Significant decline in infiltration, says US
NEW YORK, July 13: The United States on Friday poured cold water on Indian pronouncements about its stand-off with Pakistan and said that there had been some easing of tensions and...
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Ecevit may quit as his party loses majority
ANKARA, July 13: The party of ailing Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit, who is barely clinging to power after a mass high- level defection that has plunged the country into chaos,...
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24 killed in Valley
JAMMU, July 13: At least 24 civilians, including a child, were killed in Indian-occupied Kashmir on Saturday in an attack on a slum by gunmen disguised as Hindu holy men, police...
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ADB to fund pipeline feasibility study
ISLAMABAD, July 13: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has indicated to develop a mega project of gas pipeline network in South-Asia involving Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Iran and India....
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Law to check human smuggling finalized
ISLAMABAD, July 13: A law aimed at checking human smuggling and flow of illegal immigrants from Pakistan has been finalized by the ministry of law and justice and likely to be...
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Indian buses allowed passage, says Razak
ISLAMABAD, July 13: Commerce minister Abdul Razak Dawood on Saturday confirmed that Pakistan allowed passage to Indian buses across its territory to Afghanistan but expressed complete ignorance about transit transport of...
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7 injured in US-UK airstrikes on Iraq: Saddam’s son warns Iran
BAGHDAD, July 13: US and British air raids on civilian targets wounded seven Iraqis on Saturday in southern Iraq, an Iraqi air defence spokesman said, quoted by the state’s INA news...
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Farmers alarmed by fall in water level
SUKKUR, July 13: An unprecedented downward trend in water level at Sukkur Barrage has alarmed irrigation officials who were confused over the cause of a sudden adverse change....
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Phone link cut off
KARACHI, July 13: The telecommunication link of Karachi with the rest of the country was disconnected on Saturday night after a fault developed in the Digital Transit Exchange of the PTCL....
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9 foreigners among 13 wounded in attack
MANSEHRA, July 13: Thirteen people, nine of them foreign tourists, were wounded in an act of subversion at the nearby historical site of Ashoka Rocks on the Karakoram Highway on Saturday....
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Israel slows down pace of contacts with PA
 AL QUDS, July 13: Israel slowed down the pace of contacts with the Palestinian Authority (PA) on Saturday, as the army revealed it had intercepted another car bomb in the West...
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Sacking of 5,000 CBR staffers planned
ISLAMABAD, July 13: The government is planning to fire as many as 5,000 employees shortly as part of the restructuring of tax administration....
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Musharraf briefs editors on package
ISLAMABAD, July 13: President Gen Pervez Musharraf said on Saturday that the proposed constitutional package was guided by the desire to re-introduce democracy on a sustainable basis....
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Lankan FM on shuttle diplomacy
COLOMBO, July 13: Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister, Tyronne Fernando, will deliver a message from India to Pakistan as he engages in shuttle diplomacy to ease tensions between the nuclear-armed rivals, officials...
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Meerwala accused sent to jail
MULTAN, July 13: The Jatoi police on Saturday produced all the accused in the Meerwala gang-rape incident before the area magistrate at the end of their physical remand....
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Establishment of management group approved
ISLAMABAD, July 13: President Pervez Musharraf here on Saturday, in principle, approved the setting up of new economic management group for inducting only professionals in the ministries of finance, commerce, planning...
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Washington, Delhi hold anti-terror negotiations
WASHINGTON, July 13: The United States and India on Friday pledged to redouble their efforts to battle the Al Qaeda network, after senior counter-terrorism experts from each side met for two...
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India beat England
LONDON, July 13: India beat England by two wickets in the one-day triangular series final at Lord’s on Saturday....
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