APHC to mull over Delhi’s talks offer: All Kashmir issues to be taken up: Bhat
 SRINAGAR, Aug 17: The Indian government has offered to hold talks with Kashmir’s main separatist alliance to resolve a separatist conflict which has killed more than 36,500 people since 1989 in...
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EC allots poll symbols to 17 parties
ISLAMABAD, Aug 17: The Election Commission on Saturday allotted election symbols to 17 political parties, including Muttahida Qaumi Movement and Awami National Party, which got their traditional symbols of Kite and...
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SBP not to buy dollars from kerb
ISLAMABAD, Aug 17: The government has assured the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that the State Bank of Pakistan will no more be buying dollars from the open market to increase country’s...
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Russia, Iraq to abort US efforts
WASHINGTON, Aug 17: Russia and Iraq are planning to sign a $40 billion economic cooperation agreement, ignoring US efforts to isolate Iraqi regime, media reports said here on Saturday....
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Musharraf assures Fahim of fair polls
 ISLAMABAD, Aug 17: President Gen Pervez Musharraf held a one-on-one meeting with the president of the Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians, Makhdoom Amin Fahim, on Saturday....
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Pro-govt group begins finalizing candidates
ISLAMABAD Aug 17: National Alliance, a pro-Musharraf conglomerate of six parties, has started finalizing the lists of its candidates for national and provincial assemblies with a view to making adjust-ments with...
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Parties, lawyers reject packages of amendments
LAHORE, Aug 17: An overwhelming majority of political parties which attended a ‘joint meeting’ sponsored by Pakistan Bar Council, here on Saturday, vowed to scrap the constitutional amendments being proposed by...
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Benazir firm on contesting polls
KARACHI, Aug 17: Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto said on Saturday that she remains determined to contest Oct 10 elections, despite being disqualified from running in the polls by President Pervez...
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Opposition demands dismissal of Advani, Mahajan
NEW DELHI, Aug 17: India’s fractious opposition parties appeared to be getting their act together on Saturday as they demanded the dismissal of Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishan Advani and senior...
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S. Lanka beat Pakistan
TANGIERS, Aug 17: Pakistan’s hopes of making to the final of the Morocco Cup were left hanging by the thread when Sri Lanka beat them by 39 runs in the fourth...
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Pentagon to conduct missile test
WASHINGTON, Aug 17: The Pentagon announced on Friday it would conduct a test interception of a long-range missile over the Pacific on Aug 24 and track it for the first time...
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Two Indian soldiers dismissed
SRINAGAR, Aug 17: Indian army authorities in occupied Kashmir have dismissed two soldiers after an inquiry committee found them guilty of molesting three women, an army spokesman said on Saturday....
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Two blasts in Kabul
KABUL, Aug 17: Two small explosions occurred in central Kabul on Saturday and Friday night as investigations continue into an earlier blast outside a ministry, a spokesman for the ISAF said....
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AI welcomes acquittal of blasphemy convict
ISLAMABAD, Aug 17: Amnesty International (AI) on Saturday welcomed Pakistan’s decision to acquit a Christian sentenced to death for blasphemy and called for urgent steps to ensure the man’s safety after...
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