Islamabad, Delhi vow to reach Siachen pact: Talks on Sir Creek row begin
NEW DELHI, Aug 6: Defence secretaries of India and Pakistan wrapped up their two-day talks here on Friday with the resolve to pursue an agreement to their dispute over the Siachen glacier.
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Ministers told to put off foreign visits
ISLAMABAD, Aug 6: Members of the federal cabinet have been banned from undertaking foreign visits during the transition period till Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz takes over as next prime minister.
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Opposition to requisition Senate
ISLAMABAD, Aug 6: The opposition will submit a requisition notice to the Senate secretariat on Saturday to convene a session of the upper house to discuss law and order in the country and the killing of two Pakistanis in Iraq, sources said.
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Reports on terror camps rejected
ISLAMABAD, Aug 6: Pakistan on Friday rejected US media reports that Al Qaeda training camps had been revived along its border with Afghanistan.
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Cooperating suspect's name revealed
ISLAMABAD, Aug 6: US officials revealed the name of captured Al Qaeda suspect Mohammad Naeem Noor Khan while he was still cooperating with Pakistani authorities, an intelligence source said on Friday.
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Attacks on forces will go on, warn militants
WANA, Aug 6: Commander of the 'mujahideen' in the volatile South Waziristan tribal region on Friday vowed to continue attacking Pakistani forces so long as they were aided and abetted by American troops.
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'Operation in Waziristan aided by US agencies'
WASHINGTON, Aug 6: The CIA is providing millions of dollars and the NSA is gathering and processing electronic intercepts for carrying out a large-scale operation against Al Qaeda in Waziristan tribal region
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Water release to provinces cut
ISLAMABAD, Aug 6: The water situation in the Indus river system has further deteriorated, forcing the Indus River System Authority on Friday to cut releases by more than 40,000 cusec a day, it is learnt.
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US security contracted out to Pakistan: Clinton
TORONTO, Aug 6: Former US president Bill Clinton on Thursday accused President George Bush's administration of contracting out US security and the hunt for Osama bin Laden to Pakistan, in its zeal to invade Iraq.
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Priorities in peace moves questioned
NEW DELHI, Aug 6: Pakistan and India may be exploring ways to boost people-to-people contact between themselves but they have not shown the same enthusiasm to bring the divided Kashmiri families closer together
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Over 300 killed in Najaf, claims US: 1,000 captured: governor
NAJAF, Aug 6: US marines said on Friday they had killed more than 300 Iraqi fighters loyal to Moqtada Al Sadr in fierce clashes that pose a stern test for an interim government struggling to stamp its authority over the country.
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Bush defends terror alert as public service
WASHINGTON, Aug 6: US President George W. Bush on Friday defended his administration against charges that it had issued a terror alert in New York and Washington for political purposes
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Men held in plot to kill envoy innocent: families
NEW YORK, Aug 6: Two men arrested on Thursday in an FBI sting operation are innocent people who came to the United States in search of freedom and opportunity, and caught up in over-zealous law-enforcement authorities'
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Most wanted militant held in S. Arabia
RIYADH, Aug 6: Saudi security forces captured on Thursday night Fares bin Ahmed bin Shwail al-Zahrani, a top figure on a 26-man list of most-wanted suspects in the kingdom.
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