MMA blasts govt over Wana operation
ISLAMABAD, March 20: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) supreme council on Saturday condemned the government for bypassing parliament while launching a military operation in Wana
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Lawyers plan protest on 26th
LAHORE, March 20: A national conference of representative lawyers on Saturday called for a nationwide protest on March 26 against the Wana operation, saying the campaign had put the unity of the country at stake.
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100 captured in S. Waziristan: 13 civilians killed in attack on vehicles
PESHAWAR, March 20: Thousands of troops battling foreign militants holed up in South Waziristan on Saturday captured over 100 suspected Al Qaeda remnants and their local supporters
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Poverty to be reduced thru new jobs: Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, March 20: President Gen Pervez Musharraf said on Friday that Pakistan had moved forward in all aspects of economy and was following the policy of reducing poverty through job creation. Talking to the delegates of the Pakistan Development Forum at a dinner he hosted for them
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Arbitration planned on hydropower profit
ISLAMABAD, March 20: An informal meeting of the National Finance Commission (NFC) decided here on Saturday to constitute a four-member arbitration commission acceptable to both Wapda and the NWFP
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US decision disappoints India
NEW DELHI, March 20: India on Saturday expressed disappointment with US Secretary of State Colin Powell, claiming that he kept New Delhi in the dark about Washington's decision to make Pakistan a major non-Nato ally.
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Muzaffarabad, Srinagar bus service from August 1
ISLAMABAD, March 20: The Indian government has announced to start bus service between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad from August 1. According to Voice of America, the decision was taken in the ministerial meeting of the two sides.
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Rangers, BSF officials to meet in Lahore
NEW DELHI, March 20: Officers of Pakistan Rangers and India's paramilitary Border Security Forces would meet in Lahore on March 24 for the first time after the December 2001 attack on Indian parliament, reports said on Saturday.
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Three killed in Dalbandin blast
QUETTA, March 20: Three persons were killed and another seriously injured in an explosion, which occurred near Dalbandin in the Chagai district on Saturday.
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US helicopters bomb tribal area: 3 injured
MIRAMSHAH, March 20: Three tribesmen were injured when they came under bombardment by US helicopter gunships in the Madakhel Wazir tribe's area
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Six Afghans die in Uruzgan attack
KANDAHAR, March 20: At least six Afghan civilians were killed and seven wounded in a US airstrike in the central province of Uruzgan on Friday night, officials said.
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APHC to hold talks with Advani on 27th
NEW DELHI, March 20: Kashmir's All Parties Hurriyat Conference led by Moulvi Abbas Ansari on Saturday decided to hold a second round of talks with Indian Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishan Advani on March 27.
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Worldwide protest against Iraq occupation
MADRID, March 20: Hundreds of thousands took to streets across the world on Saturday to demand the withdrawal of US-led occupying forces from Iraq on the first anniversary of the start of the invasion.
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US ready to help Arabs adopt democracy
RIYADH, March 20: US Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Saturday that the United States stood ready to help Arab countries move toward democracy but had no intention of imposing that system on them.
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US freezes records of UN programme
KUWAIT CITY, March 20: The United States on Saturday announced the impounding of Iraq's oil-for-food programme records so as to assist a UN fraud enquiry.
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Taiwan's president re-elected
TAIPEI, March 20: Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian won re-election on Saturday, a day after he was hit by gunfire from a would-be assassin
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