Four countries offer help to fight terrorism
ISLAMABAD, Sept 4: As many as four countries France, Germany, UK and China have offered financial and technical assistance to Pakistan to combat terrorism....
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Back me or sack me, Abbas asks MPs
RAMALLAH, Sept 4: Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, struggling to win more power from Yasser Arafat and push the roadmap for peace with Israel, on Thursday called on lawmakers to back...
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France, Germany reject US proposal
DRESDEN (Germany), Sept 4: France and Germany on Thursday rejected a US proposal for a UN resolution seeking international help in Iraq, saying the proposals did not yield enough responsibility to...
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PM supports Thal, Kalabagh projects: Sui gas firms to be told to employ locals,
DADU, Sept 4: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali on Thursday said he had never opposed Kalabagh dam ...
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Pakistan not to indulge in arms race: ministry
ISLAMABAD, Sept 4: Pakistan will never indulge in an arms race and it could not spare the amount of $9 billion for defence purchases....
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124 Taliban killed in Zabul operation
KANDAHAR, Sept 4: A major joint Afghan-US offensive against hundreds of suspected Taliban dug into the mountains of southeast Afghanistan has finished with around 124 militants killed, Afghan officials said Thursday....
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15 dead as van plunges into ravine
TIMERGARA, Sept 4: Fifteen persons, including three women, were killed and 10 others were injured after a passenger van fell into a ravine near Sandal area of Wari town in the...
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18 die in Kashmir violence
SRINAGAR, Sept 4: Eighteen people including 14 Mujahideen have been killed in the latest clashes in occupied Kashmir where violence has surged recently, threatening peace moves between India and Pakistan....
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‘Sale of Israeli radars to India will create strategic imbalance’
NEW DELHI/JERUSALEM, Sept 4: India aims to create strategic imbalance in South Asia as it races to close a deal with Israel worth more than $1 billion for an advanced airborne...
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Defence accord signed with China
KARACHI, Sept 4: A defence assistance protocol between the People’s Liberation Army and the Pakistan Armed Forces was signed on Thursday after a meeting between Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee chairman...
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Jamali to meet Bush on Oct 1
WASHINGTON, Sept 4: Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali will meet President George W. Bush at the White House on Oct 1, a few days after an expected meeting between President Gen...
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Mobilization of troops in tribal belt continues
PESHAWAR, Sept 4: Army troops and paramilitary forces continued their joint mobilization in North and South Waziristan tribal belt along the Afghan border on Thursday amid speculations of an impending operation...
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Bangladesh leader dies in bomb attack
DHAKA, Sept 4: A local leader of Bangladesh’s main opposition party was killed and another injured on Thursday in a bomb attack in a violence-hit southwestern Bangladesh city, police said....
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Russia may send troops to Iraq
MOSCOW, Sept 4: Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Thursday that Russia may send peacekeepers to Iraq as part of an international force, the Interfax news agency reported....
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