UK backs steps to check N-proliferation: Straw meets Musharraf, Jamali
ISLAMABAD, March 4: Pakistan and Britain on Thursday discussed a wide range of issues, including measures to counter terrorism and nuclear proliferation
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Nigeria & Pakistan deny N-tech dialogue
ABUJA, March 4: Nigeria on Thursday withdrew an earlier statement claiming that the visiting Pakistani defence chief had offered to help it to acquire nuclear power, saying it was a mistake and should be ignored.
"The reference to nuclear power in the statement earlier issued was a mistake, a typographical error," defence ministry spokesman Nwachukwu Bellu
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Dr Khan acted without govt support: US
LISBON, March 4: The United States is convinced that Dr A.Q. Khan sold nuclear secrets to Iran, Libya and North Korea without the approval of senior government officials in Pakistan, a top US arms control official said on Thursday.
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ARD may join hands with MMA: Nisar
ISLAMABAD, March 4: ARD acting president Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has said that the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy can consider joining hands with the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) in future
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New constitution for equal rights needed - Mengal
KARACHI, March 4: Nationalist leader Sardar Ataullah Mengal insists that the country needs a new constitution if the provinces are to be given equal rights. In a new dispensation, he said, provinces should contribute to the federal resources according to their population.
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Opposition demands govt's resignation: CM, security agencies called incompetent
QUETTA, March 4: The opposition parties in the Balochistan Assembly have condemned firing on the Ashura procession as well as torching of public and private property and demanded resignation of the provincial government.
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33 victims buried amid tension: 32 killed in security men's firing, alleges Shia leader
QUETTA, March 4: Thirty-three victims of Tuesday's terrorist attack were buried in the Hazara graveyard on Thursday after the community softened their conditions set for performing the last rites fearing that the bodies would be decomposed if the burial was delayed further.
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SHC acquits Mansoor
KARACHI, March 4: The Sindh High Court acquitted on Thursday former navy chief Mansoorul Haq and retired commodore Mirza Ashfaq Beg in a reference alleging purchase of defective ships for the Pakistan National Shipping Corporation in the mid-1990s at exorbitant prices.
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UK to restore full visa service from May 1
ISLAMABAD, March 4: The United Kingdom will restore full visa service for Pakistanis from May 1. British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, speaking at a briefing on Thursday
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US to ease visa restrictions
ISLAMABAD, March 4: The US government is expected to ease visa restrictions for Pakistani citizens shortly and provide a more secure environment to Pakistanis living in the United States, diplomatic sources said on Thursday.
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Dead level of Tarbela Dam pushed down
ISLAMABAD, March 4: The dead-level of Tarbela Dam has been pushed down by four feet, reducing it from 1,369 feet to 1,365 feet, with immediate effect, ensuring water availability for four more days, Dawn learnt here on Thursday.
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PIA to double flights to India
BOMBAY, March 4: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) announced on Thursday that it would double the flights between Pakistan and India from March 25 - a day after the eagerly anticipated one-day cricket series between the two nations ends.
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Two tribal volunteers hurt in Wana blast
PESHAWAR, March 4: Two Khasadars (tribal volunteers) were injured on Thursday after their vehicle was wrecked by an explosive device placed surreptitiously underneath their vehicle in the South Waziristan Agency, officials said.
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US troops block roads to Tora Bora
KABUL, March 4: US and Afghan troops have blocked all roads leading to the eastern border region of Tora Bora, where Osama bin Laden was lasted spotted, aid agency officials said on Thursday.
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Iraqi leaders to sign constitution today
BAGHDAD, March 4: Fears of fresh violence in Iraq ran high on Thursday, a day before the country's leaders were due to sign a temporary constitution seen as a major milestone on the road to democracy that terrorist groups fear.
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Saddam had no links with Al Qaeda: Report
WASHINGTON, March 4: The Bush administration has failed to prove former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's links with Al Qaeda, one of President Bush's central arguments for a pre- emptive war on Iraq
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Two Al Qaeda activists held
ABYAN, Yemen, March 4: Security forces have arrested another member of Al Qaeda, Egyptian Sayyed Imam Sherif, during a hunt for extremists in the country, officials said on Thursday.
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Zawahri's brother in Egypt jail
CAIRO, March 4: The Egyptian government said on Thursday for the first time that Mohamed al Zawahri, the brother of Al Qaeda's deputy leader Ayman al Zawahri, was in an Egyptian prison and would stand trial.
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Powell urges criminalizing of nuclear proliferation
WASHINGTON, March 4: US Secretary of State Colin Powell has urged the international community to criminalize nuclear proliferation and close loopholes that "allow countries like Iran" to produce weapon-grade nuclear material.
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'49 Iranians killed in Iraq blasts'
TEHRAN, March 4: Iran's official news agency said on Thursday that 49 Iranians were among the 106 people killed in the bomb attacks on Karbala on Tuesday. Iran had previously said 29 Iranians died in the blasts.
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