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MMA joins govt against bill
ISLAMABAD, March 1: In what looked like a unity of conservatives, the ruling coalition and the opposition Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal alliance voted together in the National Assembly on Tuesday to kill a ruling party member's bill seeking to tighten the law against honour-killings.
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Release of Indian prisoners ordered: Left leaders meet Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, March 1: President General Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday ordered the release of 31 Indian Sikhs detained for illegal entry and recommended that captive Indian fishermen be freed, the foreign ministry said.
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Indian left charmed by Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, March 1: India's two top Communist party leaders and the Congress government's coalition partners gave an emphatic vote of confidence to President Pervez Musharraf's commitment to peace with India
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Mines removal likely to delay bus service
ISLAMABAD, March 1: Removal of landmines on both sides of the Line of Control is one of the major problems that can delay the launch of the Muzaffarabad-Srinagar bus service.
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Widespread violation of rights by India: US
WASHINGTON, March 1: Indian security forces in Kashmir have used extra-judicial killings as a weapon to suppress armed militants as well as civilians opposed to the Indian rule, says a US report on human rights.
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Pakistan calls for progress on women's issues
UNITED NATIONS, March 1: Pakistan on Monday called on the world community to move faster and fulfil the commitments made at the Beijing women conference so that gender equality and the empowerment of women goals are realized.
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Captain appears before tribunal: Sui assault case
QUETTA, March 1: A judicial tribunal investigating a sexual assault on a lady doctor of the Sui hospital recorded on Tuesday the statement of Captain Hammad of the Defence Services Group and summoned the district nazim of Dera Bugti
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Bomb blast near Quetta police post
QUETTA, March 1: Rockets were fired on a check post of the Frontier Corps in Kangri area of Loralai district on Tuesday night, while a powerful bomb blast near a police post on the Brewery Road in the provincial caused panic in the area.
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Passengers evacuated from PIA plane in UK
LONDON, March 1: More than 300 passengers were evacuated on Tuesday from a Pakistan International Airlines plane after smoke was seen coming from its undercarriage as it landed at a British airport, officials and police said.
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Two Indian troops killed
SRINAGAR, March 1: Mujahideen in occupied Kashmir killed two Indian army soldiers and injured three in a fierce gun battle on Tuesday, police said.
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Islamic Jihad behind Israel attack: Rice
LONDON, March 1: Syrian-based Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad was behind last week's deadly suicide bombing in Tel Aviv that threatened to wreck Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Tuesday.
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Blair suffers setback over terror laws
LONDON, March 1: British Prime Minister Tony Blair, preparing for an election expected in May, suffered an embarrassing revolt from his ruling Labour Party on Monday when his plans to reform anti-terrorism laws just scraped through parliament.
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Iran to press on with N-fuel drive, says minister
TEHRAN, March 1: Iran's foreign minister said on Tuesday his country was determined to resume uranium enrichment activities so it could fuel an ambitious atomic energy programme
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Editor: Tahir Mirza
ISLAMABAD, March 1: President General Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday ordered the release of 31 Indian Sikhs detained for illegal entry and recommended that captive Indian fishermen be freed, the foreign ministry said.
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