Kasuri sees chances of Kashmir accord
NEW YORK, May 14: Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri on Wednesday expressed optimism over the resolution of the Kashmir dispute, saying that chances of an agreement between India and Pakistan were...
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New Delhi offers ’97 format for talks: Security and Kashmir top agenda
NEW DELHI, May 14: Indian Foreign Minister Yashwant Sinha has proposed a “six-plus-two” format for talks with Pakistan in which confidence-building measures and Kashmir will be discussed by foreign secretaries and...
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Campaign against illegal arms soon
RAWALPINDI, May 14: The government has decided to launch a campaign for the recovery of illegal arms in the next few weeks in tandem with strict enforcement of a ban on...
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US withdraws diplomats from S. Arabia
RIYADH, May 14: The United States ordered a reduction in its diplomatic presence in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday in the wake of Monday’s suicide bombings on housing compounds for expatriates....
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30 killed in Chechen suicide attack
MOSCOW, May 14: Thirty people were killed and 150 wounded in Chechnya on Wednesday when a woman suicide bomber blew herself up in the middle of an Eid-i-Milad function....
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Donors seek increase in allocations: Poverty reduction
ISLAMABAD, May 14: Pakistan has been urged by the international donor agencies and bilateral creditors to substantially increase budgetary allocations in the year 2003-04 for reducing poverty and narrowing social gaps....
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Israelis use children, women as shields
 JENIN, May 14: Israeli troops used Palestinian civilians, including women and young children, as human shields in an operation on Wednesday to capture wanted militants in the West Bank city of...
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India hints at joining gas pipeline project
ISLAMABAD, May 14: India has indicated to join $3.5 billion Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan (TAP) gas pipeline project provided Ashkabad guaranteed it would disconnect the whole system in case Islamabad disrupted supplies to New...
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Jamali reiterates Kashmir policy
ISLAMABAD, May 14: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali has said there is no change in Pakistan’s stand on the Kashmir issue and it will continue to extend moral, political and...
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No training camps in AJK, says Hizb
ISLAMABAD, May 14: Freedom fighters are getting training inside occupied Kashmir and there has never been any training camp in Azad Kashmir....
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Masood’s entry into AJK banned
MUZAFFARABAD, May 14: The government of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday prohibited Maulana Masood Azhar, leader of an outlawed religio-political group, from entering its territory, officials confirmed on Wednesday....
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Eid Miladun Nabi today
ISLAMABAD, May 14: Eid Milad-un-Nabi would be celebrated with solemnity and religious fervour throughout the country on Thursday....
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Equality a must for talks: Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, May 14: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday said that Pakistan would deal with India on the basis of “sovereign equality.”...
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Nine Iraqi children die in blast
BASRA, May 14: Nine Iraqi children were killed and seven wounded in the south of the country when unexploded ordnance they were playing with detonated, a UN spokesman said on Wednesday....
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Franks sued for war crimes in Belgian court
BRUSSELS, May 14: The US commander in Iraq, Gen Tommy Franks, was accused of war crimes on Wednesday in a Belgian lawsuit that has provoked stern warnings from Washington....
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MPs blame politicians for army rule
NEW DELHI, May 14: Visiting Pakistani parliamentarians on Wednesday blamed politicians for “inviting” army rule in the country, resulting in “mismanagement.”...
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Sinha, Powell discuss peace moves
MOSCOW, May 14: Indian Foreign Minister Yashwant Sinha met US Secretary of State Colin Powell in Moscow on Wednesday for talks on recent peace moves between India and Pakistan....
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Iraq resolution: US denies deal with Russia
MOSCOW, May 14: US Secretary of State Colin Powell said after talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday that Washington had yet to agree with Moscow on draft proposals to...
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