Musharraf not becoming field marshal: Rashid
ISLAMABAD, April 18: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Sheikh Rashid Ahmed strongly rebutted on Sunday speculations about President Pervez Musharraf becoming field marshal in order to retain his army uniform while holding the office of president.
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ARD opposes plans to establish new cantonments
QUETTA, April 18: The Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy on Sunday demanded that a resolution passed by the Balochistan Assembly against establishing new cantonments in the province should be respected.
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Lashkar launches hunt for militants: Talks with wanted men fail
WANA, April 18: Hundreds of armed tribal volunteers on Sunday launched a hunt for foreign and local militants amid reports that some more tribes are expected to enter into an agreement with the government on Monday
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Pakistan should do more: Khalilzad - US envoy reiterates claim
KABUL, April 18: The US Ambassador to Afghanistan, Mr Zalmay Khalilzad, said here on Sunday that remnants of Al Qaeda and Taliban and members of Gulbudin Hekmatyar's Hizbe Islami were still in Pakistan and were involved in cross-border activities.
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Jamali says private sector being encouraged
ISLAMABAD, April 18: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali on Sunday said his government had followed the economic policies initiated by President Gen Pervez Musharraf. He said the continuity of economic policies was necessary to speed up the pace of development
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Provinces offered seven options: Resource-sharing formula
ISLAMABAD, April 18: The federal government has given seven options to the provinces on what is called the horizontal distribution of net proceeds of the divisible pool in the sixth National Finance Commission (NFC) and Punjab will be the loser in all the cases.
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Actions against India to continue: Jihad Council
MUZAFFARABAD, April 18: The Muttahida Jihad Council on Sunday has ruled out a ceasefire with Indian troops in the occupied Kashmir and threatened to continue "effective actions until achieving freedom'.
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3 policemen killed in Afghanistan
MAZAR-I-SHARIF, April 18: A knife-wielding attacker on Sunday killed three Afghan policemen at their headquarters in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, police said.
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10 US troops killed in 2 days
FALLUJAH, April 18: The truce between armed Iraqis and US forces besieging the western Iraqi city of Fallujah was again extended on Sunday, according to a leading Fallujah figure holding negotiations with US forces - but he added that the talks were "difficult".
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Sadr militia wants UN forces in Iraq
SOFIA, April 18: A spokesman for radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr called for the sending of UN peacekeeping troops to Iraq and demanded the immediate withdrawal of US-led occupation forces, in an interview with Bulgarian television broadcast Sunday.
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Spain PM orders pullout from Iraq
MADRID, April 18: Spain's new Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said on Sunday he had given orders for Spain's 1,300 troops in Iraq to come home as soon as possible.
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Hamas vows to avenge Rantissi's murder
GAZA CITY, April 18: Some 200,000 furious Palestinians jammed the streets of Gaza City on Sunday to pay their last respects to slain Hamas leader Abdelaziz Rantissi
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'Bush's support led to Israeli attack'
WASHINGTON, April 18: President Bush's open endorsement of an Israeli plan for suppressing the Palestinian resistance encouraged Israel to assassinate the new Hamas leader
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Arab fighter dies in Chechnya
RIYADH, April 18: The commander of Arab fighters in Chechnya, Abdul Aziz Al Ghamdi (alias Abul Walid), has died in the war-torn Russian republic, a family member said on Sunday.
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