Pagaro sees no future for unified PML
KHAIRPUR/SUKKUR, May 16: Pakistan Muslim League (Functional) president Pir Pagaro has said that the unified Muslim League will not last long because some people have joined it only for a share in power.
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Talks held with US on N-export controls
ISLAMABAD, May 16: US Under Secretary of State Kenneth I. Juster on Sunday held talks with Pakistani officials on the peaceful use of nuclear civilian technology and export controls, the foreign ministry said.
The cabinet approved on Wednesday a draft bill to tighten controls on the export of nuclear weapons technology.
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Accession to NPT only as N-state: Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, May 16: Pakistan has communicated to the international community that it would "accede to NPT only as a nuclear weapon state," knowledgeable sources told Dawn here on Sunday.
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PM urges effective system to curb terror
JACOBABAD, May 16: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali has stressed the need for an effective system of intelligence and law-enforcement to eradicate the menace of terrorism.
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Lashkar to enforce registration
WANA, May 16: The Ahmadzai Wazir tribe formed a 4,000-strong lashkar to force foreign militants believed to be hiding in the South Waziristan agency to get themselves registered as a deadline set by the administration for the purpose ended on Sunday.
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Sindh may accept Punjab's stand: GST distribution
ISLAMABAD, May 16: Sindh has indicated its willingness to accept Punjab's stand about distribution of general sales tax on the basis of population instead of audited accounts under the sixth National Finance Commission award.
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Reduced water release irks Sindh
ISLAMABAD, May 16: Sindh has protested over water releases which it says are 10 per cent lower than its approved share at the start of the current Kharif season, Dawn has learnt.
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'Trade with Kabul increasing'
ISLAMABAD, May 16: Finance ministers of Pakistan and Afghanistan and deputy secretary of US Department of Treasury held a trilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Annual Meetings of Asian Development Bank
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Six suspects held in Gujrat clash case
GUJRAT, May 16: Saddar police in Gujrat registered a case on Sunday and sealed the FIR lodged in connection with Saturday night's armed clash in Madina Syedan village in which 14 people had died over a minor dispute.
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Sonia likely to take oath this week
NEW DELHI, May 16: Congress president Sonia Gandhi will be sworn in as the next prime minister of India this week, possibly on Wednesday, her coalitions partners announced on Sunday.
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US soldier killed in Helmand
KABUL, May 16: A US soldier was killed and another two injured when their combat patrol was attacked in southern Afghanistan, a US military spokeswoman said on Sunday.
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Troops to stay in Iraq after June: Bush
BAGHDAD, May 16: Despite the persistent violence, President George W. Bush vowed that US troops would stay on in Iraq after the end of the occupation.
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Iraq close to civil war: Abdullah
WASHINGTON, May 16: Iraq is closer to civil war today than it was a year ago, Jordan's King Abdullah said on Sunday. "It's more likely today than it was a year ago," Abdullah told American television network ABC's "This Week with George Stephan opoulos."
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Rumsfeld under fire over atrocities
WASHINGTON, May 16: US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld came under renewed fire on Sunday, following news reports that he approved a programme encouraging abusive interrogation methods used at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.
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Bid to storm UK embassy in Tehran foiled
TEHRAN, May 16: Several hundred students threw rocks at the British embassy here and tried to storm the building in a protest on Sunday over the US-led occupation of Iraq
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Israelis kill four in Gaza
AL QUDS, May 16: Israeli soldiers killed four Palestinians as they tried to cross the border into Israel from the Gaza Strip on Sunday evening, Israel Radio reported.
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