UN gives Iraq last chance : 7 days to accept disarming terms
 UNITED NATIONS, Nov 8: The United Nations Security Council on Friday unanimously adopted a tough new US-British sponsored resolution giving Iraq one last chance to eliminate its weapons of mass destruction...
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Session’s delay perilous, warn GNA, MMA: Meeting termed positive
ISLAMABAD, Nov 8: The Grand National Alliance, a grouping of Pakistan Muslim League (Q) and six-party National Alliance, and six-party religious parties alliance Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal leaders demanded of the government on...
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Delhi encounter fake: official
NEW DELHI, Nov 8: Pakistan on Thursday accused India of faking an encounter in which the Delhi police shot dead two men in a busy shopping complex on Sunday and rejected...
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Asif flown into Karachi
KARACHI, Nov 8: In a latest development giving rise to all sorts of speculations about a possible deal between the PPP and the government, Asif Ali Zardari, the interned and ailing...
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Iqbal’s birth anniversary today
 ISLAMABAD, Nov 8: The nation will celebrate the 125th birth anniversary of great poet philosopher Allama Dr Mohammad Iqbal on Saturday in a befitting manner....
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3 Mujahideen killed in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, Nov 8: Indian forces on Friday claimed killing three Kashmiri Mujahideen in an encounter the previous night....
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Jiang spells out agenda for economic uplift
 BEIJING, Nov 8: President Jiang Zemin opened China’s most important political meeting in a decade here on Friday, outlining his vision of a nation powered by private capitalism but still under...
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SC sets aside law on Valima meals
ISLAMABAD, Nov 8: The Supreme Court on Friday held that the federal government had no power to enact a law, outlawing serving of food in Valima receptions....
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Floor-crossing law in abeyance: official
ISLAMABAD, Nov 8: The federal law ministry said on Friday that article 63(A) of the Constitution, dealing with the floor-crossing, was in abeyance and the question of its amendment “does not...
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Al Qaeda proving difficult to destroy, says US general
WASHINGTON, Nov 8: The US military is losing momentum in the war against terrorism in Afghanistan because the remnants of Al Qaeda and the Taliban have proven more successful in adapting...
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Altaf names new convener
KARACHI, Nov 8: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief, Altaf Hussain, on Friday appointed former provincial minister, Dr Ishratul Ibad, as acting-convener of the party’s coordination committee....
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LHC asks govt not to extradite Dr Amir
LAHORE, Nov 8: Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jilani of the Lahore High Court on Friday restrained the federal government from extraditing the former Chief Executive of the Jinnah Hospital, Dr Amir Aziz,...
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‘Incursions’ have fallen: India
BHUBANESHWAR, Nov 8: The Indian army chief said on Friday that the number of militants “infiltrating” into occupied Kashmir has fallen by more than half this year....
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Israeli troops destroy house during Gaza incursion
GAZA CITY, Nov 8: An Israeli armoured unit entered the Khan Yunes sector of the southern Gaza Strip on Friday, razing the home of a suicide attacker and wounding two Palestinians,...
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Seven Fata MNAs go missing
ISLAMABAD, Nov 8: Seven members-elect of the National Assembly from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) supporting the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal have reportedly gone missing....
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Slain Afghan vice-president’s son involved in shootout
KABUL, Nov 8: Haji Zahir, the son of an Afghan vice president who was murdered earlier this year, was involved in a shootout in which his bodyguard was killed, an Afghan...
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Noted poet Joan Elia passes away
 KARACHI, Nov 8: Noted Urdu poet, Joan Elia, died here on Friday night in Ziauddin Hospital where he was admitted following a severe attack of asthma. He was 71....
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No-go areas: rehabilitation of displaced families ordered
ISLAMABAD, Nov 8: President Pervez Musharraf has directed the Sindh government and law-enforcement agencies to ensure the rehabilitation of 1,200 families which were displaced from no-go area of Karachi in the...
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