PML-Q, allies close to Senate majority: Clear picture after Thursday round
 ISLAMABAD, Feb 24: The ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Q and its allies appeared headed for a majority in the Senate as the four provincial assemblies elected 80 members of the 100-seat Senate...
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NAM asked to address root causes of terrorism
 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 24: President Pervez Musharraf on Monday urged the non-aligned governments to help in a resolution of long- standing conflicts like Kashmir and Palestine and said NAM must not...
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Zionists introduced terrorism: Mahathir
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 24: Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad of Malaysia on Monday launched a strong attack on Israel and its backers, accused the Zionist movement of introducing terrorism to lands outside...
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Afghan minister dies in plane crash
KARACHI, Feb 24: Afghanistan’s Minister for Mines and Industries, Juma Mohammad Mohammadi, and seven other people were killed on Monday when a chartered Cessna bound for the Juzzak airfield near Saindak...
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Blix asks Iraq to start destroying missiles
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 24: Stepping up pressure on Iraq chief UN weapons inspector, Hans Blix, warned on Monday that Iraq must begin destroying its Al Samoud missiles by Saturday and he...
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India isolated at NAM over terrorism definition
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 24: India has failed to get a Pakistan- specific paragraph on the terrorism issue included in the final document to be issued at the end of non-aligned summit...
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$190 million debt rescheduled
ISLAMABAD, Feb 24: Italy has rescheduled its $190.20 million debt owed by Pakistan under the Paris Club Agreed Minutes of Dec 2001....
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Federal cabinet expansion soon
ISLAMABAD, Feb 24: The federal cabinet will be further expanded after Senate elections, with more defectors becoming ministers....
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Massive earthquake kills 260 in China
BEIJING, Feb 24: A devastating earthquake shook western China on Monday, killing about 260 people, injuring more than 4,000 and flattening homes, schools and other buildings near the Silk Road oasis...
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Iraq failed to disarm, says new resolution
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 24: The United States and Britain circulated a new UN resolution on Monday that sets the stage for war with Iraq by declaring that Baghdad had failed to...
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OIC moot tomorrow
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 24: The Organization of the Islamic Conference is to meet informally on Wednesday, Pakistani official sources said here on Monday. President Musharraf is likely to extend his stay...
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France opposed to new US resolution
PARIS, Feb 24: In a major statement of French foreign policy, the country’s foreign minister Dominique de Villepin has let it be known that France is dead set against the introduction...
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Vajpayee criticizes Musharraf
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 24: Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee caused a sensation in the 13th summit conference of the Non-Aligned Movement by attacking President Pervez Musharraf by name here on...
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Wapda allowed to release water from Mangla
ISLAMABAD, Feb 24: The Indus River System Authority has asked the Water and Power Development Authority to release 3,000 cusec water from Mangla Dam to flush out increasing silt that posed...
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Inquiry into Cessna crash ordered
ISLAMABAD, Feb 24: Investigation has been ordered into the Cessna 402 crash on Monday in which eight people were reportedly killed near Karachi....
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Kenya shock Sri Lanka
NAIROBI, Feb 24: Collins Obuya stole the limelight from Muttiah Muralitharan as Kenya pulled off one of the great World Cup shocks against Sri Lanka on Monday. The 21-year-old virtually unknown...
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President, PM condole death of Afghan minister
ISLAMABAD, Feb 24: President Pervez Musharraf has expressed shock and sorrow over the death of Afghanistan’s mines and industry minister and his four colleagues in a plane crash near Karachi on...
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Quake hits Peshawar
PESHAWAR, Feb 24: Pakistan Meteorological Department recorded a moderate intensity earthquake here on Monday morning. A statement issued here by Seismological Network said that an earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter...
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