India warned against any adventurism: Pakistan can defend itself: Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, Oct 22: President General Pervez Musharraf on Monday said: “India will be paid back in the same coin” if it resorts to any ‘adventurism.’...
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Three-phase closure of Mangla for 62 days: Unprecedented water shortage
ISLAMABAD, Oct 22: Mangla Dam would remain closed for all irrigation and power generation purposes for 62 days during the current season in view of an unprecedented 51 per cent overall...
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Alliance pushes 20km into Balkh
ISLAMABAD, Oct 22: US warplanes bombed Taliban frontlines for a third day on Monday amid mounting pressure to quickly topple the Afghan militia as the deaths of two Washington postal workers...
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Support for broad-based govt reiterated
ISLAMABAD, Oct 22: Pakistan has not and will not oppose inclusion of either the Northern Alliance or the Taliban in a future government in Kabul so long as the formation of...
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Pakistan, Taliban agree on refugees
CHAMAN, Oct 22: Pakistan security officials and the Taliban authorities on Monday agreed, in principle, to keep the shelter-seeking Afghans within their country, at a safe distance from the Chaman check...
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Musharraf wants end to war before Ramazan
WASHINGTON, Oct 22: President Pervez Musharraf called on Monday for an end to US-led attacks on Afghanistan before the start of the holy month of Ramazan....
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New Delhi slams speculation on N-site attack
NEW DELHI, Oct 22: India poured scorn on Monday on a Washington Post report which speculates a pre-emptive strike by New Delhi on Pakistan’s nuclear sites in case Islamabad’s arsenal look...
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100 die in hospital bombing: envoy
ISLAMABAD, Oct 22: The Afghan ambassador to Pakistan, Mulla Abdul Salam Zaeef, claimed on Monday that the Taliban forces had shot down two US helicopters in the last two days and...
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2 kidnappers killed, woman recovered
KARACHI, Oct 22: A woman, kidnapped for ransom on Saturday, was recovered on Monday following an encounter between the alleged kidnappers and the police in which two suspects were shot dead...
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Kyrgyzstan President supports Pakistan
 ISLAMABAD, Oct 22: Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev has expressed support, solidarity and fraternity with the government and people of Pakistan in the present difficult situation....
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Powell says Marshall Plan for Afghanistan not needed
WASHINGTON, Oct 22: US Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Monday that he and others were still weighing options for a peacekeeping force to restore and keep order in Afghanistan...
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Vajpayee declines to talk to Pakistan
LUCKNOW, Oct 22: Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee said on Monday there was “no point in talking” to Pakistan after fresh killings in occupied Kashmir....
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‘SAS men ready to enter Afghanistan’
LONDON, Oct 22: A contingent of Britain’s special forces is very close to Afghanistan to join the Americans in more covert raids on the Taliban and Al-Qaida, the British defence secretary...
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Minimum wage hike: ordinance promulgated
ISLAMABAD, Oct 22: President Pervez Musharraf on Monday notified the increase in the minimum wages of unskilled labours from Rs1500 to 2500....
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200 JUI, JI workers arrested
SUKKUR, Oct 22: More than 200 leaders and workers of Jamaat-i-Islami and Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam, including JI Naib Amir Liaquat Baloch, were arrested in different cities of Sindh on Monday....
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370 asylum seekers drown off Java: IOM
GENEVA, Oct 22: At least 370 people, most of them illegal immigrants, drowned in a shipwreck off the Indonesian island of Java last Friday, a spokesman for the Geneva-based International Organisation...
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US denies Taliban claim
ISLAMABAD, Oct 22: The Taliban claimed their first kills on Monday in their war with the United States, showing off what they said was the wreckage of one downed US helicopter...
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4 die as airbase in Valley attacked
SRINAGAR, Oct 22: Four unidentified attackers were killed on Monday when Indian forces foiled a raid on a high-security Indian air force base in occupied Kashmir, an army spokesman said....
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