Musharraf will honour 17th Amendment: Uniform controversy should end - Rashid
ISLAMABAD, April 13: Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Tuesday said President Gen Pervez Musharraf would not go against the 17th Amendment requiring him to leave the office of the army chief by December 31 this year.
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Heated Senate debate over NSC
ISLAMABAD, April 13: Political rivals crossed swords in the Senate on Tuesday over the intent of the government's National Security Council (NSC) Bill at the start of a debate on the key law that is sure to get an easy passage from the upper house.
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No govt role in Hashmi case: PM
ISLAMABAD, April 13: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali said on Tuesday that the judgment on Javed Hashmi's case was a decision taken by the court concerned and the government had nothing to do with it.
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N-plan not financed by Muslim states: Benazir
WASHINGTON, April 13: Pakistan's nuclear bomb never had an Islamic character, says the country's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto whose father first coined the term, 'Islamic bomb'.
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Pakistan proposes changes in draft: UN resolution on non-proliferation
ISLAMABAD, April 13: Pakistan has bilaterally conveyed its reservations on the UN draft resolution on non-proliferation to all the five permanent members of the Security Council and proposed certain amendments to that
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Dr Khan's information exposed N. Korea: US
WASHINGTON, April 13: The United States said on Tuesday that the information it had received from scientist Dr A.Q. Khan had enabled it to expose North Korea's claims that it did not have a nuclear weapons programme.
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Musharraf to hold meetings with CMs
ISLAMABAD, April 13: President Gen Pervez Musharraf would preside over two meetings of provincial chief ministers, one on the Police Ordinance and the other on the construction sector, on Wednesday and Thursday, respectively.
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Provinces to get 47pc from divisible pool
ISLAMABAD, April 13: The federal government has told the provinces that their share in the federal divisible pool could not be increased beyond 47 per cent at any cost owing to additional expenses of about Rs75 billion at the federal level during the next year.
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13pc water shortage projected
ISLAMABAD, April 13: Projecting an average shortage of about 13 per cent, the Indus River System Authority on Tuesday decided to distribute provincial water share on the actual annual average use basis in the early and late Kharif season
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Pakistan to give a 'considered response': US request for troops
BHURBAN, April 13: Pakistan will give a considered response to a US request for sending troops to Iraq under the United Nations umbrella, says Foreign Minister Khursheed Kasuri.
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Chinese police team due today
ISLAMABAD, April 13: A high-level delegation of 'Chinese People's Armed Police' is arriving in Islamabad on Wednesday for a week-long visit to discuss security issues and pay homage to soldiers killed during the construction of Karakuram Highway
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US deports 65 Pakistanis
WASHINGTON, April 13: The United States has deported another batch of 65 Pakistanis who are leaving for home on Tuesday from Buffalo, New York.
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4 Pakistanis arrested in Kuwait
KUWAIT CITY, April 13: Kuwait customs authorities on Monday arrested four Pakistanis for trying to smuggle three kilograms of heroin hidden in their stomachs.
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Peace process to be intensified, says Vajpayee
NEW DELHI, April 13: Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has said if elected again his priority will be to intensify the dialogue process with Pakistan to seek permanent peace and a complete normalization of bilateral ties
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Seven shot dead in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, April 13: Indian troops overnight shot dead a freedom fighter trying to cross into occupied Kashmir, while six people were killed elsewhere, officials said on Tuesday.
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300 women, children among Fallujah dead
BAGHDAD, April 13: Half the Iraqis killed in a US offensive in the town of Fallujah were women, children and elderly people, a mediator said on Tuesday, but US officials insisted they took all precautions to avoid non-combatants.
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US Marine, 9 Iraqis killed in fighting
FALLUJAH, April 13: A patchy truce around the besieged city of Fallujah started to unravel on Tuesday with a Marine and nine Iraqis killed in sporadic fighting and an American helicopter forced down under fire.
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16 die in BD accident
DHAKA, April 13: At least 16 people were killed and 30 others injured on Tuesday when two buses collided in northern Bangladesh, a report said. The accident occurred in Tangail district
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