Another stormy session expected: Govt-opposition row over LFO
ISLAMABAD, March 9: Opposition parties in the National Assembly will carry on an obstructive protest against sweeping presidential powers when the lower house...
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Iraq ready to reply unanswered queries
BAGHDAD, March 9: Iraq said it would respond as quickly as possible to a letter on Sunday from the UN inspection regime listing unanswered questions over its disarmament process....
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Riyadh offers US two airports
RIYADH, March 9: Saudi Arabia has allowed American troops to use two of its northern airports near the Iraqi border for defensive purpose or to be ready for the influx of...
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Pressure mounts on Blair over Iraq
LONDON, March 9: British Prime Minister Tony Blair battled on Sunday to win world support for his tough stand on disarming Baghdad, as a resignation and mounting rebellion in his Labour...
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Pindi march opposes war
 RAWALPINDI, March 9: Tens of thousands of followers of opposition parties marched in Rawalpindi on Sunday to oppose a possible US-led war against Iraq....
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French veto to affect ties, says Powell: US not sure of UN approval
 NEW YORK, March 9: US Secretary of State Colin Powell said in a series of TV interviews on Sunday that US might get nine...
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Oman plans investment in Balochistan
ISLAMABAD, March 9: Oman is planning significant investment in Balochistan, including in the expansion of Gwadar airport and construction of jetties at Gwadar port....
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Provinces want funds released by March end
ISLAMABAD, March 9: Provincial governments would submit on Monday their fiscal needs for 2003-04 and ask the Centre to release the remaining part of their current year’s share immediately, it is...
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It won’t be a just war, says Carter
WASHINGTON, March 9: Former US president Jimmy Carter criticized the US march toward war on Sunday, saying in an opinion piece in the New York Times that an attack on Iraq...
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16 injured as Israeli operation continues
 GAZA CITY, March 9: Sixteen Palestinians were wounded in the Gaza Strip on Sunday as the Israeli army pressed on with its....
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Thousands protest for peace in Indonesia, Lebanon, Syria
SURABAYA (Indonesia), March 9: A prayer rally in the province of East Java in Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-populated country, attracted hundreds of thousands of Muslims on Sunday to pray for...
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Chirac may visit NY for UNSC vote
PARIS, March 9: French President Jacques Chirac says he’s likely to go to New York on Tuesday for the Security Council vote on a new US pro-war resolution and has told...
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Pope warns against Iraq war
ROME, March 9: Pope John Paul II issued another urgent warning against a war on Iraq Sunday, declaring it was time “to clear one’s conscience and to convert to real peace”....
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Handicap lands Aamir in trouble
WASHINGTON, March 9: A nephew of President Pervez Musharraf, who was recently detained by the American immigration authorities for visa violation, is legally blind, sources close to his family told Dawn....
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Russian speaker leaves for Baghdad
MOSCOW, March 9: Gennady Seleznyov, speaker of Russia’s lower house of parliament, left on Sunday for Baghdad, saying he would meet President Saddam Hussein for talks on the current crisis, Interfax...
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US concerned over Iran’s N-programme
WASHINGTON, March 9: Two senior US officials expressed concern on Sunday about Iran’s nuclear programme and said the United States has urged the United Nation’s nuclear watchdog agency to take a...
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