Election to decide fate of country, says MMA
 KARACHI, Sept 8: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal leaders have said the October elections will determine whether the nation wanted to live as a self-respecting and sovereign entity or stay under the tutelage...
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US attack on Iraq will be a mistake: UN inspector
BAGHDAD, Sept 8: Iraq reacted with defiance on Sunday to a US-British summit focusing on its possible nuclear arms threat, while Russia underlined international concern over the dangers of any pre-emptive...
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Kashmir committee supports APHC talks with Pakistan
NEW DELHI, Sept 8: India’s officially encouraged Kashmir Committee on Sunday backed the All Parties Hurriyat Conference in its bid to send emissaries to Pakistan for peace talks there....
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Top Osama aides ‘surface in Karachi’
WASHINGTON, Sept 8: Al Qaeda has established a formidable network in Karachi where top aides of Osama bin Laden have been hiding since the collapse of the Taliban regime last year,...
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Israeli tanks invade Gaza
GAZA CITY, Sept 8: The Israeli army staged an incursion into autonomous Palestinian territory in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday, Palestinian security sources said....
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Wapda shares’ transfer to 12 companies by year-end
ISLAMABAD, Sept 8: The government would transfer 100 per cent shares of Wapda worth around Rs300 billion to 12 corporate companies before Dec 31, 2002, to enable sale of these entities...
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Depletion of Mangla, Tarbela foreseen
LAHORE, Sept 8: Tarbela and Mangla Dams may start depleting shortly in the wake of the Punjab’s demand for an immediate supply of 60,000 cusecs from the Indus arm....
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Iraq to dominate debate at UN
 UNITED NATIONS, Sept 8: Iraq will dominate the United Nations General Assembly meeting when it convenes on Thursday but diplomats and leaders hope that other world issues, including peace in the...
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Six die as marriage party comes under attack
HARIPUR, Sept 8: At least six passengers were shot dead and five others received injuries, three of them seriously, when some persons opened indiscriminate fire on a Toyota Hiace carrying a...
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Maoist attackers kill 119 in Nepal
KATHMANDU, Sept 8: At least 119 people died and 19 were injured on Sunday when Maoist rebels attacked a police station in Bhiman, 100 kilometres east of Kathmandu, the Nepalese government...
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12 wounded in Afghan music shop explosion
ISLAMABAD, Sept 8: A bomb explosion destroyed a music shop and wounded 12 people in the eastern Afghanistan town of Khost on Sunday, a news report said....
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Four Jhangvi men killed in shootout
MULTAN, Sept 8: Four alleged activists of the outlawed Lashkar-i- Jhangvi were killed in Kehror Pucca area of Lodhran district in a ‘shoot-out’ with police on Sunday morning....
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Literacy Day today
ISLAMABAD, Sept 8: Pakistan is observing International Literacy Day on Monday with a pledge to achieve the target of 100 per cent adult literacy by 2015, the target set at World...
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Musharraf, Bush to discuss Al Qaeda issue
WASHINGTON, Sept 8: An American plan for combating Al Qaeda and Taliban fugitives hiding in Pakistan’s tribal belt will be high on the agenda when Presidents Pervez Musharraf and George W....
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