Shaukat to address nation on Friday
LAHORE, Nov 16: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz announced here on Tuesday that he would address the nation on Friday to unfold vision and agenda of his government....
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Wanted militant refuses to surrender
PESHAWAR, Nov 16: Wanted militant Abdullah Mehsud and one of Pakistan's top military commanders met last week in an effort to bring peace to the troubled South Waziristan tribal region....
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Dates for secretary-level talks proposed
ISLAMABAD, Nov 16: Islamabad has formally proposed Dec 21 and 22 as the dates for foreign secretary level talks to New Delhi and is awaiting a response for the second round of the composite dialogue meetings scheduled to be held next month, officials sources told Dawn....
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Formal proposals after debate on options: Kasuri
LAHORE, Nov 16: Pakistan would formulate its formal proposals for the solution to the Kashmir dispute in the light of a consensus of the ongoing debate on the options outlined by President Musharraf and the opinion of the Kashmiri leaders...
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Positive move, says Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Nov 16: Pakistan on Tuesday termed Indian media reports regarding New Delhi's decision to reduce 40,000 troops from occupied Kashmir a 'positive development' and hoped that it would lead to more troop reduction....
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Indian troop reduction in Kashmir begins today
NEW DELHI, Nov 16: India's Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) announced on Tuesday that troop reduction in Jammu and Kashmir would start from Wednesday, the day Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh begins his first visit to the disputed region....
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Powell a 'sane voice' in world affairs: Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Nov 16: Pakistan will miss outgoing US Secretary of State Colin Powell, who has been a 'sane voice' in international affairs and a great friend to the country, Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri said on Tuesday....
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UK allowed export of £21m arms to South Asia
ISLAMABAD, Nov 16: The United Kingdom allowed export of weapons and other military-related equipment to India and Pakistan worth £21 million between April and June this year....
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Poisonous liquor kills 16
HYDERABAD, Nov 16: Sixteen persons died after drinking poisonous liquor in different parts of the city since Saturday. However, no FIR has been registered till the filing of this report....
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Six members of a family drown in Khanpur dam
HARIPUR, Nov 16: Six members of a family, including a girl, drowned in the Khanpur dam on Tuesday. Police said that Lt-Col Sibtain of Wah Cantonment, along with six members of his family...
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Mother, three children die as fireworks explode
GUJRANWALA, Nov 16: A mother and her three children were killed and six others injured as fireworks exploded in Nowshera Virkan on Tuesday. Ashraf Masih had stocked fireworks in a room of his house at Shamoon Chowk....
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Mirwaiz insists on visit to Pakistan before talks with Indian PM
NEW DELHI, Nov 16: Kashmiri's spiritual leader Mirwaiz Maulvi Umar Farooq said on Tuesday that the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) would not hold talks with Indian officials...
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N-war not an option: Dixit
NEW DELHI, Nov 16: Nuclear war was too horrendous a thought to be an option for any country and India does not foresee such a calamity befalling it despite troubled relations with Pakistan...
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Nine killed in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, Nov 16: Suspected militants shot dead nine civilians in four separate incidents in Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Tuesday....
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Fate of UN hostages hangs in balance
KABUL, Nov 16: The latest deadline set by Muslim militants in Afghanistan who threatened to kill three UN hostages passed with no word on their fate on Tuesday, but the government said it was hopeful they would be released....
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Mosul under heaviest US offensive
MOSUL, Nov 16: US and Iraqi forces launched an offensive in Mosul on Tuesday to retake control of guerilla-held areas after a week of anarchy that has seen the fighters attacking across Iraq's third largest city....
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UN demands probe into US firing on civilians
GENEVA, Nov 16: The UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, urged US-led multinational forces on Tuesday to probe and prosecute deliberate killings of wounded people and civilians in the embattled Iraqi city of Fallujah....
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Margaret Hassan believed dead
BAGHDAD, Nov 16: The kidnappers of British aid worker Margaret Hassan have released a video tape showing her murder a month after she was abducted in Baghdad, her husband and British officials said on Tuesday....
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Bush nominates Rice to replace Powell
WASHINGTON, Nov 16: US President George Bush on Tuesday nominated national security adviser Condoleezza Rice to replace departing Secretary of State Colin Powell....
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UNSC members head for Kenya
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 16: As 15 members of the UN Security Council headed for Nairobi (Kenya) on Tuesday to hold a rare council meeting there, disagreement over a draft resolution on references to atrocities in Sudan's western Darfur region remains....
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