Pakistan to get $60m monthly for logistics: Shaukat overviews visit
ISLAMABAD, Feb 16: Pakistan will be charging monthly bills of roughly $60 million for whatever logistic support it extends to the United States as long as its forces stay here....
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Musharraf calls for unity to fight poverty
 ISLAMABAD, Feb 16: President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday stressed the need for setting up a multi-billion dollar research and development (R&D) fund by pooling the resources of the Islamic world, saying...
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Punjab police pick up 34 in Pearl case
TOBA TEK SINGH, Feb 16: The Punjab police picked up 34 people from Toba Tek Singh and Vehari on Friday night and Saturday in a bid to trace Amjad Hussain Farooqui,...
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Hamas leader among 8 killed
AL QUDS, Feb 16: Eight people were killed in Al Quds and Gaza City, three of them in a suicide bomb attack, three Palestinians shot dead by Israeli troops, a Hamas...
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Suspected captors not held, says DIG
KARACHI, Feb 16: There is no progress in the US reporter’s kidnapping case as the investigation process has come to a standstill, DIG (operations) Tariq Jamil told Dawn on Saturday....
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Cold Indian attitude threatens Indus Treaty
LAHORE, Feb 16: The Indian Commissioner of Indus Basin Treaty has severed all contacts with its Pakistani counterpart, placing the operational part of the treaty under “virtual suspension.”...
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13 asylum seekers still missing
LONDON, Feb 16: Thirteen asylum seekers still unaccounted for two days after a huge fire swept through a detention centre in southeastern England may have perished in the fire, police said...
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France-US rift widens over ‘axis of evil’ remarks
PARIS, Feb 16: French diplomats in charge of France’s relations with the United States can’t get over it. It’s the first time such a thing has happened in the recent past,...
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Visit improves ties with US: President
ISLAMABAD, Feb 16: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has said that his visit to Washington has helped achieve “deeper and broader” understanding between Pakistan and United States....
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Over 2m faithful reach Makkah
 MAKKAH, Feb 16: More than two million Muslims from all over the world converged on Makkah on Saturday amid strict security for the Haj....
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S. Arabia ready to extradite 3 Afghans
RIYADH, Feb 16: Saudi Arabia is ready to extradite to Kabul three Afghan security officials it has arrested in connection with the murder of the country’s aviation minister, an official said...
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Srinagar comes to a standstill
 SRINAGAR, Feb 16: A strike called by the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) to protest human rights abuses by Indian forces and the death of a government employee closed shops and...
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Islamabad, Kabul to open banks
ISLAMABAD, Feb 16: Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to open three bank branches each in the two countries on reciprocal basis to promote bilateral trade and economic relations....
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CBR cancels NTN cards, certificates
ISLAMABAD, Feb 16: The Central Board of Revenue has cancelled all National Tax Number (NTN) certificates/ cards issued to taxpayers up to the year 1998 with immediate effect....
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