Judiciary favours fresh oath: CJ to inform govt
ISLAMABAD, Jan 5: The government has agreed to administer a fresh oath to the judges of the superior courts after receiving reports that members of the judiciary want a fresh oath...
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443 Al Qaeda suspects handed over to US
ISLAMABAD, Jan 5: Pakistan has handed over 443 suspected Al Qaeda operatives to US authorities till to date, it was reliably learnt here on Sunday....
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S. Arabia to supply oil worth $1.3bn
RIYADH, Jan 5: Saudi Arabia has reached an agreement with Pakistan to supply oil worth $1.3 billion, with the deferred payment facility, to help it build its oil reserves, the OPEC...
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Germany relieved as hijacking drama ends
 FRANKFURT, Jan 5: A man hijacked a light aircraft and threatened to crash into the European Central Bank tower in Germany’s financial capital Frankfurt on Sunday before landing the plane and...
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UN experts search Iraqi complex: Israel test-fires missile
BAGHDAD, Jan 5: UN weapons inspectors flexed their muscles on Sunday, combing a complex housing Iraq’s own arms monitoring directorate and leaving two senior Iraqi officials trapped inside and fuming for...
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F-16s meant for Pakistan given to US forces
NEW YORK, Jan 5: The 28 F-16 planes that Pakistan bought in the 1980’s from the United States but never received, because the US Congress withheld them to punish Pakistan for...
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Muslims in US fear deportation
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 5: With a registration deadline less than a week away, Muslim immigrants in the Silicon Valley are worried that visitors from Afghanistan, Lebanon and 11 other countries may...
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US troops open Afghan border gate
BAJAUR, Jan 5: United States commandos in the Kunar province, bordering the Bajaur tribal agency on Sunday opened the gate at the Ghakhi Pass border checkpoint and let dozens of Afghans walk...
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21 killed in Israel suicide bombing
TEL AVIV, Jan 5: Two Palestinian suicide bombers killed 19 other people when they blew themselves to pieces in downtown Tel Aviv during the evening rush hour on Sunday....
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Mangla Dam raising cost up
ISLAMABAD, Jan 5: The cost of Mangla Dam raising has been increased by over 12 per cent in four months even before the project could practically take off....
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Hot pursuit to continue quietly
WASHINGTON, Jan 5: President Gen Pervez Musharraf and United States Secretary of State Colin Powell have agreed that hot pursuit of the Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters across the Pakistan-Afghan border...
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Advani asks west to pressure Pakistan
NEW DELHI, Jan 5: Indian Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishan Advani asked influential businessmen from western countries on Sunday to exert pressure on their governments to turn the heat on countries...
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