US concedes it needs UN help: Multinational force for Iraq proposed
WASHINGTON, Sept 3: Conceding that the United States needed international community’s help in Iraq, President George Bush shifted strategy on Wednesday and sought to give the United Nations a larger role...
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Musharraf rules out freezing N-programme: Assistance to Iran denied
ISLAMABAD, Sept 3: President Gen Pervez Musharraf said on Wednesday that the country’s nuclear programme had “matured” and there was no...
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269 Indians to be released today
KARACHI, Sept 3: Pakistan has agreed to release 269 Indian fishermen detained by coastal authorities for having strayed into the country’s maritime limits in the Arabian Sea....
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Shots fired at UK mission; Iran recalls ambassador
TEHRAN, Sept 3: Shots were fired at the British embassy here on Wednesday, further straining relations between London and Tehran, just hours after Iran’s ambassador to Britain was recalled....
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India to buy 66 British Hawk jets
NEW DELHI, Sept 3: India on Wednesday cleared a $1.7 billion deal to buy 66 British Aerospace (BAe) Hawk Advance Jet Trainers (AJTs), ending more than two decades of uncertainty over...
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25 army helicopters land at Bannu
PESHAWAR, Sept 3: About 25 army helicopters landed at the Bannu airport on Wednesday amid reports of intrusion into Pakistan’s tribal territory by Afghan troops....
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Super-7 test flight termed successful
BEIJING, Sept 3: Super-7 (JF-17) fighter aircraft, a joint venture of Pakistan and China, was successfully tested in Sichuan province, said Chinese sources on Wednesday....
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‘Social growth remains poor’
WASHINGTON, Sept 3: Pakistan’s economy has grown much more than other low-income countries, but the country’s social progress lagged behind its economic growth, says the World Bank annual report released on...
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Eight killed in Valley
JAMMU, Sept 3: Two Indian policemen were among eight people killed in occupied Kashmir on Wednesday....
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Anti-terror war to go on for years, says Faisal
ISLAMABAD, Sept 3: Interior Minister Makhdoom Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat on Wednesday denied the presence of Osama bin Laden in the country....
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Govt-MMA talks tomorrow
LAHORE, Sept 3: The MMA and the government will re-open their dialogue on the LFO at the residence of Senator S.M. Zafar here on Friday....
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‘Key Taliban leaders besieged in Afghanistan’
WASHINGTON, Sept 3: US Special Forces and aircraft are engaged in a major offensive in Afghanistan in a bid to kill or capture senior Taliban leaders, reports say here on Wednesday....
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Coup plotters offering bribe to officers: Arroyo
MANILA, Sept 3: Remnants of a failed July coup attempt are attempting to bribe military officials into joining a new plot against the Philippine government, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and top...
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Palestinian premier threatens to quit
 RAMALLAH, Sept 3: Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas will quit if parliament fails to back him in a power struggle with President Yasser Arafat by granting him new powers to take...
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OIC states to boost economic cooperation
ALMATY, Kazakhstan, Sept 3: Organization of Islamic Countries’ finance ministers on Wednes day expressed determination to increase economic cooperation between the Muslim countries....
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N-programme Islamabad accused of helping Tehran
WASHINGTON, Sept 3: The International Atomic Energy Commission has evidence that Pakistan supplied Iran critical technology and parts for gas centrifuges that can be used to enrich uranium, the Washington Post...
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