Paris seeks talks on N-safeguards
ISLAMABAD, Feb 28: France on Saturday proposed greater transparency for Pakistan's nuclear programme and tightening of export controls....
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Beg denies involvement in N-tech transfer
ISLAMABAD, Feb 28: Former chief of the army staff Gen Mirza Aslam Beg (retired) has refuted the contents of a report appearing in New York Times alleging that he was involved in transfer of nuclear technology to Iran in 1990.....
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Qazi slams operation in tribal areas
ISLAMABAD Feb 28: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) acting president Qazi Hussain Ahmed urged President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday to relinquish as army chief without waiting for the Dec 31 deadline...
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Pakistan, US deny Osama's capture
ISLAMABAD/WASHINGTON, Feb 28: Pakistan and United States on Saturday denied reports on state-run Iranian media that Al Qaeda terror network chief Osama bin Laden had been arrested in Pakistan....
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Pakistan sees chances of Osama's capture
BERLIN, Feb 28: Pakistan's Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat has voiced optimism that Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden would be caught, in an interview published on Saturday in the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung....
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Airport alert part of security, says Faisal
ISLAMABAD, Feb 28: Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat has said that a four-day high security alert declared at all the airports of the country on Saturday is part of the security arrangements taken for maintaining peace during Muharram....
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Hashmi's trial adjourned
ISLAMABAD, Feb 28: Sessions Judge Chaudhry Asad Raza on Saturday adjourned the hearing against Makhdoom Javed Hashmi to March 6, as his counsels were not ready to cross- examine the witnesses in the case....
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Wapda asked to make more cut in power rates
ISLAMABAD, Feb 28: The federal cabinet decided on Saturday to reduce electricity tariff for country's domestic, industrial, commercial and agricultural users...
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Bomber dies in suicide attack on imambargah
RAWALPINDI, Feb 28: A suicide bomber was killed and four worshippers were injured in an attack on an imambargah here on Saturday evening.
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11 killed as troops fire on pickups near Wana
PESHAWAR, Feb 28: Eleven people were killed and six wounded on Saturday when troops opened fire on passenger pickups in the South Waziristan
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Search for 12 hostages launched in Loralai
QUETTA, Feb 28: A high-level meeting reviewed on Saturday the search operation launched in Loralai to recover 12 persons kidnapped by a group Jaffer tribe the other day
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13 Pakistanis arrested in Greece
KOMOTINI, Feb 28: Greek police on Saturday detained 15 illegal immigrants crossing into Greece from Turkey and arrested three suspected human traffickers who were transporting them to Athens.
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India allows cricket fans to carry 35kg luggage
NEW DELHI, Feb 28: Indian Railways has decided to allow only 35kg of luggage per passenger travelling to Pakistan for the India, Pakistan cricket series.
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Kashmiri leader released
SRINAGAR, Feb 28: After spending over two years in jail senior Kashmiri separatist leader Sheikh Abdul Aziz was released on Saturday.
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Advani woos Muslims for votes
NEW DELHI, Feb 28: Indian Deputy Premier L.K. Advani wooed Muslims on Saturday to vote for his ruling Hindu nationalist BJP by highlighting his government's peace moves with Pakistan.
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US troops hunt for Al Qaeda activists
ISLAMABAD, Feb 28: Hundreds of US-led coalition troops on Saturday launched an operation in Afghanistan's Khost province to hunt down Al Qaeda and Taliban fugitives, the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) reported.
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Discoveries in Libya led to Dr Khan's link: Powell
WASHINGTON, Feb 28: US Secretary of State Colin Powell has said that discoveries in Libya led American and British investigators to Dr A.Q. Khan's network of nuclear proliferators.
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N. Korean nuclear parleys end without breakthrough
BEIJING, Feb 28: Six-party talks on the North Korean nuclear crisis ended on Saturday without a breakthrough but a senior US official said the meetings had advanced Washington's agenda of disarming Pyongyang.
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3 Palestinians die in Gaza missile attack
GAZA CITY, Feb 28: Three Palestinians, including an Islamic Jihad activist, were killed on Saturday when an Israeli Apache helicopter fired three missiles at a car near Gaza City
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Birdflu crisis will cost Asia half-a-billion dollars, says FAO
BANGKOK, Feb 28: The birdflu crisis engulfing Asia will cost the region at least half-a-billion dollars and the bulk of that will be borne by individual countries
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