Sindh to get more water: Thal Canal project to be reviewed
ISLAMABAD, March 18: The Chief Executive Secretariat on Monday decided to review the controversial Greater Thal Canal Project, increase water supply to Sindh till March 31 to facilitate sowing of Kharif...
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Commanders call for tough security steps
ISLAMABAD, March 18: A Corps Commanders Conference here on Monday expressed its serious concern over the law and order situation and called for its definite improvement....
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Rocca cuts short Delhi visit, arrives in Islamabad
 ISLAMABAD, March 18: United States Assistant Secretary of State Christina Rocca arrived unscheduled here on Monday to accompany home the bodies of two US victims of an attack on an Islamabad...
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Law to tighten control on Madaris soon
PESHAWAR, March 18: The federal government has prepared an ordinance that provides for the registration and tighter control over deeni madaris and circulated it among the four provinces for review. The...
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US presses Israel for complete withdrawal
 WASHINGTON, March 18: The United States on Monday kept up pressure on Israel for a full withdrawal of its troops from the Palestinian territories as US-brokered ceasefire talks appeared to progress....
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Pakistan reiterates stand on terrorism: FO terms attack on church against spirit of Islam
ISLAMABAD, March 18: The Foreign Office said on Monday that the visit by United States Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Christina Rocca, who arrived here earlier in the day,...
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Vajpayee allies, opposition demand ban on militants
NEW DELHI, March 18: Confronted by a tepid criticism from key allies and a divided opposition that seems to be groping for an elusive spine in the face of a rightwing...
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5 freed from bank’s ‘lock-up’
RAWALPINDI, March 18: A bailiff deputed by the Lahore High Court, Rawalpindi bench, on Monday recovered five persons from “private lock-up” of the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Bank here....
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Motorway contract awarded despite objections
ISLAMABAD, March 18: The government seems to have decided to throw good money after bad by converting the Pindi-Bhattain- Faisalabad Motorway from BOT to budget supported project and awarding it, surprisingly,...
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LHC sets free five PanAm hijackers
RAWALPINDI, March 18: The Lahore High Court, Rawalpindi bench, on Monday ordered the release of five Palestinians who were convicted by a court for hijacking PanAm plane in 1986, and directed...
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S.S. Jafri passes away
KARACHI, March 18: Syed Saeed Jafri died of heart failure here on Monday. He was 87....
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16 killed in US bombing near Gardez
WASHINGTON, March 18: Elite US troops killed 16 people on Sunday in an attack on a convoy US officials claimed was carrying Al Qaeda guerillas in eastern Afghanistan....
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India plans Agni III test
BANGALORE, March 18: India will hold a new test of its nuclear-capable Agni III missile within three months, a government adviser said on Monday....
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Bush phones Musharraf, assures of help in probe
WASHINGTON, March 18: US and Pakistani leaders, committed to cooperate against terrorism, pledged on Monday to work together to find those who carried out Sunday’s church bomb attack in Islamabad that...
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Situation in Kashmir has improved: Vajpayee
NEW DELHI, March 18: Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee said on Monday he would soon visit occupied Kashmir, where he claimed the situation had improved following changes in Pakistan....
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Four injured in Indian shelling
MUZAFFARABAD, March 18: Four persons, including three women, were injured in the southern Poonch district of Azad Kashmir on Monday when Indian troops resorted to shelling from across the Line of...
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PAF plane crashes
QUETTA, March 18: A fighter plane of the Pakistan Air Force crashed in Sara-ghurgai area, a small village in the outskirts of the provincial capital around 11:50am on Monday, ISPR sources...
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Musharraf sets up inquiry
ISLAMABAD: President Pervez Musharraf has constituted a committee to investigate the Sunday attack on a church in Islamabad, PTV reported....
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