Indus Water Treaty talks delayed
ISLAMABAD, Jan 29: Pakistan-India talks on the Indus Water Treaty 1960 have been delayed due to flight difficulties faced by the Indian team to reach Islamabad on the scheduled dates of...
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Bush vows to fight with full force: ‘Iraq flouted on evidence’
WASHINGTON, Jan 29: US President George Bush on Tuesday promised to produce new evidence against Iraq in a bid to convince wary allies that Baghdad was flouting UN demands to disarm,...
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ADB stops opposition to farm sector subsidy
ISLAMABAD, Jan 29: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has agreed not to oppose subsidy to the agriculture sector to further improve the agriculture production of the country....
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US likely to write off $1bn loan by Feb
ISLAMABAD, Jan 29: The Bush administration is likely to write off Pakistan’s one billion dollar loan by early February, prime minister’s adviser on finance Shaukat Aziz said here on Wednesday....
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UN Council closed-door session begins
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 29: The UN Security Council resumed closed-door consultation on Wednesday on the Iraq crisis ahead of US Secretary of State Colin Powell’s appearance on Feb 5 when he...
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Pakistan assured of non-discrimination: INS issue
WASHINGTON, Jan 29: US Secretary of State Colin Powell said here on Wednesday the United States was aware of Pakistan’s concerns about INS registration and would ensure that “there’s no discrimination”...
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Jamali sees closer ties with Qatar
DOHA, Jan 29: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali said on Wednesday his useful round of talks with Qatari leadership has re-confirmed the shared perception and convergence of views of Pakistan...
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Shahbaz leaves Jeddah for US
ISLAMABAD, Jan 29: Pakistan Muslim League-N chief Shahbaz Sharif suddenly left Jeddah for the United States on Wednesday in an apparent easing of travel curbs on him after more than two...
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No terrorist objective in security breach: India
NEW DELHI, Jan 29: Police on Wednesday ruled out any terrorist involvement in a security breach of Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s motorcade, which prompted shots to be fired at...
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Kasuri, Cheney discuss Kashmir, INS issues
 WASHINGTON, Jan 29: Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri held a key meeting with US Vice-President Dick Cheney at his official residence at the Naval Observatory, the Pakistan embassy said on Wednesday....
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MMA memo on Baghdad given to four envoys
ISLAMABAD, Jan 29: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) has warned the world that millions of lives would be lost and a large-scale regional destabilisation would occur if a war was imposed on...
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Opposition stages walkout from Punjab PA
LAHORE, Jan 29: The People’s Party Parliamentarians and the Pakistan Muslim League-N legislators staged a brief walkout from the Punjab Assembly on Wednesday against what they called partisan attitude of Speaker...
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Inspection team accused of bias
BAGHDAD, Jan 29: Iraq accused UN disarmament inspectors on Wednesday of delivering a biased and unfair report, while President Saddam Hussein promised to defeat the United States if war were declared....
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India pulls out troops from LoC to border
NEW DELHI, Jan 29: India’s decision to pull troops out of residential areas in occupied Kashmir was a move to reinforce soldiers at the Line of Control (LoC), an official was...
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Indian jet crashes
NEW DELHI, Jan 29: An Indian air force Jaguar fighter jet crashed in Rajasthan on Tuesday night, killing the pilot....
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Blast at US chemical plant
WASHINGTON, Jan 29: An explosion at a chemical plant in Kinston, North Carolina, caused a major fire at the factory and in a nearby wood and local media reports said there...
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350 rangers deployed to protect gas pipeline
LAHORE, Jan 29: The Punjab government on Wednesday deployed the Punjab Rangers to protect Sui-Guddu gas pipelines and to ensure uninterrupted supply of gas to upcountry....
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Montazeri freed
TEHRAN, Jan 29: The Iranian government freed the country’s foremost antiestablishment religious figure, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, from house arrest on Wednesday.—Reuters...
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