MMA wants talks with India discussed in NA
LAHORE, Jan 8: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal on Thursday called upon the government to take parliament into confidence over the Saarc summit and the meeting held between President Gen Pervez Musharraf and the India prime minister.
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MMA, ARD claim slots of opposition leaders
ISLAMABAD, Jan 8: The Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy and the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal are set to lock horns on the appointment of opposition leaders in the National Assembly and the Senate.
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Electoral rolls revision begins
ISLAMABAD, Jan 8: The Election Commission of Pakistan has begun revision of electoral rolls and asked all those who have attained the voting age, 18 years, to get themselves registered as voters.
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MPs filing wrong details may face scrutiny: EC
ISLAMABAD, Jan 8: The Election Commission of Pakistan may send the cases of those legislators who had submitted wrong statements of assets and liabilities, to an investigation agency for scrutiny.
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Foreign terrorists held in Wana operation
ISLAMABAD, Jan 8: Pakistan army and para-military troops on Thursday captured some foreign terrorists during a joint operation conducted in Wana in the South Waziristan Agency near Pakistan-Afghanistan border, Director-General of the Inter- Services Public Relation Maj-Gen Shaukat Sultan said.
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Kashmiris' consent must to any accord: Musharraf meets leaders
ISLAMABAD, Jan 8: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Thursday assured Kashmiri leaders that they would be taken along in the quest for peace in South Asia, saying Pakistan would accept no solution to the Kashmir dispute
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FM discusses peace process with UN official
ISLAMABAD, Jan 8: Jean Marie Guehenno, the UN Under Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, on Thursday exchanged views with Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri on UN's role in support of Saarc programmes and the peace process between India and Pakistan.
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More troops for Liberia likely
ISLAMABAD, Jan 8: Pakistan is likely to send more troops for UN peacekeeping operations in Liberia and other flashpoints in Africa, says the visiting UN undersecretary-general, Jean-Marie Guehenno, at a press conference here on Thursday.
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Mansoor gets 7-year jail term
KARACHI, Jan 8: An accountability court on Thursday sentenced former navy chief Mansoorul Haq and a co-accused to a seven-year jail term in a corruption case.
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Libya denies nuclear links with Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Jan 8: The Libyan president's son Saiful Islam Qadhafi has denied reports that Pakistan or its nuclear scientists were involved in transferring nuclear technology to Libya.
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Musharraf to visit Ankara, Geneva
ISLAMABAD, Jan 8: President General Pervez Musharraf will be leaving for Turkey on January 20 for a two-day official visit for wide-ranging talks with the top Turkish leadership to further consolidate bilateral relations, official sources told on Thursday.
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Pakistanis welcome US immigration reforms
WASHINGTON, Jan 8: The proposed overhaul of immigration rules for granting temporary legal status to undocumented workers in the United States is yet to go to Congress to become a law, the Pakistani community in the US is already involved in intense debates
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Racist attack on Pakistani woman in Belfast
BELFAST, Jan 8: A pregnant Pakistani woman and her brother-in-law were targets in the latest racially motivated attack to have hit a Protestant district of Northern Ireland's capital, police said on Thursday.
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29 killed as bus falls into canal
MULTAN, Jan 8: At least 29 people, including a woman and two children, died and around 10 went missing when a minibus plunged into the Thal Canal on Thursday afternoon near Bhakhar, some 200kms from here.
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Ruling coalition asks Vajpayee to decide election dates
NEW DELHI, Jan 8: India's ruling coalition on Thursday asked Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to select dates for national elections, amid signals the polls could be held six month ahead of schedule to reap advantage from a glowing economy and better ties with Pakistan.
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'US weapons search team withdrawn from Iraq'
WASHINGTON, Jan 8: A 400-strong US military team that has been searching for illicit weapons in Iraq have been withdrawn after finding nothing of substance, although a separate group looking for weapons of mass destruction still remains in the country
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Nine killed as US copter crashes
NUAMIYA, Jan 8:Nine persons on board a US military Blackhawk medevac helicopter were killed on Thursday near Fallujah as the US-led coalition readied to release 100 prisoners.
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60 Iraqis released
ABU GHARIB (Iraq), Jan 8: Hopeful families crowded outside the gates of a Baghdad prison here on Thursday, eager to see the release of their loved ones as the US-led coalition was due to begin fulfilling a pledge to free hundreds of detainees.
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Hasina's aide held
DHAKA, Jan 8: Manu Majumder, a close aide of Awami League president Sheikh Hasina's security officials, on the charge of shooting a young man and a police constable on Wednesday.
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Man pulled from Iran quake rubble
BAM, Jan 8: A 56-year-old man has been pulled alive from the rubble of the Bam earthquake in Iran, 13 days after the tragedy, medics said on Thursday.
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