'Mastermind' of attacks on Musharraf arrested
FAISALABAD, Nov 18: Osama Nazir, one of the alleged masterminds of attempts on the lives of President Gen Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, was picked up from a local madressah on Wednesday night.
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Troop cut a good beginning: FO - Cross-border infiltration charge rejected
ISLAMABAD, Nov 18: Pakistan expressed the hope on Thursday that the process of troop withdrawal from Indian-held Kashmir (IHK) would continue and it would ultimately lead to universal respect of rights of the Kashmiri people
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President assures Kashmiris of no sellout
ISLAMABAD, Nov 18: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has assured the Kashmiri leadership that while Pakistan is very much interested in discussing various options for the resolution of the Kashmir issue
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Pakistan to seek arbitration: Baglihar project
ISLAMABAD, Nov 18: Pakistan on Thursday decided, in principle, to ask the World Bank to appoint a neutral expert to resolve the dispute arising out of the violation of the 1960 Indus Water Treaty by India, it is learnt.
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Replacement of Powell not to affect ties, says FO
ISLAMABAD, Nov 18: Pakistan has expressed confidence in further expansion and consolidation in its relations with the United States based on the hard work that the two sides had made in laying a firm foundation during the past four years.
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Afghan war forced US to accept Pakistan's N-plan, says book
WASHINGTON, Nov 18: President Jimmy Carter's national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski was the first senior US official who argued that US security needs required Washington to accept Islamabad's nuclear programme.
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Nine die as trailer rams into wagon
SADIQABAD, Nov 18: Nine people were killed and as many injured in a road accident on the National Highway at Trinda Mohammad Pinnah by-pass, about 100km off here, on Thursday.
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Aziz's visit to bring together Kashmiri leaders
NEW DELHI, Nov 18: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, due in New Delhi on Tuesday on a two-day visit, is expected to help bring the fractious All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) to one table as never before, APHC sources said on Thursday.
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Singh calls upon fighters to lay down arms: Kashmiris insist on Pakistan visit
JAMMU, Nov 18: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday wrapped up his first official visit to occupied Kashmir with an appeal to militants to lay down their arms
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India wants 'Panchsheel' principles as guide
NEW DELHI, Nov 18: Buddhist principles of "mutual respect and peaceful coexistence" should guide relations between India and Pakistan, Indian Foreign Minister Natwar Singh said on Thursday.
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Gujarat massacre witness recants testimony
MUMBAI, Nov 18: A Muslim witness in a high-profile Indian riot case on Thursday recanted a statement in which he had named 10 men accused of burning and hacking to death 14 people during cim religious violence in 2002.
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Assam rebels ready for talks
GUWAHATI, Nov 18: A separatist group in India's north-eastern state of Assam on Thursday offered to hold peace talks with New Delhi to end more than 25 years of violent insurgency, a rebel leader said.
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Afghan opium crop at record high: UN
BRUSSELS, Nov 18: Afghanistan's opium cultivation jumped 64 per cent to a record 131,000 hectares this year and drug exports now account for more than 60 per cent of the economy, the United Nations drugs office said on Thursday.
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Violence claims 17 more lives in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Nov 18: Seventeen Iraqis died on Thursday in the persistent wave of violence that has left dozens dead over the past few days as US-led forces pressed their battle against militants.
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Iraq creditors wrestle with debt deal
PARIS, Nov 18: The Paris Club of creditor nations failed to bridge a trans-Atlantic rift on Thursday over how much of Iraq's $125 billion in debt to forgive, but agreed to meet again on Friday for more talks aimed at closing a deal.
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Annan faces US anger for Iraq war remarks: Corruption allegation levelled
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 18: Relations between the United Nations and the United States are on an all-time low with Secretary-General Kofi Annan coming under fire for having deemed the Iraq war 'illegal'.
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Annan calls for quick end to war in Sudan
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 18: Warning that "there is no time to waste" in ending Sudan's 'long nightmare' of civil wars, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Wednesday urged the Security Council meeting symbolically in Africa to give the final impetus to peace talks
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Iran denies running secret nuclear site
TEHRAN, Nov 18: Iran angrily denied on Thursday allegations by an exiled group that it was running a secret nuclear bomb facility near Tehran, and indicated that UN inspectors would be allowed to visit the site.
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