Israel declares Ramallah military zone: 17 dead in suicide bombings; army says: Arafat may be killed ‘accidentally’
 TEL AVIV, March 31: The Israeli army on Sunday declared Ramallah a closed military zone and ordered all media to leave the area while Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced that the...
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Withdrawal of subsidy on tubewells likely: Fall in groundwater level
ISLAMABAD, March 31: The government is likely to put in place very soon a legal framework to control over-extraction of groundwater and withdraw prevailing subsidies on tubewells in view of fast...
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Loya Jirga to be held in June
KABUL, March 31: Former king Mohammad Zahir Shah is to return to Afghanistan on April 16 and inaugurate a 1,500-strong traditional council of leaders charged with choosing a new government in...
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16 Al Qaeda suspects released
FAISALABAD, March 31: Sixteen of the 46 people arrested here on Thursday for their alleged links with Al Qaeda were freed on Sunday....
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Pakistan for joint OIC stand
ISLAMABAD, March 31: Pakistan is expected to propose a joint course of action to minimise the negative impact of the US-led war on terrorism on Muslims and their legitimate freedom struggles...
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NRB comments on police create row
ISLAMABAD, March 31: The National Reconstruction Bureau has included police in the category of armed forces in its comments sent to the cabinet in response to objections raised by Sindh and...
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President sure of win, says Moin
KUALA LUMPUR, March 31: President Gen Pervez Musharraf is confident voters will give him five more years in power if he decides to call a referendum on his rule, Interior Minister...
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FBI questioning Al Qaeda men
ISLAMABAD, March 31: Pakistan investigators assisted by FBI agents have begun interrogating suspected Al Qaeda and Taliban members arrested during raids involving US law-enforcement officers last week, a senior official said...
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Film lyricist Anand Bakshi cremated
 NEW DELHI, March 31: Noted lyricist of Urdu films, Anand Bakshi, who wrote more than 4,000 songs, was cremated in Bombay on Sunday....
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Seven more dead in Ahmedabad
AHMEDABAD, March 31: Seven people were killed and several injured in fresh anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat and Maharashtra states on Sunday....
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Pakistani sailor held in Texas
WASHINGTON, March 31: One of the four Pakistani sailors, who jumped ship in Norfolk, Virginia, earlier this month, has been arrested in San Antonio, Texas, the San Antonio Express-News reported on...
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Three killed in Indian shelling
SIALKOT, March 31: Three villagers, including two women, were killed on Sunday by Indian shelling on villages in the Sialkot working boundary’s Shakargarh-Narowal sectors....
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Hindus’ protest
JAMMU, March 31: Hardline Hindu groups launched a 48-hour general strike in occupied Kashmir on Sunday to protest an attack by Muslim suicide bombers on a temple that left at least...
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Nawabshah sizzles
NAWABSHAH, March 31: Citizens of Nawabshah experienced the current season’s hottest day on Sunday when the temperature jumped up to 43.5 degrees Celsius....
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US spy plane crashes
ZAMBOANGA (Philippines), March 31: An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) used by United States forces in operations against local allies of the Al Qaeda group crashed into waters off the southern Philippines...
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30 Palestinians massacred
RAMALLAH: The Israeli army massacred some 30 members of the Palestinian security services in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah on Sunday, West Bank preventive security chief Jibril Rajoub told...
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