25,000 US troops told to leave for Gulf
WASHINGTON, Dec 28: Deployment of approximately 25,000 US troops to the Persian Gulf region has been ordered starting early January, the NBC television reported on Friday....
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26 killed in road accident
SADIQABAD/ BAHAWALPUR, Dec 28: Twenty-six people, including a bride, were killed and over 70 injured when two speeding buses, in a bid to overtake the other, collided head-on with a truck...
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PM discusses vote of trust with CMs
ISLAMABAD, Dec 28: Chief ministers of Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan here on Saturday called on Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali and discussed with him matters pertaining to his vote of...
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Terrorists active again: India
NEW DELHI, Dec 28: Indian Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishan Advani, regarded as the man governing a sustained stretch of poor relations with Pakistan, mounted further pressure on Islamabad on Saturday...
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Jamali forms relief committees
ISLAMABAD, Dec 28: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali on Saturday announced the setting up of two committees on relief packages for common man and the farming community....
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Govt has proof of Khwajas’ link with Al Qaeda: Faisal
ISLAMABAD, Dec 28: Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayyat on Saturday said the government had concrete evidence of Dr Ahmed Javed Khawaja’s links with Al Qaeda....
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US senators oppose INS move
LOS ANGELES, Dec 28: A group two influential United States senators and a congressman on Friday lodged a strong protest with the justice department against the highhandedness during the special registration...
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PM confident of bagging 180 votes
ISLAMABAD, Dec 28: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali on Saturday expressed the confidence that he will surmount the toughest challenge of securing vote of confidence in the National Assembly’s special...
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Attack: Russia suspects Arabs
MOSCOW, Dec 28: Russian investigators on Saturday said they saw an Arab connection in a suicide bomb attack that struck at the heart of the pro-Moscow administration in Chechnya on Friday...
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Pakistan’s concern conveyed to US
ISLAMABAD, Dec 28: Pakistan has conveyed to the United States its “deep sense of disappointment and concern” over the inclusion of Pakistani nationals in the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System and...
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Musharraf arrives in Karachi
KARACHI, Dec 28: President Gen Pervez Musharraf’s scheduled engagements in the city, who arrived in the metropolis on Saturday evening, have not been made public for security reasons....
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Jamali to visit Saudi Arabia tomorrow
ISLAMABAD, Dec 28: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali is leaving for Saudi Arabia on Monday to meet King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz and discuss with him strengthening of political and...
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Another MNA joins Patriots
ISLAMABAD, Dec 28: People’s Party Patriot on Saturday caused further dent to People’s Party Parliamentarian by wooing another National Assembly member, Faiz Taman, and claimed that two more would defect soon....
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Israel foiling peace proposals: OIC
JEDDAH, Dec 28: The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Saturday strongly condemned Israel’s killings of Palestinians, accusing the Jewish state of attempting to torpedo all peace proposals....
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Ministry of defence to run Kargil airport
NEW DELHI, Dec 28: The Kargil Airport, bordering the Line of Control in Kashmir, would be handed over to the defence ministry as it was vulnerable to shelling by Pakistani forces,...
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Qatari FM arrives in Tehran
TEHRAN, Dec 28: Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad al-Thani arrived in Tehran on Saturday on an unscheduled one-day visit, state-run IRIB television reported....
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