Pakistan Day today
ISLAMABAD, March 22: The nation will celebrate Pakistan Day on Tuesday with a renewed pledge to make the country a strong, progressive and prosperous Islamic welfare state.
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Defence, security situation discussed
ISLAMABAD, March 22: President General Pervez Musharraf presided over a special session of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee meeting here on Monday to discuss the defence and national security situation in the country.
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NA to debate Wana issue on Thursday
ISLAMABAD, March 22: The government has conceded to the demand of the opposition to hold a full-fledged debate in the National Assembly on the ongoing military operation in Wana against the "foreign terrorists,"
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Tunnel found in Kaloosha
PESHAWAR, March 22: The much-talked about 'high-value target' being hunted by Pakistani troops during their massive operation against foreign militants and their local protectors in the South Waziristan area
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12 troops die as army convoy is ambushed
PESHAWAR, March 22: Twelve soldiers of the Pakistan Army were killed and twenty-two wounded when an army convoy was ambushed near Sarwakai on Wana road in the volatile South Waziristan tribal region on Monday, official sources said.
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Pakistan rejects US envoy's remarks
ISLAMABAD, March 22: Pakistan on Monday angrily rejected comments by the US ambassador to Afghanistan that senior members of the ousted Taliban were hiding in Pakistan.
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NA regrets Hamas leader's killing
ISLAMABAD, March 22: The National Assembly on Monday regretted the assassination of Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin by an Israeli air strike in a mild resolution passed unanimously
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Islamabad condemns Tel Aviv
ISLAMABAD, March 22: Pakistan condemned on Monday the assassination of top Hamas leader and feared this act of Israel will pose serious threat to peace efforts in the Middle East.
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Indus treaty team leaves for India
LAHORE, March 22: A three-member delegation of the Pakistan Indus Water Basin Treaty commissionerate left here on Monday for India.
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Sectarian killer awarded death
KARACHI, March 22: An accused in a sectarian murder case was sentenced to death on Monday on two counts by an anti-terrorism court.
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Two Pakistanis held in Poland
WARSAW, March 22: Polish police said on Monday they had arrested two Pakistanis and a Ukrainian, amid fears of a terrorist attack.
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Sistani asks UN not to endorse interim constitution
BAGHDAD, March 22: Iraq's top Shia leader has urged the United Nations not to endorse the country's interim constitution, his office said on Monday, raising a potentially grave obstacle to US plans to hand power to Iraqis on July 1.
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Israeli terror sparks fury: Sheikh Yassin assassinated; Hamas vows matching response
 GAZA CITY, March 22: Vowing revenge, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians jammed the streets of Gaza City on Monday for the funeral of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the founder and spiritual leader of the Hamas resistance movement, killed in an Israeli missile strike earlier in the day. ...
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Assassination of Yassin condemned worldwide
BRUSSELS, March 22: EU and other world leaders on Monday strongly condemned as unlawful the assassination of Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and warned Israel may have buried the peace process along with any hope of resolving the bloody Arab-Israeli conflict. Governments urged both sides to show restraint, fearful the killing would unleash a new spiral of violence ...
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