Troops not to be withdrawn soon, says Fernandes
NEW DELHI, Feb 19: India said on Tuesday it did not plan to pull back its troops from the Pakistan border until Islamabad complied with key conditions set by New Delhi....
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Six Israelis killed in Palestinian ambush
AL QUDS, Feb 19: Palestinian gunmen killed at least six Israelis in an attack on Tuesday on an army checkpoint in the West Bank, Israeli security sources said....
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US intervention can ease tension, says Musharraf
LAHORE, Feb 19: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday said that the United States help could quickly reduce tensions between Pakistan and India....
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Gas prices may go up by 10pc
ISLAMABAD, Feb 19: The government is expected to increase natural gas prices by a minimum 10 per cent for domestic consumers with effect from March 1, 2002....
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US investors eye oil and gas sector
ISLAMABAD, Feb 19: The officials of the visiting three major American organisations here on Tuesday told the minister for privatization that US investors were very much interested in taking part in...
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Wapda, KESC losses be checked, says IMF
ISLAMABAD, Feb 19: The International Monetary Fund has expressed its concern over the continued operational losses of the Water and Power Development Authority and the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation....
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JKLF stresses negotiated Settlement
SRINAGAR, Feb 19: One of Kashmir’s top Mujahideen leaders has condemned the world’s “criminal negligence” of the disputed region’s Muslim community and warned of an escalation in violence if India fails...
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Gas pipeline plan to be discussed on 22nd
ISLAMABAD, Feb 19: Pakistan will take up with Iran on Friday the trans-Pakistan gas pipeline, cross-border smuggling of petroleum products and bartering crude oil with motor spirit, official sources told Dawn....
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Musharraf inaugurates Shaukat Khanum Fund
LAHORE, Feb 19: President Gen Pervez Musharraf said on Tuesday that the establishment of Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre was a “resolve of an individual and needed to...
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Balochistan bank proposal shelved
QUETTA, Feb 19: The provincial cabinet has asked all the commercial banks working in the province to extend maximum loans to the people of Balochistan and play their effective role in...
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Indian demand on Omar rejected
ISLAMABAD, Feb 19: Pakistan on Tuesday rejected an Indian request to share information from a prime suspect arrested in connection with the kidnapping of US reporter Daniel Pearl....
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Restrictions on ‘minor’ parties under study
ISLAMABAD, Feb 19: The government is considering a proposal to bar those political parties from fielding candidates in the polls, who could not secure at least 10 per cent votes in...
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Kashmir blast
SRINAGAR, Feb 19: One person was killed and 17 others injured in a grenade explosion in occupied Kashmir on Tuesday, a police spokesman said....
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Notice issued to prosecutor in BMW case
ISLAMABAD, Feb 19: The Lahore High Court, Rawalpindi Bench, on Tuesday issued notice to the Prosecutor General Accountability on the petition of Asif Ali Zardari, seeking grant of bail in BMW...
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