Aziz, Singh hold substantive talks: Pakistan rules out accepting LoC as border
NEW DELHI, Nov 24: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz had 90 minutes of substantive talks with his Indian counterpart Dr Manmohan Singh here on Wednesday
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'Pakistan wants Kashmiris in talks'
ISLAMABAD, Nov 24: Two senior ruling coalition figures said on Wednesday that Pakistan wanted all shades of Kashmiri leadership to join India-Pakistan talks to settle the festering Kashmir dispute between the two nuclear rivals.
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Pakistan to go ahead with gas pipeline: PM
NEW DELHI, Nov 24: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz told India on Wednesday that Pakistan would go ahead with the construction of a gas pipeline from Iran even if India were not interested in it.
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Baglihar: New Delhi offered 'last chance'
NEW DELHI, Nov 24: Pakistan has offered India 'a last chance' to salvage their bilateral talks over the disputed Baglihar dam project by the end of this month or face mediation by the World Bank
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NSC to meet today, asserts Rashid
ISLAMABAD, Nov 24: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said on Wednesday that the National Security Council's (NSC) meeting would be held on Thursday
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MMA asks govt to put off NSC meeting
KARACHI, Nov 24: The Supreme Council of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal has asked the government to postpone the National Security Council meeting scheduled for Thursday and hold talks with it to remove its reservations about the NSC act.
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'Guarded' welcome by ARD to MMA move
ISLAMABAD, Nov 24: The Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy on Wednesday cautiously welcomed the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal's decision of not participating in the meeting of the National Security Council scheduled for Thursday.
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Plea to grant protective bail to Benazir
PESHAWAR, Nov 24: The Pakistan People's Party has appealed to the Chief Justice of Pakistan to grant protective bail to PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto, to help her end her exile and return to the country.
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Musharraf to press Bush on Muslim issues
ISLAMABAD, Nov 24: President Gen Pervez Musharraf will impress upon US President George W. Bush during their meeting on Dec 4 to help resolve some of the key outstanding issues and territorial disputes dogging the Muslim world
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'Pakistan to get $2bn ADB assistance'
ISLAMABAD, Nov 24: The Asian Development Bank has firmed up its plan to offer $2 billion assistance to Pakistan in 2005 and 2006, its Resident Representative in the country Marshuk Ali Shah said on Wednesday.
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Work to begin soon on Rs87bn power plant
ISLAMABAD, Nov 24: Pakistan has decided to start construction work on Rs87 billion 960-MW Neelum-Jhelum power project in Azad Kashmir on war footing to maintain its priority rights over the Jhelum river.
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Qadeer gave N-bomb designs to Iran: CIA
WASHINGTON, Nov 24: The US Central Intelligence Agency has now officially accused Dr A. Q. Khan of providing Iran with technology and equipment for making a nuclear bomb, indicating a major shift in US approach to the dispute.
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Six killed in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, Nov 24: Suspected Mujahideen shot dead three people and wounded 20 others in two grenade attacks in occupied Kashmir, while Indian troops shot dead three freedom fighters, police said on Wednesday.
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Deception basis of new Indian doctrine
NEW DELHI, Nov 24: The element of surprise in warfare, neutralized by intrusive espionage technology, is to be supplanted by a doctrine of deception by the Indian army, according to the army's new war doctrine reported on Wednesday.
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Two US troops killed in blast
KABUL, Nov 24: Two American soldiers were killed and another wounded on Wednesday by a home made bomb in central Afghanistan's Uruzgan province, the US military said.
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Chirac in Libya to mend ties
TRIPOLI, Nov 24: President Jacques Chirac arrived in Libya on Wednesday to turn the page on the two countries' thorny past and boost commercial ties.
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