Findings, data can be shared, says FO: Dr Khan's pardon conditional
ISLAMABAD, Feb 7: The foreign office on Saturday said that as a sovereign country Pakistan would itself take all nuclear proliferation-related decisions.
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N-assets not open to inspection, says Munir
ISLAMABAD, Feb 7: The United States and United Nations believe that Pakistan's decisions and steps regarding nuclear proliferation are in the right direction, says Munir Akram, Pakistan's permanent representative to United Nations.
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N-plan endangered by Musharraf: PML-N
ISLAMABAD, Feb 7: Acting parliamentary leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-N in the National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has said that the entire nation is in a state of shock due to the recent developments on the nuclear front and accused President Gen Pervez Musharraf
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US helping protect N-assets: official
WASHINGTON, Feb 7: The United States is working with Pakistan to protect its nuclear technology from falling into the hands of extremists, a senior US official said on Friday. "We have had discussions with Pakistan on the need for Pakistan to safeguard its technology and its nuclear material.
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'Links with debt market won't be affected'
SINGAPORE, Feb 7: Pakistan's push to rebuild links with the international debt market will not be derailed by the nuclear scandal involving national hero Abdul Qadeer Khan, Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Saturday.
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Powell arriving to discuss N-issue
ISLAMABAD, Feb 7: US Secretary of State Colin Powell will be discussing mainly the progress so far made in the hunt for Osama bin Laden and the nuclear proliferation matters with the authorities
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Operation in North Waziristan planned: Go-ahead signal given - official
PESHAWAR, Feb 7: The government has decided to launch an operation in the North Waziristan Agency to flush out Taliban and Al Qaeda remnants
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Khalid Ishaq passes away
KARACHI, Feb 7: Eminent jurist Khalid Ishaq died here on Saturday after a prolonged illness. He was 77. He is survived by two sons and two daughters.
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Ties with Pakistan will improve: Vajpayee
NEW DELHI, Feb 7: Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee said on Saturday he was confident that ties with Pakistan were set to improve and the resolution of their bilateral disputes
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Eight killed in Kashmir violence
SRINAGAR, Feb 7: Suspected Mujahideen on Saturday killed eight people, including a senior commander of a pro-India militia, in different attacks in occupied Kashmir, police said.
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Karzai hails troop offer by Nato states
KABUL, Feb 7: Afghan President Hamid Karzai welcomed on Saturday offers by Nato alliance countries to send more peacekeepers to Afghanistan in the coming months.
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20 killed in Afghan factional fight
KABUL, Feb 7: At least 20 people have been killed and 40 injured in three days of factional fighting between local militia commanders in northern Afghanistan, the Bakhtar news agency reported on Saturday.
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Washington rules out apology
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 7: Secretary of State Colin Powell said "no apologies" were needed for intelligence used to justify the Iraq war but UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned that the questionable US weapons data could jeopardize future similar actions.
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UN sends team to assess chances for elections in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Feb 7: UN experts arrived here on Saturday to assess whether elections can be held for Iraq's first post-occupation government, after the country's most revered Shia leader said reports of a plot to kill him were a ploy to undermine his insistence that they can.
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Jihad man, Palestinian boy killed
GAZA CITY, Feb 7: An Israeli air strike killed a senior member of the Islamic Jihad and a boy in Gaza City on Saturday, as the Jewish state resumed its assassinations of Palestinian militants.
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356 Fatah members resign en masse
RAMALLAH, Feb 7: More than 300 members of President Yasser Arafat's ruling Fatah movement resigned collectively from the Palestinian group on Saturday in protest against internal strife and a lack of reform, a statement said.
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Reformists won't block polls
TEHRAN, Feb 7: Iran's reformists on Saturday gave up their attempt to postpone this month's parliamentary election but told the nation's supreme leader that a conservative watchdog had defied him by banning so many candidates.
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Sri Lanka parliament dissolved
COLOMBO, Feb 7: Sri Lanka's President Chandrika Kumaratunga dissolved the parliament on Saturday, in an apparent bid to end a bitter power struggle that has threatened to take the country back to war, officials said.
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