Guilty scientists to be punished: Midway solution for Kashmir - Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, Jan 26: President Pervez Musharraf, blaming individual scientists and the world black market for nuclear proliferation, pledged "harsh" punishment on Monday for scientists who allegedly sold secrets to Iran and other countries.
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Probe to complete in a week: Rashid
ISLAMABAD, Jan 26: A high-level meeting presided over by President General Pervez Musharraf on Monday decided that "one or two scientists who sold the country's nuclear technology to Iran and Libya" would be taken to task.
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Shahbaz to face cases on return: Rashid
LAHORE, Jan 26: The government has rejected as a "feeler" Pakistan Muslim League-N President Mian Shahbaz Sharif's announcement that he will return to Pakistan defying all restrictions.
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UK backs Pakistan's return to C'wealth
ISLAMABAD, Jan 26: Britain on Monday backed the lifting of Pakistan's suspension from the Commonwealth group of nations that has been in place since the 1999 coup by President Pervez Musharraf, officials said.
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US approves $395 million assistance: Shaukat
ISLAMABAD, Jan 26: Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that the Bush administration has approved a $395 million economic assistance for Pakistan.
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Taliban leader under probe
ISLAMABAD, Jan 26: A close aide to elusive Taliban spiritual leader Mulla Mohammad Omar was arrested in Chaman a town near the Afghan border. Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat said the man arrested near the border town of Chaman, some 470km southwest of Islamabad
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Outbreak of bird flu: virus said to be harmless to humans
KARACHI, Jan 26: Agriculture ministry officials and office-bearers of a poultry association claimed on Monday that a virus responsible for the recent outbreak of influenza among birds in South Asia was not as dangerous as the one which killed millions of poultry birds
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Rainfall during four days forecast
ISLAMABAD, Jan 26: The Met office on Monday forecast widespread rains in the country during the next four days. According to the Met office spokesman
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Four killed in two Karo-kari incidents
NAWABSHAH, Jan 26: Two women and two men were killed in two separate Karo-kari incidents in Sindh during the last 48 hours ending on Monday evening.
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India celebrates Republic Day amid Kashmir strike
NEW DELHI, Jan 26: India kicked off celebrations of Republic Day on Monday with a parade of soldiers and strategic military hardware
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LoC quiet
NEW DELHI, Jan 26: Ceasefire along the Line of Control (LoC) completed two months on Monday with no violation reported on either side in held Kashmir, said a defence spokesman.
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Karzai signs new Afghan constitution into law
KABUL, Jan 26: President Hamid Karzai signed into law Afghanistan's new constitution on Monday, more than three weeks after the document was approved by a Loya Jirga
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Key Al Qaeda man held in Iraq: Bush
LITTLE ROCK, Jan 26: An Al Qaeda operative with close ties to the suspected mastermind of the Sept 11, 2001, attacks was captured last week in Iraq, US President George Bush said on Monday.
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Call for Israeli nuclear site's inspection
CAIRO, Jan 26: The Arab League called on Monday for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to inspect Israel's nuclear sites.
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Iran Council vetoes poll law reform bill
TEHRAN, Jan 26: Iran's political crisis deepened on Monday as conservatives stuck by their power to bar thousands of reformist candidates from next month's parliamentary elections
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4 Russian soldiers killed
MOSCOW, Jan 26: A guerilla attack on a Russian military convoy in Chechnya killed four servicemen and injured a further four on Monday as a UN envoy began new talks on conditions in and around the region.
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