Hashmi denies sedition charge
ISLAMABAD, April 3: ARD President Makhdoom Javed Hashmi on Saturday denied charges of sedition and mutiny and said the October 12, 1999, coup had lowered the army's prestige among the people.
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FO says MNNA status to consolidate ties with US
ISLAMABAD, April 3: Pakistan on Saturday said that the 'kind of opportunities' to be available to it as a major non-Nato ally of the United States would be known only after Washington completed the process of extending the status to Islamabad.
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No second thoughts on MNNA status: US
WASHINGTON, April 3: The US State Department has rejected speculations that President George Bush is having second thoughts about designating Pakistan a major non-Nato ally.
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Troops, tribesmen exchange fire: Convoy attacked in N. Waziristan
MIRAMSHAH, April 3: Pakistan troops and local tribesmen exchanged fire about 20 kilometres to the west of regional headquarters of North Waziristan tribal region on Saturday.
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Uzbekistan seeks details on captives
WANA, April 3: Tribal leaders on Saturday rushed hundreds of armed men to remote villages near the Afghan border to hunt down Al Qaeda fighters as authorities set a new deadline for their surrender, local leaders said.
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PM wants award before budget: NFC process moving smoothly - Shaukat
ISLAMABAD, April 3: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali has asked Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz to finalize the 6th National Finance Commission award before the announcement of the federal budget for the next financial year.
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NFC award Mahar in Lahore, meets experts
LAHORE, April 3: Sindh Chief Minister Sardar Ali Mohammad Mahar discussed his province's stand on the NFC award with financial experts from public and private sectors here on Saturday.
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Syllabus must adhere to Islamic spirit, says Jamali
ISLAMABAD, April 3: Educational institutions' syllabus must not contain anything that is contrary to tenets of Islam and the ideology of Pakistan, s at educational institutions of the country
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Clarification
ISLAMABAD, April 3: Apropos news item about dates for by- elections for six vacant NA and PA seats, the Election Commission has clarified that elections to these seats will be held on May 12 and not May 5, as erroneously reported by APP.
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US soldier shot at near Khost
KABUL, April 3: A US soldier was shot by a sniper while on patrol in Afghanistan and a militant was killed after a hand grenade attack on another convoy in the same area near the Pakistani border, a military official said on Saturday.
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Data given to UN was not solid, admits Powell
WASHINGTON, April 3: US Secretary of State Colin Powell acknowledged on Friday that information he gave the United Nations on Iraq's mobile biological weapons laboratories to justify last year's invasion did not appear "solid" any longer.
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Two police chiefs shot dead in Iraq
BAGHDAD, April 3: Gunmen killed a police chief in Baghdad on Saturday, the second to be shot dead in 24 hours and the latest in a growing list of security officers killed by guerillas who target anyone linked to Iraq's occupiers.
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Sri Lanka set for coalition govt
COLOMBO, April 3: Sri Lanka was headed on Saturday for a shaky coalition government as President Chandrika Kumaratunga's party made gains in an election called to settle a power struggle that has set back the island's peace process.
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China, Japan in talks to settle disputes
BEIJING, April 3: China and Japan tried to start mending diplomatic fences on Saturday but appeared far apart over conflicts stemming from Tokyo's World War Two occupation and the disputed sovereignty of a tiny group of islands.
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Demo against monarchy in Nepal; 205 injured
KATHMANDU, April 3: Thousands of anti-monarchy protesters threw stones and torched cars on Saturday as they shut down Kathmandu in a strike to denounce clashes outside the king's palace that left 205 people hurt.
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One killed in Spain bomb blast
MADRID, April 3: A police officer was killed and eight other people were injured in an explosion in a Madrid suburb on Saturday where police were hunting for suspects in the March 11 bombings, the Web site of newspaper El Mundo said.
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