Foreign NGOs warned about suicide attacks
QUETTA, June 5: Offices of the United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Quetta and five other foreign NGOs have been warned against imminent suicide attacks on their offices, it was learnt here on Saturday.
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Tribes allow one-time search
WANA, June 5: Tribes in the Shakai region of South Waziristan have said they would let a tribal lashkar to search their houses but only on the condition that the exercise would not be repeated.
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N. Areas' syllabus issue resolved
GILGIT, June 5: The Northern Areas administration and protesting Shia leaders have agreed to end the three-day long crisis in Gilgit, Skardu and other parts of the Northern Areas when both the parties agreed to sign a formula evolved on Saturday over the Islamiat syllabus issue.
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People will get relief in budget, says PM: Rs80bn allocated for farmers
ISLAMABAD, June 5: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali has said that the next budget will be tax-free and provide relief to the people living in rural areas.
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Provinces to get Rs28bn more: Federal divisible pool
ISLAMABAD, June 5: Provinces will get Rs202 billion in 2004-05 from the federal divisible pool under the existing NFC award against Rs174 billion they had received during the current fiscal year
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Iraqi PM telephones Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, June 5: Prime Minister of the Interim Iraqi Government Iyad Allawi called President Gen Pervez Musharraf on phone on Saturday, a Foreign Office spokesman said on Saturday.
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Irrigation dept officials booked for deaths
HYDERABAD, June 5: The police on Friday registered a case against officials allegedly responsible for supply of contaminated water to the city as another infant died of gastroenteritis taking the toll to 30 here.
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Four hurt as FC vehicle hits landmine
SUKKUR, June 5: Four Frontier Constabulary personnel were seriously injured when their vehicle ran over a landmine in Lanjoo Sanghari near Sui, Balochistan, on Saturday.
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India ready to consider gas pipeline: Natwar
NEW DELHI, June 5: India is willing to consider the gas pipeline from Iran via Pakistan if Islamabad provides international security guarantees, External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh said.
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Manmohan committed to ties with Pakistan: Dixit
NEW DELHI, June 5: India's National Security Adviser J. N. Dixit has said that Manmohan Singh government was committed to accord top priority to India-Pakistan relations.
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India wins contract for EU satellite launch
BANGALORE, June 5: India's space agency has won a 10-million-dollar contract to launch its first satellite for the European Union, the space chief said on Saturday. Madhavan Nair, head of the Indian Space Research Organization, said
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US, UK circulate another resolution
UNITED NATIONS, June 5: In a compromise, the United States and Britain circulated a third revised version of the United Nations resolution which will give the new interim Iraqi government authority to ask for withdrawal of the US coalition forces from their country.
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Al Yawar invited to attend G8 moot
WASHINGTON, June 5: President George Bush has invited the new Iraqi President Ghazi Al Yawar to attend next week's G-8 summit, the White House announced on Saturday.
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Bush and Chirac see deal on UN resolution
PARIS, June 5: The United States and France hope an agreement will soon be reached on a UN Security Council resolution on Iraq's future, presidents George Bush and Jacques Chirac said on Saturday.
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Brother of 'informant' shot dead in Iraq
MOSUL, June 5: Unidentified men killed the brother of a man widely regarded as having revealed the location of Saddam Hussein's sons to US troops in an attack on his car on Saturday, police said.
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Thousands protest in Washington against war
WASHINGTON, June 5: Thousands of people gathered at a park near the White House on Sunday to demand the return of US troops from Iraq.
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