LoC not acceptable as border: Musharraf
WASHINGTON, June 23: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has said Islamabad will not accept the Line of Control dividing Kashmir between Pakistan and India as the international border....
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Israel plans to expel bombers’ relatives
 AL QUDS, June 23: The Israeli cabinet decided on Sunday to look at the legalities of expelling relatives of Palestinian suicide bombers in a new step to crack down on the...
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Infiltration has not stopped: Vajpayee
NEW DELHI, June 23: The training of militants in Pakistan and their infiltration into India still continued, Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee said in an interview released on Sunday....
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5 die as storm hits Peshawar
PESHAWAR, June 23: At least five people were killed and over 50 wounded, some of them seriously, here on Sunday, when a fierce storm followed by heavy downpour struck the city,...
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Bush asked to act now on statehood
WASHINGTON, June 23: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s cabinet called on Sunday for US President George W. Bush to swiftly declare his support for a Palestinian state, to be created within two...
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Iran quake toll revised down to 222
CHANGOUREH (Iran), June 23: Iran’s Red Crescent on Sunday revised down the number of dead in a powerful earthquake in northern Iran to 222 from an earlier estimate of 500 as...
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Osama is hiding in Pakistan, claims US senator
WASHINGTON, June 23: The head of the US Senate intelligence committee on Sunday said Washington believes Osama bin Laden is hiding out in Pakistan, hours after an Al Qaeda spokesman said...
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Plan afoot to give French Muslims a unique representational council
PARIS, June 23: The day that had been long awaited for national elections scheduled to give French Muslims a unique representational organisation, has come and gone, and France’s Muslim community —...
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Punjab budget today
LAHORE, June 23: Punjab finance minister Tariq Hamid will present on Monday a tax-free, surplus provincial budget for the fiscal year 2002-03 with a total outlay of around Rs130 billion that...
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Pakistan flays re-occupation of West Bank
ISLAMABAD, June 23: Pakistan on Sunday condemned the Israeli decision to re-occupy towns in the West Bank, and urged upon the international community to compel Israel to resume meaningful negotiations leading...
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President grieved at Iran quake
ISLAMABAD, June 23: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has expressed shock and grief over the loss of lives and property caused by earthquake in Iran on Saturday....
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Gen Franks arrives for talks on standoff
ISLAMABAD, June 23: Top US military commander Gen Tommy Franks arrived here on late Sunday for a two-day visit during which he is to hold talks with President Pervez Musharraf....
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200 feared dead in Russian floods
 SLEPTSOVSK (Russia) June 23: More than 200 Russian were feared dead Sunday as a result of flash floods that engulfed war-torn Chechnya and neighbouring regions of the North Caucasus, driving over...
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India offers no comment on Musharraf’s remarks
NEW DELHI, June 23: India does not find President Pervez Musharraf’s globally-scrutinised remarks on Islamabad’s current tense ties with New Delhi worthy of comment on a Sunday, the Press Trust of...
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Protests against G8 moot begin
OTTAWA, June 23: Anti-G8 protests began here on Sunday as the Canadian government is preparing for the two-day moot of the world’s richest nations on June 26-27 in Kanaskis, some 80km...
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Investigators grilling five Al Qaeda suspects
PESHAWAR, June 23: Five suspected Al Qaeda members are being interrogated by Pakistan intelligence experts after being arrested near here, police said on Sunday....
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FBI, police crackdown in Lahore
LAHORE, June 23: FBI staff and Karachi police officials jointly raided at least 25 different places in the city on Sunday....
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Qanooni indecisive on cabinet post
KABUL, June 23: Afghanistan’s powerful former interior minister Yunus Qanooni said on Sunday he had still to decide whether to accept the post of education minister, despite an official announcement that...
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