12 die as Mideast situation worsens: Attacks, counter-attacks continue all day
 TEL AVIV, March 5: Twelve people were killed in Israel and the occupied territories on Tuesday as the situation threatened to spin out of control....
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Reform process irreversible, says president
ISLAMABAD, March 5: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday assured six ADB executive directors that the process of political and economic reforms in Pakistan was irreversible as the government was taking...
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Water in Tarbela Dam drops to dead-level
ISLAMABAD, March 5: The water level at the country’s biggest reservoir, Tarbela, on Tuesday touched the dead level of 1,369 feet beyond which withdrawal of any water would endanger power station...
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US ground troops take on Al Qaeda
WASHINGTON, March 5: The United States has engaged US ground troops in significant numbers for the first time to take on Al Qaeda and Taliban forces in the mountains of eastern...
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C’wealth moot split on Zimbabwe issue
SYDNEY, March 5: The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) ended in a tiny Australian resort, Coolum, on Tuesday after condemning terrorism and splitting on racial grounds on the issue of...
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Protocol signed for trial of Afghan war criminals
ISLAMABAD, March 5: The Basque government and the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) signed a protocol here on Tuesday to take the case of the war criminals in...
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US human rights report termed inaccurate
ISLAMABAD, March 5: The government on Tuesday rejected the US State Department Report on human rights as “factually inaccurate and unwarranted” adding that it reflected tendency of some states to sit...
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‘BJP leaders abetted anti-Muslim riots’
WASHINGTON, March 5: There is compelling evidence that leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party had abetted the anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat, according to Western press....
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India expels 2 Pakistan HC staffers
NEW DELHI, March 5: India said on Tuesday it was expelling two Pakistani embassy staffers for spying....
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KESC tariff cut by 13 paisa
KARACHI, March 5: The Karachi Electricity Supply Corporation has reduced the electricity tariff by 13 paisa per unit for its residential, commercial and industrial consumers, a KESC spokesman announced here Tuesday....
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13 killed in Kashmir clashes
SRINAGAR, March 5: At least 13 people were killed in separate overnight clashes in occupied Kashmir, a police spokesman said here on Tuesday. “I am told that the selectors tried to locate me but they couldn’t find me. In they end, they named the team without my consent,” Mudassar told reporters....
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New Delhi’s allegation rejected
ISLAMABAD, March 5: Pakistan on Tuesday rejected Indian allegations of spying against two officials of Pakistan High Commission as fabrication to cover up illegal detention and inhuman treatment of Pakistani officials...
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Aziz discusses relations with Karzai
KABUL, March 5: Pakistan’s additional foreign secretary, Aziz Ahmed Khan on Tuesday called on the chairman of Afghan Interim Administration, Hamid Karzai, in Kabul and conveyed him good wishes from President...
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Pakistan fail to reach semifinals
KUALA LUMPUR, March 5: Pakistan failed to qualify for the 10th World Cup hockey semifinals after Germany defeated them 3-2 Tuesday....
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