Germany mid-air crash kills 70: 52 children among victims
 UEBERLINGEN (Germany), July 2: At least 70 people, including 52 children, died after a Russian passenger plane collided with a cargo jet over southern Germany on Monday night....
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APHC hopes militants will accept ceasefire
NEW DELHI, July 2: The All Parties Hurriyat Conference has expressed the hope that militants fighting Indian rule in Kashmir would accept a ceasefire to comply with the wishes of dominant...
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Graduation: SC to hear pleas on 9th
ISLAMABAD, July 2: The Supreme Court announced on Tuesday that it would take up on July 9 two constitutional petitions filed by PML (Q) and ANP, challenging the condition of minimum...
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70,000 in pursuit of fugitives
ISLAMABAD, July 2: Pakistan has about 70,000 security forces personnel deployed along its tribal belt bordering Afghanistan and Iran in the country’s biggest ever military operation to support the US-led hot...
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Kabul condemns US bombing
KABUL, July 2: Afghan Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah on Tuesday deplored as unjustifiable the US bombardment on Sunday of a wedding party in a remote village, which killed 40 people....
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Immigration agency being set up: Moin
RAWALPINDI, July 2: The government is planning to set up Immigration and Naturalisation Agency, said interior minister Lt- Gen Moinuddin Haider (retired) here on Tuesday....
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Educated Afghans urged to return home
ISLAMABAD, July 2: Chief of Kochi tribes of Afghanistan Hashmat Ghani Ahmadzai has appealed to the educated Afghan youths settled in Pakistan to return to their homeland for participating in its...
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Jihad Council urges APHC to launch anti-poll drive in Kashmir
MUZAFFARABAD, July 2: The Muttahida Jihad Council (MJC), an alliance of Kashmiri Mujahideen groups, on Tuesday asked the APHC leaders to take a clear line regarding the polls in the occupied...
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Israel mobilises more reservists
TEL AVIV, July 2: The Israeli army on Tuesday drafted thousands of extra reservists to maintain its occupation of the West Bank, as envoys from the so-called “Quartet” were to discuss...
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Pakistani immigrants arrested in Turkey
ANKARA, July 2: Turkish coastguards have seized 76 illegal migrants after stopping a Greek-flagged boat in Turkish waters and have detained its Greek captain, Turkey said on Tuesday....
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IMF board to okay third tranche today
ISLAMABAD, July 2: The Executive Board of the IMF is meeting in Washington on Wednesday to approve the third tranche of $109 million, out of $1.3 billion Poverty Reduction Growth Facility...
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Canada to give more aid to Kabul
ISLAMABAD, July 2: The Canadian Minister for International Cooperation, Ms
Susen Whelan, announced in Kabul on Tuesday that Canada, through the ...
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England beat Sri Lanka
LEEDS, July 2: Sri Lanka captain Sanath Jayasuriya’s dashing hundred could not prevent his side going down to a third triangular series defeat in three games, against England, who beat them...
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Thai PM leaves for home
ISLAMABAD, July 2: The Prime Minister of Thailand, Dr Thaksin Shinawatra, left here on Tuesday for home after a two-day official visit to Pakistan....
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Members of Jirga among 8 held for gang-rape
MULTAN, July 2: Police on Tuesday arrested at least eight people, including members of a Jirga who had ordered last month the gang-rape of a teenage girl as a punishment....
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Hoon arrives on peace mission
ISLAMABAD, July 2: Britain’s Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon arrived here on Tuesday to try to further defuse tensions between India and Pakistan on the second leg of a regional tour....
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Al Qaeda suspects shifted to Peshawar
KOHAT, July 2: The military authorities in Waziristan Agency shifted the nine of the 12 Al Qaeda suspects arrested on Friday last to Peshawar for interrogation by a joint interrogation team....
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PIA not to raise Haj charges
ISLAMABAD, July 2: The government has decided not to increase Haj air charges this year and the matter will be finally approved by the federal cabinet on Wednesday....
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