Baghdad’s busy market bombed: 15 dead, toll may rise; Iraq claims huge loss to invaders
 BAGHDAD, March 26: Two blasts devastated a busy Baghdad street on Wednesday, killing up to 15 people and sparking fury among crowds of Iraqis, after what witnesses said was a twin...
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Opposition to move anti-war resolution in Senate today
ISLAMABAD, March 26: Opposition parties in the Senate said on Wednesday they would seek passage of a resolution against the US-led war on Iraq when the upper house met for a...
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Ceasefire discussed with China: PM
ISLAMABAD, March 26: Pakistan and China have discussed a strategy to secure ceasefire in Iraq during the ongoing UN Security Council session, Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali said on Wednesday....
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US bound to help Iraqis, says Annan
UNITED NATIONS, March 26: United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan told United States national security adviser Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday that the US was legally responsible for providing humanitarian aid to Iraqis...
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UNSC members contest resolution’s language
 UNITED NATIONS, March 26: Differences among Security Council members emerged on Tuesday over the language of a resolution for resuming oil-for-food programme to help the Iraqi people impacted by the US-led...
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Exiled Iraqis to be kept out of war, says Iran
TEHRAN, March 26: Iran said on Wednesday it would bar armed Iraqi exiles based on its soil from returning to Iraq to join the war to topple President Saddam Hussein....
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Japan won’t close Iraqi mission
TOKYO, March 26: Japan has turned down a request from the United States to close the Iraqi embassy in Tokyo, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Wednesday....
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Beijing, Islamabad to send aid: PM
ON BOARD SPECIAL PLANE, March 26: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali on Wednesday said that Pakistan and China were look-ing forward to send humanitarian assistance to Iraq to mitigate the...
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Pakistan test-fires Abdali missile
ISLAMABAD, March 26: Pakistan on Wednesday successfully test-fired its nuclear-capable short-range Abdali missile in an apparent tit-for-tat move after India tested its similar Prithvi missile....
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India tests N-capable Prithvi missile
NEW DELHI, March 26: India test-fired a nuclear-capable, short-range surface-to-surface missile on Wednesday, a defence official said, adding it was a routine test of a missile already in use by the...
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18 soldiers among 20 dead in accident
MUZAFFARABAD, March 26: At least 18 Pakistan Army soldiers and two other people were killed when their jeep plunged into a river in the Neelum valley in northeast of Muzaffarabad on...
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Fedayeen tougher than expected: Pentagon
WASHINGTON, March 26: Pentagon officials told journalists on Wednesday that US war planners “may have miscalculated the strength and capability” of paramilitary fighters in Iraq....
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US flying high-tech troops to Iraq
WASHINGTON, March 26: The United States is flying its high-tech Fourth Infantry Division and other units totalling more than 30,000 troops to the Gulf to join the invasion of Iraq, the...
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Seventh day of war on Baghdad
LONDON, March 26: Following are the known military operations by 5:45pm on Wednesday, the seventh day of Iraq war:...
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Kidnapped HRCP activist freed
HYDERABAD, March 26: Akhtar Baloch, journalist and member of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan’s Core Group in Hyderabad, who was picked up by unidentified persons on Sunday evening, has been...
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India flouts Ballistic tests accord
ISLAMABAD, March 26: New Delhi triggered yet another diplomatic controversy on Wednesday by flouting an agreement signed between Pakistan and India under which both the countries are required to provide each...
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Nine killed in road accident
MUZAFFARABAD, March 26: Nine people, including three women, were killed and 11 others seriously injured when a passenger bus plunged into a ditch in the southern Kotli district of Azad Kashmir...
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Belgium amends law for Bush to avoid lawsuit
BRUSSELS, March 26: The Belgian parliament on Tuesday amended a controversial law to prevent US President George W. Bush being prosecuted for war crimes over the conflict in Iraq....
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