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Kashmir core issue, says PM
ISLAMABAD, Feb 5: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Saturday said that Kashmir was a core issue between India and Pakistan and added that normalization of relations between the two countries depended on its amicable resolution.
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Kashmir Solidarity Day observed
ISLAMABAD, Feb 5: To express solidarity with Kashmiri brethren fighting against the tyrany of Indian forces in occupied Kashmir, Kashmir Solidarity Day was observed on Saturday throughout Pakistan and Azad Kashmir with unprecedented enthusiasm.
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Aziz, Owais to discuss crisis
PESHAWAR, Feb 5: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and Balochistan Governor Owais Ghani are meeting in Islamabad on Monday to discuss the situation in the province and help expedite constitutional reforms aimed at greater provincial autonomy.
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Foreign hand seen in Balochistan trouble
ISLAMABAD, Feb 5: The government is likely to announce shortly a comprehensive package for Balochistan in line with the parliamentary committee's recommendations
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Gas pipeline, rail track blown up
DERA GHAZI KHAN/QUETTA, Feb 5: Unidentified saboteurs blew up a gas pipeline in Punjab and a railway track in Balochistan on Saturday.
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Okara farm tenants block G.T. Road
OKARA, Feb 5: Hundreds of military farm tenants blocked the GT Road and the Lahore-Karachi railway track, 5km from here, on Saturday to protest the establishment of checkpoints on their land by the army.
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Pakistan, Iran ready to go without India: Gas pipeline
TEHRAN, Feb 5: Iran and Pakistan may not wait for an uncertain India to join a deal to buy Iranian gas via a trans-Pakistan pipeline, Iran's deputy oil minister for international affairs was quoted on Saturday as saying.
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Two die in Kashmir violence
SRINAGAR, Feb 5: Two people were killed and a Muslim candidate in ongoing municipal elections wounded in a surge of violence in Indian-held Kashmir, police said on Saturday.
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Indian beheaded in S. Arabia
RIYADH, Feb 5: An Indian citizen convicted of burning a compatriot to death was executed Saturday in southern Saudi Arabia, the Interior Ministry said.
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Karzai replaces provincial governors
KABUL, Feb 5: Afghan President Hamid Karzai has replaced six provincial governors after promising to rein in the powers of regional warlords, the interior ministry said on Saturday.
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Afghan plane's wreckage found
BAND-E-GHAZI, Feb 5: Dutch military helicopters on Saturday found the wreckage of an Afghan passenger jet that crashed in a snow storm near the capital Kabul two days ago, killing all 104 people on board.
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Ulema link help with troop withdrawal: Drafting of constitution
BAGHDAD, Feb 5: Iraq's leading Sunni authority on Saturday said it would help to draft the country's new constitution under a timetable for foreign troops to leave, hinting it could then help to end the insurgency.
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Palestinians press for Israeli concessions
GAZA CITY, Feb 5: The Palestinians pressed for concessions from Israel on the release of prisoners on Saturday three days before a potentially breakthrough summit in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
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Cooperation against terror urged
RIYADH, Feb 5: Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia has stressed the need for close cooperation among all countries to counter the menace of terrorism. Inaugurating a four-day international conference on counter-terrorism, he said it was wrong to equate Islam with terrorism.
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150 injured, 200 arrested in BD: Opposition activists clash with police
DHAKA, Feb 5: At least 150 people were injured in sporadic clashes mainly between the law enforcers and opposition pickets on the first day of the countrywide non-stop 36-hour general strike, began on Saturday morning.
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