Three judges, 5 prisoners killed in Sialkot jail: Police action to free hostages ends in tragedy
 SIALKOT, July 25: Three civil judges and five prisoners were killed and two judges critically wounded inside the Sialkot district jail on Friday evening when police raided the prison to free...
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US pledges aid but no help on detainees: •Abbas meets Bush •Sharon offers pullback
WASHINGTON/TEL AVIV, July 25: US President George Bush pledged on Friday to boost economic ties with the Palestinian Authority and said he would dispatch his Treasury and Commerce secretaries to the...
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Shujaat, Pervaiz meet Musharraf : Focus on LFO negotiations
ISLAMABAD, July 25: Pakistan Muslim League-Q president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Ellahi met President Gen Pervez Musharraf here on Friday and discussed the “prevailing political environment...
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Rain lashes Thar; eight dead
HYDERABAD, July 25: At least eight persons were killed in rain-related incident in Hyderabad, Kotri, Mithi and Diplo as rain continued intermittently for 36 hours on Thursday and Friday....
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Dr Magsi and 32 others exonerated: Hyderabad carnage case
HYDERABAD, July 25: Chief of the Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party Dr Qadir Magsi and 32 other accused in the Hyderabad carnage case were acquitted on Friday in the Hyderabad carnage case...
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US report on 9/11 invites Saudi ire
RIYADH, July 25: Saudi Arabia has condemned the US Congressional Committee report, unveiled on Thursday, and which in some ways implicates the kingdom in the events of the 9/11. Twenty-eight of...
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Media shown bodies of Uday, Qusay
BAGHDAD, Iraq July 25: US military morticians and forensic pathologists on Friday showed reporters the bodies of Uday and Qusay Hussein and said each body contained more than 20 bullet wounds....
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Fazl hands Vajpayee’s message to Jamali
ISLAMABAD, July 25: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal secretary-general Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Friday delivered a message from Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali....
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US slaps sanctions on North Korea
WASHINGTON, July 25: The United States on Friday imposed new sanctions on the North Korean government after finding that an already punished firm in the country had continued to violate US...
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Infiltration continues, says Sinha
NEW DELHI, July 25: Pakisan’s links with “terrorism” have not ended, Indian Foreign Minister Yashwant Sinha has said, indicating that no meaningful talks with Islamabad were possible under the circumstances, according...
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ARD undecided on LFO talks participation
ISLAMABAD, July 25: The Alliance for Restoration of Democracy on Friday declined to confirm its participation in the Sunday’s government-opposition talks, instead setting a 24-hour deadline for the government to clarify...
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Housing loan scheme launched
KARACHI, July 25: Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz presided over the launching of National Bank of Pakistan’s ‘Saibaan’ (Shelter) housing scheme on Friday....
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Karzai invites President
KABUL, July 25: Afghan President Hamid Karzai has invited President Pervez Musharraf to Kabul, Afghan state media said on Friday....
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23 die in surge of Kashmir violence
SRINAGAR, July 25: Twenty-three people were killed, including 13 shot dead by Indian troops along the Line of Control, in a surge of violence on Friday and overnight in occupied Kashmir,...
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China says Indian troops crossed border
BEIJING, July 25: China said on Friday Indian reports that a Chinese military patrol had crossed their disputed frontier were wrong and that, in fact, Indian troops had crossed onto the...
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Japan MPs okay troop deployment for Iraq
 TOKYO, July 26: The Japanese parliament on Friday approved a bill paving the way for Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s government to deploy troops to Iraq....
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Dates for airlink talks soon
ISLAMABAD, July 25: Pakistan will be soon proposing to India dates in the last week of August or the first week of September for expert-level talks on resumption of airlinks and...
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Prison chief suspended
LAHORE, July 25: Acting IG Prisons Punjab Sarfraz Ahmad Mufti said on Friday night that he had suspended 13 Sialkot jail personnel, including superintendent Chaudhry Mohammad Sikandar and deputy superintendent....
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