India told to give up haughtiness: Musharraf asks people to get united
 KARACHI, Dec 26: President Pervez Musharraf has assured the countrymen that “our armed forces are fully prepared and capable of meeting all the challenges.”...
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Pressure mounts to stall war rhetoric
NEW DELHI, Dec 26: Urgent diplomatic moves were afoot on Wednesday involving key embassies in New Delhi and their worried governments back home to stall the spiralling nuclear rhetoric on both...
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LT, Jaish harmful to Indo-Pakistan ties: US declares two more groups terrorist
WASHINGTON, Dec 26: The United States has formally placed Lashkar-i-Tayyaba and Jaish-i-Mohammad on the state department’s list of officially designated terrorist organizations....
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Delhi positions missiles on border
NEW DELHI, Dec 26: India said on Wednesday it had positioned its guided missile batteries and dismissed Pakistan’s crackdown on hardline groups as “cosmetic”....
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Four judges elevated to SC
ISLAMABAD, Dec 26: The President on Wednesday elevated four judges to the Supreme Court, three of them from Lahore High Court, including the sitting Federal Law Secretary Justice Fakeer Mohammad Khokar....
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Indian shelling claims 4 lives
SIALKOT, Dec 26: Four people, including a Jawan of the Chenab Rangers were killed, while nine persons, including four women and three minor children, were injured in the Indian shelling on...
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New bank on the cards to loan small enterprises
ISLAMABAD, Dec 26: The government has decided to establish Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Bank with an initial capital of one billion rupees to offer loans to small and medium enterprises....
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Release orders for Asif issued
KARACHI, Dec 26: The release orders of Asif Ali Zardari, spouse of the former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, who has been granted bail in all cases against him, were issued on...
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Vajpayee’s call worries children
NEW DELHI, Dec 26: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s patriotic fervour is beyond reproach, but his call to Indians in his birthday message on Tuesday to be prepared to die for...
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Osama still alive
LONDON, Dec 26: Osama bin Laden said on a video broadcast by Al Jazeera satellite television on Wednesday that the Sept 11 suicide attacks were intended to stop US support for...
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Eight die in Panjgur accident
QUETTA, Dec 26: Eight people, including three women, were killed and three others injured when a passenger coach collided head-on with an oil tanker near Panjgur, some 600 kilometres south-west of...
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US trying to defuse tension
WASHINGTON, Dec 26: US officials were said on Wednesday to be growing increasingly worried about tensions between Pakistan and India, and their possible impact on the war in Afghanistan....
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Missiles not shifted to border, says ISPR
ISLAMABAD, Dec 26: Pakistan has not moved its missiles towards border and India is lying about it to justify its own military build-up, Director General, ISPR, Maj-Gen Rashid Qureshi said on...
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‘Islamabad will not create tension’
 ISLAMABAD, Dec 26: Pakistan does not want war with India and will not take any action creating tension in the region, said Foreign Office Spokesman Aziz Ahmad Khan....
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UN stresses dialogue
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 26: UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has urged Pakistan and India to stop stoking tensions and instead try to resolve differences through dialogue....
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China worried over situation
BEIJING, Dec 26: China said on Wednesday it was extremely concerned over escalating tensions between Pakistan and India and urged the two sides to engage in dialogue to maintain peace and...
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