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| January 25, 2007 | Thursday | Muharram 05, 1428 |
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US legislation seeks ban on assistance to Pakistan
WASHINGTON, Jan 24: A new legislation, already endorsed by the House of Representatives, calls for stopping US military assistance to Pakistan if Islamabad fails to halt the resurgence of Taliban inside its territory.... 
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Allegation preposterous: Musharraf
ABU DHABI, Jan 24: An angry President Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday labelled as ''''preposterous'''' the suggestions that Pakistani military and intelligence officials may have helped the Taliban cross into Afghanistan....
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Russia, India strike new arms deals
NEW DELHI, Jan 24: Russia and India struck new arms deals on Wednesday as Moscow tried to retain its long-time position as the top weapons supplier to the Indian military amid growing competition....
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Attack on Pakistani post a mistake, says Nato official
RAWALPINDI, Jan 24: The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) has assured Pakistan that incidents like this week’s attack on a Pakistan post in North Waziristan will not take place in future....
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Progress in talks despite terror threats, says Singh
NEW DELHI, Jan 24: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said that talks with Pakistan are progressing "in the right direction" despite threats of terror attacks from across the border, Indian...
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IPI partners hold talks on gas price
TEHRAN, Jan 24: The fourth meeting of the Working Group on Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) Gas Pipeline project began discussions on the gas pricing mechanism here on Wednesday....
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PPP, PML-N postpone meeting on MPC
ISLAMABAD, Jan 24: A meeting that was scheduled to be held between leaders of the People''s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) about the proposed multi-party conference was...
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Ministers’ absence from Senate criticised
ISLAMABAD, Jan 24: Senators from the opposition and the treasury benches on Wednesday joined hands in assailing cabinet members for not attending the upper house sessions regularly and asked acting Chairman Jan Muhammad Jamali to take notice of their absence....
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Call to change promotion rules
ISLAMABAD, Jan 24: The job quota issue took a serious turn on Wednesday when a special Senate committee warned that if the rules for promotion of the federal bureaucrats were not...
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SHC allows Hakim Zardari’s appeal
KARACHI, Jan 24: The Sindh High Court allowed an appeal moved by Hakim Ali Zardari, former MNA and father-in-law of PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto, and set aside his conviction in an accountability case....
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Mirwaiz getting threatening messages
ISLAMABAD, Jan 24: Chairman of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has been receiving threatening messages from the militant Kashmiri groups since his call for giving up armed struggle for fruitful negotiations with India over the Kashmir dispute....
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Nicholson report rejected
LONDON, Jan 24: The All Parties Parliamentary Group on Kashmir which met at the House of Commons on Tuesday rejected the Baroness Emma Nicholson draft report on Kashmir, formulated for the European Union Foreign Affairs Committee....
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US returns stolen artifacts to Pakistan
NEWARK (United States), Jan 24: Customs and immigration officials have returned several ancient artifacts to the government of Pakistan nearly a year and a half after they were discovered at the Newark port....
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Bush rejects call for pullout from Iraq
WASHINGTON, Jan 24: US President George W. Bush implored his nation in his sixth annual State of the Union address to give his new Iraq strategy “a chance to work.”...
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10 mortar shells land in N. Waziristan
| MIRAMSHAH, Jan 24: At least 10 mortar shells were fired from across the Pakistan-Afghanistan border which hit Ghulam Khan and Saidgai areas of the North Waziristan Agency on Tuesday night, official sources said....
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EC, AKDN sign declaration
| ISLAMABAD, Jan 24: European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and Aga Khan, chairman of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), on Tuesday signed a joint declaration aims at broadening the scope...
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Nato force gunfire kills Afghan civilian
| KABUL, Jan 24: Warning shots fired by Nato-led troops killed an Afghan passer-by in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, the force said, in the latest in a string of similar incidents....
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4 Arab Iranians executed
| TEHRAN, Jan 24: Iranian authorities on Wednesday hanged four Arabs convicted of bombings that killed dozens of civilians in southern Iran....
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