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Investors weigh opportunities: Two-day ICC moot begins
KARACHI, Feb 17: President Gen Pervez Musharraf will undertake a visit to Japan shortly, which is expected to make an investment of $300 million in Pakistan, said Commerce Minister Razzak Dawood...
14 killed in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, Feb 17: Fourteen people were killed in Kashmir, police said on Sunday....
Turn of tide seen in Palestine
PARIS, Feb 17: French strategists privy to the war being waged between Israeli and Palestinian forces in the occupied territories, say the successful attack on Thursday on a Merkava 3 tank...
Maoist attacks claim 128 lives
KATHMANDU, Feb 17: Giving a new and deadly turn to their six-year old insurgency, Maoist insurgents carried out two armed attacks on Saturday night killing 128 security personnel, 100 of them...
Two more Palestinians killed
TEL AVIV, Feb 17: Israeli police foiled an attempted suicide bombing on Sunday, shooting dead a Palestinian gunman in an exchange of fire as his accomplice fled in a car which...
Pearl case: FBI team arrives in Lahore
LAHORE, Feb 17: A three-member team of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is in the city for the last two days to follow up the kidnapping of American journalist...
UN to open 7 voluntary repatriation centres
ISLAMABAD, Feb 17: The UN High Commission for Refugees has decided to open seven voluntary repatriation centres in Pakistan, each with a capacity to process repatriation of 5,000 Afghans per day....
PIA planes airlift Afghans to Jeddah
ISLAMABAD, Feb 17: The Pakistan International Airlines has provided two Airbus aircraft to Afghanistan to ferry intending Afghan Hujjaj from Kabul to Jeddah....
India to test ship-to-ship missile
NEW DELHI, Feb 17: India is planning more tests of its first homegrown ship-to-ship missile Dhanush which could allow the navy to strike land targets with nuclear or conventional warheads, a...
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WASHINGTON, Feb 17: Saudi Arabia would consider normalizing relations with Israel and swaying the Arab League to do the same if Israel would carry out a full withdrawal from the occupied...
