Top mly officials review border situation
ISLAMABAD, Dec 24: The top-brass of armed forces met on Monday and decided to substantially increase troop deployment both along the Line of Control and the international border to foil any...
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CE links action to provision of proof: Attack on parliament
BEIJING, Dec 24: President Pervez Musharraf on Monday vowed to crack down on groups accused of attacking the Indian parliament provided the evidence was found....
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India denies unusual troop movement: Pakistani staffer declared persona non grata
NEW DELHI, Dec 24: There were at least two distinctly contradictory claims in India on Monday about the real nature of its troop build-up along the borders with Pakistan....
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Envoy hints at Osama’s death
ISLAMABAD, Dec 24: The spokesman for the US-led coalition on Monday indicated that Osama bin Laden might have been killed in the intense bombing of Tora Bora....
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Afghan govt gets down to work
KABUL, Dec 24: Afghanistan’s new government on Monday set to the task of rebuilding a war-ravaged nation, while jittery governments worldwide remained on high alert for new terror attacks over the...
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Pakistan rejects charges against HC staffer
ISLAMABAD, Dec 24: Pakistan on Monday categorically rejected Indian allegations against Mohammad Sharif Khan, a staffer of the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi....
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Plane suspect had map of UK embassy: official
BRUSSELS, Dec 24: The man suspected of trying to bomb an American Airlines flight over the weekend was carrying a map of Brussels with a cross marked next to the British...
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Incentives offered to Chinese investors
GUANGZHOU (China), Dec 24: President General Pervez Musharraf on Monday, announced certain incentives for Chinese businessmen inviting them to invest in Pakistan....
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Lashkar moves offices to Valley
LAHORE, Dec 24: The Lashkar-i-Taiba, recently declared a terrorist organization by the United States, has shifted its offices from Pakistan to Jammu and Kashmir, rededicating itself to the liberation of Kashmir...
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Iraq calls on Arabs to ‘save’ Arafat
BAGHDAD, Dec 24: Iraq urged Arab leaders on Monday to intervene militarily in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to “save” Palestinian President Yasser Arafat....
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Zaeef’s plea for asylum to be processed: official
ISLAMABAD, Dec 24: The government on Monday confirmed that former Taliban ambassador to Islamabad, Abdul Salam Zaeef, had requested political asylum in Pakistan....
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Telephone line rent increased
ISLAMABAD, Dec 24: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority on Monday authorized the PTCL to increase monthly line rent of its connections across the country....
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Nation urged to fulfil Quaid’s vision
 ISLAMABAD, Dec 24: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has urged the nation on the occasion of Quaid-i-Azam’s 125th birth anniversary to fulfil the Quaid’s vision of Pakistan....
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Accounts of Lashkar, UTN frozen
KARACHI, Dec 24: The State Bank has advised all banks and non-bank financial institutions to freeze the accounts of Lashkar-i-Tayyaba and Ummah Tameer-i-Nau (UTN)....
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Israeli ban a crime: Arafat
RAMALLAH, Dec 24: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat confirmed he would not be able to attend Christmas mass in Bethlehem because of an Israeli ban. In a speech on Palestinian television and...
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Musharraf returns
ISLAMABAD, Dec 24: President Gen Pervez Musharraf returned here late on Monday evening from Beijing, after a five-day state visit to China....
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KSE index plunges
KARACHI: The 100-share index on Monday plunged by 6 per cent or 81 points at 1,323.05 on panic foreign selling triggered by fears of war...
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Dostum made deputy defence minister
 KABUL, Dec 24: Afghanistan’s leader Hamid Karzai said on Monday he has appointed Uzbek warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum as the deputy defence minister in his interim government....
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