Osama & Omar may be handed over to US: Meeting soon: Agha’s aide
KABUL, Dec 10: The newly-restored governor of Kandahar province has called a meeting of tribal elders to decide whether Mullah Mohammad Omar and Osama bin Laden should be tried by a...
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EU scraps duty on Pakistani garments
BRUSSELS, Dec 10: European Union foreign ministers on Monday agreed to give Pakistani garment exporters unhindered access to EU markets in what experts said would give a much-needed 150 million euro...
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Satellite Badar-II launched
ISLAMABAD, Dec 10: Pakistan’s second satellite, Badar-II, was successfully injected into the earth orbit at 10:30pm (PST) on Monday from Russian Cosmodrome at Baikonur, Kazakhstan....
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Palestinians’ protection urged
DOHA, Dec 10: Muslim foreign ministers reiterated calls on Monday for an international force to protect the Palestinian people, and urged the United States to accept the legitimacy of their struggle...
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Pakistan blocks Osama’s possible escape routes
PESHAWAR, Dec 10: Pakistan began troops deployment along part of its border with Afghanistan to plug possible escape routes of Osama bin Laden as anti-Taliban fighters captured his key base in...
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Gains in Tora Bora claimed
 JALALABAD: Most of the Tora Bora mountain complex in eastern Afghanistan where Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda fighters have been holed up has been captured by Afghan militia forces, military commander...
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Law to check money laundering likely
ISLAMABAD, Dec 10: Government is considering strengthening the banking system and improving enforcement of law to discourage money laundering practice....
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PBC not to appear before retiring CJ : Suo motu case termed inappropriate
ISLAMABAD, Dec 10: Pakistan Bar Council, the apex body of legal practitioners, has decided not to appear before a bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Irshad Hasan Khan...
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NBP in US not accepting cash for remittance
NEW YORK, Dec 10: The National Bank of Pakistan has clarified that it does not accept any cash for remittances to Pakistan as a self-imposed restriction....
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Ashok Kumar dies at 90
 MUMBAI, Dec 10: India screen legend Ashok Kumar died on Monday at his residence in Mumbai after a prolonged illness, film industry sources said....
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Israel kills two in West Bank
 AL KHALIL, (West Bank) Dec 10: An Israeli helicopter strike killed two young Palestinians, including a toddler, in the West Bank on Monday as both sides urged a frustrated US peace...
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Brahimi arrives
ISLAMABAD, Dec 10: The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Afghanistan, Lakhdar Brahimi, arrived in Islamabad on Monday night after a stopover in Rome on Sunday where he met the...
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Osama’s hand in terror attacks confirmed: Keith
ISLAMABAD, Dec 10: The US-led coalition said on Monday that Washington and Islamabad were cooperating on the nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction....
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Three rockets explode in Quetta
QUETTA, Dec 10: The provincial capital, Quetta, was rocked by three rockets which exploded, one after another, in the heart of the city at around 1.30am on Monday, police said....
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ADB team arrives to discuss water projects
ISLAMABAD, Dec 10: A country mission of the Asian Development Bank arrived here on Monday to hold negotiations with Pakistani authorities on two water sector umbrella projects....
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Opposition rejects Lanka PM’s offer to share power
COLOMBO, Dec 10: Sri Lanka’s new prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe finalized his cabinet on his first full day in office Monday as the main opposition rejected his offer of power-sharing in...
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Pentagon refuses to confirm Al Qaeda fighters’ position
WASHINGTON, Dec 10: The Pentagon was refusing to confirm on Monday morning reports from Afghanistan that Al Qaeda fighters had been forced from the Tora Bora cave complex and had taken...
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US seeks use of secret evidence: Illegal immigrants
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 10: The Justice Department has asked a federal appeals court for a broad ruling to authorize the use of secret evidence in cases in which it is trying...
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