Musharraf says military men tried to kill him: Mastermind absconding, operatives held
ISLAMABAD, May 27: President General Pervez Musharraf has disclosed that some junior officials of Pakistan Army and Pakistan Air Force have been arrested for their alleged involvement in an assassination attempt on him in Rawalpindi in December last year.
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Al Qaeda link in blasts suspected
KARACHI, May 27: Authorities said on Thursday they suspected a network of religious militants, possibly aided by Al Qaeda, were behind a double car bomb attack near a US consul's residence in which a policeman was killed and over 30 people were injured.
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Peace talks to remain unaffected: Shujaat
ISLAMABAD, May 27: The ruling Pakistan Muslim League president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Thursday expressed confidence that the recent change of government in India will not derail the peace process initiated between the two countries during the BJP regime.
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Pakistan unsure where India will pick up threads
ISLAMABAD, May 27: The government told a parliamentary foreign affairs panel on Thursday it was hopeful about progress in peace process with India but was unsure about where the new Indian government would like to pick up the threads in planned dialogue with Pakistan.
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Talks held with US over border incursions
MIRAMSHAH, May 27: Senior Pakistani and US military officials met at a border checkpoint in the North Waziristan tribal region on Thursday to discuss recent incursions by American troops into the tribal area, official sources said.
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Australia stops issuing visas
RAWALPINDI, May 27: The Australian High Commission in Islamabad has temporarily stopped issuing visas, apparently in reaction to the rejection of wheat shipment by Pakistan, sources said on Thursday.
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Another NFC meeting likely on 30th
ISLAMABAD, May 27: The federal government is contemplating to arrange another informal meeting of the National Finance Commission on May 30 to solve the impasse on the sixth award, finance ministry sources told Dawn.
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Water plant chlorinator 'out of order for 10 months'
HYDERABAD, May 27: A World Health Organization team, which is conducting a survey and collecting facts about the supply of contaminated water in Hyderabad, took samples from the Indus river at Kotri, Jamshoro, Hussainabad, Paretabad
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Amnesty reports widespread abuses in Pakistan, India
WASHINGTON, May 27: Amnesty International has criticized both India and Pakistan for carrying out gross human rights violations in their efforts to fight terrorism.
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Eight killed in Valley
SRINAGAR, May 27: Five Mujahideen and three Muslim civilians were killed in the latest flare-up of violence in occupied Kashmir, police said on Thursday. The Kashmiri fighters were killed in two clashes with Indian forces in Anantnag and Baramulla, police said.
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Indian govt vows to address poverty
NEW DELHI, May 27: It was Sonia Gandhi's day on Thursday as the Congress leader got an unwieldy ragtag coalition to fall in line even as she retrieved lost prestige in the key state of Karnataka where she installed an administration of her party despite its recent defeat.
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Powell claims peace role in South Asia
NEW DELHI, May 27: The national security advisers of India and the United States on Thursday exchanged notes on the political change of guard in New Delhi as US Secretary of State Colin Powell reverted to his theme: but for Washington India and Pakistan would have gone to war in 2002.
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Blast leaves two Afghan children dead
KANDAHAR, May 27: Two children were killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, one day after a major operation to hunt and kill Taliban in the region, an official said.
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Washington claims truce with Sadr: Britain sending more troops to Iraq
BAGHDAD, May 27: Radical Shia leader Moqtada Sadr appeared ready to end his resistance on Thursday in what would be a major breakthrough for US-led efforts to stabilize Iraq ahead of next month's transfer of sovereignty.
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Iraqi council member's son killed
DOHA, May 27: The son of Iraqi Governing Council member Salama al-Khufaji was killed during an attempt on her life south of Baghdad on Thursday, Qatar's Al-Jazeera TV reported, saying he drowned after his car crashed in a river.
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Sharon cuts down pullout plan
TEL AVIV, May 27: Bowing to hardline ministers opposed to his Gaza Strip pullout plan, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon agreed on Thursday to a cut-down version that starts by removing just three of 21 settlements.
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Radical scholar arrested in London
LONDON, May 27: Britain arrested radical Muslim scholar Abu Hamza al Masri in a pre-dawn raid on Thursday after the United States sought his extradition on charges of hostage-taking and supporting Al Qaeda.
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5 protesters shot dead in Lebanon
BEIRUT, May 27: Five people were killed and many more wounded on Thursday after soldiers opened fire in a poor Beirut suburb during protests against soaring fuel prices that brought Lebanon to a near standstill.
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