ARD to raise uniform issue in NA session
ISLAMABAD, Oct 4: The Alliance for Restoration of Democracy (ARD) is planning to raise the issues of President Gen Pervez Musharraf's uniform, Wana operation and law and order situation in the country in the National Assembly session
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President, PM briefed on anti-terror measures
ISLAMABAD, Oct 4: President General Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Monday visited the headquarters of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Agency, informed sources told Dawn.
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Options on Kashmir being explored: FO
ISLAMABAD, Oct 4: There is work in progress 'all around' with the entire government and all segments of society exploring possible options for a 'negotiated settlement' of the Jammu and Kashmir dispute
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MFN status linked to other issues, India told
ISLAMABAD, Oct 4: Pakistan has urged India to accept "national treatment" for its investors in Pakistan, rather than insisting on having Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status which cannot be offered to it under the prevailing circumstances.
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CEC summons meeting on 11th
ISLAMABAD, Oct 4: The Election Commission has convened a meeting on Oct 11 to decide about 200 members of parliament and provincial assemblies who have failed to submit statements of their assets.
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Militants agree to cease fire in S. Waziristan
WANA, Oct 4: Militants in South Waziristan have agreed to a 10-day ceasefire with security forces to give a chance to mediators to resolve the issue of foreign militants in the troubled tribal region
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Begum Amina Majeed Malik passes away
KARACHI, Oct 4: Eminent educationist Begum Amina Majeed Malik died in Karachi of respiratory failure in the early hours of Monday. She was buried at the Armed Forces graveyard in the afternoon, next to the grave of her daughter Nageen Malik.
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Kashmiris pin hopes on peace process
JAMMU, Oct 4: Political groups in the occupied Kashmir, who met Pakistani journalists on Monday, appeared sad on the present state of affairs in the disputed state, but most of them pinned hopes on the newly-resumed peace process
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Indian research paper clears Islamabad of proliferation
WASHINGTON, Oct 4: An Indian research paper, being distributed in the United States to implicate Pakistan in nuclear proliferation, ends up exonerating the Pakistani establishment of any involvement.
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S. Korean president in India
NEW DELHI, Oct 4: South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun arrived here on Monday for a three-day state visit. He is accompanied by a high-level official delegation, including ministers of foreign affairs & trade, commerce
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Car bomb blasts kill 26 in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Oct 4: A series of car bomb blasts tore through Baghdad and the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Monday, killing at least 26 people and wounding more than 100.
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Child among eight killed by Israelis
JABALIYA, Oct 4: Eight Palestinians, including a child and a teenage girl, were killed by Israeli fire in the Gaza Strip on Monday as Israel's army warned its massive offensive could last for weeks.
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Americans get Nobel for work on smell
STOCKHOLM, Oct 4: Two US researchers, Richard Axel and Linda B. Buck, were on Monday awarded the Nobel Medicine Prize for pioneering work on our most enigmatic sense, that of smell, which helps us survive and enjoy some of life's subtlest pleasures.
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17 drown as immigrant boat sinks
TUNIS, Oct 4: Seventeen would-be immigrants drowned and 47 were missing after a boat that was to have carried them across the Mediterranean broke up and sank off the Tunisian coast at the weekend
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