Position on LFO firmed up: Musharraf, Jamali discuss situation
ISLAMABAD/LAHORE, Sept 18: President Gen Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali held a meeting on Thursday to firm up the government’s stance on the Legal Framework Order....
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No compromise on any issue: MMA: Opposition senators criticize govt policies
ISLAMABAD, Sept 18: The MMA will chalk out a new strategy if the government failed to return to the negotiating table within the stipulated time and with a nod from President...
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14 Kashmiri fighters gunned down
SRINAGAR, Sept 18: Violence continued in occupied Kashmir on Thursday with the fatal shootings of 14 Mujahideen by Indian soldiers and the death of seven more people in separate incidents....
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Constitutional matters can’t be resolved soon: President to accept consensus package, says Shujaat
ISLAMABAD, Sept 18: PML president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain said on Thursday President Gen Pervez Musharraf had assured the party that he would accept any constitutional package prepared with consensus....
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Opposition stages walkout in Senate
ISLAMABAD, Sept 18: Protesting opposition parties stormed out of a hurriedly called Senate session on Thursday, turning it into an all-ruling coalition affair during which a government minister crossed swords with...
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Hamas man killed in raid on camp
TEL AVIV, Sept 18: A member of Hamas’s armed wing was killed on Thursday in a Gaza refugee camp in a rare ground operation by Israeli forces....
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Emergency UN session on Israeli threat today
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 18: The UN General Assembly will hold an emergency session on Friday on the Middle East after Israel’s threat to expel Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat from the West...
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Four killed in Ghazni blast
GHAZNI, Afghanistan, Sept 18: Four people were killed when a car bomb exploded in front of the home of a senior police officer in eastern Afghanistan, a security official said on...
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Workers reject PML bodies’ dissolution
ISLAMABAD, Sept 18: The unification of Muslim League factions has triggered differences within the now defunct Q-League as its leaders and workers have rejected the dissolution of the party’s general council,...
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India to free 8 Pakistanis by Sept 30
NEW DELHI, Sept 18: The government informed the Supreme Court on Thursday that it had passed release orders of eight Pakistani prisoners with five others, providing them consular access....
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Eight US soldiers feared dead in Iraq
 KHALDIYAH, Sept 18: A US convoy took heavy casualties in an ambush here on Thursday, as Iraq erupted in a spate of anti-US attacks after the release of another purported message...
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Hurricane wreaks havoc in US
 MANTEO (North Carolina), Sept 18: Hurricane Isabel screamed ashore in North Carolina on Thursday with furious winds and torrential rains that forced evacuations throughout the US mid-Atlantic region, cancelled nearly 1,000...
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Saddam not involved in 9/11 attacks, says Bush
WASHINGTON, Sept 18: President George Bush has conceded for the first time that ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with the Sept 11, 2001 terror attacks....
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Muslims in US urged to register their votes
WASHINGTON, DC, Sept 18: Muslim activists have formed a new organization called Muslim Electorates Council of America to encourage US Muslims to register their votes....
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