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Arbab, Imtiaz told to 'cease fire'
KARACHI, Feb 21: A cease fire brokered by PML Secretary General Mushahid Hussain Syed between Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim and Imtiaz Shaikh could not hold even for 24 hours
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MMA announces plan for marches
ISLAMABAD, Feb 21: The supreme council of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) on Monday announced a programme of countrywide million marches and caravans as part of its next phase of the anti-Musharraf campaign. The MMA, which failed to persuade the ARD leaders in its last meeting with them to form a grand opposition alliance, welcomed contacts between the leadership of the two alliances
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Pakistan likely to take up Patriot issue with US
WASHINGTON, Feb 21: Pakistan is expected to take up with the US administration the expected sale of Patriot missile defence system to India, diplomatic sources told Dawn on Monday.
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Registrar of Supreme Court sacked
ISLAMABAD, Feb 21: The Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Nazim Hussain Siddiqui, on Monday sacked Supreme Court Registrar M.A. Farooqi on charges of corruption and misappropriation of funds.
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Kasuri in Japan for talks
TOKYO, Feb 21: Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri arrived in Japan on Monday on a three-day visit for talks expected to touch on nuclear non-proliferation.
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Discharge from major reservoirs increased
ISLAMABAD, Feb 21: Water stored in the country's reservoirs has increased to 2.911 million acre feet (maf) or 180 per cent higher than last year's 1.036maf, sources in the Indus River System Authority (Irsa) told Dawn on Monday.
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Mushfiq Khwaja dead
KARACHI, Feb 21: Noted research scholar Mushfiq Khwaja, whose monumental work on Urdu manuscripts earned him a permanent place in the world of literature, died of renal failure on Monday night. He was 70.
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Gas pipeline project to promote peace: Iran
NEW DELHI, Feb 21: Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi said on Monday the approval of a pipeline project to bring Iranian gas to India via Pakistan would encourage regional peace and trade.
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Avalanche toll rises to 110 in held Kashmir
SRINAGAR, Feb 21: Rescuers on Monday dug out dozens of bodies buried by avalanches in held Kashmir, taking the death toll to 110 after the worst snows in two decades swept the Himalayan region.
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India tests Akash missile
BHUBANESWAR, Feb 21: India successfully test-fired a medium range surface-to-air missile on Monday from a range on an island off the coast of the eastern state of Orissa, defence sources said.
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Curfew after clashes in Lucknow
LUCKNOW, Feb 21: Indian authorities clamped a curfew in Lucknow a day after three men were killed and 13 injured as Shia and Sunni communities clashed during a religious procession.
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Israel frees 500 prisoners
BETUNIA, Feb 21: Israel freed 500 Palestinian prisoners on Monday in the largest mass release for nearly a decade, a gesture meant to bolster a cease fire deal with new Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
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Tehran refuses 'sell-out' on nuclear programme
TEHRAN, Feb 21: Iran has rejected an EU call for Tehran to draw up a compromise formula on uranium enrichment, saying it will not "sell out" its nuclear capabilities, a top negotiator said on Monday.
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Editor: Tahir Mirza
ISLAMABAD, Feb 21: President Pervez Musharraf on Monday asked the United States to help resolve conflicts in South Asia and the Middle East for a durable peace, an official statement said.
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