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Two US soldiers shot dead
KABUL/SPIN BOLDAK, Aug 31: Taliban fighters put up stiff resistance on Sunday as Afghan and US forces backed by artillery, jet fighters and attack helicopters continued to hunt hundreds of militants,...
20 army officers face probe: Links with Al Qaeda
ISLAMABAD, Aug 31: Over 20 armymen, including six to seven officers up to the rank of lieutenant colonel, are facing investigation in two different cases for their alleged links with Al...
Six die, 2 wounded in Indian shelling
MUZAFFARABAD, Aug 31: Five women and an infant were killed and two others wounded in southern Kotli district of Azad Kashmir on Sunday in unrelenting and indiscriminate Indian shelling, police said....
Canadian FM to discuss vital issues
ISLAMABAD, Aug 31: Canadian foreign minister Bill Graham, who is scheduled to arrive here on Thursday, will hold wide-ranging consultations with the Pakistan government, covering important bilateral and regional issues....
Oil prices go up
KARACHI, Aug 31: The Oil Companies Advisory Committee (OCAC) which met here on Sunday increased prices of various fuel products by 0.63 to 2.78 per cent....
US forces hunt for Saddam in Mosul
ARBIL, Aug 31: US forces backed by helicopters entered the al-Arabi neighbourhood in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Sunday, residents told AFP, adding that deposed president Saddam Hussein could...
Russia says N-talks highly meaningful
BEIJING, Aug 31: Russia’s top negotiator on North Korea said on Sunday the just-concluded six-nation talks on the North Korea nuclear crisis were “highly meaningful,” Chinese media said, despite the lack...
Kenya lifts ban on Mau Mau
NAIROBI, Aug 31: Kenya’s government has lifted a ban on the Mau Mau movement which spearheaded an uprising against British colonialists in Kenya in the 1950s, a minister said on Sunday....
14 killed in Nepal fighting
KATHMANDU, Aug 31: Nine Maoist rebels and five security personnel were killed on Sunday in separate clashes in Nepal, the deadliest since the guerillas broke a truce and walked out of...
US may set up paramilitary force in Iraq
WASHINGTON, Aug 31: The US is considering forming a paramilitary force in Iraq to increase security, following Friday’s car bomb attack at a mosque in Najaf in which over 100 people...
Robbers kill 4, loot Rs20m prize bonds
FAISALABAD, Aug 31: Dacoits shot dead two prize bond dealers and their two gunmen and took away Rs20 million prize bonds in Sanatpura, Jhang Bazaar, here on Sunday....
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Editor: Tahir Mirza
BAGHDAD, Aug 31: Anger and grief poured out onto the streets of Najaf on Saturday as Iraqis from around the country arrived to mourn the 129 people killed in Friday’s bombing,...
