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Cabinet to discuss vital issues today
ISLAMABAD, Feb 13: President Gen Pervez Musharraf will attend a special meeting of the federal cabinet convened at the Prime Minister House on Monday.
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Pakistan to get US arms later this year
WASHINGTON, Feb 13: Pakistan will start receiving weapons from the United States under a $1.2 billion arms package by the end of this year, official sources told Dawn. The production of these weapons has already started, they added.
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Fresh rains hit relief efforts
QUETTA, Feb 13: The situation in the flood-affected areas of Balochistan worsened on Sunday as a fresh spell of heavy rain lashed the province, sending all seasonal rivers in medium to high floods and hampering relief operation.
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Death toll in NWFP rises to 120
PESHAWAR, Feb 13: The death toll in the devastation caused by torrential rains and snowfall rose to 120 in the Frontier province with at least 27 more people reported dead on Sunday.
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Four more soldiers rescued from Tirah
PESHAWAR, Feb 13: A helicopter of army aviation, during a salvage mission on Sunday, rescued all the four remaining soldiers who were stranded at a post established on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border
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Death toll in AJK rises to 54
MUZAFFARABAD, Feb 13: Army and police personnel resumed rescue operation on Sunday in Mayyatan Wali Seri village in the Neelum valley where the death toll from avalanche rose to 41 from the earlier figure of 33, officials said.
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Mouza census in country
LAHORE, Feb 13: There has been considerable socio-economic development in the rural areas of the country from 1998 to 2003.
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Gas pipeline blown up in Muridke
LAHORE, Feb 13: A gas pipeline was blown up at Kala Shah Kaku in Muridke on Sunday night in what the SNGPL termed a sabotage act. "It is an act of sabotage," SNGPL Deputy Managing Director Azam Khan told Dawn
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Jack Straw due in Islamabad today
ISLAMABAD, Feb 13: British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Jack Straw will hold bilateral consultations with the top leadership here on Monday. He is arriving here in the morning on a three-day official visit.
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Heavy agenda for talks with Natwar
ISLAMABAD, Feb 13: Indian External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh will hold wide-ranging talks with his Pakistani counterpart Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri here on Wednesday
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Kashmir bus deal likely during Natwar's visit
NEW DELHI, Feb 13: Indian External Affairs Minister Kunwar Natwar Singh, under pressure at home and abroad to produce a foreign policy that works with neighbours
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Pro-India Kashmiri councillors to resign
NEW DELHI, Feb 13: Many newly-elected municipal councillors and members in the Kashmir valley have decided to resign, fearing attacks from militants despite assurances by the government to provide security, United News of India said on Sunday.
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'Relations with Pakistan better'
MUNICH, Feb 13: Relations between India and Pakistan are better today than at any time in recent history, India's new National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan said on Sunday.
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Four killed, 25 injured in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, Feb 13: Twenty-five people including an Indian soldier were injured Sunday when suspected Muslim rebels hurled a hand grenade at an army patrol in Kashmir, police said.
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Shia bloc wins, but falls short of majority
BAGHDAD, Feb 13: A Shia Islamist bloc won Iraq's first election since Saddam Hussein's overthrow, sealing the political emergence of the nation's long-oppressed majority.
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Israel okays release of Palestinians
AL QUDS, Feb 13: Israel's cabinet on Sunday approved the release of 500 Palestinian prisoners in what Prime Minister Ariel Sharon called a goodwill gesture to bolster new Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and build mutual trust.
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Nato's role in changing world debated
MUNICH, Feb 13: Nato's hopes of playing global policeman to deal with new security challenges secured support from several senior foreign and defence officials attending an international conference on security in Munich on Sunday.
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US flying secret missions over Iran: Report
WASHINGTON, Feb 13: The US has been flying surveillance drones over Iran for nearly a year to seek evidence of nuclear weapons programs, The Washington Post reported on Sunday.
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Iran rejects EU offer on nuclear issue
TEHRAN, Feb 13: Iran on Sunday rejected a European offer aimed at limiting its nuclear fuel activities and warned the United States against "playing with fire" in an increasingly bellicose stand off between Tehran and the international community.
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