Ego should not impede efforts for talks: PM
WASHINGTON, Oct 3: Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali on Friday vowed to pursue a negotiated settlement of Pakistan’s disputes with India....
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Six Suparco employees shot dead in city
KARACHI, Oct 3: Six people were shot dead and seven others wounded when a bus carrying employees of the Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Organization (Suparco) for Friday prayers was ambushed...
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Country in state of civil disobedience —Ghinwa
KARACHI, Oct 3: Ghinwa Bhutto, chairperson of the Pakistan People’s Party (Shaheed Bhutto), says the country is in a state of “undeclared civil disobedience” and is increasingly becoming difficult to govern....
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Pakistan to get 60 US copters by December
WASHINGTON, Oct 3: The Bush administration has reportedly approved the sale of 60 attack helicopters to Pakistan, diplomatic sources told Dawn....
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MMA sticks to its demand
ISLAMABAD, Oct 3: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) has disputed President Gen Pervez Musharraf’s statement that the issue of his uniform had been settled....
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Russia dissatisfied with new US resolution
MOSCOW, Oct 3: President Vladimir Putin said on Friday Russia was not satisfied with the latest US draft resolution on a UN role in Iraq, although it was prepared to help...
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Tribes given 3 days to hand over suspects: Al Qaeda men being interrogated
PESHAWAR, Oct 3: Authorities in the semi-autonomous South Waziristan tribal region are being given a three-day deadline to tribes, calling on them to surrender Al Qaeda suspects and take punitive action...
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‘Pakistan facing internal threat’
ISLAMABAD, Oct 3: Pakistan faces no external threat but only a threat from within in the form of religious extremism and the government is resolved to fight the unenlightened exponent of...
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Treasury MNAs censure chief election commissioner
ISLAMABAD, Oct 3: Treasury benches in the National Assembly lambasted Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Irshad Hasan Khan on Friday for his warning to suspend legislators failing to disclose their assets, and...
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Six die in Bagram base explosion
 BAGRAM AIR BASE, (Afghanistan), Oct 3: At least six people were killed and seven others injured on Friday in a massive explosion which destroyed several houses outside the US-led military coalition’s...
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PR driver killed in rocket attack
QUETTA, Oct 3: A railway engine driver was killed and two other staff members injured seriously in a rocket attack on a pilot engine on the Quetta-Sibi section, some 130km east...
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Tehran sets conditions for UN inspections
TEHRAN, Oct 3: Iran has imposed four conditions for signing on to snap UN inspections of its atomic energy programme, among them the exclusion of non-nuclear military sites and sacred places,...
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Indian lobby presses Jamali on Kashmir
WASHINGTON, Oct 3: Several members of the US House International Committee urged Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali to stop cross-border attacks in occupied Kashmir when he visited the Capitol Hill, said...
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Indian troops kill six Kashmiris
SRINAGAR, Oct 3: The Indian army has killed six Mujahideen in two separate encounters in occupied Kashmir, an army spokesman said on Friday....
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Two Iraqis hurt as US van attacked
BAGHDAD, Oct 3: At least two Iraqi civilians, including one or more children, were wounded on Friday when a US military vehicle was attacked with a grenade that bounced off the...
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Pakistan test-fires Hatf III
 ISLAMABAD, Oct 3: Pakistan on Friday test-fired a short-range missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads. More such tests will follow in the next few days....
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Musharraf to meet Sindh MPs today
ISLAMABAD, Oct 3: President Gen Pervez Musharraf will discuss the issue of water reservoirs construction with Sindh’s legislators on Saturday....
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Journalist shot dead
SHIKARPUR, Oct 3: A local journalist, Amir Bux Brohi, was shot dead by three unidentified armed men on Faujdari Road in Shikarpur on Friday at around 8pm....
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