Pakistan forces put on high alert: Storming of parliament
ISLAMABAD, Dec 14: Pakistan on Friday put its armed forces on high alert following threatening statements by Indian leaders in the wake of an armed attack on parliament in New Delhi...
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Delhi blames Lashkar for attack: India wants militants’ arrest
NEW DELHI, Dec 14: A day after suspected Muslim militants launched a blistering attack on India’s well protected Parliament House, New Delhi accused Pakistan of harbouring the masterminds and said on...
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BD refutes Indian claim on sanctuary
DHAKA, Dec 14: Dhaka has refuted Indian officials’ claim that Indian separatist groups setting up camps or relocating bases in Bangladesh....
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ADB to extend $1 billion for civil reforms
ISLAMABAD, Dec 14: The Asian Development Bank will provide approximately one billion dollars in 2002 for carrying out civil reforms, improving provincial resource management and developing capital market in Pakistan....
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Osama tape verified scientifically, says envoy
ISLAMABAD, Dec 14: The United States has scientifically verified the videotape recovered from Jalalabad showing Osama bin Laden in glory after the Sept 11 terrorist attacks, Ambassador Kenton Keith of the...
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HRW criticizes US justice department
NEW YORK, Dec 14: The Human Rights Watch on Friday charged that the US Federal Bureau of Prisons and the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) have denied it access to detention...
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EU states say ‘no’ to joint force
BRUSSELS, Dec 14: Belgium on Friday raised the possibility of full European Union participation in an international military force in Afghanistan....
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3 Hizb men among 12 killed in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, Dec 14: Indian security forces killed a dozen of Kashmiris, including three top members of the Hizbul Mujahideen, overnight and Friday and seized more than three million rupees ($64,000), the...
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N. Alliance captures US troops, loses town
KABUL, Dec 14: In a new twist to the Afghan war the Northern Alliance, which has so far been backed by the Americans during its military campaign against the Taliban, has...
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Relentless assaults on Al Qaeda fighters
 TORA BORA, Dec 14: Al-Qaeda fighters cornered in the eastern Afghan highlands came under heavy air and ground attack on Friday as non-stop US air raids continued into the night and...
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Arabs seek Security Council meeting
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 14: Arab Nations on Thursday called for an urgent UN Security Council meeting to hold a public debate and a vote on a proposed resolution which demands an...
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Pakistanis arrive from Afghanistan
ISLAMABAD, 14: More than 100 Pakistani prisoners released by the post-Taliban rulers in eastern Afghanistan arrived in Pakistan on Friday, reports from Peshawar said....
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Pakistan agrees to extended US troops presence
KARACHI, Dec 14: In a sign of the increasingly close security ties between the United States and Pakistan, President...
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Globalization: protesters clash with police
 BRUSSELS, Dec 14: Riot police fired water cannons at protesters in freezing temperatures on Friday as a street protest against globalization, coinciding with an EU summit, turned nasty at its conclusion....
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Eight killed in accidents near Hyderabad
HYDERABAD, Dec 14: Eight persons, including a boy and a woman, were killed, and eight others were injured, in three separate road accidents on Friday....
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50 pilgrims die in bus crash
AMMAN, Dec 14: At least 52 Egyptian pilgrims were killed when a bus carrying them back from Makkah overturned in the Jordanian Red Sea port of Aqaba on Friday, officials said....
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