US troops again fire on crowd: four killed: Iraqis demand real freedom
 MOSUL, April 16: At least four people were killed and several others wounded on Wednesday by gunshots near the governorate buildings...
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Parliament can work without opposition: Shujaat rejects pressure for changes in LFO
LAHORE, April 16: A deep cleavage between the ruling party and the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal on the issue of the LFO widened further on Wednesday when the PML-Q president Chaudhry Shujaat Husain...
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EU welcomes 10 more members
 ATHENS, April 16: Leaders from 10 eastern European and Mediterranean states on Wednesday signed a historic treaty setting the....
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‘Pakistani troops target Indians’
NEW DELHI, April 16: Pakistani troops were reported on Wednesday to be targeting India’s “forward defence locations” in Kashmir as verbal exchanges between their senior officials refused to abate, with Indian...
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Palestinians call Abbas’ arrest illegal, seek release
GAZA CITY, April 16: The Palestinian leadership on Wednesday slammed as “illegal” the arrest by US forces in Baghdad of Palestinian radical chief Abu Abbas, the mastermind behind the 1985 hijacking...
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Arab envoys move to get Mideast free of WMDs
UNITED NATIONS, April 16: Accusing the United States of pursuing the Israeli agenda in the Middle East in threatening sanctions against Syria, Arab diplomats on Tuesday sought a UN Security Council...
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Reforms to help create jobs, says Shaukat
WASHINGTON, April 16: Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz, who returns home on Wednesday after attending more than two dozen meetings in five days, has said the government’s economic reforms...
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Armitage, Rocca coming on peace mission
ISLAMABAD, April 16: US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and Assistant Secretary of State Christina Rocca will both be coming to Pakistan next month for consultations with the government, foreign...
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Iraqi boy undergoes surgery
KUWAIT CITY, April 16: A 12-year-old Iraqi boy who lost both arms, suffered extensive burns and was orphaned when a US missile hit his Baghdad home underwent surgery Wednesday, hours after...
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Syria rejects US accusations: Sheltering Iraqi leaders
DAMASCUS, April 16: Syria on Wednesday again roundly rejected US accusations that it was harbouring members of the Iraqi regime on the run from the US-led coalition....
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Franks arrives in Baghdad
BAGHDAD, April 16: The commander of US-led forces in Iraq, Gen Tommy Franks, entered Baghdad for the first time on Wednesday after four weeks of war....
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Islamabad shocked at burning of Quran library
ISLAMABAD, April 16: Pakistan on Wednesday expressed “shock” at the burning of the Holy Quran library in Baghdad and the destruction of priceless treasures of the national archives and demanded the...
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Iran not to defend Syria, says Khatami
 TEHRAN, April 16: Iran will not defend neighbouring Syria militarily against the United States, Iranian President Mohammad Khatami said on Wednesday....
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Hurriyat calls for two-day strike
SRINAGAR, April 16: Politicians in occupied Kashmir on Wednesday called for dialogue to resolve the five-decade Kashmir dispute, urging Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to make “peace moves” during his visit...
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Chalabi returns to Baghdad
BAGHDAD, April 16: Pro-American Iraqi politician Ahmad Chalabi returned to Baghdad on Wednesday on his first visit to the city since the overthrow of the monarchy in 1958, an adviser said....
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Bush seeks end to Iraqi sanctions
SAINT LOUIS (USA), April 16: US President George W. Bush called on Wednesday for the United Nations to lift sanctions on Iraq now that Saddam Hussein regime has “passed into history.”...
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Nato to take over Afghan peacekeeping force
BRUSSELS, April 16: Nato agreed on Wednesday to take over command of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan this summer, an unprecedented step for the alliance....
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Karzai due next week
ISLAMABAD, April 16: Afghan President Hamid Karzai is scheduled to arrive here next week on a one-day state visit....
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Blix to address UNSC on 22nd
VIENNA, April 16: The chief United Nations weapons inspector, Hans Blix, is to address the UN Security Council on April 22 about the possibility of renewing the search for any weapons...
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Four killed in Valley
SRINAGAR, April 16: Indian troops gunned down two Mujahideen in Kashmir, as freedom fighters overnight murdered a constable and a man they suspected to be a police spy, officials said on...
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