US pledges $1 billion debt relief: Linked to anti-terrorism, fair polls & de-escalation
WASHINGTON, Feb 14: President George Bush announced on Wednesday an economic package for Pakistan, including a proposal to Congress for $1 billion in debt relief, additional $100 million for education and...
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Omar says he thinks Pearl is dead
 KARACHI, Feb 14: The prime suspect in the Daniel Pearl kidnapping case, Shaikh Omar Ahmed Saeed, said on Thursday as far as he understood the US journalist was dead....
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Ex-governor of Herat arrested
QUETTA, Feb 14: Pakistani border forces arrested a former Taliban commander and governor of Heart, Mullah Khairullah Kahirkhawa, on Thursday from a village near Pak-Afghan border in Chaman....
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Congress told poll on schedule
WASHINGTON, Feb 14: President Gen Pervez Musharraf told the US Congress on Thursday “the eyes of all Pakistanis” were fixed on the United States and its support....
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Enraged pilgrims kill Afghan minister
DUBAI, Feb 14: Afghan Haj pilgrims, angry over plane delays, attacked and killed Afghanistan’s interim transport minister at Kabul airport on Thursday, Arabic-language al-Jazeera television reported....
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Hekmatyar to go home if expelled from Iran
ISLAMABAD, Feb 14: Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar will return to his country and not to Pakistan if he is expelled from Iran, his spokesman said on Thursday....
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Continuity of reforms to be ensured, says President: Real democracy is functioning
WASHINGTON, Feb 14: “I may sound arrogant and undemocratic, but I have a role to play beyond 2002,” President Gen Pervez Musharraf declared on Wednesday....
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Deceased Pakistani pilgrims identified
ISLAMABAD, Feb 14: Forty pilgrims, including 37 Pakistanis, travelling by bus from the United Arab Emirates to Makkah for Haj, were killed on Wednesday in a road accident in eastern Saudi...
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3 Israelis killed in Gaza blast
TEL AVIV, Feb 14: Three Israelis were killed and two others injured on Thursday night by a blast near an Israeli tank in the Gaza Strip, a military source said....
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Washington to revive defence ties
WASHINGTON, Feb 14: US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld indicated that Washington would resume long-lasting military-to-military “strategic relationship” with Islamabad based on discussions the Pakistani president had had at the White...
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Three hurt in Indian firing
MUZAFFARABAD, Feb 14: Three people were injured in two different areas of Azad Kashmir on Thursday as Indian troops shelled from across the Line of Control, officials said....
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ATCs: SHC admits petition
KARACHI, Feb 14: The Sindh High Court on Thursday admitted a constitutional petition challenging the induction of serving army officers in the proposed anti-terrorism courts....
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JUI-F leader arrested
QUETTA, Feb 14: The police arrested Maulana Noor Mohammad, a central leader of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (F), here on Thursday evening, official sources confirmed....
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Delhi claim
NEW DELHI, Feb 14: The Delhi police on Thursday claimed to have arrested a Pakistan-trained “terrorist” and recovered a large quantity of the powerful RDX explosive from him. Mohammed Hanish Kalish,...
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