PML divided over offices
ISLAMABAD July 4: The ruling Pakistan Muslim League is sharply divided over distribution of provincial party offices and titles among its members, sources told Dawn on Sunday.
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World Bank for autonomous, powerful Irsa
ISLAMABAD, July 4: The World Bank has asked Pakistan to give more powers and authority to the Indus River System Authority and make it an autonomous body to enable to play a meaningful role in settling inter-provincial disputes
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Musharraf in Sweden on official visit
STOCKHOLM, July 4: President Gen Pervez Musharraf arrived here on Sunday evening at the start of a three-day official visit to Sweden.
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Balochistan mill owners threaten strike: Wheat from Punjab
QUETTA, July 4: The Pakistan Flour Mills Association has threatened to call a strike if the Punjab government does not lift its ban on wheat transportation to Balochistan, the NWFP and Sindh by July 15.
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Many activists arrested, claims National Party
QUETTA, July 4: Leaders of the National Party have accused the government of arresting party activists.
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Weapons seized near Bara
ISLAMABAD, July 4: The Frontier Constabulary on Sunday seized arms and ammunition, including 57 sub-machine-guns, 147 pistols, two rifles and 100 detonators at Milward near Bara.
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8 picnickers swept away by high tides
KARACHI, July 4: Eight picnickers, four of them children, were swept away by high tides in two separate incidents on Sunday. In the first incident, at the Gadani beach, five members of a family were swept away by strong currents.
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Robbers shoot at Skardu bus, kill three
SKARDU, July 4: Three passengers, including an Army subedar, were killed and seven others were injured when unidentified persons opened fire on a passenger coaster in a Kohistani village early on Sunday morning along the Karakoram Highway.
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Pakistan not concerned: Mushahid
ISLAMABAD, July 4: Pakistan on Sunday said it was not worried by India's test of a short-range nuclear capable missile as it was a "sovereign right" for any country to enhance its defence and military capability.
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Delhi tests N-capable Agni missile
BHUBANESHWAR, July 4: India on Sunday tested a short-range nuclear capable missile off the east coast, a defence official said, just weeks after talks with Pakistan on reducing the risk of atomic confrontation.
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Kashmir fence nears completion
SONAPINDI POST, July 4: Indian troops were on high alert along the Kashmir border to stop infiltration before New Delhi fenced off the frontier, the army said on Sunday.
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New Delhi purchasing electronic jammers
NEW DELHI July 4: India has short-listed four armaments companies for the purchase of Responsive Jammers, to be installed along the Line of Control in Indian-occupied Kashmir.
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US rejects Indian claims
WASHINGTON, July 4: A US government report on terrorism lists 51 'cross-border' attacks in Kashmir in 2003, several times less than 807 attacks claimed by India.
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Indo-China border talks
BEIJING, July 4: Special representatives of China and India will hold a third round of talks in New Delhi later this month to discuss their border dispute.
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Iraq's crucial oil pipeline hit cutting exports
BAGHDAD, July 4: Saboteurs attacked the oil pipeline linking Iraq's northern and southern fields on Sunday, a day after they hit another pipeline that cut exports by half, officials and witnesses said.
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Iraq's PM wants militias disarmed: Sadr seeks amnesty
WASHINGTON, July 4: Iraqi militias, including those loyal to the firebrand Shia scholar Moqtada al-Sadr must lay down their weapons, Iraq's interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said on US television on Sunday.
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Tehran to indict Saddam
TEHRAN, July 4: Iran said on Sunday it would submit an indictment to the Baghdad court trying Saddam Hussein, who as president waged a protracted war against his neighbour.
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US in deal to return Saudi terror suspects: paper
NEW YORK, July 4: US officials reluctantly agreed to return five terrorism suspects to Saudi Arabia from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, last year as part of a deal involving Britain, The New York Times reported in Sunday editions.
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'Freedom Tower' cornerstone laid
NEW YORK, July 4: Families of the victims of the Sept 11, 2001, attacks joined New York City's mayor and two state governors on Sunday to lay the granite cornerstone of the "Freedom Tower" skyscraper at the site of the destroyed World Trade Center.
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Air Force One develops fault; Bush trips delayed
CHARLESTON, July 4: The presidential jet Air Force One suffered engine trouble on Sunday, forcing President George W. Bush to delay by more than one hour a trip to the state of West Virginia, the White House said.
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