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Vajpayee takes over N-command system
NEW DELHI, Jan 4: India announced a nuclear command system on Saturday, keeping civilian control on using its ominous arsenal but appeared to deliberately kept vague its no-first use stance, saying...
School education in Punjab made free
LAHORE, Jan 4: In its first meeting on Saturday, the Punjab cabinet decided to provide free education up to secondary school level in all the provincial and district government schools from the next academic session....
Judges get extension
LAHORE, Jan 4: The retirement of chief justice of Pakistan and two other Supreme Court judges, scheduled earlier for 2003, has been stretched to 2006, following the enforcement of an amendment...
Israeli bulldozers raze buildings in Gaza
GAZA, Jan 4: Israeli bulldozers destroyed at least two buildings in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday, despite US concern that Israel’s policy of house demolitions could fuel the conflict with...
Hekmatyar joins hands with Omar: ex-envoy
PESHAWAR, Jan 4: A former Taliban diplomat has said Taliban supreme leader Mulla Mohammad Omar, Osama bin Laden and Hezb-i- Islami leader Gulbaddin Hekmatyar have reached an agreement to launch coordinated...
Washington retains Libya curbs
WASHINGTON, Jan 4: President George W. Bush on Saturday extended national emergency against Libya for another year that allows him to retain sanctions already in place against the Arab nation....
No border crossing so far: US military
BAGRAM AIR BASE (Afghanistan), Jan 4: The US military said on Saturday it had refrained from cross-border operations from Afghanistan into war-on-terror ally Pakistan, despite stating recently it could chase hostile...
Eleven die in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, Jan 4: Eight Kashmiri militants, two Indian border guards and a policeman were killed in shoot-outs in Indian-occupied Kashmir, police said on Saturday....
100 rockets seized in Kabul
KABUL, Jan 4: Police in Kabul on Saturday seized some 100 rockets from a house in the city, state media reported in the third such haul in as many days....
Killings in Kashmir drop
JAMMU, Jan 4: Fewer people were killed in Indian-occupied Kashmir last year despite a rise in tensions with Pakistan, said an Indian government official on Saturday....
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