Four foreigners among 13 held in Gujrat: 16-hour stand off ends
LAHORE/GUJRAT, July 25: Security forces on Sunday arrested 13 suspected terrorists, including four foreigners and some members of their families, after a 16-hour stand off in a house in Gujrat.
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Pakistan, S. Arabia vow to fight terrorism
JEDDAH, July 25: Prime Minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain met Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz on Sunday as Pakistan and Saudi Arabia pledged to continue their co-operation in the fight against terrorism.
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Musharraf for giving up 'maxima list' positions
ISLAMABAD, July 25: President General Pervez Musharraf in his meeting with Indian External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh on Friday had underscored the fact that unless both sides gave up their 'maximalist' positions on Kashmir
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Ministries told to use up 25pc uplift funds by Sept 30
ISLAMABAD, July 25: The federal government has asked all the ministries and divisions to use up 25 per cent of their development budget by September 30, 2004, to ensure maximum budget utilization during the current fiscal year, Dawn has learnt.
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Work on one major dam to begin this year: Memon
ISLAMABAD July 25: Work on one of the two proposed major water reservoirs, Basha or Kalabagh, will begin during the current year, says Senator Nisar A. Memon, chairman of the special parliamentary committee on water.
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Khairpur clashes claim 8 lives
KHAIRPUR, July 25: Eight people were killed and four others were injured in attacks and counter-attacks by Solangi and Jagirani tribesmen on each other here on late Saturday night.
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Afghan guards kidnapped by Tribesmen
PESHAWAR, July 25: Pakistani tribesmen took eight Afghan militiamen hostage along the porous north-western border with Afghanistan, officials said on Sunday.
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Hamid Karzai postpones visit to Pakistan
KABUL, July 25: Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday abruptly and unexpectedly postponed a visit to Pakistan a day before the deadline for the nomination of presidential candidates in Afghanistan's upcoming polls in October.
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Natwar says Kasuri to visit India from Sept 5
NEW DELHI, July 25: Indian External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh said on Sunday night his Pakistani counterpart Khurshid Mehmud Kasuri would pay a two-day visit to India from September 5 to carry forward bilateral composite dialogue on all issues including Kashmir problem.
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10 killed in Kashmir violence
SRINAGAR, July 25: At least 10 people were killed in separate incidents of violence in occupied Kashmir, police said on Sunday.
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Iranian FM in New Delhi for talks
NEW DELHI, July 25: Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi arrived here on Sunday night on a two-day visit during which he will hold wide-ranging talks with the Indian leadership on bilateral, regional and international issues.
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India-China border talks
NEW DELHI, July 25: India and China will hold third round of two-day talks to resolve a border dispute from Monday. The talks would be held between India's special representative and national security advisor J.N. Dixit and executive vice-foreign minister and China's special representative Dai Bingguo. -APP
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Clarke calls for aiding Muslim countries
NEW YORK, July 25: Former US head of counter-terrorism, Richard Clarke, has called for aiding economic development and political openness in Muslim countries like Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan
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Hostage crisis deepens in Iraq
BAGHDAD, July 25: Iraq's hostage crisis intensified on Sunday as bids to free a host of foreigners and locate two missing Pakistanis drew a blank and a threatened deadline to kill the first of seven truckers drew near.
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Israelis kill six Palestinians
TULKARM, July 25: Israeli forces shot and killed six Palestinians, including two local militant leaders, on Sunday in a raid in the West Bank town of Tulkarm, Palestinian security sources said.
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Flood toll 227 in Bangladesh
DHAKA, July 25: Workers and volunteers frantically stacked sandbags to protect the capital from rising water as Bangladesh's death toll from this year's monsoon rains reached 227, with 25 more deaths reported on Sunday and the situation likely to worsen, officials said.
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