Pakistan to stop leakage: Musharraf - Deal with Dr Khan denied
NEW YORK, Feb 9: President Pervez Musharraf has said that Pakistan has put a stop to the covert export of nuclear weapons' technology, and assured that "it will never happen again".
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Dr Khan not given blanket pardon: Investigations continuing - FO
ISLAMABAD, Feb 9: The foreign office here on Monday averred that the pardon granted to Dr A.Q. Khan by the President last week related to the charges the nuclear scientist had already accepted
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Pakistan to cooperate with IAEA in N-probe
BERLIN, Feb 9: Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri said on Monday that Pakistan would cooperate with the UN nuclear agency in a probe over the selling of nuclear expertise. Speaking to reporters after meeting his German counterpart Joschka Fischer here, he said Islamabad launched the proliferation probe despite huge public criticism.
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Govt ready to disclose details in camera: AG - Petitions relating to scientists' detention
ISLAMABAD, Feb 9: The federal government said on Monday it was ready to disclose before the Rawalpindi bench of Lahore High Court the details about the nuclear proliferation controversy, provided the hearing was conducted in camera.
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Libya was given crude bomb blueprint: Pakistan ran two N-programmes - NYT
NEW YORK, Feb 9: American and European investigators have determined that the nuclear weapon blueprints found in Libya were of a relatively crude type of bomb from Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan - not the more advanced models that the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission developed
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Powell rules out early visit to Islamabad
WASHINGTON, Feb 9: US Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Monday that he had no plans to visit Pakistan soon, but would do so this year. A Pakistani official said on Sunday that Mr Powell was expected to visit soon to discuss an investigation into Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan
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US lobbyist hired for Musharraf: PML-N
ISLAMABAD, Feb 9: The acting parliamentary leader of Pakistan Muslim League-N, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, has asserted that a US citizen, Frank Howard Junior, who was in-charge of the election campaign of US President George Bush, has been appointed Gen Pervez Musharraf's lobbyist.
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PTCL, Chinese firm sign $500m deal
ISLAMABAD, Feb 9: The Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) on Monday launched here a wireless local loop project to provide new telephone connections in remote areas of the country.
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Mega projects to boost country's economy: PM
ISLAMABAD, Feb 9: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali said on Monday that the ongoing mega-development projects in Balochistan will boost the country's economy, and bring about a positive change in the living standards of the people.
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Jamali to attend D-8 summit on 18th
ISLAMABAD, Feb 9: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali will attend the fourth D-8 (Developing 8) summit in Tehran on Feb 18. The preparatory process of the summit will begin with D-8 commissioners' meeting on Feb 15.
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Geelani, other APHC leaders arrested
SRINAGAR, Feb 9: Indian officials arrested a number of prominent Kashmiri leaders on Monday after they tried to lead a rally against the killing of five civilians by the army.
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Israeli deputy premier arrives in New Delhi
NEW DELHI, Feb 9: Israeli Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom arrived here on Monday for talks expected to cover the imminent signing of a major deal to sell airborne Phalcon radars to India, official sources said.
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Heavy snow paralyses Kabul
KABUL, Feb 9: Kabul was paralysed by heavy snow on Monday, after two days of cold weather and snow dumps in the country. For the first time in at least five years, more than 50 centimetres of snow has fallen in Kabul and the surrounding areas within two days
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Two US soldiers killed
BAGHDAD, Feb 9: Two US soldiers were killed and six were wounded on Monday while trying to clear explosives in northern Iraq, the military said. The explosion, which occurred near the city of Sinjar
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US mulling ME reform plan, says Powell
WASHINGTON, Feb 9: The United States is considering a major international initiative aimed at encouraging democratic reforms in the greater Middle East, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Monday.
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Israel may change route of barrier, court told
TEL AVIV, Feb 9: Israeli state attorneys told the supreme court on Monday the route of a barrier designed to stop suicide bombers but cutting deep into the occupied West Bank would probably be revised to ease Palestinian hardship.
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Prince Charles visits Bam
BAM, Feb 9: Britain's Prince Charles offered sympathy on Monday to earthquake survivors during the first visit by a British royal to Iran - dubbed an "axis of evil" member by Washington - since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
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Khatami's party to take part in elections
TEHRAN, Feb 9: The party of Iranian President Mohammad Khatami on Monday dashed its allies' hopes of a united response to the exclusion of hundreds of reformists from the Feb 20 parliamentary elections, announcing it would take part despite the blacklist.
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S. Arabia earns $1.3 billion
RIYADH, Feb 9: Saudi Arabia earned 5.2 billion riyals ($1.38 billion) from spending by foreign pilgrims during this year's Haj, a local daily said on Monday.
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Woman pulled alive from rubble after one week
ANKARA, Feb 9: A 24-year-old woman buried alive for nearly a week was pulled from the rubble of a collapsed Turkish housing block on Monday, the second "miracle survivor" from a tragedy in which at least 87 died.
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