Foreigners' access to Dr Khan ruled out
ISLAMABAD, Dec 10: Pakistan will not allow any foreign country or agency to directly or indirectly question nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan. "Pakistan has full confidence in the efficacy of its investigative system and procedures," foreign office spokesman Masood Khan told AFP on Friday....
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Govt in contact with Benazir, Nawaz: Efforts for reconciliation afoot: Rashid
ISLAMABAD, Dec 10: Efforts are being made for national reconciliation and the government is in contact with a number of important politicians, including those outside Pakistan, says Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed.
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11 killed in Quetta market blast
QUETTA, Dec 10: Eleven people, including two army personnel, were killed and 26 others injured when a powerful bomb attached to a bicycle exploded on the Mezeen Chowk here on Friday.
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Terrorists won't be spared: Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, Dec 10: President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz have strongly condemned the Quetta bomb blast. "Terrorists who targeted the innocent would not be spared," President Musharraf said in a statement.
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Militants find new sanctuaries
ISLAMABAD, Dec 10: Many of the foreign militants who were chased out of their hideouts in the tribal areas of Waziristan following recent military operations may have taken refuge in Malakand and Swat, top military sources told Dawn.
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Investors invited to Pakistan
WASHINGTON, Dec 10: Minister of State for Privatization and Investment Umar Ghuman said on Friday that the government had devised a business-friendly investment policy
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Wheat sowing target for November met
ISLAMABAD, Dec 10: The wheat sowing in the country has recorded an increase of 3.7 per cent compared to the corresponding period of last year and the target for sowing 60 per cent of the crop by the end of November has been met.
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'Gwadar port, highway completed'
ISLAMABAD, Dec 10: Gwadar deep seaport has been completed ahead of stipulated time and is ready for inauguration early next year, a meeting held here on Friday with Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz in the chair was informed.
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25,000 cases pending in apex court: CJ
ISLAMABAD, Dec 10: Chief Justice Nazim Hussain Siddiqui said on Friday that long periods during which cases remained pending in the apex court resulted in agony and loss to even those who had been given relief
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India wants common market
NEW DELHI, Dec 10: India and Pakistan can unite through a common market to work jointly for developing a trade and economic bloc which could even be a matter of envy for blocs like EU, Nafta and Asean, says Indian Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee.
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CBI sees priest behind Rajiv's assassination
NEW DELHI, Dec 10: The Central Bureau of Investigation, India's federal police, on Friday claimed that religious leader Chandraswami may be involved in the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.
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100 HR protesters held in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, Dec 10: Some 100 people marking International Human Rights Day were detained in occupied Kashmir on Friday during demonstrations against abuses by Indian troops.
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Four policemen killed in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, Dec 10: Heavily-armed militants attacked a police patrol in occupied Kashmir on Friday and killed four officials in the second such attack in two days.
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US officer found guilty of Iraqi's murder
BAGHDAD, Dec 10: A US official who shot dead an unarmed and wounded Iraqi civilian to put him out of his misery was found guilty of murder on Friday, as Iraq? political parties won more time to register candidates for next month? elections.
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Sharon to form new coalition
AL QUDS, Dec 10: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon moved swiftly on Friday to forge a national unity government after winning approval to reshape his coalition and crushing internal opposition to his Gaza pullout plan.
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Palestinian girl shot dead by Israeli troops
Al QUDS, Dec 10: A young Palestinian girl was killed by Israeli forces in the town of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Friday shortly after a mortar attack nearby, Palestinian medical sources said.
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Sri Lankan, BD drivers released in Iraq
DHAKA, Dec 10: Two truck drivers from Bangladesh and Sri Lanka kidnapped in Iraq by the same militant group that claims to be holding two French journalists have been released by their captors, officials said here on Friday.
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Maathai calls for economic justice
OSLO, Dec 10: Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai on Friday received the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and said protecting the environment was vital to promote peace and democracy.
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