Pakistan hopes India will resume talks: World community steps up diplomacy: official
ISLAMABAD, May 20: Pakistan on Monday said that the international community, despite some setbacks in its recent efforts, was working for de-escalation of tension with greater vigour and pressing both sides...
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Palestinian fighter’s son dies in car blast: PFLP blames Israel
 BEIRUT, May 20: A bomb killed the son of Palestinian guerilla leader Ahmed Jibril in Beirut on Monday, ripping through a car and tearing him to shreds in an assassination that...
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Tarbela capacity fast declining
LAHORE, May, 20: Tarbela Dam is losing 100,000 cusecs storage capacity every year and with that pace there will be no water available for wheat maturity and cotton sowing after five...
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Musharraf invites political leaders
ISLAMABAD, May 20: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Monday decided to consult a cross-section of people, particularly political leaders, to take the nation into confidence about the situation arising out of...
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Three more civilians killed in skirmishes
 ISLAMABAD, May 20: Three more civilians were killed and another 17 injured as the skirmishes between Indian and Pakistani security forces continued unabated on Monday, forcing evacuation from villages that lie...
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Saudi peace initiatives making headway
RIYADH, May 20: The Saudi-US Mideast peace initiatives seem to be making some headway. A Palestinian official was quoted saying in Jeddah that the Hamas has told Saudi Arabia it was...
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Medical board submits autopsy report
KARACHI, May 20: The medical board which had conducted the post-mortem examination of the exhumed body parts, believed to be of Daniel Pearl, submitted its findings to the investigation officer on...
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Three villagers injured
SIALKOT, May 20: Three Pakistani villagers, Muhammad Akram, and Shaukat Ali in Bajwat sector and Muhammad Ashraf in Charwa sector of Sialkot working boundary were seriously injured by Indian mortar shelling...
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Armitage coming to Pakistan, India
WASHINGTON, May 20: US Secretary of State Colin Powell’s deputy will travel to India and Pakistan soon to try to ease tensions between the nuclear rivals, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher...
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Growth rate decline propels poverty: Shaukat
ISLAMABAD, May 20: Minister for Finance Shaukat Aziz said here on Monday that Pakistan has been experiencing declining growth rate for the last several years due to which poverty has been...
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26 perish in two AJK accidents
MUZAFFARABAD, May 20: At least 26 people died and around 62 others were injured in two major road accidents in Azad Jammu and Kashmir on Monday, officials and witnesses said....
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Shelling kills woman in Bhimbher
MUZAFFARABAD, May 20: A woman was killed and her daughter was critically injured as Indian troops shelled villages in the southern Bhimbher district of Azad Kashmir on Monday evening, an official...
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PIA flights to Kabul resume today
ISLAMABAD, May 20: The PIA’s inaugural flight would leave here on Tuesday for Kabul....
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Troop movement witnessed
SIALKOT, May 20: Movement of heavy troops from both sides was seen along the 220km Sialkot working boundary on Monday, as the “war clouds” thickened due to prolonged Indian aggression....
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CIA pays informer $50,000: paper
SAN FRANCISCO, May 20: An Afghan aide to Osama bin Laden was paid nearly $50,000 to report on the Saudi dissident’s organization, Al Qaeda, and recently was asked to pose as...
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China asks Pakistan, India to hold talks
BEIJING, May 20: China has reiterated its concern over the prevailing tension between India and Pakistan and urged both the countries to resolve their disputes through peaceful means....
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Indian soldier killed
JAMMU, May 20: An Indian soldier was killed on Monday when the Mujahideen attacked an army camp in held Kashmir, police said....
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Stocks crash in Karachi, Mumbai
KARACHI, May 20: The KSE 100-share index on Monday plunged by 7.5 per cent, eroding about Rs29 billion from the market capitalization at Rs382bn followed by nervous selling as fears of...
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