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F-16 sale not linked to Iran-US row: FM
LAHORE, March 26: The proposed sale of F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan has no links with the US-Iran standoff on Tehran's nuclear programme nor the deal has anything to do with the issue, Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri said
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Pakistan to get new F-16s: US
WASHINGTON, March 26: Under a deal proposed on Friday, the United States would sell new F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan and not those that were manufactured for Islamabad in the late 1980s, the US State Department said.
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US building ties with Pakistan, India: Rice
WASHINGTON, March 26: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defended a US decision to sell F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan and elaborated on US efforts to build ties with both India and Pakistan at once
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Pakistan, India N-powers: US
WASHINGTON, March 26: Both India and Pakistan moved towards becoming de facto nuclear powers when they tested their devices in May 1998, senior US officials said.
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Five killed in accident near Kandhkot
JACOBABAD, March 26: Five persons were killed and 16 others injured in an accident on Indus Highway near Kandhkot on Saturday.
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Pakistanis held in Iraq with explosives
BAGHDAD, March 26: Iraqi forces said on Saturday that they had arrested 120 suspects, including foreign Arabs, Pakistanis and Afghans, on suspicion of planning attacks against the country's Shia community.
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India, US agree to push defence ties
NEW DELHI, March 26: India and the United States have agreed to a series of steps to boost defence and energy ties, the foreign ministry said, as Washington announced it would sell F-16 fighters to Pakistan.
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Delhi, Beijing to sign border deal
NEW DELHI, March 26: India and China may sign an agreement during Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's visit to New Delhi in April outlining principles to resolve a border dispute over which they fought a brief war in 1962, a newspaper said.
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Afghan blast kills four American soldiers
KABUL, March 26: Four US soldiers were killed in an explosion in the southeastern Afghan province of Logar on Saturday morning when their vehicle convoy ran over a mine as they were surveying the area with Afghan soldiers, the US military said.
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Kyrgyzhstan: polls to be held in June
BISHKEK, March 26: Kyrgyz lawmakers on Saturday set a new presidential vote for June as they struggled to stabilise their Central Asian country amid political in-fighting following the toppling of its Soviet-era regime.
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