Consensus reached with govt, says MMA: LFO passage to be ensured;
ISLAMABAD, Dec 19: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal has reached a consensus with the government on all issues except on extension in the upper age limit of the superior courts’ judges....
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Opposition criticizes president’s proposal Kashmir issue
ISLAMABAD, Dec 19: The opposition in the Senate continued its noisy protest on Friday against the Legal Framework Order (LFO) and boycotted the upper house proceedings after questioning President Pervez Musharraf’s...
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Samjhota Express to resume on Jan 15: Pakistan, India sign accord
NEW DELHI, Dec 19: India and Pakistan agreed on Friday to resume the Samjhota Express train service between the two countries from Jan 15, officials said....
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Iraq blast destroys Shia party office
 BAGHDAD, Dec 19: An explosion destroyed a Baghdad office of Iraq’s largest Shia party on Friday in an attack the group blamed on Saddam Hussein’s supporters....
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Flexibility on both sides needed: FM
ISLAMABAD, Dec 19: Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri said on Friday that Pakistan had not dropped its demand based on UN resolutions on Kashmir and the president’s statement did not imply...
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All issues to be settled thru talks, says Jamali
RAWALPINDI, Dec 19: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Jamali has said that talks with the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal over the Legal Framework Order are continuing and the issue would be settled soon....
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Hizb calls for peace move’s withdrawal
 MUZAFFARABAD, Dec 19: The commander of the Hizbul Mujahideen, a leading Kashmiri fighter group, on Friday regretted Pakistan’s latest....
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Pakistan failed to protect minorities, says US report
WASHINGTON, Dec 18: A US official report submitted to Congress on Thursday has accused the Pakistan government of failing to protect the rights of religious minorities in many respects....
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Inmates can’t be held indefinitely: Ruling on Guantanamo prisoners
WASHINGTON, Dec 19: A US appeals court ruled on Friday that the Bush administration cannot detain Guantanamo Bay....
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Opposition angry over Musharraf’s Kashmir remarks
a ISLAMABAD Dec 19: PPP’s parliamentary leader in the Senate Mian Raza Rabbani has termed the President Musharraf’s offer to show flexibility on the Kashmir issue a disastrous...
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Girls can marry of their own will: SC
ISLAMABAD, Dec 19: The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that adult Muslim girls were free to marry of their own free will, adding they did not need to seek the consent...
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New Delhi welcomes Islamabad offer
NEW DELHI, Dec 19: India said on Friday that it welcomed Pakistan’s surprise offer to drop its demand for a UN-mandated referendum on the future of the disputed Kashmir region....
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RSF calls for French journalists’ release
PARIS, Dec 19: Reporters sans frontieres (RSF), the international journalists’ rights organization, has called for the release of two French journalists who have been in Pakistan working for the weekly newsmagazine...
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Flexibility can solve Kashmir issue: UN
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 19: UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Thursday said that India and Pakistan could resolve all outstanding disputes “through sustained engagement and a demonstration of flexibility and creativity”....
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‘Kashmiris will not be abandoned’
ISLAMABAD, Dec 19: President Gen Pervez Musharraf’s key aides said on Friday that the people of Kashmir would not be abandoned in the settlement of the Kashmir issue and underlined that...
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Bremer says he survived attempt on life
BASRA, Dec 19: Iraq’s US administrator Paul Bremer said on Friday he had a narrow escape in a guerilla ambush earlier this month when his convoy was hit by an explosive...
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