Musharraf hopes India will be flexible, bold: •Warning of 'iron curtain' between Islamic world and West •stress on resolution of disputes affecting Muslims
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 22: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday gave an upbeat assessment of Pakistan-India relations
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Pakistan assured of continued US backing
NEW YORK, Sept 22: Cooperation in the war against terror dominated a meeting between President George W. Bush and President Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday with a brief reference to the need for a sustainable democracy in Pakistan.
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Sindh PA supports president in uniform
KARACHI, Sept 22: Amid opposition's boycott, the Sindh Assembly on Wednesday adopted by majority vote a resolution tabled by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement urging General Pervez Musharraf to continue holding the office of the army chief together with the presidency.
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Fazl calls for joint move against Musharraf
QUETTA, Sept 22: Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly Maulana Fazlur Rehman has urged opposition parties to wage a joint struggle with the MMA to ensure victory of democratic forces against dictatorship.
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Qazi, Nawaz discuss cooperation
LAHORE, Sept 22: MMA President Qazi Hussain Ahmed met former prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharif in Jeddah on Wednesday and discussed with him the political situation in Pakistan. The possibility of cooperation between the MMA and the ARD also came under discussion.
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15-point demand given to Tariq Aziz, says Bugti
QUETTA, Sept 22: Jamhoori Watan Party leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti has forwarded a 15-point charter of demands to Tariq Aziz, secretary-general of the National Security Council and president's personal aide, to resolve Balochistan issue.
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Political talks on Wana begin
ISLAMABAD, Sept 22: A two-member team, comprising NWFP Governor Lt-Gen (retired) Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah and Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao, formally started on Wednesday a process of dialogue to find out a political solution to the Wana situation.
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Tribesman, soldier die in Wana
WANA, Sept 22: A paramilitary soldier and a tribesman were killed and two people wounded on Wednesday when militants attacked an outpost in the troubled South Waziristan tribal region, officials and residents said.
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Mufti escapes grenade attack
SRINAGAR, Sept 22: The chief minister of held Kashmir escaped a bid on his life on Wednesday when separatist rebels fired grenades at a government building where he was filing his papers to contest a by-election, police said.
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Pota repealed; older law made stiffer
NEW DELHI, Sept 22: India's president has repealed a tough anti-terror law, a government official said on Wednesday, removing a measure critics say has been misused against minority Muslims and to settle political scores.
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Minister dies in Indian copter crash
GUWAHATI, Sept 22: Ten people, including a state government minister and two lawmakers, were killed in a helicopter crash in India's mountainous north-east on Wednesday, officials said.
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3 US soldiers killed in Afghanistan
KABUL, Sept 22: Three US soldiers were killed and 14 wounded in a series of hit-and-run attacks by Taliban militants in one of the worst days for US forces since they arrived here in 2001, the US military said on Wednesday.
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21 killed as violence rocks Baghdad
BAGHDAD, Sept 22: Baghdad was engulfed in violence on Wednesday as 21 people were killed and more than 100 wounded in a car bomb attack and US-led offensives on Shia and Sunni rebel pockets in the capital.
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Top Zarqawi aide killed in US attack
DUBAI, Sept 22: A top aide to suspected Al Qaeda operative Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi has been killed in a US attack near Baghdad, an internet site and a Jordanian newspaper reported on Wednesday.
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