Talks ruled out until PM calls heads’ meeting: Opposition plans new mode of protest
 ISLAMABAD, June 9: The combined opposition in parliament on Monday announced that it would not resume talks with the...
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Pakistan hopes for dialogue timeframe
ISLAMABAD, June 9: Pakistan on Monday urged India to “be more intense, more purposeful and in a timeframe” in advancing towards proposed peace talks between the two countries....
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Planning Commission to monitor projects
ISLAMABAD, June 9: The government has decided to empower the planning commission to conduct physical inspection of development projects across the country and divert allocations of...
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‘Remote areas’ uplift a priority’
ISLAMABAD, June 9: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali on Monday said his government was paying special attention to the development of remote and far-flung areas....
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Rs53bn subsidy to power utilities draws ADB’s flak
ISLAMABAD, June 9: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has expressed its concern over the Rs53 billion subsidy offered to Wapda and the KESC in the new budget, saying the decision would...
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Israel begins dismantling uninhabited outposts
NEVE EREZ (West Bank), June 9: Israeli troops began dismantling settler outposts in the West Bank on Monday, destroying empty caravans and a water tower as part of its obligations under...
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Islamabad will lose ‘proxy war’: Advani
WASHINGTON, June 9: India’s Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani warned Pakistan on Monday that it would be defeated in the 14-year-old proxy war in Kashmir the same way it had...
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Democracy: US policy tested in Pakistan
WASHINGTON, June 9: The opposition-government conflict in Pakistan is viewed in Washington also as a test for the US policy of encouraging democracy in the Muslim world....
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Lawyers not allowed to enter SC building
 ISLAMABAD, June 9: Lawyers who had assembled here from all over the country to hold a convention on the LFO were on Monday barred...
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US soldier killed in Iraq
BAGHDAD, June 9: A US soldier was killed by Iraqis pretending to need urgent medical treatment at a checkpoint in the western town of Al Qaim, hard by the Syrian border,...
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18 held; strike observed in Quetta
QUETTA, June 9: The police have arrested 18 suspects in overnight raids conducted in different areas of the provincial capital in connection with the killing of the police recruits....
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Masud Khan new FO spokesman
ISLAMABAD, June 9: Masud Khan, director-general of the East Asia and Pacific division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has suceeded Aziz Khan, designated as high commissioner to India, as foreign...
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Eight die in bus-trailer collision
LAHORE, June 9: Eight people, including two women, were killed and 39 others injured on Monday in a head-on collision between a bus and a trailer on the Multan Road in...
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Violence in Kashmir claims 10 lives
SRINAGAR, June 9: An Indian constable on Monday shot dead two of his colleagues in a dispute before being killed by another policeman at a camp in occupied Kashmir, where seven...
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India allows businessmen’s visit
NEW DELHI, June 9: India’s foreign ministry has cleared the visit of a delegation of Pakistani businessmen, officials said Monday....
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North Korea admits making N-weapons
SEOUL, June 9: North Korea admitted publicly for the first time on Monday that it was seeking nuclear weapons and blamed “hostile”....
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