Lankan FM conveys Indian concerns
ISLAMABAD, July 16: Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Tyronne Fernando said on Tuesday that he conveyed ‘known Indian concerns’ to Pakistan but denied his country was mediating between the two countries....
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Musharraf for intensive troop training: Wargames begin
ISLAMABAD, July 16: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday urged the need for continuous and intensive peacetime training by the country’s armed forces to maintain their qualitative edge over the adversary....
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President says CEC not to be replaced
ISLAMABAD, July 16: President Pervez Musharraf on Monday informed the constitutional experts and intellectuals, whom he met to discuss the draft amendment packages, that he had no plans of replacing Chief...
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Power tariff hike opposed
ISLAMABAD, July 16: The Sindh government and Federal Planning Commission on Tuesday unanimously opposed 16 per cent tariff increase and a 10-year formula for future tariff setting requested by the Karachi...
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7 killed in Israel bus attack
 EMMANUEL SETTLEMENT (West Bank), July 16: Palestinian guerillas killed seven Israelis and wounded at least 19 in an attack on a bus near a Jewish settlement in the northern West Bank...
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Congress slams govt for failure: Advani wants Pakistan declared terrorist state
NEW DELHI, July 16: In what must rank as a key test of the government’s credibility, Indian Defence Minister George Fernandes blamed Pakistan on Tuesday for a recent spate of killings...
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Appeal seeking death for co-accused filed
KARACHI, July 16: The state on Tuesday filed an appeal seeking death penalty for the three accomplices of Ahmed Omer Saeed Sheikh, who were given life term for complicity in the...
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‘Al Qaeda killed Afghan leader’
KABUL, July 16: Al Qaeda could have been behind the assassination of Afghan Vice-President Haji Abdul Qadir, the head of a ministerial commission into the killing said on Tuesday....
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236 Indian fishermen to be released
ISLAMABAD, July 16: The government has decided to release, on humanitarian grounds, 236 Indian fishermen and their boats under detention in Pakistan, a Foreign Office spokesman said....
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HRW blasts Jammu killings
NEW YORK, July 16: Human Rights Watch on Monday condemned the attack on Saturday by gunmen on a shantytown in Jammu, the winter capital of the Indian-held Kashmir....
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Pakistan in a fix over militants’ deportation
ISLAMABAD, July 16: Pakistan is facing serious difficulties in the deportation of over 300 foreign militants of Arab, Central Asian Republics and Chechneyan origin, Dawn has reliably learnt....
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Washington not pushing for Omer’s extradition
WASHINGTON, July 16: The United States said on Tuesday it would not push Pakistan for extraditing the man condemned to death for masterminding the abduction and subsequent killing of American journalist...
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Afghanistan sets $460m budget
KABUL, July 16: Afghanistan has set its operating budget at 460.3 million dollars for the year ending March 20, 2003, with expected revenues of 83 million dollars and a deficit forecast...
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Tarbela Dam to be filled by next month
ISLAMABAD, July 16: Tarbela Dam, the largest water reservoir of the country received 162,000 cusecs water on Tuesday and release remained higher than inflow of 200,000 cusecs....
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