Muttahida unseats 3 MNAs: Ministers removed
KARACHI, March 14: In a major organizational shake-up the Muttahida Qaumi Movement on Sunday unseated its three MNAs from Karachi and replaced some of its ministers at the federal and provincial levels. The shake-up involved sacking of one federal and one provincial minister and one adviser and induction of another minister.
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Fate of NSC bill hangs in balance: Muttahida said to have reservations
ISLAMABAD, March 14: Sources in the Muttahida Qaumi Movement said on Sunday that the party had a number of reservations on the draft National Security Council bill which the government wants to present to the National Assembly during the current session.
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Musharraf's comments on terrorism rile India
NEW DELHI, March 14: India on Sunday responded angrily to President Gen Pervez Musharraf's address to a symposium in New Delhi, accusing him of double standards in defining terrorism and taking exception to what it described as avoidable public rhetoric on Kashmir.
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Pressure stepped up on tribesmen
WANA, March 14: Authorities in the South Waziristan tribal region have slapped a string of punitive actions on tribesmen to force them into handing over people suspected of sheltering and supporting Al Qaeda militants.
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Army troops withdrawn from Quetta
QUETTA, March 14: The Balochistan authorities withdrew army troops from Quetta on Saturday and handed over the city to Frontier Corps personnel. People during 12-hour relaxation in curfew on Sunday witnessed that FC personnel, instead of Army troops
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7 executed on jirga's orders in Orakzai
ISLAMABAD, March 14: Seven people were shot dead in the semi-autonomous region of Orakzai on Sunday after a meeting of elders handed down death sentences against them, officials said.
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Accident leaves 6 armymen dead
QUETTA, March 14: At least six army personnel were killed and 21 were injured when their truck meet a fatal accident on the Quetta-Karachi highway, near Surab, 250 km from here, on Sunday. An army truck carrying personnel from Quetta and bound for Khuzdar
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Ustad Vilayat Ali Khan dead
NEW DELHI, March 14: Sitar maestro Ustad Vilayat Khan, who ruled the world of Indian classical music as a widely adulated monarch for more than five decades, died in Mumbai on Saturday after a brief bout of lung cancer.
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BJP, Congress vie to cash in on cricket win
NEW DELHI, March 14: Front pages of most leading Indian newspapers on Sunday carried Mohammed Kaif's catch off Shoaib Malik to tell the story of India's victory over Pakistan in Karachi the day before.
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Six die in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, March 14: Five Kashmiris freedom fighters and a civilian were killed and six others injured in the latest burst of violence in occupied Kashmir, police said on Sunday.
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UN team attacked in Afghanistan
KABUL, March 14: The house of a United Nations team working to register voters for Afghanistan's upcoming elections was attacked by suspected Taliban on Sunday as the democratic process rolled forward with the naming of five political parties to contest the polls.
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3 Taliban held in US-led operation
SPIN BOLDAK, March 14: Three Taliban commanders have been arrested in a US-led sweep of southeastern Afghanistan aimed at crushing members of the former regime and their Al Qaeda allies, an Afghan army officer said on Sunday.
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Four US soldiers killed in Baghdad
BAGHDAD, March 14: Bomb attacks in Baghdad killed four US soldiers, the army said on Sunday, bringing to nine the number of troops killed in Iraq in the last four days by explosives planted by guerillas to target American patrols.
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Suicide attacks leave 11 dead in Israel
AL QUDS, March 14: At least 11 people were killed and 20 injured in double suicide bomb attacks in the Israeli port city of Ashdod on Sunday afternoon, media reports said.
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Libyan nuclear components on display
WASHINGTON, March 14: US officials are showing reporters on Monday nuclear components just flown out of Libya. The exhibition aims at strengthening President George Bush's claim that his administration's tough policies
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Spain polls begin amid grief
MADRID, March 14: Traumatised Spaniards voted in droves on Sunday in a general election thrown wide open by a new claim that Al Qaeda rather than Basque separatists was behind the Madrid train bombs that killed 200 people last week.
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Landslide for Putin
MOSCOW, March 14: Russian President Vladimir Putin swept back into the Kremlin on Sunday with a landslide election win that analysts said augured well for economic reform, but liberals fear could spell bad news for democracy.
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Private property allowed in China
BEIJING, March 14: China's parliament amended the constitution on Sunday to protect private property, a landmark move in the Communist ideology of the world's most populous nation.
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