Pakistan rejects US envoy’s remarks
ISLAMABAD, Sept 23: Pakistan has conveyed to the United States its displeasure at a recently reported TV interview of the US ambassador in New Delhi, quoting him as saying that Islamabad...
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Labour’s strike right curtailed
ISLAMABAD Sept 23: Federal Minister for Labour, Manpower and Overseas Pakistanis Owais Ghani said on Monday that the new labour policy was based on bilateralism which would cut the role of...
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Congressmen warn leadership : Unilateral action against Iraq
NEW YORK, Sept 23: US law makers warned on Sunday that a unilateral American military action against Iraq could draw in Israel in the conflict thereby leading to a bigger Middle-East...
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Sindh needs Rs50bn investment
KARACHI, Sept 23: The Sindh government needs an immediate investment of Rs50 billion over the next three years period to reduce the intensity of prevailing extreme poverty in the province....
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Kashmiris have rejected sham polls: Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, Sept 23: President Gen Pervez Musharraf said here on Monday that Kashmiris have rejected the sham elections in the held Kashmir with marginal turnout....
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Pakistanis held in Italy not terrorists
KARACHI, Sept 23: The 15 Pakistanis arrested in Italy for being “terrorists” have nothing to do with Al Qaeda or any religious organization and are seamen working with a Romanian shipping...
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Bids for Motorway open today
ISLAMABAD, Sept 23: Bids for around Rs 13 billion construction work of Peshawar-Islamabad motorway project M-1, will be opened here on Tuesday and a new Turkish joint venture seems set to...
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Five Al Qaeda suspects held
PESHAWAR, Sept 23: A joint raiding team has arrested five Al Qaeda suspects in Peshawar and Mianwali, on Sunday night....
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EC, others issued notices on Shahbaz, Kulsoom petitions
LAHORE, Sept 23: The Lahore High Court has issued notices to the Election Commission and all candidates for the four constituencies (NA-119 and 122 and PP-141 and 142) of Lahore for...
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FM begins talks in Washington
WASHINGTON, Sept 23: Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Inamul Haq, began his meetings with US officials on Tuesday....
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Siege will harm peace, says Bush
WASHINGTON, Sept 23: President Bush admonished Israel on Monday for laying siege to Yasser Arafat’s headquarters, saying that it had harmed the cause of peace in the Middle East....
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Cop kills 5 members of in-laws family
MIRPURKHAS, Sept 23: A police constable shot dead five members of his in-laws’ family, including three children, in the Mohammad Alam Panhwar village on late Sunday night....
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US warned against unilateral strike
COPENHAGEN, Sept 23: East Asian and European Union leaders on Monday jointly warned the United States against unilateral military strikes on Iraq, saying any action must be backed by the United...
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Military build-up in ME continues
RIYADH, Sept 23: As the United States continues with its military build-up in the region, the Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah in Riyadh received the top US commander for the region Gen...
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DCG meeting begins today
RAWALPINDI, Sept 23: A four-day meeting of the Pakistan-USA Defence Consultative Group (DCG), the first after its re-establishment, will begin here on Tuesday....
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SPD wins polls in Germany
BERLIN, Sept 23: German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder faces the task of reforming Europe’s largest economy with a sharply reduced majority after he and his Greens coalition partners narrowly won Sunday’s general...
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