President must head NSC: No compromise on Kashmir: Musharraf
 ISLAMABAD, June 27: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has said that the National Security Council will have to be headed by the president to ensure strong checks and balances among the three...
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Balochistan unveils Rs29.7bn budget
QUETTA, June 27: Balochistan’s Finance Minister Jalil Khan Dotani on Thursday afternoon presented a total budget of Rs29.79 billion for the coming fiscal year, which includes current revenue expenditure of Rs19.75...
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No pullback until October: India
NEW DELHI, June 27: Indian forces will remain deployed at the borders with Pakistan until at least October, defence minister George Fernandes was quoted on Thursday as saying....
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Low revenue not to block tranche: IMF
ISLAMABAD, June 27: The executive board of the International Monetary Fund is all set to approve on July 3 the next tranche of $109 million for Pakistan despite having concerns on...
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Islamabad, Moscow to sign MoU soon: $3.2 billion gas pipeline project
ISLAMABAD, June 27: Pakistan and Russia are expected to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in Moscow early next month to allow a Russian firm to actively pursue the construction of...
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Neutrals should interpret sensors data: Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, June 27: The government has asked United States to push New Delhi to allow neutral international experts to interpret data from the electronic sensors that the US has provided to...
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Raid may create problems for govt: report
NEW YORK, June 27: In the aftermath of the death of 10 Pakistani soldiers “for the United States”, Pakistan is now perhaps more important than Afghanistan as a frontline state in...
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US government experts fear cyber attacks by Al-Qaeda
NEW YORK, June 27: The US government experts fear that Al Qaeda’s operatives using their Internet expertise may be planning cyber-attacks targeting nuclear power plants, dams or other critical structures, The...
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Israeli army presses on with siege of Al Khalil
 AL KHALIL, June 27: Israeli forces continued pounding the Al Khalil headquarters of Yasser Arafat’s Palestinian Authority on Thursday, as US President George W. Bush ramped up pressure on the Palestinians...
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Tribesmen held in hunt for Al-Qaeda
PESHAWAR, June 27: Pakistani authorities on Thursday detained 17 people, including 15 tribesmen, as they intensified a hunt for Al-Qaeda fighters who killed 10 soldiers in a shootout near the Afghan...
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Over 130 Pakistanis deported by US
RAWALPINDI, June 27: One hundred and thirty-one Pakistanis, including a woman, detained in various US jails, following the Sept 11 attacks on New York and Washington, arrived here on Thursday evening...
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NWFP budget today
PESHAWAR, June 27: NWFP Finance Minister Farid Rehman will on Friday present a surplus provincial government budget, increasingly relying on the not-yet-finalized Structural Adjustment Credit Facility of the World Bank for...
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Clash leaves 150 Afghan families homeless
 KABUL, June 27: Fighting between supporters of rival warlords has erupted again in Afghanistan’s volatile north, leaving some 150 families homeless after their settlement was torched and looted, the United Nations...
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India bans Kashmiri women’s group
NEW DELHI, June 27: India’s interior ministry on Thursday banned the radical Kashmiri women’s separatist group Dukhtaran-i-Millat, which espouses a strict adherence to Islamic tradition and has urged Muslims to wage...
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World leaders may split over ME
KANANASKIS (Canada), June 27: Group of Eight leaders met in a heavily-guarded Canadian Rockies resort on Wednesday to confront wide rifts over Middle East peacemaking, dented financial markets and to pursue...
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FO condemns Indian decision
ISLAMABAD, June 27: Pakistan has condemned India’s decision to ban Dukhtaran-i-Millat (Daughters of the Nation), a representative organization of Kashmiri women seeking an end to the Indian occupation of the state...
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Canada to introduce new laws for immigrants
OTTAWA, June 27: Canada will continue its tradition of welcoming people from other countries, Immigration Minister Denis Coderre said on Wednesday, two days before the country’s new laws on immigration come...
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Inam to begin China visit today
BEIJING, June 27: Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Inamul Haq will visit China at the end of June, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said on Thursday....
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