New JCSC chief, VCOAS appointed
ISLAMABAD, Oct 2: President General Pervez Musharraf on Saturday appointed Lieutenant-General Ehsan ul Haq as Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) and Lieutenant-General Ahsan Saleem Hayat as Vice Chief of Army Staff (VCOAS)
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PPP not to reject talks offer: Asif
KARACHI, Oct 2: Asif Ali Zardari, interned husband of PPP-P chairperson Ms Benazir Bhutto, on Saturday ruled out possibility of any dialogue between the party and Gen Musharraf.
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Balochistan to get Rs3bn for development: Talks for NFC award soon: Aziz
QUETTA, Oct 2: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Saturday announced a Rs3 billion grant for speeding up development activities and rehabilitation of drought-hit areas in Balochistan.
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Pakistan faces perception problem, investors told
WASHINGTON, Oct 2: The law and order situation in Pakistan looks bad from outside because the country has a perception problem, top financial managers told the US investors on Friday.
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Cyclone may hit coastal belt
KARACHI, Oct 2: A severe tropical cyclone swirling in the Arabian Sea will pummel the south-east coastal belt of Sindh some time Sunday morning, a high-ranking official of the Pakistan Meteorological Department said.
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Sialkot Nazim's office set afire
SIALKOT, Oct 2: More police contingents were deployed in the city as violent protests against Friday's bomb blast continued on Saturday with mourners damaging public and private property worth millions. The death toll rose to 31 as six of the wounded died.
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Pakistani newsmen to visit Valley
ISLAMABAD, Oct 2: A group of Pakistani journalists will write off a taboo when they arrive in the Indian-held part of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday for a rare peep into a territory that has been out of bounds to them for more than half a century.
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Six killed in Kashmir violence
SRINAGAR, Oct 2: Six people including a pro-India party worker and four suspected Mujahideen were killed on Saturday in fresh violence in occupied Kashmir, security officials said.
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25 held in Kabul, explosives seized
KABUL, Oct 2: Twenty-five suspected militants were arrested in a pre-dawn swoop and a cache of explosives was seized in Kabul, officials and intelligence sources said on Saturday.
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Bomb blasts, firing kill 46 in India
GUWAHATI, Oct 2: Separatist militants set off bombs and opened gunfire across India's northeast on Saturday, killing at least 46 people and wounding nearly 100 in one of the bloodiest days in the troubled region.
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Nasa puts off space flights till May
WASHINGTON, Oct 2: The US space agency Nasa has put off resumption of space shuttle flights from March until at least May, the agency said on Friday. In a statement, the agency said the postponement was forced by the effects of four hurricanes this year on its flight centres.
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Emergency declared in Palestine: Arafat seeks world help as 11 more killed
RAMALLAH, Oct 2: The Palestinian cabinet declared a state of emergency in the occupied territories with leader Yasser Arafat appealing for international help against a massive Israeli incursion that killed a further 11 Palestinians on Saturday.
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US forces tighten grip on Samarra
SAMARRA, Oct 2: The US-led forces, backed by Warplanes, tightened their grip on the guerilla stronghold of Samarra on Saturday, claiming they had killed 125 militants in one of the largest offensives since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
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Mosque attacked in France
MARSEILLES (France), Oct 2: A mosque under construction and an adjoining building serving as a provisional house of worship in the southern French town of Aubagne were attacked by arsonists early Saturday, according to judicial officials.
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