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Pakistan hopeful of free-trade pact with US
WASHINGTON, Sept 29: Pakistan is this week to intensify its push for a free-trade agreement with the United States as its economic recovery seeks to gather pace and offset the cost...
Israel lifts siege of Arafat’s compound
RAMALLAH, Sept 29: Blowing kisses and making a V-for-Victory sign, Yasser Arafat emerged from his battered compound on Sunday after Israeli forces retreated under US pressure to lift an internationally condemned...
US warplanes again attack Basra: Iraq
BAGHDAD, Sept 29: Iraq said on Sunday US jets had raided the Basra civilian airport for the second time in a week, targeting its radar systems and the passenger terminals....
PBC criticizes use of state machinery
ISLAMABAD, Sept 29: Pakistan Bar Council, the apex body of the legal practitioners, on Sunday blamed the military government for siding with certain political parties and candidates, and said that state...
Afghan infighting claims 9 lives
ISLAMABAD, Sept 29: Heavy fighting erupted between two pro-government commanders in the eastern Afghan province of Paktia Sunday leaving nine people dead including a former commander of rebel warlord Padsha Khan,...
Two Jhangvi men killed
JHANG/CHINIOT, Sept 29: Two ‘terrorists’ described by police as members of the outlawed Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, were killed in a shootout on the Jhang-Chiniot Road on Sunday morning....
Advani’s outbursts against ISI dismissed
ISLAMABAD, Sept 29: A government spokesman on Sunday blasted Indian Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani for blaming the Inter-Services Intelligence Agency for acts of terrorism in India, saying the world...
Rocca holds talks with Soomro
KARACHI, Sept 29: US Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Christina Rocca arrived here on Sunday to discuss various issues, including consular security....
Democracy a victim of attacks on US: Benazir
NEW YORK, Sept 29: Saying that she will not return to Pakistan until allowed to contest elections, former prime minister Benazir Bhutto decried on Saturday that “democracy in Pakistan was a...
Cop among five shot dead in Ghizar
GILGIT, Sept 29: Unidentified assailants gunned down five people in Dahimal village in Ghizar district, about 180km from here, on Saturday night, police said on Sunday....
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RAMALLAH, Sept 29: Blowing kisses and making a V-for-Victory sign, Yasser Arafat emerged from his battered compound on Sunday after Israeli forces retreated under US pressure to lift an internationally condemned...
