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November 18, 2001 Sunday Ramazan 2, 1422


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Unexploded cluster bombs pose threat to civilians
ISLAMABAD, Nov 17: The civilian lives across Afghanistan are under serious threat because of the highly volatile unexploded cluster bombs, dropped by the US warplanes during the last 40 days....
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Pakistan wants UN to move quickly: No asylum for Osama, Omar
ISLAMABAD, Nov 17: Pakistan on Saturday expressed the confidence that the United Nations would soon get all Afghan groups together and a transitional government is formed to avoid civil war in...
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Taliban leave Farah, vow to defend Kandahar
KABUL, Nov 17: The Taliban said on Saturday they had thousands of fighters in Kandahar ready to defend the militia’s spiritual stronghold and dismissed reports that supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar...
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Nangarhar gets interim govt
JALALABAD, Nov 17: The Eastern Zone Leadership Council on Saturday agreed to establish a broad-based, interim arrangement for the Nangarhar province headed by the former governor, Haji Abdul Qadeer....
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UNDP to provide $168m: Shaukat
ISLAMABAD, Nov 17: The United Nations Development Programme will provide $168 million to Pakistan during 2001-2002 to support various development programmes, including poverty alleviation....
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UK forces came without agreement: Alliance
KABUL, Nov 17: British commandos are operating at the Bagram airbase north of here without the agreement of the Northern Alliance, a senior official of the anti-Taliban coalition told AFP on...
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New setup: tribal leaders may get more power
WASHINGTON, Nov 17: A return to an administrative arrangement based on a weak centre with autonomous regions bound together in a federation is among the ideas now being considered as the...
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Pentagon has no comment on Osama’s whereabouts
WASHINGTON, Nov 17: The Pentagon had no comment either way on Saturday on reports that Osama bin Laden along with his family might have left Afghanistan....
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Osama is in Afghanistan, says Zaeef
QUETTA, Nov 17: Osama bin Laden is not present in the provinces under the control of Taliban, Mulla Abdul Salam Zaeef told reporters at Chaman soon after his arrival from Kandahar,...
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Malaysia denounces OIC’s inaction
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 17: Malaysia said on Saturday that the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) was in danger of becoming irrelevant and needed to re-examine its international role....
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Former Afghan president returns
KABUL, Nov 17: Former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani returned to Kabul on Saturday but insisted his Northern Alliance would not monopolize power after the downfall of the Taliban....
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Musharraf, Jiang push for diverse setup
BEIJING, Nov 17: Chinese President Jiang Zemin and President Pervez Musharraf agreed that an ethnically diverse interim authority should be established in Afghanistan soon, the official Xinhua news agency reported on...
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10 drown as boat sinks
NOWSHERA, Nov 17: Ten people were drowned when a boat sank in the Kabul river at Mian Essa, some 20 kilometres from here on Saturday....
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Eight die in wagon-truck collision
ISLAMABAD, Nov 17: Eight persons, including a policeman, were killed while one was injured critically when the wagon they were travelling in crashed into a truck on Islamabad highway on Saturday....
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Six Pakistanis held in Nigeria
LAGOS, Nov 17: Nigeria police have arrested six Pakistani Islamic preachers accused of inciting religious violence in the country’s southwest Ogun state, newspapers reported on Saturday....
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Journalist freed
PESHAWAR, Nov 17: Japanese freelance journalist Daigen Yanagida arrested by the Taliban on October 22 was received by Japanese ambassador Sadkai Nemata at the Torkham border at 5.20pm on Saturday....
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