C'wealth to discuss Pakistan's return
LONDON, May 21: Foreign ministers and officials from nine Commonwealth nations converged here on Friday for a two-day meeting that could see Pakistan back inside the 53-nation club after remaining out of it for five years.
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6 rockets fired near Gwadar airport
QUETTA, May 21: At least six rockets were fired and heavy gun fire heard near Gwadar airport in the early hours on Friday, police said. No causality or damage to the airport was reported
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Lashkar ends search, says no foreign militant found: Government not satisfied
WANA, May 21: A tribal lashkar ended its hunt on Friday saying it found no evidence of any foreign militant in the South Waziristan tribal region and has formed a 30-member committee to continue search in the remaining villages.
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Provinces will base budgets on old award: NFC rifts unresolved
ISLAMABAD, May 21: The federal government has decided in principle to go ahead with the implementation of the National Finance Commission (NFC) award for another year (2004-05) owing to differences among the stakeholders on a resource-sharing formula, it is learnt.
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Macedonia apologises to Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, May 21: Macedonia has offered apologies and assured full justice to families of six innocent Pakistanis who were killed in a fake encounter in Macedonian capital in March 2002.
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Samjhota Express schedule changed
ISLAMABAD, May 21: Pakistan Railways has announced a change in the schedule of Samjhota Express, the passenger train that runs between Wagah and Atari, from Monday (May 24).
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Contaminated water kills child, woman in Hyderabad
HYDERABAD, May 21: A child and a woman died on Friday of diseases believed to have been caused by contaminated water. The child, Ghulam Hussain, died at the Civil Hospital
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Incursion a mistake, says Pentagon
WASHINGTON, May 21: The Pentagon said on Friday that the latest US incursion into North Waziristan was a mistake and the result of a misunderstanding.
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Pakistani sentenced to death in India
NEW DELHI, May 21: A New Delhi court on Friday awarded death to a Pakistani for killing an Indian soldier, saying that such extreme punishment was necessary to "castrate" terrorism.
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Singh may be sworn in today
NEW DELHI, May 21: India's new government was facing problems even before its ministers were to be sworn in with some extensive talks on Friday between the Congress Party and its allies on cabinet posts.
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APHC seeks India-Pakistan summit in Srinagar
NEW DELHI, May 21: More than 100,000 Kashmiris gathered in Srinagar on Friday to remember their martyred leaders, where they also resolved that the next India-Pakistan summit be held in Srinagar, the region's spiritual leader, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, said.
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Fierce fighting in Karbala leaves 8 civilians dead
KARBALA, Iraq, May 21: An Iraqi working for Al-Jazeera television and eight other civilians were killed in ferocious fighting between US troops and Shia militiamen in the holy city of Karbala, medics said on Friday.
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Dreadful torture surfaces in more Iraq photos: Another centre of ghastly acts found
WASHINGTON, May 21: Abuses worse than those reported from the Abu Ghraib prison were committed at a US military interrogation facility at the Baghdad airport, media reports said on Friday.
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Israel leaves some Rafah areas
RAFAH, May 21: The Israeli army on Friday pulled out of several areas of Rafah amid an international outcry over the killings of more than 40 Palestinians there this week in a devastating military raid.
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UK envoy hurt in BD blast
DHAKA, May 21: A powerful bomb exploded at a shrine in Bangladesh on Friday, killing two men and injuring nearly 50 people, among them the British ambassador.
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Saudi Arabia forms rapid reaction force
RIYADH, May 21: Saudi Arabia has set up a rapid reaction force to confront terror attacks and natural disasters, the director of the Saudi Civil Defence Maj. Gen. Saad Al-Tuwaijri said in remarks published here on Friday.
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