Guerillas, US troops engage in street fight: 11 killed in Baghdad bomb explosion
BAGHDAD, Aug 7: Iraqi guerilla fighters fought a furious street battle with the US forces at a major shopping avenue in Baghdad that left one Iraqi dead and three US soldiers...
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Musharraf calls for massive relief work
 BADIN, Aug 7: President Gen Pervez Musharraf underlined the need for putting in massive efforts for relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction work in the rains and flood affected areas of Sindh....
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Commanders back COAS on uniform
ISLAMABAD, Aug. 7: Corps Commanders have unanimously expressed their confidence in the leadership of President Gen Pervez Musharraf, endorsing his point of view that no timeframe could be given for the...
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Noorani hopeful of talks’ success
ISLAMABAD, Aug 7: The night-long talks between the MMA and the president’s negotiating team were concluded on a positive note early Thursday morning as the MMA chief appeared hopeful of an...
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Adulterators likely to get life term: Loan recovery from affected farmers deferred
ISLAMABAD, Aug 7: The cabinet on Thursday announced that laws would be amended to award 25-year life imprisonment to those involved in the adulteration of medicines, food and beverages....
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No headway in talks: Qazi
LAHORE, Aug 7: MMA vice-president Qazi Husain Ahmad says the religious parties’ alliance and the ruling PML-Q are sticking to their respective positions on all important issues of the LFO and...
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Two Indian troops killed in Srinagar
SRINAGAR, Aug 7: A grenade thrown by suspected freedom fighters killed two Indian troops and injured six others on Thursday in the first attack in more than three months in occupied...
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Six Afghan soldiers die in Taliban attack
KABUL, Aug 7: Six Afghan soldiers and a US aid group’s Afghan driver were killed on Thursday in an attack by suspected Taliban on a police office in southwestern Afghanistan, near...
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Getting WMDs un-Islamic: Iran
TEHRAN, Aug 7: Iran denied any intention of acquiring weapons of mass destruction, calling them un-Islamic, “inhuman and immoral,” the official IRNA new agency quoted foreign ministry as saying on Thursday....
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Norway cancels invitation to Benazir
ISLAMABAD, Aug 7: Former Prime Minister and Chairperson Pakistan People’s Party Benazir Bhutto, who was slated to be the keynote speaker at a seminar in Norway, has had her invitation cancelled...
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Indian HC to present papers tomorrow
ISLAMABAD, Aug 7: Indian High Commissioner-designate Shivnarayan Menon will present his credentials to President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Saturday, foreign ministry spokesman Masood Khan said on Thursday....
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KSE sets records
KARACHI, Aug 7: All records both in terms of single-session volume and the index were broken on the Karachi Stock Exchange on Thursday on massive buying in all the pivotals aided...
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