NA condemns executions
ISLAMABAD, July 29: The National Assembly on Thursday condemned the gruesome murder of two Pakistani workers by their captors in Iraq and asked the government not to take any step regarding sending of troops without taking the parliament into confidence.
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Opposition against sending troops to Iraq
ISLAMABAD, July 29: The opposition in the National Assembly on Thursday held the government responsible for the killing of two Pakistani workers in Iraq.
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No decision on troops for Iraq, says Kasuri
ISLAMABAD, July 29: Pakistan has discussed sending troops to Iraq as part of an Islamic force but has not made any decision, officials said on Thursday, as outrage welled up in the country over the killing of two citizens held hostage in Iraq.
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Hostage killing denounced as anti-Islam act
RAWALPINDI, July 29: President Gen Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Thursday strongly condemned the killing of two Pakistanis Raja Azad and Sajjad Naeem by their abductors in Iraq.
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Militants warn Pakistan and Saudi Arabia: Islamic force for Iraq
DUBAI, July 29: A statement in the name of the group of alleged Al Qaeda operative Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi on Thursday threatened to attack any Arab or Muslim force dispatched to Iraq as proposed by Saudi Arabia and welcomed by the United States.
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Top suspect of Al Qaeda arrested
DUBAI, July 29: Pakistan has arrested a top Al Qaeda suspect wanted by the United States, Al Arabiya news channel quoted President Pervez Musharraf as saying. The Pakistani President said the arrested person is Tanzanian who is married to an Uzbek woman, and who is wanted by the United States," the channel said.
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2 more terror suspects held in Gujrat
GUJRAT, July 29: An intelligence agency interroagting foreigners arrested from here on July 25, on Thursday picked up two suspects, a real estate agent and a car dealer.
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Pakistan and China to hold anti-terror drills
BEIJING, July 29: China and Pakistan will hold joint military anti-terrorism exercises in China's far-western region of Xinjiang in August, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Thursday.
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Islamabad, Delhi hopeful of settling barrage issue
ISLAMABAD, July 29: Pakistan and India held on Thursday that the Indus Water Treaty 1960 was sacrosanct and agreed to resolve the issue of Wullar Barrage within parameters of that accord.
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Prices of food items have gone up, Aziz tells NA
ISLAMABAD, July 29: The government informed the National Assembly on Thursday that prices of daily consumer items had increased during 2003-04. In a written response to a question by MNA Inayat Begum
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Punjab will give 200,000 tons of wheat to NWFP
ISLAMABAD, July 29: On the intervention of Prime Minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, the federal government directed the Punjab government and Passco on Thursday to release a total of 200,000 tons of wheat to the NWFP
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US embassy changes visa procedure
ISLAMABAD, July 29: The US Embassy has announced a major change in its visa courier and visa appointment services, according to a US embassy press release issued here on Thursday.
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Pakistanis' execution angers US
WASHINGTON, July 29: Describing it as terrorist act, the United States on Thursday expressed its outrage and anguish over the brutal murder of two Pakistanis employed by a private company in Iraq.
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Captors warn of killing another hostage today
BAGHDAD, July 29: Kidnappers holding seven foreign drivers hostage in Iraq threatened to "slaughter" one of them on Friday if there was no answer to their demands, showing an Indian captive wearing orange clothing to make their point.
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Israel kills militant chief, deputy
GAZA, July 29: Israel helicopter gunships killed a Palestinian militant leader and one of his gunmen in a missile strike on a car in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday.
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BD plane searched at Frankfurt
FRANKFURT, July 29: A passenger jet belonging to Bangladesh Biman was searched at Frankfurt airport after a bomb threat was received just as the plane was taxiing to take off, German police said on Thursday.
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US drops threat of curbs against Sudan: Resolution on Darfur crisis
UNITED NATIONS, July 29: Facing tough opposition from the Security Council members the United States dropped threat of sanctions from a draft resolution against Sudan in case the latter failed to control Arab militias in Darfur.
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Sudan's threat to BBC
KHARTOUM, July 29: Sudan's government called on Thursday for legal action against the British Broadcasting Corporation for spreading what it said were lies about the situation in Darfur.
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