Jamali, Shujaat discuss situation: Calls for polls annoy PM
ISLAMABAD, May 1: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali met PML-Q president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Saturday and discussed with him the political situation
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C'wealth help sought for Shahbaz
LAHORE, May 1: The PML-N has approached the Commonwealth with a request that it adopt a "robust approach" to facilitate Sahabaz Sharif's return to Pakistan.
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ANP threatens to cut Punjab power supply: NWFP wheat shortage termed acute
KARACHI, May 1: Awami National Party chief Asfandyar Wali Khan said on Saturday that wheat crisis in the NWFP had become so acute that flour had disappeared from markets, with people left searching for it everywhere.
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Pakistan assumes UNSC presidency
UNITED NATIONS, May 1: The worsening crisis in Iraq will dominate the United Nations Security Council agenda in May as Pakistan took over its reins for the month on Saturday. This is the second time Pakistan will head the council during its two-year stint as a non-permanent member of the council
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78 tribesmen freed
WANA, May 1: As many as 78 tribesmen, who had been detained for allegedly providing shelter to Taliban and Al Qaeda elements in the tribal territory, were released on Saturday.
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Skopje revelation shocking: FO
ISLAMABAD, May 1: Foreign Office spokesman Masood Khan on Saturday termed the news about the murder of seven innocent Pakistani illegal immigrants by the Macedonian police in March 2002 shocking revelations.
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Seven Pakistanis were killed to please US: Macedonia
SKOPJE, May 1: Macedonian police acknowledged on Friday that the killing of seven alleged Pakistani terrorists two years ago was staged to win US support and that the victims were innocent illegal immigrants.
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Eight 'outlaws', SHO killed in encounter
RAJANPUR, May 1: Eight 'outlaws' and an SHO were killed in a six-hour shootout in the Kutcha area of the river Indus early Saturday. Rajanpur police also claimed arresting nine other dacoits
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Indian team arrives for reservoirs' inspection
LAHORE, May 1: A three-member Indian team arrived here on Saturday for a week-long routine inspection of water reservoirs over the Pakistani rivers.
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'UK troops abuse Iraqi prisoner'
LONDON, May 1: Britain's mass-circulation Daily Mirror newspaper published photographs on Saturday which it claimed showed British troops abusing an Iraqi prisoner in a camp near Basra, southern Iraq.
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Brahimi leaves for Iraq today
UNITED NATIONS, May 1: The United Nations special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi will leave for Baghdad on Sunday to help set up a new government, hopefully by the end of May, UN officials here said.
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Five Westerners shot dead in S. Arabia
RIYADH, May 1: Five Westerners and a Saudi guard were killed when armed men in coastguard uniforms barged into the offices of an engineering firm in the Saudi industrial city of Yanbu on Saturday morning and opened fire at them.
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European leaders celebrate unification
DUBLIN, May 1: Leaders from old and new European Union states hailed the reunification of their continent on Saturday with prayers, poems and parties and the raising of 25 national flags.
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Millions participate in May Day demos
MOSCOW, May 1: Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in Europe, Africa and Asia for May 1 celebrations supporting causes ranging from social justice to nostalgia for Soviet-era Communism
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