India threatens to scrap Indus Treaty
GUWAHATI, May 23: India could take diplomatic action by scrapping the 42-year-old Indus Water Treaty, thereby choking the flow of water to Pakistan, Water Resources Minister Bijoya Chakroborty said on Thursday....
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Pakistan asks UN to intervene: War-like situation
ISLAMABAD, May 23: Pakistan sought on Thursday the United Nations intervention for restraining India from warpath and bringing it to the negotiating table for defusing the present volcanic situation in the...
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JCSC satisfied with readiness
ISLAMABAD, May 23: A special Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (JCSC) meeting on Thursday was informed that Pakistan had stepped up its diplomatic efforts to avert the growing warlike situation in...
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2 Palestinians killed in Nablus
NABLUS, May 23: Two Palestinians were killed in an explosion at a house in the West Bank city of Nablus on Thursday in what appeared to be an accident while preparing...
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Afghan clashes claim six lives
ISLAMABAD, May 23: Heavy fighting has erupted in northern Kunduz province between the forces of Afghan defence minister Mohammad Qasim Faheem and his deputy Abdul Rashid Dostum, killing at least six...
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Vajpayee rules out talks with Pakistan
SRINAGAR, May 23: Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on Thursday ruled out talks with Pakistan over Kashmir and announced a 61.7-billion-rupee (1.3 billion dollars) development package for the held state....
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US trying to defuse tension: Cheney
WASHINGTON, May 23: Indo-Pakistan tensions continue to figure prominently in various official comments here, with Vice-President Dick Cheney saying on a television programme on Wednesday night he was worried about the...
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Three die in Indian shelling along LoC
MUZAFFARABAD, May 23: Three more civilians were killed and at least nine injured in overnight Indian shelling in different sectors of Azad Kashmir on Wednesday. Indian troops resumed shelling in some...
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US not asked to vacate bases: Nisar
ISLAMABAD, May 23: Pakistan is not asking the United States to vacate military bases due to increasing threats of war with India, said Minister for Information Nisar Memon....
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Armitage coming on 6th
WASHINGTON, May 23: US Secretary of State Colin Powell has conferred twice with President Pervez Musharraf, and Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, is due to leave here for South Asia...
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Kashmiris condemn Lone’s murder
 MUZAFFARABAD, May 23: More than 350 people, mostly the Kashmiri refugees, took out a procession here on Thursday to condemn the assassination of Abdul Ghani Lone, executive member of the All...
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Australians asked to leave Pakistan
CANBERRA, May 23: Australia on Thursday urged its citizens living in Pakistan to leave and advised people to defer all travel to Pakistan as tension escalated with India over the disputed...
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Canada asks Pakistan to check ‘incursions’
OTTAWA, May 23: Canada waded into the standoff between India and Pakistan on Thursday by telling Islamabad it had to do more to stop militant groups “from crossing into the disputed...
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Ali Imam laid to rest
 KARACHI, May 23: Noted artist Ali Imam was buried in the Defence Housing Society graveyard after Zuhar prayers on Thursday....
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Patten calls on President
 ISLAMABAD, May 23: The European Union Commissioner for External Relations, Chris Patten, called on President Gen Pervez Musharraf here on Thursday....
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Threat to close down Pakistan mission
NEW DELHI, May 23: India on Thursday threatened to close Pakistan’s already thinly staffed diplomatic mission if Islamabad failed to address its concerns....
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