Musharraf wants package deal with Opposition: Various options in next round of talks
ISLAMABAD, July 29: President Gen Pervez Musharraf asked Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali and Pakistan Muslim League-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain here on Tuesday to strike a “package deal” with...
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Cooperation with MMA difficult: Nasrullah
LAHORE, July 29: The Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy (ARD) chief, Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan, said here on Tuesday that holding of a public meeting with the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal on Aug...
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Fazl calls upon ARD to join talks: LFO can’t be imposed on us
RAWALPINDI, July 29: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Tuesday asked the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy to join talks, adding their talks with the government were never a...
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12 more killed as rains continue
KARACHI, July 29: Karachi continued to receive intermittent showers on Tuesday with the death toll rising to at least 15 in the two days’ rains....
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Islamabad, Kabul to use satellite to end border dispute
PESHAWAR, July 29: Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to use Ground Positioning System (GPS) under the US aegis to work out the coordinates with the help of satellites and match it...
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Sharon rejects Bush’s concerns on security fence
WASHINGTON, July 29: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon insisted on Tuesday that construction would continue on a security fence snaking through the West Bank, despite sharp objections from the United States...
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Warlords creating fear in Afghanistan: HRW
NEW YORK, July 29: Afghan warlords and political strong men supported by the United States and other nations are creating a climate of fear in Afghanistan that is threatening efforts to...
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Gen Myers apprised of security concerns
ISLAMABAD, July 29: US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen Richard Myers arrived here on Tuesday for consultations with his Pakistani counterpart and senior officials in the military establishment....
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Water from Hub dam begins overflowing
KARACHI, July 29: Water from the Hub dam’s 30 square-mile long reservoir on Tuesday night started overflowing from its 6,020 feet long spillway towards Arabian Sea after crossing its full supply...
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US awaits reply from Pakistan: Troops for Iraq
WASHINGTON, July 29: Pakistan has not yet informed the United States whether it is sending troops to Iraq, US officials said on Tuesday....
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22 held in connection with bomb explosion
PESHAWAR, July 29: The political administration of North Waziristan Agency (NWA) has arrested 22 tribesmen in connection with a bomb explosion, which wounded eight people in the Miranshah bazaar on Sunday....
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Kashmiri group elects new leader
SRINAGAR, July 29: A group demanding Indian Kashmir’s merger with Pakistan elected a new leader overnight, an official said on Tuesday....
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Officials blamed for Sialkot shootout
LAHORE, July 29: In its initial report submitted to the Lahore High Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Hussain Chaudhry on the Sialkot jail incident, the fact-finding commission held the Sialkot Jail authorities...
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Probe report: Saudi FM arrives in Washington
WASHINGTON, July 29: The Saudi Foreign Minister, Saud al-Faisal, arrived here on Tuesday for an apparently unscheduled meeting with President Bush relating to the classified portion of a congressional inquiry report...
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Iraq, Syria resume rail links today
BAGHDAD, July 29: A Syrian freight train is due in Baghdad on Wednesday, the Iraqi rail company said on Tuesday, marking the resumption of rail links between the two countries broken...
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Myers says no change in US-India relations
NEW DELHI, July 29: India’s decision to reject Washington’s request to send troops to Iraq will not affect US relations, US Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Chairman General Richard B. Myers...
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Iraq Council opts for rotating presidency
BAGHDAD, July 29: Iraq’s US-appointed Governing Council agreed on Tuesday that the presidency of the self-rule body would rotate among nine of its members, ending two weeks of heated discussion over...
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Johny Walker dies at 79
 NEW DELHI, July 29: Bollywood’s legendary comedian Johny Walker, who acted in more than 300 films, died on Tuesday after entertaining audiences in the film-crazy South Asian subcontinent for over four...
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Vessel to lift oil from grounded tanker
KARACHI, July 29: A tanker from the United Arab Emirates will arrive here in the next two days to lift crude from a tanker that ran aground on Sunday night off...
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India rejects gas import through Pakistan
NEW DELHI, July 29: India rejected on Tuesday the possibility of imported natural gas with a pipeline running across Pakistan....
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