ARD wants timeframe for joining talks: Fahim, Hashmi again invited
ISLAMABAD, Aug 1: Parliamentary leader of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) in National Assembly Qazi Hussain Ahmed on Friday contacted the ARD leadership and briefed them about the ongoing talks with the...
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Powell warns Israel on security barrier
AL QUDS, Aug 1: US Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Friday Israel’s security barrier in the West Bank could undermine a peace “road map”, as Israeli troops fired rubber...
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MMA tells govt to finalize deal before session: Deadlock over LFO persists
LAHORE, Aug 1: The deadlock between the government and the MMA on the Legal Framework Order persists as both sides are sticking to their respective points of view on some of...
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Govt not to accept MMA demand: Retirement of judges
ISLAMABAD, Aug 1: The government will not accept the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal’s (MMA) demand to relieve those judges of the superior courts who have attained the age of superannuation, but may agree...
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Move to stop US aid will fail, hopes Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, August 1: The government is hopeful that the attempts of pro-Indian lobbies in the US Congress to block the $3 billion aid package for Pakistan will be defeated....
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HBFC plans new scheme for govt employees
KARACHI, Aug 1: The House Building Finance Corporation (HBFC) will launch a house finance scheme for government employees on soft-term basis....
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New procedure for US visa announced
ISLAMABAD, Aug 1: The US State Department’s recently announced new procedures for processing of applications for a non-immigrant visa for travel to the United States, took effect from Friday, August 1....
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Key Iraqi oil pipeline blown up
BAGHDAD, Aug 1: Saboteurs blew up a key oil pipeline in northern Iraq, clashes left four Iraqis dead and three US soldiers lightly wounded and yet another tape purporting to be...
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Funds traced to Pakistan: FBI: Attacks on US landmarks
WASHINGTON, Aug 1: A senior official of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation has informed US lawmakers that funding for the Sept 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States was...
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Noor back home with praise, well wishes
 LAHORE, Aug 1: Two-and-a-half-year-old Noor Fatima, who has come to symbolize a new thaw between Pakistan and India since she travelled on the first bus service revived after 18 months to...
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Saddam betrayed by aides: daughter
 DUBAI, Aug 1: Saddam Hussein’s eldest daughter, Raghad, on Friday accused his aides of “betraying” the former Iraqi president and causing the fall of Baghdad to US-led forces in April....
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RAW active in Indian consulates: Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Aug 1: Pakistan on Friday reiterated its charge that Indian consulates in two Afghan border provinces were involved in hostile activities, rejecting New Delhi’s complaints about the Pakistan media reports...
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Former AJK president laid to rest
 MUZAFFARABAD, Aug 1: Veteran Kashmiri leader and former AJK President Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim Khan was laid to rest at Rawalakot here on Friday....
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Punjab CM assures help to rain-hit people
BADIN, Aug 1: The Punjab chief minister, Chaudhary Pervaiz Illahi, on Friday assured all support and help to mitigate the suffering of the people of Sindh passing through a crisis due...
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Amartya Sen slams Indian defence budget
NEW DELHI, Aug 1: Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on Friday slammed India’s defence budget for harming the country’s human development programmes and said last year’s violence in Gujarat was a further...
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US troops kill four Taliban
BAGRAM AIR BASE, Aug 1: US forces killed up to four Taliban or Al Qaeda fighters during a clash in southern Afghanistan while Afghan troops unearthed a massive ammunition dump, a...
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Delay in NA session urged
ISLAMABAD, Aug 1: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal president Maulana Shah Ahmed Noorani has asked the government not to summon the NA session till the conclusion of the talks on the Legal Framework Order....
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Indian PM vows to build temple
NEW DELHI, Aug 1: Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, who recently said peace with Pakistan was his last wish before retiring from politics, added a controversial temple in Ayodhya to...
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Karzai wants joint fight against terror
KABUL, Aug 1: Afghan President Hamid Karzai has underlined the need for Afghanistan and Pakistan to fight terrorism together, “to fight it in earnest to finish this menace.”...
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35 killed in Russian suicide attack
NAZRAN (Russia), Aug 1: A vehicle packed with explosives blew up outside a hospital in a Russian region bordering Chechnya on Friday, killing at least 35 people and destroying the building....
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