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Shujaat resumes talks today
KARACHI, Jan 30: Pakistan Muslim League president Chaudhry Shujaat Husain is due here on Monday. Besides offering condolences to the Soomro family on the passing away of veteran politician Rahim Bukhsh Soomro
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Positive signals from India received: Gas pipeline project
ISLAMABAD, Jan 30: Islamabad has received positive signals from New Delhi on the proposed trans-Pakistan gas pipeline, a venture that appeared to be going sour because of recent Indian resistance to it.
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Pakistan urges Iran to end N-dispute
DAVOS, Jan 30: Pakistan is exerting behind the scenes pressure on Iran to compromise in its dispute with Europe and the United States over its nuclear programme, Pakistani diplomatic sources say.
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Religious leader shot dead in Karachi
KARACHI, Jan 30: A religious scholar and his police guard were shot dead near Tariq Road on Sunday afternoon when he was returning home from a mosque.
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Powerful blast rocks Quetta
QUETTA, Jan 30: A powerful bomb exploded near the Askari Park, without causing any casualty or damage to property. However, a second blast partially damaged an oil tanker in the Kuchlak suburb of the city.
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Clash leaves Afghan soldier dead
WANA, Jan 30: One Afghan soldier was killed and another wounded during an exchange of fire between Pakistani security forces and Afghan National Army near Angor Adda, South Waziristan Agency, on Saturday night, officials and residents said.
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Wagon-coach collision claims 26 lives
JACOBABAD, Jan 30: Twenty-six people, including four women and two children, died when a wagon collided head-on with a coach near the Begari Canal, the Abad area, here on Sunday.
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Eight die in bus crash near Sargodha
SARGODHA, Jan 30: Eight passengers were killed while 12 others suffered injuries on Sunday night in an accident on the Sargodha-Sillanwal Road near Chak 122-NB, some 24kms from here.
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Marathon in Lahore turns into a festival
LAHORE, Jan 30: Thousands of people thronged the Qadhafi Stadium on Sunday for the first Lahore International Marathon in which athletes from 16 countries took part.
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Mine blasts kill two Afghans
KANDAHAR, Jan 30: Two landmine blasts in the south and east of Afghanistan killed at least two people and injured 15 others on Sunday, police officials said.
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Violence mars Iraq polls: 60pc turnout claimed
BAGHDAD, Jan 30: Millions of Iraqis exercised their right of franchise in a historic election on Sunday, defying militants who killed 35 people in a bloody assault on the poll.
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Iraqi poll resounding success: Bush
WASHINGTON, Jan 30: US President George Bush said on Sunday that the Iraq elections were a 'resounding success' and assured Iraqis that more than 140,000 US troops based in their country would now help them rebuild a democratic Iraq.
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UK army plane crashes near Baghdad
BAGHDAD, Jan 30: A British military transport plane crashed north west of Baghdad on Sunday, British and US officials said.
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Qorei holds truce dialogue
GAZA CITY, Jan 30: Palestinian prime minister Ahmed Qorei held talks with militant factions here on Sunday as part of efforts to reach an agreement for a halt to anti-Israeli attacks.
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One dies, 12 hurt in BD strike
DHAKA, Jan 30: A man was killed and scores of opposition leaders and workers, including two lawmakers, were injured in clashes on Sunday, the second day of the 60-hour countrywide general strike.
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