Jakarta car-bomb explosion kills 14
 JAKARTA, Aug 5: At least 14 people were killed and 149 others injured after a powerful car bomb blast ripped through a luxury hotel and other nearby buildings here on Tuesday,...
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Kabul seeks more financial support: Negative list will be discarded, says Islamabad
ISLAMABAD, Aug 5: Afghanistan wants Islamabad to extend sufficient financial support and facilities, much the same way New Delhi has offered to Kabul, to get in return a fair treatment, especially...
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Palestinians pull out of talks: Row over release of prisoners
 JERUSALEM, Aug 5: Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday called off a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, saying Israel was not doing enough to implement a US-backed peace...
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Swiss judge convicts Benazir, Asif
ISLAMABAD, Aug 5: A Swiss judge has found former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, her husband Asif Ali Zardari and a Swiss lawyer guilty of money laundering and receiving bribes from two...
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Benazir, Asif to file appeal against sentence: Naek
 KARACHI, Aug 5: Ms Benazir Bhutto and Mr Asif Ali Zardari will appeal against the order of a Swiss investigating judge awarding suspended six-month sentences against them....
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Nawaz couldn’t have impeached me: Leghari
ISLAMABAD: Former president and Millat Party chief Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari says both former prime ministers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif with whom he worked sought to usurp power beyond the...
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Arab League rules out troops for Iraq
CAIRO, Aug 5: Arab foreign ministers ruled out a US request to send troops to stabilise Iraq at a meeting here on Tuesday and discussed ways to end its occupation, Arab...
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FC man dies in rocket attack
SUKKUR, Aug 5: One of the Frontier Constabulary troops was killed while four others injured in an attack on an FC check-post on the Sindh-Balochistan border in the jurisdiction of the...
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President not happy with some ministers
ISLAMABAD, Aug 6: President Gen Pervez Musharraf is not satisfied with the performance of some federal ministers and has conveyed his feelings to Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali in this...
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Dhaka-Agartala bus service pact ratified
DHAKA, Aug 5: Bangladesh on Monday ratified an agreement to begin a bus service between Dhaka and Agartala, capital of India’s north-eastern state of Tripura....
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Balochistan governor resigns
QUETTA, Aug 5: Balochistan Governor Lt-Gen (retd) Abdul Quadir resigned on Tuesday. No reason was given for the move....
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US welcomes Pakistan help
WASHINGTON, Aug 5: Gen Richard Myers, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on Tuesday that Pakistan was providing tremendous support to the United States in tracing the Taliban...
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Hurriyat team meets Pakistan, US diplomats
NEW DELHI, Aug 5: A three-member delegation of All Party Hurriyat Conference led by its new Chairman Maulana Abbas Ansari on Tuesday met diplomats from Pakistan, Iran and US with an...
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Laloo keen to visit Pakistan
NEW DELHI, Aug 5: A maverick Indian politician, whose mere presence evokes laughter in parliament, Tuesday moved to retrieve his passport from the police to travel next week to Pakistan with...
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88 Iranian pilgrims die in Iraq
TEHRAN, Aug 5: At least 88 pilgrims from Iran have died on unauthorised pilgrimages to Iraq and all but 12 of them have died from hunger or thirst, newspapers quoted Iran’s...
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Five killed in Kashmir copter crash
SRINAGAR, Aug 5: A helicopter crashed early on Tuesday near Srinagar, killing four Hindu pilgrims and the pilot and injuring another pilgrim, police said....
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