Israeli planes hit Palestinian security targets: Arafat’s office compound blasted
 GAZA CITY, Dec 3: Israeli combat helicopters blasted the Gaza City heliport of Yasser Arafat on Monday in what the Jewish state called a clear signal to the Palestinian leader to...
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US gunships land at Jalalabad airport
PESHAWAR, Dec 3: American gunships have landed at Jalalabad airport fuelling speculations in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangrahar province of a ground offensive against Osama bin Laden’s hideout in the Tora Bora mountains,...
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Measures to tackle extremists on cards
ISLAMABAD, Dec 3: The government is considering fresh measures, including new legislation, to firmly deal with the religious extremists and those who instigate violence....
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Zahir not to head new govt
LONDON, Dec 3: Rival factions in the UN-sponsored Bonn talks have dropped the idea of ex-king Zahir Shah heading the post-Taliban government in Afghanistan and are considering the names of two...
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Rabbani wants to be president for six months
WASHINGTON, Dec 3: Burhanuddin Rabbani, the UN-recognized president of Afghanistan ensconced in Kabul as head of the Northern Alliance administration there, has thrown what appears to be a spanner in the...
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3 Taliban commanders in opposition custody: HRW
NEW YORK, Dec 3: Human Rights Watch on Monday urged the United States and Britain to take immediate measures to ensure that three Taliban commanders who are alleged to have committed...
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Alliance claims half airport captured
CHAMAN, Dec 3: Anti-Taliban forces claimed on Monday to have captured half of Kandahar airport after fierce fighting with Taliban troops as residents reported a further cranking up of US bombardments...
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Surplus wheat to be exported
ISLAMABAD, Dec 3: The government has decided to export 1.1 million tons of wheat through private sector out of a total surplus of over 2 million tons of wheat....
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US-India defence talks begin
NEW DELHI, Dec 3: A two-day meeting of the India-United States Defence Policy Group began in New Delhi on Monday to take up issues ranging from arms sales to the transfer...
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All Madaris to be registered
ISLAMABAD, Dec 3: The government is preparing a comprehensive policy for registering over 6,500 religious schools and to bring these into mainstream educational system, an official source said....
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CJ to be apprised of progress on Jan 3: Terrorism cases
ISLAMABAD, Dec 3: Chief Justice Irshad Hasan Khan on Monday issued notice to the attorney- general and advocates-general of all the provinces, and requested all the prominent Bar leaders to appear...
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Osama is still in Afghanistan, says coalition spokesman
ISLAMABAD, Dec 3: The coalition spokesman Kenton Keith said on Monday that he thought Osama bin Laden is still inside Afghanistan....
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Four more Taliban pockets exist: US
WASHINGTON, Dec 3: Apart from Kandahar in the south, there are at least four pockets of Taliban resistance in the north of Afghanistan, a couple of them west of Mazar-i-Sharif and...
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Refugees still pouring into Chaman
QUETTA, Dec 3: Despite the sealing of the border with Afghanistan, thousands of Afghan refugees are pouring into Chaman due to heavy bombing in and around Kandahar, the remaining stronghold of...
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Afghan elders reject Bonn summit
PESHAWAR, Dec 3: A large group of Afghan elders and chieftains, met here on Monday under the auspices of the Afghanistan National Defender Islamic Front, rejected the under-progress Bonn peace summit...
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Former MNA convicted
LAHORE, Dec 3: Akbar Ali Bhatti, ex-MNA from Vehari and former owner-cum-editor of an Urdu daily, was convicted by an accountability court here on Monday and sentenced to three years rigorous...
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