Cabinet, NSC key decision tomorrow: Breaking deadlock
KARACHI/ISLAMABAD, Nov 9: A joint session of the National Security Council and the cabinet will be held on Monday to take a decision for breaking the political impasse, Interior Minister Moinuddin...
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Govt facilitating PPP-PML-Q deal
ISLAMABAD, Nov 9: The government is trying to broker a coalition involving its major opposition party in a deal that could break a month-long impasse over the formation of a new...
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ARD and MMA offer indemnity for power
 LAHORE, Nov 9: The ARD and the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal are prepared to give indemnity to all acts of the military regime during the past three years, provided the army gives up...
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Shootout may kill Saarc moot
NEW DELHI, Nov 9: The controversial killing of two men in a Delhi shopping complex last week could be the final act in the slow murder of the Saarc summit otherwise...
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Shujaat holds talks with govt officials
ISLAMABAD, Nov 9: The talks between the Grand National Alliance (GNA) and the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) on various aspects of the Legal Framework Order (LFO) and formation of a coalition government,...
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Iraq likely to accept UN Council resolution
BAGHDAD, Nov 9: Iraq on Saturday described a UN security council resolution imposing sweeping arms inspection terms as unfair and unjustified, but hinted President Saddam Hussein might accept it to deny...
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Bush terms UN vote final test for Iraq
WASHINGTON, Nov 9: US President Bush has hailed the UN Security Council’s unanimous vote that demands Iraqi disarmament and compliance with previous international mandates, but, at the same time, he exhorted...
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PPP faces dissent over coalition with PML-Q
 ISLAMABAD, Nov 9: Differences among the People’s Party Parliamentarian (PPP) surfaced on Saturday when PPP MNA- elect, Faisal Saleh Hayat, declared that he is striving for formation of a ‘government of...
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US security official shot dead in Nepal
KATHMANDU, Nov 9: The security supervisor for the US embassy in Nepal was shot dead at his house by three gunmen on Saturday....
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Moin denies existence of no-go areas
KARACHI, Nov 9: The minister for interior, Moinuddin Haider, said on Saturday that there were no “no-go areas” in Karachi....
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9 more groups added to ‘terrorists’ list
WASHINGTON, Nov 9: The US State Department has added nine groups suspected of terrorist links to a visa blacklist which will keep their members or affiliates out of the country, sources...
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Israeli forces gun down top Islamic Jihad leader
JENIN, Nov 9: Israeli forces killed a top military leader of the Islamic Jihad on Saturday, raising the spectre of new violence on the eve of a US envoy’s mission to...
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Pakistan rejects Indian claim
ISLAMABAD, Nov 9: Pakistan on Saturday categorically rejected the unsubstantiated claim of the Indian government that the two persons killed in a fake encounter at Ansal Plaza, New Delhi, were Pakistani...
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Kuwait wants Baghdad to implement resolution
KUWAIT CITY, Nov 9: Kuwait on Saturday called on Iraq to accept the latest United Nations Security Council resolution in order to avert war in the region....
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Torkham border sealed
ISLAMABAD, Nov 9: Pakistan has sealed its border with Afghanistan at Torkham after a shooting incident....
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New Delhi to phase out trainer planes
NEW DELHI, Nov 9: The Indian government has decided to phase out the air force’s Mig trainer aircraft following a series of crashes....
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Germany says Nato may take over Isaf
WASHINGTON, Nov 9: Nato may take over the leadership of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan next autumn, German Defence Minister Peter Struck said on Saturday....
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No ceasefire in Ramazan: Fernandes
GUWAHATI, Nov 9: Indian Defence Minister George Fernandes on Saturday shot down speculations that New Delhi would offer a ceasefire in occupied Kashmir during Ramazan....
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No report on repolling, says NRB
ISLAMABAD, Nov 9: National Reconstruction Bureau (NRB) spokesman Khalid Bilal has said that the bureau has not been assigned any task to prepare a report for holding re-elections....
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Three pro-India group men get life term
SRINAGAR, Nov 9: A court on Saturday sentenced three members of a pro-India group in occupied Kashmir to life in prison for killing a forest official six years ago....
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