Pakistan denies aiding N. Korea: Pyongyang’s nuke plans
 SEOUL, Nov 6: President Pervez Musharraf on Thursday denied any technological ties between Islamabad and North Korea to help that country’s nuclear weapons drive....
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Bush urges ME states to adopt democracy: No support for Arabs without ‘liberty’
WASHINGTON, Nov 6: US President George Bush on Thursday challenged Iran and Syria and even key ally Egypt to adopt democracy and broke with past US policy by vowing Washington would...
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Pakistan vows to match India over Israeli radar deal: World community’s help sought
BRUSSELS, Nov 6: Pakistan’s foreign minister on Thursday condemned Israel’s decision to sell airborne radar systems to India, saying it would destabilise both the Middle East and Southern Asia and warning...
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Baghdad mission staff cut
ISLAMABAD, Nov 6: Pakistan has decided to reduce the staff strength of its embassy in Baghdad to a bare minimum, bringing it down to only five, officials sources told Dawn on...
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Chandrika takes over media
COLOMBO, Nov 6: Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga on Thursday announced she was taking over state-run radio, television and newspapers amid a deepening political crisis, but said she would allow media...
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EU asked to ratify new pact soon
BRUSSELS, Nov 6: Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri on Thursday called for an early ratification of a new pact between Pakistan and the European Union, saying the long-awaited deal would benefit both...
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Najaf governor quits
NAJAF, Nov 6: The US-installed governor of Najaf resigned on Thursday, a day after launching a strike to protest the US-led administration’s failure to provide security in the city, where a...
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Islamabad concerned over HC bugging
ISLAMABAD, Nov 6: The British high commissioner Mark Lyall Grant was summoned to the foreign office and conveyed Islamabad’s serious concern over the reported bugging of the Pakistan high commission’s communication...
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Eight killed in Kashmir violence
SRINAGAR, Nov 6: Eight people were killed in held Kashmir while the state government appealed to New Delhi not to withdraw troops fighting the insurgency, officials said on Thursday....
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MMA to finalize strategy in Karachi
ISLAMABAD, Nov 6: The supreme council of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) is to meet in Karachi next week to finalize a countrywide protest programme against the government’s failure to bring the...
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21 burnt alive in India
CALCUTTA, Nov 6: Twenty-one tea garden workers were burned to death in eastern India on Thursday when a mob set fire to a union leader’s house, police said....
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MMA says check on seminaries to be resisted
ISLAMABAD, Nov 6: Deputy parliamentary secretary-general of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal Hafiz Hussain Ahmed has said that the MMA will strongly resist the government move to bring a law to allow monitoring...
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