Jirga resolves stand-off: Gul Agha named Kandahar governor
 CHAMAN, Dec 9: A tribal Jirga (Shoora) on Sunday appointed Gul Agha Governor of Kandahar, while former Mujahideen commander Mulla Naqibullah has been assigned to look after the administrative affairs....
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Wapda firms exempted from provincial taxes
ISLAMABAD, Dec 9: The provincial governments have exempted 12 corporate companies of Wapda from all provincial taxes and duties with effect from Dec 1, 2001, a senior power ministry official told...
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US imposes curbs on Pakistan banks: Day-to-day cash transactions
NEW YORK, Dec 9: All Pakistani banks operating in the United States have been asked to stop day to day financial transactions in accordance with new laws enacted by the United...
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India to talk to Kashmiris
NEW DELHI, Dec 9: India’s federal government has set up a special group to hold peace talks with Kashmir’s main separatist alliance, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, the Press Trust of...
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Washington to seek custody of Osama, Omar
WASHINGTON, Dec 9: The United States will want custody of Osama bin Laden and Mulla Mohammad Omar if the Al Qaeda and Taliban leaders are captured alive....
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US moves command base to Kuwait
KUWAIT, Dec 9: The United States has transferred command of its ground forces in Afghanistan to Kuwait and sent the head of the US Third Army to the Gulf Arab state...
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Taliban chief held captive near Kandahar: UK newspaper
LONDON, Dec 9: A British newspaper has claimed that Mulla Omar has been held captive apparently near the city of Kandahar....
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Pakistan told to question N-experts
WASHINGTON, Dec 9: The United States has asked Pakistan to question two of its nuclear weapons scientists it (US) believes may have links to Afghanistan’s ousted Taliban regime and the Al-Qaeda...
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21 perish in Alliance copter crash
KABUL, Dec 9: Twenty-one people including captured Taliban fighters and the family of a senior Northern Alliance commander have been killed in helicopter crash, an alliance commander said on Sunday....
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Israeli troops kill four cops
TEL AVIV, Dec 9: Israel said its forces killed four Palestinians on Sunday after coming under fire in the West Bank....
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UK newsman assaulted
LONDON, Dec 9: A UK journalist was attacked and viciously beaten on Saturday by a mob of Afghans in Pakistan before being saved by a religious leader, a news agency said....
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8 of a family die in US bombing
CHAMAN, Dec 9: Eight people of an Afghan family were killed in US bombing in Killi Madad near Mir Pul area of Kandahar region, on Sunday....
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