India welcomes Jamali’s ceasefire plan
NEW DELHI, Nov 24: Three months after it tersely rejected a truce offer by Pakistan, India on Monday welcomed Islamabad’s move to hold a unilateral ceasefire along the Line of Control...
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Offer includes Siachen truce, says Kasuri: New Delhi’s response lauded
ISLAMABAD, Nov 24: Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri said on Monday that although Pakistan had not received a formal response from India to its declaration of unilateral ceasefire along the Line...
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NWFP celebrates Eid today
PESHAWAR, Nov 24: The people in the NWFP will celebrate Eidul Fitr on Tuesday after the NWFP government here on Monday announced the sighting of the Shawal moon....
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Qorei seeks steps for peace
RAMALLAH, Nov 24: Palestinian prime minister Ahmed Qorei told his Israeli counterpart Ariel Sharon on Monday that he must come up with serious proposals to kickstart the peace process, as Sharon...
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Sharon sees Europe’s Muslims as a threat
BRUSSELS, Nov 24: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said on Monday that the rising number of Muslims in Europe was a threat to the continent’s Jewish community....
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32 foreign students die in Moscow hostel blaze
 MOSCOW, Nov 24: Thirty-two mainly Asian and African foreign students died on Monday in a fire that ripped through a university hostel in Moscow, reportedly the Russian capital’s most deadly blaze...
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Hashmi’s judicial remand extended
ISLAMABAD, Nov 24: Judicial Magistrate Islamabad Amir Saleem Rana extended the judicial remand of PML-N leader Makhdoom Javed Hashmi for 14 more days....
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Chirac opposes US plan on Iraq
 LONDON, Nov 24: French President Jacques Chirac said on Monday the US moves to speed up the transfer of power to Iraqis were “insufficient and incomplete”....
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5 US troops killed in copter crash
 BAGRAM AIR BASE, Nov 24: A helicopter carrying US troops has crashed near the main coalition base in Afghanistan killing five and injuring seven others, but cause was unknown, the US...
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15 ministers take oath in Punjab
LAHORE, Nov 24: Some 15 new ministers, including five women, were inducted to the Punjab cabinet on Monday, raising its total strength to 41 from the previous 26....
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Security alert for US, UK concerns
ISLAMABAD, Nov 24: In the wake of attacks on HSBC bank in Turkey, and DHL transport aircraft in Iraq, Pakistan has warned all the locally-based commercial interests of the US and...
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FO takes exception to Blair’s remarks
ISLAMABAD, Nov 24: Pakistan on Monday took exception to British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s remarks he had made in the context of Kashmir at a joint press conference with US President...
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Two Iraqis killed, 4 US troops injured
TIKRIT, Nov 24: US troops shot dead a person in a vehicle that was trying to ram a checkpoint and killed another person who attacked them north of Baghdad, a US...
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Iraq bans TV channel for airing Saddam tape
DUBAI, Nov 24: Dubai-based satellite television Al-Arabiya announced on Monday its Baghdad bureau had been closed by Iraqi police after the interim Governing Council banned it from working in Iraq for...
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Annan, Straw hail ceasefire proposal
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 24: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on Monday hailed a ceasefire breakthrough in Kashmir....
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China mine blast claims 18 lives
BEIJING, Nov 24: Eighteen miners are dead and five more missing after a gas explosion at a coalmine in China’s central Henan province, state media reported on Monday....
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