MMA rejects govt package: 3 contentious clauses unresolved;mass
ISLAMABAD, Sept 23: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal on Tuesday rejected the draft constitutional proposals handed over to the alliance leadership by Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain last week, and decided to send a written...
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US slammed for bypassing UN over Iraq: Bush justifies action
 UNITED NATIONS, Sept 23: US President George Bush came under fire on Tuesday for bypassing the United Nations to invade Iraq as he tried to convince the world to share the...
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MMA splits as JUI-S parts ways
PESHAWAR, Sept 23: The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam faction of Maulana Sami-ul-Haq dissociated itself from the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal in the NWFP on Tuesday, giving first setback to the six-party alliance....
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Washington seeks new resolution on WMD
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 23: President George W. Bush asked the United Nations on Tuesday to adopt a resolution to prevent the spread of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons....
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India wants increase in diplomatic staff
NEW DELHI, Sept 23: India on Tuesday proposed to Pakistan an increase in the staff strength of the respective High Commissions in the two countries....
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Opposition MPs stage token hunger strike outside parliament
ISLAMABAD, Sept 23: The combined Opposition on Tuesday staged a token hunger strike outside the parliament building to protest against President Pervez Musharraf’s visit to the UN to represent Pakistan at...
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Hi-tech border monitoring system to be set up
ISLAMABAD, Sept 23: The government has decided to establish a Rs501 million hi-tech border monitoring system to link up Pakistan’s 20 border entry and exit points with a centralized system....
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Musharraf seeks UN resolution: Troops for Iraq
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 23: Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf has said that it would make him unpopular to deploy Pakistani troops in Iraq under present circumstances....
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Saudi policeman, 3 militants killed
RIYADH, Sept 23: At least one Saudi policeman and three militants were killed on Tuesday in a shootout at a hospital compound in the south of the kingdom, the latest in...
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Balochistan PA opposes setting up of cantonments
QUETTA, Sept 23: The Balochistan Assembly on Tuesday adopted a resolution against the establishment of cantonments in various areas of the province....
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US wants to facilitate Kashmir talks: FM
NEW YORK, Sept 23: US Secretary of State Colin Powell surprised the Pakistan delegation and media when he called on President Pervez Musharraf on Monday evening before a scheduled meeting with...
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Four more picked up from a seminary
KARACHI, Sept 23: Four more foreign students were picked up from Jamia Abu Bakr in Gulshan-i-Iqbal in a late night raid on Monday by the intelligence agencies....
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Israel will free 400 prisoners, says report
AL QUDS, Sept 23: Israel is to release about 400 Palestinian and Arab detainees next week as part of a long- awaited prisoner exchange deal with the Hezbollah militia, Palestinian newspapers...
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Pakistan’s refusal disappoints Australia
SYDNEY, Sept 23: The owners of the so-called “ship of death” stranded at sea with over 50,000 Australian sheep said on Tuesday the animals’ health was improving, as fears mounted that...
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Poll shows Bush may lose next elections
NEW YORK, Sept 23: A new opinion poll shows that President George W. Bush may lose to a Democratic contender if attacks on American troops in Iraq did not stop and...
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US inciting crimes against Palestinians, says Arafat
GAZA CITY, Sept 23: Yasser Arafat on Tuesday accused the United States of encouraging Israeli “crimes” against his people as Washington warned there would be no Palestinian state unless incoming premier...
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Baghdad UN staff await Annan decision
BAGHDAD, Sept 23: United Nations staff said on Tuesday that they were waiting to hear from Secretary-General Kofi Annan about the future of operations in Iraq after a suicide car bomb...
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Hamza Alvi hospitalized
KARACHI, Sept 23: Eminent intellectual Dr Hamza Alvi has been admitted to the executive ICU ward of the Liaquat National Hospital, where he was shifted from his house on Tuesday morning...
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