Musharraf says NSC role yet to be finalized: Meeting with NA leaders on package
ISLAMABAD, July 20: President Gen Pervez Musharraf said on Saturday the National Security Council would be a non-intrusive body and its role and composition would be finalized after the government had...
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Arms sales not to add to tension: Straw
 ISLAMABAD, July 20: British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said on Saturday the sale of arms to India by Britain would make no difference to the level of tension between Pakistan and...
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Action not against Pakistanis: US: Post-Sept deportations
WASHINGTON, July 20: United States Attorney General John Ashcroft has assured Pakistan that the action against deportation absconders was not directed against Pakistani nationals although more than 400 Pakistanis have already...
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Annan regrets Palestinians’ expulsion
UNITED NATIONS, July 20: UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned Israel on Friday that destroying Palestinian homes and deporting relatives of suicide bombers amounted to collective punishment of the Palestinian people....
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Export target fixed at $10.5 billion
ISLAMABAD, July 20: The government has set a target of $10.5 billion exports and $12.5 billion of imports for the fiscal year 2002-03, thus projecting a trade deficit of $2bn, official...
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UN still sees Al Qaeda, Taliban as a threat
UNITED NATIONS, July 20: Lingering Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters remain a threat to stability in Afghanistan, the head of United Nations operations in that country, told the UN Security Council...
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Offers called for OGDCL sell-off
ISLAMABAD, July 20: The Privatisation Commission (PC) here on Saturday sought expression of interests (EoIs) from the parties concerned, to disinvest 51 per cent strategic shares of the Oil and Gas...
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NAB to be accountable to NSC, says Munir
ISLAMABAD, July 20: National Accountability Bureau Chairman Lt-Gen Munir Hafiz said on Saturday that under the proposed reforms the NAB was accountable to the National Security Council....
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Kashmiri leader held after protest
 SRINAGAR, July 20: Indian police detained a leader of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference on Saturday and put several others under house arrest after a protest against last week’s massacre of...
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Two killed in Ahmedabad police fire
AHMEDABAD, July 20: Two people were killed and eight injured when police opened fire to disperse a rioting mob in Gujarat on Friday, a police spokesman said....
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Afghans discuss disarmament
MAZAR-I-SHARIF, July 20: Rival commanders gathered in this main northern Afghan city on Saturday to discuss a disarmament programme in one of the country’s most volatile districts....
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ECC meeting to discuss drug policy on Monday
ISLAMABAD, July 20: A special meeting of the Economic Coordination Committee of the Cabinet (ECC) will be held here on Monday to discuss the drug policy and propose changes in it....
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Changes in federal bureaucracy
ISLAMABAD, July 20: The federal government here on Saturday appointed additional secretary Ministry of Finance Dr Waqar Masood Khan as the new secretary economic affairs division....
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Morocco, Spain reach accord
WASHINGTON, July 20: US Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Saturday that Spain and Morocco had reached an “understanding” in a dispute over a tiny Mediterranean island, following intense US...
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