Mushahid named secretary-general: PML office-bearers appointed
ISLAMABAD May 26: Pakistan Muslim League president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Wednesday named office-bearers of the newly unified PML after a meeting with President Pervez Musharraf, with the key secretary-general's office going to former information minister Mushahid Hussain Syed.
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Infrastructure a priority: Aziz
KARACHI, May 26: The government proposes to make highest-ever allocation for public sector spending in the forthcoming budget, Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz said at a pre-budget meeting organized by the Karachi Stock Exchange on Wednesday.
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Karachi rocked by two car bombs: Guard killed, mediamen among 33 injured
KARACHI, May 26: A police guard was killed and at least 33 people, including police personnel and media men, were wounded when two car bombs exploded in succession near the Pak-American Cultural Centre
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Bomb blasts: US says its diplomat not targeted
WASHINGTON, May 26: The US State Department said on Wednesday that the US consul-general was not the target of two car-bomb blasts in Karachi that killed a policeman and injured over 30 people. Both the blasts occurred about 150 yards from the official residence of the US consul-general in the city.
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Official summoned in water probe
HYDERABAD, May 26: Chief Secretary Sindh Dr Mutawakal Kazi, who is conducting an inquiry into the release of contaminated water from the Manchar Lake into the River Indus causing a severe health crisis
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Team leaves for India to discuss water issues
LAHORE, May 24: A delegation of the Pakistan Commission for Indus Water left here for India on Wednesday for talks on water-related issues. According to the agenda of the meeting
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Straw's remarks criticized
MUZAFFARABAD, May 26: Hizbul Mujahideen has expressed regrets at the alleged condemnation by the British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw of last Sunday's landmine explosion by the group in held Kashmir which left at least 32 people including 19 soldiers dead.
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Four Indian soldiers killed in Valley
SRINAGAR, May 26: Four India army soldiers were killed in an overnight gunbattle with members of a Mujahideen group in occupied Kashmir, police said on Wednesday.
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Delhi's talks with Kashmiris in July
NEW DELHI, May 26: India's newly-elected government on Wednesday said peace talks with a moderate faction of Kashmir's main separatist alliance were likely to be held in the first week of July.
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Dixit made security adviser
NEW DELHI, May 26: Former ambassador to Pakistan Jyotindra Nath Dixit was named India's new National Security Advisor (NSA) on Wednesday, reviving a more familiar 'Congress-era' foreign policy pursuit but with the new nuclear dimension in mind.
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'Afghan polls to be held as scheduled'
ISLAMABAD, May 26: The spokesman for Afghan president has said that general elections in Afghanistan would be held according to the schedule in September.
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20 suspected Taliban killed in bombing
KABUL, May 26: US warplanes and Afghan forces have killed some 20 suspected Taliban fighters in raids on mountain hideouts near the Pakistani border, scattering some 200 insurgents, local officials said on Wednesday.
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Two Russians killed in Iraq
BAGHDAD, May 26: A Russian energy firm said it was pulling out of Iraq after two of its workers were killed and six wounded in an ambush by masked men on Wednesday, in the latest blow to efforts to rebuild the country.
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Top Sadr aide arrested: Up to 100 killed in fighting - US general
BAGHDAD, May 26: US-led forces killed dozens of Shia militiamen loyal to Moqtada Sadr in a night of fighting in Iraq that saw one of his key lieutenants arrested in a raid on his home in Najaf.
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US sees threat of big Al Qaeda attack: Coming events attractive targets
WASHINGTON, May 26: The United States fears Al Qaeda is plotting a big attack inside the country or on US interests but has no plans to raise the terror threat level and no details on when
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AI accuses US, UK of unlawful killings
WASHINGTON, May 26: The Amnesty International said on Wednesday that the US-led "war on terrorism" was "bankrupt of vision" and had led to a world beset with fear and intimidation.
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