Unified PML to boost progress, hopes Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, May 17: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has expressed the hope that the unified Pakistan Muslim League (PML) will be able to collectively focus its energies for socio- economic welfare of the people and alleviation of poverty.
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MMA calls for fresh by-polls in Karachi
ISLAMABAD, May 17: The Supreme Council of Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) on Monday rejected Karachi's by-polls results, demanded resignation of the Chief Election Commissioner, asked the president to sack the Sindh governor and called for holding fresh
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Nek Mohammad parts ways with foreign militants, claims official
WANA, May 17: In a major development in the standoff over foreign militants hiding in the outh Waziristan tribal region, a tribal militant on Monday dissociated himself from their rank and offered to back up military operations
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Pakistan team to visit India for N-talks
ISLAMABAD, May 17: Pakistan will send a seven-member delegation for expert-level talks with India on nuclear confidence-building measures (CBMs) next week and it has already informed New Delhi about it through diplomatic channels
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Sonia's stand positive: FO
ISLAMABAD, May 17: Foreign Office spokesman Masood A. Khan said on Monday that Pakistan regarded as 'very positive' the statements of Ms Sonia Gandhi on the Pakistan-India dialogue initiated by former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee.
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Kashmir: Kasuri pins hopes on UN observers' group
UNITED NATIONS, May 17: Pakistan said on Monday that the UN Military Observers Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) "can help in promoting a just and peaceful resolution of the Jammu and Kashmir dispute."
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Peace to help improve HR in S. Asia: US
WASHINGTON, May 17: Continued rapprochement between Pakistan and India has the potential to improve human rights in Jammu and Kashmir, says the annual US human rights report released on Monday.
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Missing preacher still untraced
QUETTA, May 17: Police here were clueless till Monday evening about Christian preacher Wilson Fazal who went missing on Sunday. "Despite passage of 36 hours my father did not return home," Jerry Wilson
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Kalam invites Sonia for discussion on new govt
NEW DELHI, May 17: Indian President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam on Monday invited Congress president Sonia Gandhi for talks on the formation of the country's next government. She will be sworn in as prime minister on Wednesday.
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US may allow ICRC to visit Afghan jail
KABUL, May 17: The US military is considering granting the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) access to a second detention facility in Afghanistan following allegations of abuse from former detainees, a spokesman said on Monday.
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Suicide bombers kill Iraq interim council chief
BAGHDAD, May 17: A suicide car bomber killed the head of Iraq's Governing Council on Monday, increasing fears that instability will make a new Iraqi government unable to function when US occupiers hand it power in six weeks.
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Powell admits to feeding fake report to UN on Iraq
WASHINGTON, May 17: US Secretary of State Colin Powell has admitted that the information he used in his UN Security Council address for justifying invasion of Iraq was false.
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US help sought to stop Israeli actions
RAFAH, May 17: Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qorei appealed to the White House on Monday for intervention to stop Israel's threatened mass demolition of homes in a Gaza refugee camp as panicked residents fled.
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UN asks Israel to stop demolition
UNITED NATIONS MAY 17. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan asked Israel on Monday to stop bulldozing homes along the Gaza-Egypt border, saying the demolitions violate international law and inhibit UN refugee workers from doing their jobs.
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Bombs blast in Turkey before Blair's visit
ANKARA, May 17: Three homemade bombs exploded overnight in front of branches of a British bank in Turkey before a visit by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who is to discuss the country's bid to join the European Union and the future of divided island of Cyprus.
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Fire kills 102 prisoners in Honduras jail
TEGUCIGALPA, May 17: A huge fire at a prison in northern Honduras killed 102 inmates on Monday, all of them members of a violent street gang the government is trying to break up.
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