Islamabad hopes peace moves will prevail: Any aggression to be repelled
ISLAMABAD, Jan 2: President Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday ruled out the possibility of handing over any Pakistani national accused of carrying out terrorist attacks to the Indian authorities....
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Pakistan, China to discuss stand-off: Meeting before Saarc moot today
ISLAMABAD, Jan 2: A Foreign Office spokesman said here on Tuesday that President Pervez Musharraf in his meeting with Chinese Prime Minister Zhu Rongji in Beijing on Thursday will hold important...
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JCSC reviews counter-strategy
RAWALPINDI, Jan 2: A meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (JCSC), held here on Wednesday, was given comprehensive briefings by the three services on the threat being posed to...
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Blair offers mediation
LONDON, Jan 2: British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s office said late on Tuesday that the premier wants to mediate between Pakistan and India over the Kashmir dispute....
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Musharraf tells ISI to stop backing militants: report
NEW YORK, Jan 2: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has ordered the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) to cut off backing for Islamic militant groups fighting in the disputed territory of Kashmir, the...
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Peacekeepers’ first batch land in Kabul
KABUL, Jan 2: An advance party of senior officials from 17 countries contributing to a peacekeeping force in Afghanistan arrived in Kabul early on Wednesday, a British official said....
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International calls from Kashmir cut
SRINAGAR, Jan 2: New Delhi has banned long-distance and international telephone calls from all public call offices in occupied Kashmir....
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Seth Ahmad Dawood passes away
 KARACHI, Jan 2: Seth Ahmad Dawood, one of the pioneering industrialists of Pakistan, died on Wednesday morning at the age of 97. His Namaz-i-Janaza was offered at the Memon Masjid, Shaheed-i-Millat...
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No thaw at Kathmandu pre-summit meeting
 KATHMANDU, Jan 2: An India-Pakistan chill settled over a regional South Asian summit in Nepal on Wednesday as the two sides traded charges over terrorist groups who India accuses of getting...
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French minister meets VCOAS
RAWALPINDI, Jan 2: French Defence Minister Alain Richard called on Vice Chief of Army Staff (VCOAS) General Mohammad Yusuf Khan at the General Headquarters on Wednesday....
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10 casualties near Sialkot
RAWALPINDI, Jan 2: An accident involving a military vehicle took place near Sialkot on Tuesday....
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Bush, Blair talk on India, Pakistan
CRAWFORD, Texas, Jan 2: US President George W. Bush called British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Wednesday to discuss how they could work together to help reduce tensions between India and...
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18 killed in Kashmir violence
SRINAGAR, Jan 2: Eighteen people, including 11 Indian policemen, were injured on Wednesday when unidentified men threw grenades outside the main gate of occupied Kashmir’s assembly, police said....
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Deployment completed, says Delhi
NEW DELHI, Jan 2: Indian Defence Minister George Fernandes said on Wednesday that Indian forces had completed their biggest-ever buildup along the border with Pakistan, but were “not in battle positions”....
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