President, PM pledge to curb sectarianism
ISLAMABAD, March 5: President Gen Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali on Friday held second meeting in five days and discussed the Quetta incident and activities of 'foreign terrorists' in tribal areas.
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Govt rejects charge of 'police killings' in Quetta
ISLAMABAD, March 5: Responding to an unabated disquiet in the Senate, the government on Friday rejected charges that its own forces had shot most of the people killed during Tuesday's Ashura mourning procession in Quetta.
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ANP sees conspiracy against Pakhtoons: Wana operation
KARACHI, March 5: Awami National Party president Asfandyar Wali Khan has demanded an immediate end to the ongoing operation in Waziristan, Fata, and said that the country was passing through the most critical period in its history.
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Curfew stays during Friday prayers time
QUETTA, March 5: Tens of thousands of people could not say their Friday prayers as authorities did not allow relaxation in curfew in the worst-hit areas of Tuesday's violence and terrorist attack on Ashura procession here.
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Fazl, Fahim agree to cooperate
ISLAMABAD, March 5: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal secretary-general Maulana Fazlur Rehman and ARD chairman Makhdoom Amin Fahim on Friday agreed to resume mutual cooperation between the two opposition alliances on 'minimum points and on issue-to-issue basis'.
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Straw calls for bridging gap between Islam and West
PESHAWAR, March 5: Appreciating the ongoing military operation in the Waziristan region, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on Friday welcomed President Gen Pervez Musharraf's call for 'Jihad against extremism'.
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Pakistan-Iran relations firm: Aref
ISLAMABAD, March 5: Iran's First Vice-President Dr Mohammad Reza Aref, during a meeting with President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Friday, emphasized that no third country could exercise any negative influence on Tehran's relationship with Islamabad.
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LG polls: nomination date extended
ISLAMABAD, March 5: The Election Commission on Friday extended the last date for 10 days to file nomination papers for local government bye-elections to fill seats of members, nazims and naib union nazims in the union councils in Quetta district.
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ADB to give $150m next year
ISLAMABAD, March 5: The Asian Development Bank would offer $150 million to Pakistan in 2005 to alleviate poverty across the country.
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EU duty on bed-linen
KARACHI, March 5: The European Commission has imposed 13.1 per cent definitive anti-dumping duty on bed-linen imports from Pakistan with immediate effect. The punitive duty will remain effective for a period of five years.
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Wapda seeks 5-fold tariff raise
ISLAMABAD, March 5: The Water and Power Development Authority has sought more than 500 per cent increase in hydel power tariff with immediate effect, officials said on Friday.
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Bus service talks on 9th
NEW DELHI March 5: Pakistani and Indian officials will hold two-day talks in Islamabad from March 9 for a bus service between Khokhrapar and Munabao.
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Six die in Kashmir violence
SRINAGAR, March 5: Six people were killed in the latest burst of violence in occupied Kashmir, including four Mujahideen, police said on Friday....
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India, Israel sign $1bn radar system deal
NEW DELHI, March 5: India and Israel signed a one-billion-dollar deal on Friday for the supply of three Phalcon airborne early warning radar systems to New Delhi, a defence spokesman said.
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Taliban kill 8 Afghan soldiers
KANDAHAR, March 5: Taliban militants killed eight Afghan soldiers on Thursday in an attack on an army post in the southern Spin Boldak district, bordering Pakistan, a military commander said on Friday.
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Rights abuses by US forces decried
NEW YORK, March 5: US military forces in Afghanistan have mistreated detainees, arbitrarily detained civilians and used excessive force in arrests of non-combatants, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Friday.
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Iraq constitution signing put off
BAGHDAD, March 5: Last-minute objections by five Shia leaders forced the indefinite postponement of Friday's signing of an interim constitution for Iraq, threatening US plans to hand sovereignty back to Iraqis on June 30.
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Five killed in Yemen mosque shooting
SANAA, March 5: Five people were killed and 30 others wounded on Friday when a gunman opened fire outside a mosque in the southern Yemeni province of Dhamar before killing himself, a security official quoted by the official SABA news agency said.
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Baghdad airport attacked
BAGHDAD, March 5: Several mortar rounds hit Baghdad's main airport on Friday, hours before Iraqi leaders were due to sign an interim constitution, but there were no casualties, a military spokesman said.
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Blair suggests change in law to allow pre-emptive strikes
LONDON, March 5: British Prime Minister Tony Blair, battling to shake off the damaging controversy of the Iraq invasion, called on Friday for a shake-up of the United Nations
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