Assemblies will complete term, says Musharraf
LAHORE, Sept 5: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Friday said he was keen to strengthen the democratic system in the country and held out an assurance that assemblies would complete their...
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Benazir’s ‘violation’ of oath to be probed: ARD wants generals’ trial for treason
ISLAMABAD, Sept 5: Amid rising tensions in the National Assembly, the government said on Friday it would probe whether former prime minister Benazir Bhutto had violated her oath of office by...
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Jamali’s visit no indicator for Washington support
WASHINGTON, Sept 5: Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali’s visit to Washington and his subsequent meeting with President George W. Bush does not mean that the United States was supporting one side...
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CDWP okays Rs70bn uplift projects
ISLAMABAD, Sept 5: The Planning Commission’s Central Development Working Party on Friday approved 40 development projects worth Rs70 billion, including the Rs32.4 billion Kachhi Canal Project....
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Six die as stand-off continues in Valley
SRINAGAR, Sept 5: Six people including a pro-India politician were killed in occupied Kashmir, where a forest gun-battle between Mujahideen and Indian troops entered a fourth day on Friday, police said....
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US willing to adjust new UN resolution
WASHINGTON, Sept 5: The United States is willing to adjust its proposed new UN resolution on Iraq to address the concerns of countries like France and Germany but will not budge...
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LFO: Lawyers to stage long march
LAHORE, Sept 5: Lawyers on Friday gave call for a long march against the Legal Framework Order on Oct 13 to be followed by a national convention in Islamabad....
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Troops manoeuvring in Bannu concludes
PESHAWAR, Sept 5: Army troops on Friday concluded their manoeuvring after two days in the Bannu district, officials said....
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‘US troops pursuing fleeing Taliban’
DAYCHOPAN, Sept 5: Hundreds of US troops were Friday hunting down fleeing Taliban fighters in the mountains of southeast Afghanistan after a bloody offensive left around 100 militants dead, a US...
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Quick settlement of LFO issue sought
LAHORE, Sept 5: The government and the MMA teams, which met here on Friday to resume their talks on the LFO, agreed on settling the issue “as early as possible because...
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Russia backs France, Germany
TASHKENT, Sept 5: Russia joined France and Germany on Friday in rejecting a US draft resolution seeking broader international help in Iraq, saying it needed “further, very serious work”....
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Hamas commander killed in West Bank
NABLUS, West Bank, Sept 5: Israeli commandos killed a West Bank commander of the militant group Hamas in a raid on Friday that could deal a blow to reformist Palestinian Prime...
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Sharon’s tour to India stirs Muslim fears
 NEW DELHI, Sept 5: A visit by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon next week is stirring fears among India’s minority Muslims that the two countries are forging a new and potentially...
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Pakistan to release 16 Sikh youths
ISLAMABAD, Sept 5: Pakistan will release 16 Indian Sikh illegal immigrants in a goodwill gesture aimed at bolstering the peace process between the two countries, the foreign ministry said on Friday....
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Defence Day today
ISLAMABAD, Sept 5: The nation will mark the Defence Day on Saturday and pay homage to the Shuhada who rendered supreme sacrifices in defending the motherland against the enemy aggression during...
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Gen Aziz in BD on 5-day visit
DHAKA, Sept 5: Senior Pakistani military general Muhammad Aziz Khan arrived in Bangladesh Friday on a five-day goodwill visit, the defence ministry said....
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