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| February 26, 2006 | Sunday | Muharram 27, 1427 |
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Ties bigger than just terror war, says Bush: ‘Americans care about people of Pakistan’
WASHINGTON, Feb 25: President George Bush has said the United States and Pakistan “is a relationship that’s much bigger than just the war on terror.”... 
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Bush to call for closing ‘terrorist camps’
WASHINGTON, Feb 25: US President George W. Bush has said that he plans to urge President Pervez Musharraf to dismantle terrorist facilities when he meets him in Islamabad next week....
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Call to announce autonomy framework before ’07 polls
KARACHI, Feb 25: A national conference on Balochistan and the issue of provincial autonomy, convened by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement on Saturday, demanded that a framework and schedule for complete provincial autonomy should be announced before the 2007 elections....
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Separatists boycott talks on Kashmir
NEW DELHI, Feb 25: India’s prime minister held a day of round-table talks on Saturday with Indian Kashmiri politicians on the future of the disputed Kashmir region as separatist leaders boycotted the meeting....
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‘Recurrence of sacrilege must be prevented’: Musharraf stresses faith harmony
RAWALPINDI, Feb 25: President Pervez Musharraf has said that it is the collective responsibility of the international community to promote inter-faith harmony and discourage any act that poses a threat to world peace and stability....
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Reconstruction in AJK, NWFP to begin in March: Aziz
ISLAMABAD, Feb 25: Reconstruction work in quake-hit areas of Azad Jammu and Kashmir and northern districts of the NWFP will begin in March....
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Opposition leaders’ Punjab entry banned for a week
ISLAMABAD, Feb 25: The Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly and secretary-general of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA), Maulana Fazlur Rehman, said on Saturday night that he and scores of other political leaders had received orders banning their entry into Punjab....
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US promises to avoid border violations
ISLAMABAD, Feb 25: Washington promised Islamabad on Saturday it would avoid violating Pakistani borders when pursuing terror suspects, an official said, weeks after a US missile strike targeting an Al Qaeda leader killed 13 villagers, including children....
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No headway in US-India nuclear talks
NEW DELHI, Feb 25: The United States said on Saturday it still had differences with India on finalising a landmark nuclear deal, but both sides were trying to sew up the pact before President George W....
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Violence claims 24 lives in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Feb 25: A series of bombings, including a car bomb attack in Karbala, and shootings across Iraq killed 24 people and left dozens wounded on Saturday....
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18 killed as building collapses in Dhaka
DHAKA, Feb 25: A six-storey building housing shops and offices collapsed in the Bangladeshi capital on Saturday with about 100 workers inside, killing at least 18 people and burying dozens of surrounding shanty homes, officials and witnesses said....
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Al Qaeda owns up to attack on oil facility
DHAHRAN, Feb 25: As security forces look for people who planned the attack on an oil facility in Abqaiq on Friday, the local wing of Al Qaeda claimed the responsibility for the attack....
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Al Qaeda vows more attacks
DUBAI, Feb 25: Al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia on Saturday vowed more attacks after a failed assault on a major oil installation in the kingdom and named two suicide attackers who died, according to a Web posting....
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Mullah Omar is in Pakistan: Karzai
KABUL, Feb 25: President Hamid Karzai has handed intelligence to Pakistan that indicates Mullah Mohammed Omar, supreme leader of the Taliban regime, and key associates are hiding in Pakistan, a senior Afghan official said on Friday....
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Joint exercise with Dutch ship held
KARACHI, Feb 25: The Pakistan Navy’s fleet units conducted a joint naval exercise with the Royal Netherlands (Navy) Ship HNLMS “DeZeven Provincien” which is on route to its next destination after paying a goodwill visit to Karachi....
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Ex-Afghan spy chief sentenced to death
KABUL, Feb 25: An Afghan court sentenced a former spy chief to death for killing hundreds of people during communist rule, the first such punishment for war crimes after decades of conflict in the country....
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Anti-king protest
NEW DELHI, Feb 25: Nepal’s opposition parties announced on Saturday a new round of nationwide protests to restore democracy, piling fresh pressure on King Gyanendra, who seized power a year ago.—AFP...
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Peshawar bank robbed of Rs65m
PESHAWAR, Feb 25: A branch of the Bank Al-Faysal in Karkhano Market situated near tribal border was on Saturday robbed by armed men who decamped with Rs5.6...
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