'Jamali-Shujaat rifts widen'
LAHORE, May 30: All efforts to settle party differences between Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali and the ruling party president Chaudhry Shujaat Husain have failed. "Suspicions are there. The gap between the two could not be narrowed," reliable sources told Dawn on Sunday.
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Jamali promises welfare budget: PML discusses Karachi situation
ISLAMABAD, May 30: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali here on Sunday said that the government was trying to prepare a welfare-oriented and people-friendly budget. Speaking at a meeting of the unified Pakistan Muslim League here
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Religious scholar Shamzai shot dead
KARACHI, May 30: Renowned religious scholar Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai was assassinated on Sunday, and his son, nephew and chauffeur were wounded when their car was sprayed with bullets in front of their home, a few yards from the Jamia Binnoria in Jamshed Town.
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Hunt on for 'mastermind' behind attacks on Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, May 30: A joint team of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), the Special Services Group (SSG) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have zeroed in on Bannu region towards the Pak-Afghan border in their hunt for the 'mastermind' behind two life attempts on President Pervez Musharraf
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6,000 shops in Wana closed down
WANA, May 30: Authorities in South Waziristan have closed down the biggest bazaar in the regional headquarters as part of an economic blockade of Ahmadzai Wazir tribesmen to pressure them into giving up their support to foreign militants.
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Missile plan a big achievement, says ISPR
ISLAMABAD, May 30: Maj-Gen Shaukat Sultan, the Director General, Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), on Sunday said that Pakistan's missile programme was a big achievement and the nation should be proud of it.
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24 children, women imprisoned: Criminal's family punished under FCR
PESHAWAR, May 30: The North Waziristan agency's administration hassentenced 24 women and children of a family to three years imprisonment under the collective responsibility clause of the Frontier Crimes Regulation.
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India to suspend work on power project
LAHORE, May 30: India has agreed to suspend all construction work on the Kishan Ganga Hydroelectric Project for six months and address Pakistan's reservations before recommencing work
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Delhi warns of arms race
NEW DELHI, May 30: Observing that testing of nuclear-capable Hatf V missile by Pakistan was "escalating" the arms race, Indian Home Minister Shivraj Patil said on Sunday if it persisted with such tests, India will have to take note of it.
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Vajpayee was anguished over Gujarat pogrom: aide
NEW DELHI, May 30: India's former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee was "anguished" over Hindu-Muslim bloodshed but indecisive due to political compulsions from his right-wing base, his government's legal adviser said.
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Kabul offered more assistance
NEW DELHI, May 30: Afghanistan's national security advisor Dr Zalmai Rasoul arrived here on Sunday and met his Indian counterpart Jyotindra Nath Dixit and Foreign Minister Natwar Singh, a foreign ministry spokesman said.
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Four US soldiers killed in Afghan landmine blast
KABUL, May 30: Four US soldiers were killed in a landmine blast in Afghanistan as violence erupted in at least three districts in the south of the country, Afghan and US officials said Sunday.
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2 Palestinian diplomats freed from Abu Ghraib
BAGHDAD, May 30: Two Palestinian diplomats have been released after being held for a year in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, a Palestinian official said here on Sunday.
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Hostages rescued in Al Khobar: Stand off ends; toll 22
AL KHOBAR, May 30: Twenty-two people, most of them foreign civilians, were killed in attacks here by armed militants, the Saudi Ministry of Interior announced on Sunday evening.
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Arab countries slam Al Khobar attacks
RIYADH, May 30: Saudi Arabia's Gulf partners on Sunday joined a chorus of condemnation over the attacks and killings in Saudi Arabia and expressed their solidarity with the kingdom as it wages its own war on terror.
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IAEA vows to continue probe into Libya's plan
VIENNA, May 30: The UN atomic agency has vowed to persist in investigating Libya's now abandoned nuclear weapons programme, as much to discover new facts about Libya as about the international smuggling network that supplied it.
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