France keen to expand defence, trade ties: Jamali, Raffarin discuss issues
PARIS, Dec 9: French Prime Minister Jean Pierre-Raffarin on Tuesday announced that Paris would send a multi-sector mission to Pakistan next year to identify and explore ways and means for increasing...
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58 US troops injured in suicide attack: Bomb blast at Baghdad mosque
 TAL AFAR (Iraq), Dec 9: A suicide car bomber wounded 58 US soldiers and three Iraqis on Tuesday...
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Work on dam must start by next year: Musharraf wants end to row
ISLAMABAD, Dec 9: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday directed the parliamentary committee on water and Irsa’s technical committee to...
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US supports one-China policy
WASHINGTON, Dec 9: President George W. Bush assured the visiting Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao on Tuesday that the United States supported the one-China policy and opposed Taiwan’s efforts to change...
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MMA won’t vote for Musharraf: Qazi: Protest drive if deadline not met
ISLAMABAD, Dec 9: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal on Tuesday threatened to go ahead with its protest movement against President Gen Pervez Musharraf as planned and continue it till his fall from power,...
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Jamali foresees talks with Vajpayee: C’wealth criticized, Karzai’s charges rejected
PARIS, Dec 9: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Jamali said on Tuesday that the forthcoming Saarc summit would be the chance to re-open direct dialogue with India....
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‘US pursued India, Pakistan talks’
WASHINGTON, Dec 9: The United States played a key role in encouraging India and Pakistan to talk to each other but did not apply any direct pressure on them to do...
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Urmila in Lahore to make peace movie
 LAHORE, Dec 9: Popular Indian film star Urmila Matondkar arrived here on Tuesday via Wagah border on a three-day visit to....
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Released Pakistanis threaten to sue Canadian govt
ISLAMABAD, Dec 9: Five Pakistani immigrants who were recently deported from Canada after being dubbed as Al Qaeda sleepers on Tuesday expressed their resolve to clear their names by suing the...
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Japan okays plan to send forces
TOKYO, Dec 9: Japan’s cabinet approved a controversial plan on Tuesday to send up to 600 troops to Iraq on a humanitarian mission, the nation’s most dangerous deployment of military personnel...
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36 Saudis convicted
RIYADH, Dec 9: A Saudi court has sentenced 36 Saudi citizens to 55 days in prison for seeking to protest in response to calls by an exiled dissident group demanding reforms...
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Baglihar: notice served on India
ISLAMABAD, Dec 9: Pakistan has formally served a second notice on the Indian government to settle by Dec 31 the dispute over the Baglihar dam that is being built on the...
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Six die in Moscow suicide bombing
MOSCOW, Dec 9: A suicide bomber, believed to be a woman, killed six people Tuesday near the Kremlin walls in an attack authorities said may have been aimed at the nearby...
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Flour price raised by Rs5 per bag in Punjab
LAHORE, Dec 9: The Punjab government approved on Tuesday an ex-mill price of 20kg flour at Rs203 in the province, which means that retail price of flour would move in the...
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Sharon warns of ‘unilateral steps’
JERUSALEM, Dec 9: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon warned on Tuesday he would not wait for the international “roadmap” peace plan to collapse to take “unilateral steps” including the evacuation of...
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President in Quetta
Balochistan Governor Owais Ahmed Ghani, Chief Minister Jam Mir Mohammad Yousaf, provincial ministers and senior civil and military officials ....
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APM in Geneva
GENEVA, Dec 9: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali arrived here on Tuesday to attend the two-day World Summit on Information Society....
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US launches air attack in Khost
BAGRAM AIR BASE, Dec 9: Hundreds of US troops, backed by helicopters, on Tuesday launched an air assault against suspected militants near....
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