Aziz wants Fazl to abandon movement: 100-minute meeting held
ISLAMABAD, Nov 20: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Saturday held a 100-minute meeting with the opposition leader in the National Assembly, Maulana Fazlur Rahman
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MMA's meeting in Karachi to finalize protest plan
KARACHI, Nov 20: Supreme council of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal will meet here on Nov 24, to finalize its strategy for launching a movement to build pressure on President Gen Pervez Musharraf to give up his uniform of the chief of army staff by Dec 31, as per his commitment to the nation.
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ARD will launch anti-govt drive from Dec 6
ISLAMABAD, Nov 20: The Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy (ARD) has announced that it will launch a countrywide mass mobilization campaign against the government with a public meeting in Peshawar on Dec 6.
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Bilateral flexibility urged for solution: Musharraf says Pakistan ready to meet India halfway on Kashmir
LAHORE, Nov 20: President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday ruled out any unilateral stepping back by Pakistan from its historical stand over Kashmir
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Indian objections over US arms sale rejected
ISLAMABAD, Nov 20: Pakistan on Saturday rejected Indian objections to a proposed 1.3 billion dollar US arms sale to Islamabad, saying its "modest" defence requirements should not irk New Delhi.
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Tribesmen oppose search operation
WANA, Nov 20: The Mehsud tribesmen have opposed house-to-house search operation being conducted by security forces in different parts of the South Waziristan tribal region.
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Nawab Marri, three sons convicted
QUETTA, Nov 20: An anti-terrorism court, Quetta, has sentenced Baloch nationalist leader Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri, his three sons and another person to three-year imprisonment each
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ADB to give $300m loan for roads
MANILA, Nov 20: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a loan package worth 301.2 million dollars to improve road connections from Pakistan's Afghan border to the southern ports of Karachi, it said on Saturday.
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23 members of wedding party die in accident
SAHIWAL/FAISALABAD, Nov 20: Twenty-three participants of a marriage party died and over 30 sustained injuries when the bus they were travelling in fell down from a flyover in Chichawatni, 50 kms from here, on Saturday morning.
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Twin blasts suspend rail traffic in Hyderabad
HYDERABAD, Nov 22: Rail traffic between Hyderabad-Kotri section remained suspended after two successive blasts destroyed small sections of railroad forcing Faisalabad Night Coach
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Singh parries question on Musharraf's statement
NEW DELHI, Nov 20: Indian Prime Minister Manmohn Singh has brushed off President Pervez Musharraf's remarks that he was discouraged by signals from New Delhi over resolving the Kashmir dispute, a report said Saturday.
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India pulls out 3,000 troops from Kashmir
JAMMU, Nov 20: India pulled out around 3,000 troops from Kashmir on Saturday in a planned withdrawal of army units from the region, officials said, as the peace process between New Delhi and Islamabad came under strain this week.
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17 Indian policemen killed
NEW DELHI, Nov 20: At least 17 Indian policemen were killed on Saturday when Maoist rebels blew up their bus in Uttar Pradesh.
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Four killed in Afghan armed raid
KABUL, Nov 20: Four suspected militants were killed and five others were arrested in a pre-dawn raid by US-led and Afghan forces in eastern Afghanistan
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US army kills 15 more Iraqi guerillas
MOSUL, Nov 20: The bodies of what are believed to be nine murdered Iraqi soldiers were found in Mosul on Saturday as US and Iraqi forces patrolled the city in a continuing bid to drive out guerillas.
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Pro-democracy Myanmar leader freed after 16 years in jail
YANGON, Nov 20: Myanmar's ruling junta has freed its second most prominent political prisoner, leader of the 1988 student democracy protests Min Ko Naing, in a move analysts said could be a major step towards political reform.
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