Filing of papers begins today: NA, PAs elections
ISLAMABAD, Aug 18: Filing of nomination papers for National and provincial assemblies will begin from Monday....
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Bahrain, Iran oppose attack on Iraq
 TEHRAN, Aug 18: King Hamad of Bahrain, whose island state hosts the US Fifth Fleet, joined Iranian leaders in opposing any “unilateral” strike against Iraq as he wrapped up a landmark...
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Kashmir body seeks poll postponement
SRINAGAR, Aug 18: An influential committee trying to bring peace to Indian Kashmir raised the possibility on Sunday of postponing state elections in order to persuade more Kashmiri separatists to take...
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Karzai orders PoWs release
KABUL, Aug 18: Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered the gradual release of some prisoner’s of war (PoW’s) — most of them Pakistani nationals held in Afghan jails since the country...
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UN cuts Afghan food rations
MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Aug 18: The UN’s World Food Programme is being forced to cut rations for millions of hungry and vulnerable Afghans because international donors have failed to stump up promised cash,...
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Diesel rates deregulation from September likely
ISLAMABAD, Aug 18: The government may allow oil marketing companies to fix diesel prices independently with effect from Sept 1, to completely deregulate the diesel business....
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Wapda deal costs consumers dearly: Purchase of meters
LAHORE, Aug 18: Wapda has overpaid at least Rs 1.863 billion to a cartel of three local meter manufacturers during the last three years through closed-door purchases if the prices quoted...
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Musharraf reuniting turncoats: PML-N
ISLAMABAD, Aug 18: Pakistan Muslim League (N) Chief Coordinator Ahsan Iqbal, for the first time, criticised on Sunday Jamaat-i-islami chief Qazi Hussain Ahmed, without naming him, for holding ‘hours long’ meeting...
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Black Americans demand compensation
WASHINGTON, Aug 18: Thousands of African-Americans gathered in the American capital Saturday to demand reparations for their ancestors brought in chains from Africa to build the new world....
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Al Qaeda fighters in Pakistan: US official
BAGRAM AIR BASE, Aug 18: The American general leading the campaign against Al Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan has said there may now be more of the extremists operating in Pakistan than...
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Palestine-Israel talks begin
JERUSALEM, Aug 18: Israeli Defence Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer met a senior Palestinian delegation on Sunday after saying a troop withdrawal plan for the Gaza Strip should be extended to West Bank...
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6 die as jeep plunges into Neelum river
MUZAFFARABAD, Aug 18: At least six people, including a woman, were killed and three others were injured when a jeep they were travelling in, plunged into a river in Neelum valley...
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Joint council on cards to boost trade with Russia
ISLAMABAD, Aug 18: Islamabad and Moscow are carrying out legal formalities to create a Pakistan-Russia Business Council....
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13 PoWs fled before release: Afghan govt
KABUL, Aug 18: Thirteen foreign Al Qaeda or Taliban prisoners who were killed in a shootout with Afghan security forces earlier this month had escaped from a detention centre where they...
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Seven killed in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, Aug 18: Indian security forces said on Sunday they killed seven guerillas who tried to sneak across a military ceasefire line into Kashmir from Pakistan....
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Five Somalis held for links with militants
ISLAMABAD, Aug 18: The police have detained five Somalis near Afghanistan on suspicion of having links with the Al Qaeda network of Osama bin Laden, a government official said here on...
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