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Indian troops kill 3 boys in mistake for rebels
SRINAGAR, July 24: Indian soldiers shot dead three teenage boys and seriously wounded a fourth in revolt-hit Kashmir on Sunday after mistaking them for rebels, the army said....
Bomber dies in Chaman blast
QUETTA, July 24: A suspected suicide bomber was killed and four others, including a woman, were injured in a powerful explosion in Chaman near the Afghanistan border on Sunday....
Reporter of daily Star held: Dawn Group’s statement
KARACHI, July 24: Mr Rashid Channa, senior Pakistani journalist for the Star, the Karachi evening daily newspaper published by the Dawn Group of Newspapers, was picked up on Sunday by police...
Third UK blasts suspect held
LONDON, July 24: British police said on Sunday they had arrested a third man in connection to last week’s bomb attacks in London as they defended their shoot-to-kill policy after wrongly...
Brazil ‘shocked’ over killing of its citizen
SAO PAULO (Brazil) July 24: The Brazilian government was shocked and perplexed to learn that London police mistakenly shot to death a Brazilian citizen on a subway car, the Foreign Ministry said on Saturday....
US needs to shape closer ties with Indian army: think-tank
WASHINGTON, July 24: The United States needs to build an operational partnership with the Indian army, enabling US and Indian troops to work together in joint military operations across the globe, says a new study by the US Institute of Peace....
Experts from Pakistan visit Baglihar
NEW DELHI, July 24: A team of experts from India and Pakistan inspected the Baglihar dam project in Doda on Sunday, preparing the grounds for a World Bank-sponsored visit there in September by the Swiss mediator, Raymond Lafitte, official sources said....
40 killed in Baghdad suicide attack
BAGHDAD, July 24: A suicide bomber in a flatbed truck laden with 220kgs of explosives killed up to 40 people outside a Baghdad police station on Sunday, the US military said, citing Iraqi police reports....
Man wounded by own bomb in Cairo
CAIRO, July 24: An Egyptian man was critically wounded when a bomb he was carrying accidentally exploded in Cairo on Sunday, police said, the day after a string of devastating bombings in the resort of Sharm el-Sheikh....
US soldier dies in Taliban attack
KABUL, July 24: A US soldier was killed and another wounded in an attack by suspected Taliban guerillas in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, the latest American casualties in a surge of militant violence ahead of September elections....
Man on PM’s plane sparks security alert
ISLAMABAD, July 24: Unauthorized boarding of prime minister’s aeroplane by an employee of the Pakistan embassy in Kabul, moments before the plane had started taxiing for the return flight to Islamabad, led to security alert and evacuation of the jet....
Manmohan may face censure motion in parliament
NEW DELHI, July 24: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh may have to face an opposition-led censure motion in parliament during its monsoon session starting on Monday, the first major test for his 14-month-old government....
Boycott of army uplift schemes threatened
MIRAMSHAH (North Waziristan), July 24: A joint jirga of tribal elders and ulema has threatened to boycott development works initiated by the army in the tribal agencies if the elders are not taken into confidence about search operations....
Quake hits Indian islands
PORT BLAIR(India), July 24: India’s Andaman and Nicobar islands, devastated by last year’s tsunami, were shaken by a strong quake on Sunday but officials said there was no danger of new killer waves hitting the Indian Ocean archipelago....
FC man dies in encounter
QUETTA, July 24: A Frontier Corps man was killed in an exchange of fire with smugglers near Taftan on Sunday. An FC contingent was patrolling the Iranian border when a group of drug smugglers crossed into Pakistan....
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KABUL, July 24: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and Afghan President Hamid Karzai met on Sunday for talks to strengthen security and trade ties against...
SRINAGAR, July 24: Indian soldiers shot dead three teenage boys and seriously wounded a fourth in revolt-hit Kashmir on Sunday after mistaking them for rebels, the army said....
QUETTA, July 24: A suspected suicide bomber was killed and four others, including a woman, were injured in a powerful explosion in Chaman near the Afghanistan border on Sunday....
SAO PAULO (Brazil) July 24: The Brazilian government was shocked and perplexed to learn that London police mistakenly shot to death a Brazilian citizen on a subway car, the Foreign Ministry said on Saturday....
BAGHDAD, July 24: A suicide bomber in a flatbed truck laden with 220kgs of explosives killed up to 40 people outside a Baghdad police station on Sunday, the US military said, citing Iraqi police reports....
