Pakistan proposes 20 CBMs: Secretary-level talks begin
ISLAMABAD, Dec 27: Pakistan on Monday formally presented to India a list of 20 proposals on confidence-building measures, mostly in the security area which is of utmost concern to the people and governments of the region as well as the international community.
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Talks focus on peace, security: FO
ISLAMABAD, Dec 27: The foreign office said on Monday that talks on the first day between the foreign secretaries of Pakistan and India focused on issues of peace and security , and both sides resolved to intensify efforts to make progress in dispute areas, including Jammu and Kashmir....
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Musharraf announces raise in pension
ISLAMABAD, Dec 27: President General Pervez Musharraf has said the government will encourage higher industrial growth which lies at the core of realizing the twin goals of sustained economic development and poverty reduction.
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Rs10m relief sent to Lanka: Musharraf, Aziz express grief
ISLAMABAD, Dec 27: The government of Pakistan on Monday dispatched food, medicine and other relief goods to Sri Lanka for the victims of Sunday's massive tsunami.
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Pakistan not in US body's list of free democracies
WASHINGTON, Dec 27: Pakistan is not among the countries that grant political rights and civil liberties to their citizens, says a report released this week by a Washington-based human rights organization, the Freedom House.
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Iranian FM arrives on two-day visit
ISLAMABAD, Dec 27: Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi arrived here on Monday to hold wide-ranging talks with Pakistani officials. He was received at the airport by Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri and officials of the foreign office.
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Indian N-plant may have been damaged
NEW DELHI, Dec 27: Huge waves that battered the Indian coastline after an earthquake in Indonesia may have damaged a nuclear power plant in southern Tamil Nadu state, the government said on Monday.
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Quake-wave toll tops 24,000: Sri Lanka, India & Indonesia among the worst hit; another tsunami feared today
COLOMBO, Dec 27: Massive rescue operations were scrambled along Asia's devastated coastlines on Monday as the death toll from a powerful earthquake and the giant tidal waves it unleashed
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Top Iraqi leader escapes suicide attack
BAGHDAD, Dec 27: Thirteen people were killed on Monday when a suicide bomber attacked the headquarters of a top Iraqi Shia political leader, while the country's main Sunni Muslim party announced a boycott of next month's crucial elections.
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Israel frees 159 prisoners
RAMALLAH, Dec 27: Israel freed 159 Palestinian prisoners on Monday as a gesture to Egypt and moderate new Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, but he called for a "serious release" of thousands of security detainees.
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Summit on schedule, says BD
DHAKA, Dec 27: The upcoming Saarc summit will take place as scheduled, Bangladesh foreign secretary Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury said on Monday, dispelling speculations of the summit being deferred on account of devastations
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Yushchenko wins Ukraine polls
KIEV, Dec 27: Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko won Ukraine's presidency on Monday after a historic and wrenching election in which he vowed to steer the strategic ex-Soviet nation on a new course toward the West and away from Russia.
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