Cabinet backs president, PM’s efforts to end crisis: Print media allowed to launch TV channels
ISLAMABAD, July 12: The cabinet on Saturday extended its support to President Gen Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali in their efforts to resolve the deadlock with the...
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MMA ready to accept uniform till Nov 2004
ISLAMABAD, July 12: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal on Wednesday expressed its willingness to accept President Pervez Musharraf as the chief of the army staff till Nov 2004 provided the dispute over the...
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It’s not an Islamic bomb: S. Arabia: Pakistan’s nuclear weapon
RIYADH, July 12: Prince Naef bin Ahmed Al-Saud, responsible for Saudi military planning, has dismissed the notion that Pakistan’s nuclear bomb was an Islamic bomb, saying that Saudi Arabia did not...
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Defence shield is for peace: Musharraf
TAXILA, July 12: President Gen Pervaiz Musharraf has said that Pakistan is a peace-loving country and has no aggressive designs against any state....
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CIA takes blame for Bush accusation on Iraqi nukes
WASHINGTON, July 12: The CIA has accepted blame for President Bush’s false claim that Iraq had tried to purchase uranium from Niger for making nuclear weapons....
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Democracy hinges on national consensus: Jamali
ISLAMABAD, July 12: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali said on Saturday that a broad-based national consensus was imperative for the survival and continuation of democratic system....
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Karachi’s outgoing phone links cut off
KARACHI, July 12: Pakistan Telecommunication Company’s national network developed a fault on Saturday evening, which cut off Karachi from the rest of the world and left thousands of mobile phones inoperative...
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Sahhaf will say things he never said before: TV
CAIRO, July 12: Iraq’s former information minister left Baghdad filled with “sadness and hope,” he said in an interview televised on Friday with an Arab station that plans to chronicle the...
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Chechnya blasts claim three lives
MOSCOW, July 12: Landmine blasts in separatist Chechnya killed three Russian soldiers and injured others early on Saturday, as Moscow said its forces had killed a prominent rebel leader during raids...
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Abbas new chairman of APHC
NEW DELHI, July 12: Maulana Abbas Ansari, who heads Ittehadul Muslimeen, was on Saturday elected as chairman of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference....
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Sharon seeks to sideline Arafat
 AL QUDS, July 12: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Saturday urged Europe to distance itself from Yasser Arafat, charging that the Palestinian leader is an obstacle to the peace process,...
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Afghanistan, Pakistan forces trade fire
JALALABAD, July 12: Troops of Afghanistan and Pakistan exchanged fire along the border on Saturday....
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10 get death sentence for Moroccan suicide attacks
CASABLANCA, July 12: Death sentences were handed down late Friday to 10 alleged members of a radical Islamic group which is suspected of having been involved in the May 16 suicide...
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US trooper killed in Iraq
ABU GHARIB (Iraq), July 12: At least one US soldier was killed and another was injured on Saturday in three separate incidents targeting the US forces in Iraq....
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Six killed in Kashmir violence
SRINAGAR, July 12: Eight Kashmiris, including five girl students, were injured on Saturday in a bomb explosion while six other people were killed in violence elsewhere in occupied Kashmir, police said....
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Legal wheat movement allowed, says Punjab
ISLAMABAD, July 12: Punjab Food Minister Chaudhary Muhammad Iqbal said on Saturday that there was no ban on inter-provincial movement of wheat....
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