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Shujaat meets Mengal today
ISLAMABAD, Jan 24: Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, the president of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League and chairman of the parliamentary committee on Balochistan, is scheduled to meet the president of the Pakistan Oppressed Nations' Movement (Ponam)
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External security not needed, says FO
ISLAMABAD, Jan 24: Pakistan on Monday said its strategic nuclear assets were in safe hands and Islamabad needed no external security plan for their safety.
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Aziz explains role in war on terror: Talks held with EU officials
BRUSSELS, Jan 24: Pakistan is playing a key role in fighting terrorism and acting as an anchor for international peace, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz told leading European Union officials here on Monday.
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Rains may cut water shortage to 30pc
LAHORE, Jan 24: Water shortage in the country may come down to 30 per cent from the earlier projected shortfall of 48 per cent in the wake of the current rain spell.
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Bridge blown up near Sibi
QUETTA, Jan 24: A powerful bomb blew up a railway bridge near Sibi, about 157 km from here, on Monday night. Five railways employees were injured in the incident when their trolley fell to the ground as a result of the blast.
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7 die as roof collapses after rain
HARIPUR, Jan 24: At least seven members of a family, three of them women, were killed and four others injured when the roof of their house collapsed in the village of Aldo in tehsil Ghazi, about 32km from here on Monday.
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7 of a family murdered
SIALKOT, Jan 24: Seven members of a family, including three women, were found slaughtered in a house in Model Town, Uggoki, Sialkot tehsil, late Monday night.
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India violated cease fire: FO - Mortars fired from occupied Kashmir
ISLAMABAD, Jan 24: Pakistan on Monday accused India of violating the 14-month-old cease fire along the Line of Control in the disputed Kashmir region, saying small-arms fire came on Friday from the Indian side.
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India denies violating cease fire
NEW DELHI, Jan 24: India on Monday described as 'baseless' Pakistan's accusation that Indian troops had violated the 14-month-long cease fire by firing across the Line of Control at Mendhar sector on Jan 21.
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India, China begin talks on WMDs
NEW DELHI, Jan 24: India and China kicked off their first strategic dialogue here on Monday, highlighting regional stability as a key objective while sharing the fear that weapons of mass destruction could fall into the hands of non-state players.
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Dhaka wants review of Saarc role
DHAKA, Jan 24: Bangladesh's Foreign Minister M. Morshed Khan said on Monday that the country would stress during the upcoming Saarc summit primarily on review up on progress the implementation of previous declarations
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'Skilful efforts reduced Al Qaeda's influence'
WASHINGTON, Jan 24: The US State Department said on Monday that "skill ful and aggressive" efforts by Pakistani and American intelligence agencies have minimized Al Qaeda's influence in the region even if its leader Osama bin Laden is still at large.
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Senior Zarqawi aide arrested
BAGHDAD, Jan 24: Iraq announced the capture of a senior aide to leading militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi on Monday, hours after Zarqawi claimed responsibility for a suicide car bomb near the offices of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi.
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US Muslims' sacrifice rights defended
WASHINGTON, Jan 24: US lawyers and government officials have defended the right of American Muslims to offer sacrifices during Eidul Azha, thus peacefully ending a potential dispute that could have further strained America's relations
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Iran may allow UN into military base
TEHRAN, Jan 24: Iran may allow UN inspectors back into a military base where Washington says tests linked to a covert atomic weapons programme could have taken place, a senior Iranian official was quoted as saying on Monday.
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