Better ties with India on top of agenda: FM spells out priorities
ISLAMABAD, Nov 24: In a signal to the Indian leadership Pakistan’s new foreign minister, Mian Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri, said on Sunday that the new government’s first priority is to normalize relations...
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Political activities shift to provinces
ISLAMABAD, Nov 24: The political activities which kept Islamabad abuzz with intensive political movements by power players for over one-and-half month, has shifted to the provinces after the formation of Zafarullah...
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US wants SC order reversed
ISLAMABAD, Nov 24: The government is under the pressure of the United States and the World Bank because of a Supreme Court judgment in which it had directed a US-based multinational...
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Gas prices may go up next month
ISLAMABAD, Nov 24: The natural gas prices are likely to be increased by more than 10 per cent during second week of December, the first tough decision of the new civilian...
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Landslides hamper relief operation: Number of quake-hit people rises to 15,000
ISLAMABAD, Nov 24: The number of people facing a bleak winter in tents in the northern Karakoram mountain range following the earthquakes last week had risen to 15,000, a government official...
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Europe to have data bank of fingerprints
PARIS, Nov 24: French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy has said that Europe will have its computerized fingerprint data bank by January 2003, that should cut down considerably the number of political...
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O’Neill urges rich nations to help Pakistan, India
NEW DELHI, Nov 24: Wrapping up a tour of three South Asian nations plagued by poverty and terrorism, US Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill on Sunday rejected the idea the two were...
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Violence hits life in parts of Karachi
KARACHI, Nov 24: The charred body of a man was found in a school and six vehicles were set on fire in troubled areas of Malir, Landhi and Korangi, on Sunday....
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Members of Punjab PA take oath today
LAHORE, Nov 24: Some 358 members-elect of the Punjab Assembly will take oath on Monday....
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Frontier assembly session today
PESHAWAR, Nov 24: All arrangements have been finalized for the inaugural session of the Frontier Assembly here on Monday. Former speaker Hidayatullah Chamkani will preside over the session and administer the...
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30 killed in India bus accident
NEW DELHI, Nov 24: A passenger bus plummeted off a bridge in central India on Sunday, killing at least 30 people and injuring 30 others, officials said....
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Power to AJK being cut today
GUJRANWALA, Nov 24: The Gujranwala Electric Power Company has decided to suspend power supply to AJK from the Bhimber grid station on Monday for Rs100 million default....
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Rashid asked to defend military govt policies
ISLAMABAD, Nov 24: The newly-inducted minister for information and media development, Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, on Sunday met Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Jamali and discussed with him matters pertaining to the government’s...
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8 killed as militants attack two temples
JAMMU, Nov 24: Militants raided two temples in occupied Jammu on Sunday, sparking a gunbattle which left eight dead, including one of the heavily-armed attackers....
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Pakistan denies arms deal with North Korea
ISLAMABAD, Nov 24: Pakistan on Sunday strongly denied a report that it had helped North Korea develop its nuclear weapons programme in return for missile technology that would strengthen its hand...
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Israeli troops surround mosque
JENIN (West Bank), Nov 24: The Israeli army on Sunday surrounded a mosque at Tubas, in the northern West Bank, where a Palestinian militant was believed to be holed up, witnesses...
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