Israel refuses to give pullout date: Powell meets Arafat, Sharon
 TEL AVIV, April 14: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon did not give any timetable for pulling back his troops from the West Bank during new talks on Sunday with US Secretary...
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Referendum to ensure progress: Musharraf: Public address at Faisalabad
FAISALABAD, April 14: President Gen Pervez Musharraf said here on Sunday that his government had taken revolutionary steps to empower people at the grassroots level, turnaround the economy, strengthen national unity...
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23 newsmen hurt in police baton charge: Boycott on governor’s remarks
FAISALABAD, April 14: About two dozen journalists sustained injuries on Sunday when police baton-charged them outside the Iqbal Stadium after they boycotted Pervez Musharraf’s meeting to protest Punjab Governor’s utterances against...
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Gujarat polls in June likely
NEW DELHI, April 14: Caught in a political bind over the anti-Muslim upsurge unleashed by his Bharatia Janata Party, Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on Sunday pleaded with key allies,...
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80pc suspects of banned groups may be released
LAHORE, April 14: Over 80 per cent of the arrested members of banned militant groups have submitted “disassociation certificates” for their release when their detention period ended on April 12, it...
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India wants Pakistan’s initiative for trade ties
ISLAMABAD, April 14: Having refused to use the Saarc sidelines three times in the last four months for removing the hurdles in the way of improving bilateral relations India continues to...
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Riyadh to levy income tax on expats: report
RIYADH, April 14: Oil-rich Saudi Arabia is planning to levy income tax of about 2.5 per cent of the salaries of millions of foreign workers in the kingdom, a newspaper reported...
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Lanka in Shrajah Cup final
SHARJAH, April 14: Sri Lanka qualified to play in the final of the Sharjah Cup 2002, after defeating New Zealand by 46 runs in the penultimate match of the one day...
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US troops escape rocket attack
ISLAMABAD, April 14: Unidentified attackers fired three rockets into Khost Airport in eastern Afghanistan early on Sunday, but failed to hit the US troops stationed there, news reports said....
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Two injured in POF explosion
TAXILA, April 14: Two workers of Pakistan Ordnance Factories were injured in a blast in the factory on Sunday....
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Six killed in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, April 14: Indian soldiers shot dead six Mujahideen during two gunbattles in strife-torn Kashmir, an army spokesman said on Sunday....
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President orders probe
ISLAMABAD, April 14: Information Minister Nisar A. Memon said here on Sunday the president had taken a serious note of the “unfortunate incident” involving journalists in Faisalabad and ordered an immediate...
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Hamas vows to continue attacks
DOHA, April 14: The Palestinian Hamas group vowed on Sunday to continue anti-Israeli suicide attacks as long as the Jewish state occupies Palestinian territories....
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Ghazi Barotha row resolved
ISLAMABAD, April 14: A high-level meeting here on Sunday resolved all the issues relating to Ghazi Barotha Dam, and decided to complete the project by July 2003....
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