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Nation celebrates Eid today
ISLAMABAD, Jan 20: Eidul Azha will be celebrated across the country on Friday with religious fervour and a renewed pledge to forge Muslim unity and national solidarity.
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Trade talks with India next month
ISLAMABAD, Jan 20: The Pakistan-India committee of experts, led by the commerce secretaries of the two countries, will meet on Feb 22, sources told Dawn on Thursday.
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Envoy urges US to use diplomacy on Iran issue
WASHINGTON, Jan 20: Pakistan's envoy to the United States has urged America to use diplomacy to work out differences with Iran because military action could destabilize the entire region.
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Troops enter Dera Bugti, Sui, says JWP: Minister rules out operation
QUETTA, Jan 20: Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) leaders on Thursday alleged that regular troops and tanks had entered Sui and Dera Bugti early in the morning and telephones exchanges in the area had gone out of order.
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Greater autonomy for Balochistan proposed
ISLAMABAD, Jan 20: The parliamentary sub-committee on Balochistan's political issues has recommended 15 to 20 per cent increase in gas royalty, 20 to 30 per cent resource allocation for local development and constitutional changes
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Curfew relaxed in Gilgit; 70 held
GILGIT, Jan 20: Curfew was relaxed here on Thursday from 7am to 1pm.Skardu administration has also announced a six-hour relaxation in curfew from 9am to 3pm.
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Taliban reject talks with US: report
ISLAMABAD, Jan 20: Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar has rejected negotiations with US-led forces and the Afghan government and vowed to continue his "holy war", a statement purportedly from the radical cleric said on Thursday.
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Dostum survives suicide attack
KABUL, Jan 20: Afghan strongman Abdul Rashid Dostum survived an assassination attempt by a suicide bomber on Thursday but 22 people were injured, an aide to Dostum and witnesses said.
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Pilgrims perform stoning ritual
MINA, Jan 20: Some 2.5 million Muslims on Thursday took part in the 'stoning of devil' ritual, as a major part of the Muslim world marked Eidul Azha following the Haj pilgrimage.
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Briton, Swede killed in Iraq
DUBAI, Jan 20: A militant group said on Thursday it had abducted and killed a Briton and a Swede in the central Iraqi city of Beiji.
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Iran vows to respond to US threats
TEHRAN, Jan 20: Iran issued a new warning on Thursday that it would respond to any threat by the United States in an escalating war of words over Tehran's nuclear activities which Washington claims is a cover for developing the bomb.
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Two Palestinian boys shot dead
JENIN, Jan 20: Two Palestinian boys were shot dead by Israeli troops on Thursday in separate incidents in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical sources told AFP.
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Bush begins second term with change in mind
WASHINGTON, Jan 20: US President George Bush launched his second term on Thursday with an urgent pledge to spread freedom to "the darkest corners of our world" and vowed to heal divisions like those over the war in Iraq.
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Washington's streets deserted
WASHINGTON, Jan 20: Police sealed off a 100-block area in central Washington for President George Bush's inauguration on Thursday, turning much of the usually bustling center of the US capital into a ghost town of deserted streets and barricades.
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Confirmation of Rice put off
WASHINGTON, Jan 20: The confirmation of Condoleezza Rice as secretary of state was delayed on Thursday as Democrat members of the US Senate have expressed the desire to prolong the debates that turned out to be heated.
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29 killed in Nepal clash, says army
KATHMANDU, Jan 20: At least 23 soldiers and police and six Maoist rebels were killed in a clash in eastern Nepal while 16 security personnel were still missing a day after the battle, the army said on Thursday.
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Two blasts kill 14 in Xinjiang
BEIJING, Jan 20: Fourteen people were killed and 13 injured in two explosions on Thursday in northwest China's Xinjiang region.
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MINA, Jan 20: Some 2.5 million Muslims on Thursday took part in the 'stoning of devil' ritual, as a major part of the Muslim world marked Eidul Azha following the Haj pilgrimage.
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