serial child killer commits suicide
LAHORE, Oct 9: Javed Iqbal, the convicted killer of 100 children, and one of his accomplices committed suicide at the Kot Lakhpat jail on Tuesday, jail authorities claimed....
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Foreign oil firms told to resume operations
ISLAMABAD, Oct 9: Pakistan has asked all foreign oil and gas exploration companies to bring back their expatriate staff and resume work immediately...
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12 killed, 25 injured in Sialkot accident
SIALKOT, Oct 9: As many as 12 people were killed and 25 others sustained injuries in a road accident on the Gujranwala Road near Othian, some 24km from here, on Tuesday....
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Flights for Balochistan cancelled
QUETTA, Oct 9: Quetta and four other airports of Balochistan have been closed for two days on Tuesday and Wednesday for flight operations. Four other airports are: Zhob, Panjgur, Turbat and...
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Zahir’s family warns Pakistan on Afghan issue
ROME, Oct 9: Afghanistan’s former royal family has warned Pakistan not to try to play a kingmaker’s role if the Taliban government collapses under internal and external pressure....
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China closes border with Afghanistan
BEIJING, Oct 9: China has closed its border with Afghanistan due to the US retaliatory strikes on targets in the country, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday....
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Taliban air force chief dies
TEHRAN, Oct 9: The head of the Taliban air force has been killed during air raids by US and British forces in Afghanistan, IRNA reported on Monday....
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FO denies PTI report
ISLAMABAD, Oct 9: Foreign Office on Tuesday refuted a report of Press Trust of India regarding the link of an ex-Pakistani general with some hijackers of an Indian airliner....
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