Pakistan, Turkey agree to promote trade
 ISLAMABAD, June 16: President Pervez Musharraf and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan on Monday discussed regional and international issues and the role of the Organization of Islamic Conference in resolving the...
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Rs90bn Sindh budget presented: Opposition stages noisy protest; 15pc rise in salaries, pensions
 KARACHI, June 16: Amidst an unprecedented opposition uproar, with a woman member making a bonfire of the budgetary documents, the Sindh Finance Minister Syed Sardar Ahmad tabled on Monday a provincial...
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Rs51.5 billion NWFP budget unveiled
PESHAWAR, June 16: The NWFP government on Monday presented a Rs51.5 billion current revenue receipts budget for the financial year 2003-04, which involves an in-built revenue shortfall of over Rs11.65 billion...
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President’s visit to cement ties: FO
ISLAMABAD, June 16: During President Pervez Musharraf’s four-nation US and European tour, Pakistan will seek to build and consolidate future-looking inter-locking relationships with its western allies binding “our destinies together as...
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EU backs use of force against states having WMDs
LUXEMBOURG, June 16: The European Union, in a significant shift towards US thinking, said on Monday use of force might be necessary where diplomacy failed to address threats from weapons of...
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Indo-Russia talks focus on S. Asia peace
NEW DELHI, June 16: Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov held talks here on Monday on issues ranging from Iraq to recent peace moves between South Asian nuclear rivals India and Pakistan,...
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SCBA Lahore office sealed, says Bar
LAHORE, June 16: Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Hamid Khan claimed on Monday that the Lahore registry office of the association had been sealed after its Islamabad office closure....
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Blair, Musharraf to discuss Kashmir
LONDON, June 16: British Prime Minister Tony Blair is set to press Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf during a meeting in London on Tuesday to clamp down on extremists and encourage Pakistan...
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Palestinian ceasefire talks fails
GAZA CITY, June 16: Palestinian militants ended talks with an Egyptian delegation here Monday with no breakthrough on a ceasefire with Israel but progress in forging a common front toward the...
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President due in UK today
ISLAMABAD, June 16: President Gen Pervez Musharraf was due to leave on a four-nation visit in the early hours of Tuesday to further consolidate and expand ties with these countries....
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Islamabad to join Asean forum
PHNOM PENH, June 16: Pakistan is to be admitted to the Asean Regional Forum (ARF) next year, group’s current chairman said on Monday, bringing the Islamic state into a common security...
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Protest in Kashmir as troops kill Imam
 SRINAGAR, June 16: Indian troops on Sunday night killed a Kashmiri Imam of mosque and his son who were mistaken as rebels, leading to a huge anti-government protest, police and witnesses...
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Meeting of Saarc secretaries on July 9
ISLAMABAD, June 16: Foreign secretaries of the seven-nation South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) will meet in Nepal on July 9 for an extraordinary session of the standing committee of...
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Dialogue expected next month
ISLAMABAD, June 16: Pakistan and India are expected to resume dialogue in July this year to resolve all their outstanding issues, including the core issue of Kashmir, peacefully....
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China tram kills 14 coal miners
BEIJING, June 16: Fourteen coal miners were killed when a steel rope controlling the descent of a 25-degree slope came free from the tram car in the Jianghu coal mine in...
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Indian MPs arrive today
LAHORE, June 16: Ten Indian parliamentarians will arrive here on Tuesday via Wagah on an eight-day peace mission that includes high-level meetings with politicians, lawmakers, businessmen and government officials....
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3 countries to sign Afghan road deal
TASHKENT, June 16: Uzbek President Islam Karimov goes to Tehran this week to sign an agreement with his Afghan and Iranian counterparts on building a road from his landlocked Central Asian...
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Suu Kyi’s detention discussed
 PHNOM PENH, June 16: Cracking down on militant violence and unprecedented criticism of the lack of democratic progress in member state Myanmar dominated the start on Monday of a meeting of...
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