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| March 2, 2006 | Thursday | Safar 1, 1427 |
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Foreign militants among 40 killed in N. Waziristan: Helicopters mount massive operation
MIRAMSHAH, March 1: Forty people were killed and 30 others, including women and children, were wounded when helicopter gunships struck a suspected militants’ compound in a village in North Waziristan on Wednesday morning, officials and residents said....
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Bush to raise issue of ‘infiltration’
KABUL, March 1: US President George Bush said on Wednesday he would raise the issue of cross-border infiltration of militants in talks with President Pervez Musharraf. “These infiltrations are causing harm to friends and allies and cause harm to US troops. It will be a topic of conversation,” Mr Bush said at a news conference in Kabul after talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai....
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‘Operation to go on against saboteurs’
ISLAMABAD, March 1: There will be no let-up in operation against saboteurs and farrari camps in Balochistan, says President General Pervez Musharraf....
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Pro-govt PWP chief killed near Quetta
QUETTA, March 1: Pakistan Workers’ Party (PWP) chairman Nasrullah Khan Kakar was killed in Bostan near here on Wednesday. The alleged assailant also was killed in an exchange of fire with...
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Bush to help resolve Kashmir dispute, hopes Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, March 1: President General Pervez Musharraf said on Wednesday he expected US President George W. Bush to use his influence to help settle the Kashmir dispute....
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US support to be sought on cartoon issue: Kasuri
ISLAMABAD, March 1: Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri said on Wednesday that during US President George Bush’s visit here this week Pakistan would solicit his diplomatic support for its initiatives on the issue of blasphemous cartoons....
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Nationwide protests as Bush arrives in New Delhi
NEW DELHI, March 1: US President George W. Bush arrived on his maiden visit to India on Wednesday amid unprecedented secrecy and encircled by raging nationwide protests against his country’s occupation of Iraq....
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US president due tomorrow
WASHINGTON, March 1: President George W. Bush will arrive in Pakistan from Hyderabad, India, on Friday, when the MMA has called for a countrywide strike against blasphemous cartoons published in a section of the European press....
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FC man killed, four injured in blasts
QUETTA, March 1: A Frontier Corps man was killed and four others injured in two landmine explosions in Mand and Loop areas, while another soldier was injured in fighting between security forces and tribesmen in Pir Koh area on Wednesday....
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$225m accord signed for expressway
KARACHI, March 1: An agreement for the construction of Pakistan’s first-ever elevated expressway in Karachi was signed here on Wednesday....
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Benazir’s assets in Spain ‘unearthed’
ISLAMABAD, March 1: The National Accountability Bureau on Wednesday claimed to have unearthed two more offshore companies and a villa in Spain owned by former prime minister Benazir Bhutto....
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Nawaz leaves for Geneva
ISLAMABAD, March 1: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday left London for Geneva with his wife Kulsoom Nawaz, ailing son Hassan Nawaz and some other members of his family, a party source told Dawn....
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Afghan charge rebuffed
ISLAMABAD, March 1: Hitting back at persistent allegations of infiltration into Afghanistan from Pakistan, Islamabad on Wednesday declared that incursions were also taking place from Afghanistan into Pakistan and advised Kabul to do its bit to end the menace....
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Culling of chickens completed
KARACHI, March 1: Pakistan has completed the slaughter of 25,000 chickens at two poultry farms in the NWFP after a mild bird flu strain was detected in flocks there, officials told AFP on Wednesday....
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Four die in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, March 1: Suspected rebels shot dead two counter-insurgency policemen on Wednesday and two other people on Tuesday in occupied Kashmir, police said.—AFP...
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Action against charities questioned
NEW YORK, March 1: A coalition of American Muslim Organizations on Tuesday sought a meeting with the US Treasury Secretary, John Snow, to discuss growing concerns “about the continued targeting of Muslim charities without due process of law.”...
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FBI pushed suspect to attend terror camp
SACRAMENTO, March 1: An FBI informant repeatedly pushed a terror suspect to attend an Al Qaeda camp while he was in Pakistan, at one point yelling at him in a telephone...
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Kashmir issue: Bush urged to raise HR abuse issue with India ISLAMABAD, March 1: The All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) convenor and Jammu and Kashmir People’s Freedom League chairman Mohammad Farooq Rehmani has called upon the US President George W....
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