Beijing supports Islamabad moves for peace talks
 BEIJING, Jan 3: President Pervez Musharraf told China on Thursday he was willing to work to ease tensions with nuclear rival India through dialogue, amid concern their crisis could boil over...
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Saarc leaders meet in hope of peace
KATHMANDU, Jan 3: India and Pakistan are expected to spell out their widely awaited approaches on Friday to ease a threat of war that has anguished the world and overshadowed an...
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Stand-off affects trading activity
NEW DELHI, Jan 3: The standoff between India and Pakistan triggered by an attack on the Indian parliament has hit bilateral trade but made little impact on India’s global commodities exports,...
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Pakistan seeks disputes debated at forum
KATHMANDU, Jan 3: As tensions mounted between Pakistan and India, Pakistan leader said a regional summit starting in Nepal on Friday must let member states discuss contentious bilateral issues, a Nepalese...
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Summit may ease tension, hopes us
WASHINGTON, Dec 3: The United States is carefully watching the current gathering of South Asian leaders in Kathmandu for signs of a de-escalation of tensions between Pakistan and India, whose foreign...
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Stand-off threatens world peace: Blair
 DHAKA, Jan 3: British Prime Minister Tony Blair warned on Thursday that mounting tensions between India and Pakistan could boil over and create “enormous problems” for global stability if the situation...
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Woman dies, four hurt in Indian troops’ shelling
 MUZAFFARABAD, Jan 3: A woman was killed and four others were wounded when Indian troops shelled southern Kotli district of Azad Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday and Thursday, police said....
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Over 80 Jihadis held in Punjab
LAHORE, Jan 3: The Punjab police on Thursday arrested more than 80 activists of different Jihadi outfits and militant groups in the province in a crackdown launched late on Wednesday night....
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Powell, Tang call for reducing tension
BEIJING, Jan 3: US Secretary of State Colin Powell and Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan appealed on Thursday for a de-escalation in the tense stand-off between India and Pakistan, Chinese state...
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22 killed in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, Jan 3: Twenty-two suspected mujahideen were killed in separate encounters with Indian security forces in Kashmir, police said on Thursday...
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Mulla Zaeef arrested, taken to Peshawar
ISLAMABAD, Jan 3: Former Taliban ambassador to Pakistan, Mulla Abdus Salam Zaeef, was picked up from his residence and taken to Peshawar on Thursday morning....
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Mushaf visits forward positions
ISLAMABAD, Jan 3: The Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Mushaf Ali Mir, visited few PAF bases including the forward operating bases (FOB) on Thursday....
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200 Taliban released
KABUL Jan 3: More than 200 Taliban prisoners were freed from their prison cells on Thursday on the orders of Afghanistan’s interim leader Hamid Karzai, a senior Defence Ministry official said....
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War not a necessity, says Indian premier
LUCKNOW, Jan 3: War with Pakistan was not a “necessity”, Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee said on Thursday, but he ruled out bilateral dialogue until Islamabad ends “cross-border terrorism”....
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Islamabad refuses to admit more refugees
ISLAMABAD, Jan 3: Pakistan refused on Thursday to admit some 5,000 new Afghan refugees massed on the western border, saying it was unable to cope with another influx....
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Thousands of Afghans again flee homeland
ISLAMABAD, Jan 3: Several thousand Afghan refugees are once again amassing at the Chaman border, fleeing US-led coalition bombardments and food insecurity in western, northern and southern Afghanistan, UNHCR said here...
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Jehangiri sworn in as ACJ
ISLAMABAD, Jan 3: Justice Mohammad Bashir Jehangiri, the senior puisne judge of the Supreme Court was sworn in as Acting Chief Justice of Pakistan here on Thursday, four days prior to...
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Pakistan backs talks to resolve all issues
ISLAMABAD, Dec 3: Foreign Office reiterated on Thursday Pakistan’s commitment to resolve all outstanding disputes with India including the core issue of Kashmir through peaceful means....
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30 Al-Qaeda men shifted from Kohat
KOHAT, Jan 3: A second batch of 30 Al-Qaeda prisoners was ferried to an unknown place from the heavily guarded Kohat air base in C-130 Hercules aircraft on late Thursday night,...
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Vajpayee calls for shelving Ayodhya row
LUCKNOW, Jan 3: Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on Thursday urged all parties to a bitter dispute over a razed mosque in the northern town of Ayodhya to shelve their...
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