Pakistan seeks de-escalation: Musharraf, Vajpayee hold brief meeting
 KATHMANDU, Jan 6: President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee met for a few minutes in Kathmandu on Sunday for talks that were believed to set the stage for...
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Vajpayee rules out immediate dialogue
NEW DELHI, Jan 6: Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, returning to the Indian capital from a Saarc summit in Nepal, ruled out on Sunday any immediate talks with Pakistan to...
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UN to help convene Loya Jirga
ISLAMABAD, Jan 6: The United Nations has decided to constitute on 22nd a special independent commission to facilitate the convening of Loya Jirga in Afghanistan, UN officials said....
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Stand-off: Blair due today
ISLAMABAD, Jan 6: In the backdrop of heightening tension in the region, Pakistan will accord a warm welcome to Tony Blair, the British Prime Minister, who comes here on Monday after...
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Deal signed for oil, gas search in Balochistan
ISLAMABAD, Jan 6: The federal government has signed an agreement with Nawab Akbar Bugti according to which he would ensure security of oil and gas exploration activities in Balochistan as well...
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Vajpayee, Musharraf held 10-15 minute talks: Kumaratunga
KATHMANDU, Jan 6: Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga said on Sunday she helped arrange a “bilateral chat” in Kathmandu between President Pervez Musharraf and Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee....
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Muslim scholars meet to define terrorism
DUBAI, Jan 6: Muslim scholars and clerics from around the world are meeting in Saudi Arabia to work out a definition of terrorism to help ward off “a malicious smear campaign...
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Five children die in Gaza Strip tent fire
 GAZA, Jan 6: Five Palestinian children burned to death in a tent in the Gaza Strip on Sunday after a candle fell over and ignited a bottle of cooking oil while...
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Sherpao held on return from UK
 PESHAWAR, Jan 6: Officials of the National Accountability Bureau arrested Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao, chief of his own faction of PPP, when he arrived here at the Peshawar Airport on Sunday....
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More LT, Jaish activists arrested
ISLAMABAD, Jan 6: Pakistan detained on Sunday yet more members of Kashmir militant groups at the centre of a military standoff between Pakistan and India as diplomatic moves intensified to defuse...
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Osama may have fled to Pakistan: US senators
NEW YORK, Jan 6: The US and other anti-terrorism coalition officials are beginning to believe that Osama bin Laden has fled Afghanistan for Pakistan, two members of the US Senate Intelligence...
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India shells all AJK sectors, fire returned
MUZAFFARABAD, Jan 6: India and Pakistan exchanged fire along the Line of Control in Kashmir overnight Saturday, but no tangible losses were reported from anywhere in Azad Kashmir....
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Landmine explosion kills 16 in India
NEW DELHI, Jan 6: Sixteen people, 14 of them soldiers, were killed when a landmine accidently exploded in India’s northwestern state of Punjab close to the border with Pakistan, a security...
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Pakistan rebuts Indian claim
ISLAMABAD, Jan 6: Inter Services Public Relation (ISPR) on Sunday refuted the Indian army’s claim of shooting down a Pakistani spy plane ‘DROWE’ (a small remote controlled aeroplane) in the Poonch...
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Muttahida man escapes kidnap bid
KARACHI, Jan 6: Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s sector committee member Aslam Shaikh was hit by a bullet when he resisted his kidnapping attempt by unknown persons on Sunday night from FC Area...
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Next Saarc summit in Pakistan
KATHMANDU, Jan 6: The 12th Saarc summit will be held in Pakistan in 2003, Saarc sources said here on Sunday....
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