APHC launches anti-poll drive: Mir Waiz offers unconditional talks
 SRINAGAR, Aug 30: The All Parties Hurriyat Conference on Friday kicked off a campaign to boycott upcoming polls in occupied Kashmir, but a top leader offered an unconditional dialogue with India...
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Benazir’s papers rejected
 LARKANA, Aug 30: The returning officer for NA-207 (Larkana-IV) on Friday rejected the nomination papers of PPP chairperson and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, giving the reason that she had been...
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NFC to discuss award implementation today
KARACHI, Aug 30: The National Finance Commission will discuss on Saturday the issue whether the implementation of the NFC award should be decided by the present regime or left to the...
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EU opposed to Iraq attack plan: France
PARIS, Aug 30: French President Jacques Chirac, in his first major foreign policy statement since his landslide re-election on May 5, has said that the European Union countries are adamantly opposed...
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ARD meeting to discuss situation on Sept 5
LAHORE, Aug 30: An emergency meeting of the heads of the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy (ARD) parties has been called for Sept 5 in Islamabad to discuss the situation, specially...
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Arab detained on hijacking charge
LONDON, Aug 30: Security at all European airports was stepped up on Friday after an armed Arab man tried to hijack a London-bound passenger jet on Thursday afternoon....
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Tribesmen surround cantonment
 LANDI KOTAL, Aug 30: Armed tribesmen have taken up positions on hilltops surrounding the military cantonment in Landi Kotal tehsil of the tribal Khyber agency as the government-tribesmen stand-off over installation...
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HBFC employees face downsizing
ISLAMABAD Aug 30: The House Building Finance Corporation (HBFC), which has resumed its loaning operations recently after a two-year gap under a remodelled Islamic policy, is facing the prospects of downsizing....
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Earth Summit deadlocked on 14 issues
JOHANNESBURG, Aug 30: Negotiators at the Earth Summit were deadlocked on Friday over a blueprint to empower the desperately poor of the world and reduce mankind’s ravages of the planet as...
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Israel warns Syria of military escalation
TEL AVIV, Aug 30: Israel threatened Syria on Friday with “military escalation” if Hezbollah attacks are not prevented, a day after a rocket and mortar attack by the Lebanese militia wounded...
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Pakistan supports Hurriyat stand
ISLAMABAD Aug 30: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Friday expressed Pakistan’s solidarity with the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) in boycotting the sham elections being held under the shadow of over...
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President orders early completion of Lowari Tunnel
ISLAMABAD, Aug 30: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has called for drastically improving the network of roads across the country to help undertake greater trade and economic activities....
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It’s govt game, says Benazir
LONDON, Aug 30: The chairperson of the Pakistan People’s Party, Benazir Bhutto, has termed the rejection of her nomination papers from Larkana “a part of a game plan” by the Musharraf...
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Verdict in Meerwala case today
MULTAN, Aug 30: Judgment in the Meerwala gang-rape case, reserved by the Anti-Terrorism Court, Dera Ghazi Khan Judge, Malik Zulfiqar Ali, on Tuesday, will be announced on Saturday, Aug 31....
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Tenants’ leader in custody
LAHORE, Aug 30: The chairman of the Anjuman-i-Mazareen, Punjab, Anwar Javed Dogar, is in the police custody, the Okara police chief told the Lahore High Court on Friday....
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Pentagon shifts Afghan strategy
NEW YORK, Aug 30: Pentagon officials who opposed expanding the international security force in Afghanistan now say enlarging it and placing its troops outside Kabul may help secure the country and...
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ADB report foresees better economy
ISLAMABAD, Aug 30: The sound macroeconomic fundamentals, accomplished over the last 2-3 years, will help achieve the GDP growth target of 4.5 per cent in 2002-03, says an Asian Development Bank...
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Cabinet meets today
ISLAMABAD, Aug 30: The federal cabinet will meet here on Saturday to discuss a number of issues, including the proposed press and publication ordinance....
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Bara-Torkham Road opened
PESHAWAR, Aug 30: The political administration of Khyber agency has opened the vehicular traffic and restored electricity supply to Bara and surrounding villages for a few hours, an official handout said....
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Dual nationality
ISLAMABAD, Aug 30: The government has announced that all Pakistanis who are now citizens of the United States shall have dual nationality, a press release of the Ministry of Interior says....
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