Musharraf says army pursuing Al Qaeda
WASHINGTON, Jan 25: President Pervez Musharraf has said Al Qaeda "is on the run, they are hiding" on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, and Pakistan Army "is pursuing them, as well as their Taliban supporters in South Waziristan."
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Beg reveals decision on non-proliferation
ISLAMABAD, Jan 25: Former Chief of Army Staff General Aslam Beg has said that Pakistan had taken a crucial decision during the first government of Benazir Bhutto not to proliferate nuclear technology to any country.
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Delhi talks don't affect Pakistan's stand: FM
LAHORE, Jan 25: Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri said on Sunday that recent meetings of Hurriyat leaders with Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Home Minister L.K. Advani did not worry Pakistan at all.
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No compromise on Kashmir: Rashid
ISLAMABAD, Jan 25: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Shaikh Rashid Ahmed said on Sunday that the present government had successfully projected the Kashmir issue and declared that the government would never compromise on this vital issue.
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PM promises uplift funds for Sindh
SUKKUR, Jan 25: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali has said that sound foreign and economic policies adopted by President Gen Pervez Musharraf have earned the country a good name and now "we have got the courage to talk to the world with our heads held high."
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Jirga rejects ultimatum
BANNU, Jan 25: A jirga of the Bakakhel Wazir on Sunday rejected government ultimatum to produce missing Punjab Minister Naeemullah Shahani by Monday.
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Newsman booked for'anti-state' activity
KARACHI, Jan 25: Police on Sunday confirmed that a reporter arrested in December while working with two French journalists had been charged with 'anti-state' activity.
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Eight killed in Punjab roof-collapse incidents
SHEIKHUPURA, Jan 25: At least six women and two children were killed in two separate incidents of roof collapse in Sheikhupura and Hafizabad districts on Sunday.
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16 Indian fishermen arrested
KARACHI, Jan 25: The Maritime Security Agency (MSA) has detained 16 fishermen along with three boats for violating limits of Pakistani territorial waters.
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Ansari links scrapping of resolutions to talks' success
SRINAGAR, Jan 25: Leaders of a breakaway faction of the All-Parties Hurriyat Conference on Sunday said they would urge the United Nations to scrap its resolutions on the divided region if the dispute is settled through dialogue.
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Indian BSF official killed in ambush
SRINAGAR, Jan 25: An Indian Border Security Force officer was killed on Sunday in an ambush by suspected freedom fighters in the occupied Kashmir despite tightened security all across the country ahead of India's Republic Day on Monday, a police spokesman said.
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US jets bomb Kunar areas after rocket attack
KUNAR, Jan 25: US planes pounded several areas in Afghanistan's eastern province of Kunar on Sunday after one of its bases came under rocket attack, officials said.
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US helicopter crashes
MOSUL, Jan 25: A US army helicopter crashed into the Tigris river here on Sunday on a mission to rescue a US soldier lost in the river in a boat accident that killed two Iraqi police and a civilian, the military said.
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'No WMDs shifted to Syria'
DAMASCUS, Jan 25: Damascus denied on Sunday charges by the former head of the US-led coalition's search for alleged Iraqi weapons of mass destruction that parts had been moved to Syria in the run-up to the war.
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El Baradei sees N-war danger
BERLIN, Jan 25: The head of the UN nuclear agency, Mohamed El Baradei, said in an interview released on Sunday that the underground trade in atomic technology means that the threat of nuclear war is greater today than it ever has been.
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Iran MPs vote for poll law reforms
TEHRAN, Jan 25: Iran's parliament voted on Sunday for an emergency reform of the electoral law aimed at forcing hardline religious rivals to reinstate thousands of reformist candidates barred from next month's election.
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