Pakistan to float new ideas on Kashmir: Foreign secretaries meet tomorrow
ISLAMABAD, Dec 25: Pakistan will propose new ideas on the Kashmir issue as well as additional nuclear and conventional confidence-building measures at the foreign secretary-level talks opening here on Monday, it is learnt.
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Pakistan firm to take peace process forward: HC
NEW DELHI, Dec 25: Pakistan is committed to take forward the peace process with India and sees hope in the utterances of the Indian leadership for a similar approach, Pakistan's High Commissioner in New Delhi Aziz Ahmed Khan said on eve of the second round of the composite dialogue starting on Monday.
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Indian fishermen to be freed
ISLAMABAD, Dec 25: Pakistan has decided to release all the detained Indian fishermen who strayed into its territorial waters but not their boats, sources told Dawn on Saturday.
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Talks on gas pipeline project likely: Kharazai arrives tomorrow
ISLAMABAD, Dec 25: Iranian foreign minister Kamal Kharazai who is due here on Monday on a two-day official visit will hold talks with President Gen Pervez Musharraf
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Govt word awaited on artefacts
NEW YORK, Dec 25: Pakistan embassy officials in New York are anxiously waiting for word from Islamabad to ascertain whether the valuable Pakistani artefacts seized by US Customs are in fact part of country's national heritage, officials said here on Saturday.
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Ahmad Bashir dies
LAHORE, Dec 25: Noted journalist, intellectual and writer Ahmad Bashir died here of liver cancer at the Services Hospital on Sunday. He was 81. His family said the disease was detected in 2000 but he continued to fight it till last because of his strong will.
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Four FC men die in ambush
QUETTA, Dec 25: Four personnel of the Frontier Corps were killed and four others injured, two of them seriously, after their vehicle was ambushed, some 100km north of Turbat near Buleda area close to Pakistan-Iran border.
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Man dies in Bannu blast
BANNU, Dec 25: One person was killed and eight others were injured when a bomb ripped through a shop in the Mandan Gate bazaar here on Saturday.
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25 killed in two road accidents
ISLAMABAD, Dec 25: Twenty-five people, including three school-going brothers, were killed and 43 others injured in two road accidents near Rawalpindi and Layyah on Saturday.
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7 Pakistanis among 31 executed in S. Arabia
RIYADH, Dec 25: Seven Pakistanis have been executed in Saudi Arabia so far this year, an Amnesty International report said. Most of the executions were carried out on drug or drug-related offences.
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US to display F-16s at Indian show
WASHINGTON, Dec 25: The United States will display its frontline F-16 jet fighters for the first time in the coming Aero India international air show which begins in Bangalore on Feb 9.
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Five die in Afghan violence
KABUL, Dec 25: In the hours after President Hamid Karzai announced his cabinet at least five people were killed in a burst of Taliban-led violence across Afghanistan, officials said on Saturday.
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Bombings, shootings leave 13 Iraqis dead
BAGHDAD, Dec 25: At least 13 Iraqis were killed in a string of Christmas Day shootings and bombings, as US President George Bush thanked American soldiers for their sacrifice and for protecting America.
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US arrests two Iraqi militant leaders
BAGHDAD, Dec 25: US Marines said on Saturday they had captured two leaders of a militant group linked to Al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq's restive city of Ramadi.
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Iraq situation causing apprehension, says Pope
VATICAN CITY, Dec 25: Pope John Paul told the world in his Christmas message on Saturday that people were yearning for peace everywhere around the globe and expressed particular concern for Iraq, the Middle East and Africa.
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12 'militants' arrested in Russia
MOSCOW, Dec 25: Russian authorities have arrested 12 suspected members of the banned Hizbi Tahrir radical Islamic group, Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev said On Saturday.
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Algerian army kills six rebels
ALGIERS, Dec 25: Algeria's army has killed six militants in northwest Algeria during a sweep on a suspected rebel hideout, state radio quoted security services as saying on Saturday.
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Over 15,000 hold peace rally in Nepal
KATHMANDU, Dec 25: More than 15,000 Nepalese took part in a peace rally on Saturday in Kathmandu as the death toll from the country's nine-year-old Maoist conflict reached 11,000.
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