US troops attack Baghdad airport: Kurds meet resistance
 NEAR BAGHDAD, April 3: US forces launched an assault on Baghdad airport on Thursday after claiming that armoured units had thrust...
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20 Taliban killed in fresh Spin Boldak offensive
KANDAHAR, April 3: Pro-government militia forces killed 20 suspected Taliban in a new offensive in southern Afghanistan Thursday while US warplanes pounded extremists holed up nearby, an official and the US...
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India warned against pre-emptive strike
ISLAMABAD, April 3: Pakistan on Thursday warned India of grave consequences if it tried any “misadventure” in the name of pre-emptive military action....
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Investment policy to continue: President
KARACHI, April 3: President Pervez Musharraf has reassured the investors’ community about the continuity of the government’s economic policies....
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Six Palestinians killed, 1,000 expelled
 GAZA CITY, April 3: Israel stepped up its operations in Palestinian territories on Thursday, killing six people in a helicopter and...
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Straw urges political process on Kashmir
NEW DELHI, April 3: British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has asked India and Pakistan to resolve the Kashmir issue by a political process even as he urged Islamabad to help curb...
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Europe-US differences remain unresolved
BRUSSELS, April 3: US Secretary of State Colin Powell and European Union foreign ministers failed on Thursday to resolve transatlantic differences over post-war Iraq, with...
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Ex-CM cleared of corruption charge
RAWALPINDI, April 3: The Rawalpindi Bench of Lahore High Court on Thursday acquitted former NWFP chief minister Sardar Mehtab Ahmad Khan Abbasi, clearing him of corruption charge....
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Helicopter, fighter shot down; 7 killed
WASHINGTON, April 3: Iraq shot down a US Navy F/A-18 Hornet with a surface-to-air missile, military officials said....
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Parliament may decide judges’ age issue: LHC
LAHORE, April 3: The Lahore High Court observed on Thursday that the superior court judges’ superannuation age extension issue should be left to the discretion of parliament to decide its ultimate...
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US Congress okays $1bn debt write-off
ISLAMABAD, April 3: The United States has, at long last, decided to write off $1 billion debt owed to it by Pakistan. A signing ceremony to formalize this write-off will be...
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Naseer new Hizb commander
SRINAGAR, April 3: Occupied Kashmir’s dominant group Hizbul Mujahideen on Thursday announced a replacement for their chief commander who was killed a day earlier by security forces....
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New Delhi threat to be thwarted, says Jamali
ISLAMABAD, April 3: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali said on Thursday any misadventure in the garb of a pre-emptive strike by India would be met with full force by the...
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Badar freed, leaves for Larkana
LAHORE, April 3: Pakistan People’s Party’s Jehangir Badar was released from Camp Jail here on Thursday, after his counsel furnished the court with two bail bonds of Rs1 million each....
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UN must lead rehabilitation: Schroeder
BERLIN, April 3: German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said Thursday that the United Nations must lead the post-war rehabilitation of Iraq despite bitter differences over the conflict....
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Deal for sale of Mushak to be finalized soon
RIYADH, April 3: The negotiations for the sale of Super Mushak aircraft to Saudi Arabia are in an advanced stage and will be finalized soon, according to Pakistan Ambassador Admiral (retd)...
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US made triple mistake, says French PM
PARIS, April 3: French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin said on Thursday the United States made a moral, political and strategic mistake by starting war in Iraq....
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Rumsfeld rules out any deal to end war
WASHINGTON, April 3: A grim US Defnece Secretary Donald Rumsfeld rejected on Thursday any effort by other countries to broker an end to the Iraq war by allowing President Saddam Hussein...
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