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| February 05, 2007 | Monday | Muharram 16, 1428 |
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‘Precision’ air strike on Afghan town: Nato forces claim killing Taliban leader
KANDAHAR, Feb 4: A precision air strike by Nato-led forces killed a Taliban commander behind an insurgent takeover of the southern Afghan town of Musa Qala and several of his men on Sunday, the force and a police officer said....
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APHC urges militants to declare truce
SRINAGAR, Feb 4: The All Parties Hurriyat Conference on Sunday urged militants fighting Indian rule in the Himalayan region to declare a temporary ceasefire to help resolve a decades-old dispute which has killed tens of thousands of people....
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Benazir says she will return to Pakistan by early November
WASHINGTON, Feb 4: Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said on Sunday that she will return to Pakistan by the end of October or early November but did not announce a specific date....
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No plan to impose emergency, says Aziz
ISLAMABAD Feb 4: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Sunday rejected reports about a government plan to impose emergency in the country. He was addresing a news conference at the Prime Minister’s House....
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The ‘five privy’ to Kashmir plan
ISLAMABAD, Feb 4: There has been a guessing game going on in foreign policy circles here since Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri declared at a seminar in Lahore a week ago that...
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Funds for Neelum-Jhelum project
ISLAMABAD, Feb 4: Pakistan is expected to finalise by early next month a $1.4 billion financing arrangement with China and Qatar to start construction of a much-delayed 969MW Neelum-Jhelum Hydropower Project in Azad Kashmir....
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Musharraf to hold talks with Ahmadinejad
ISLAMABAD, Feb 4: President Pervez Musharraf will consult Iranian leaders about his recent initiative for the establishment of peace in Middle East....
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Manmohan backs Musharraf on Kashmir
NEW DELHI, Feb 4: Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has backed President Gen Pervez Musharraf''s statement that those who believed the gun was the only way to solve the Kashmir issue...
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6 children crushed under train
BAHAWALPUR, Feb 4: Six children playing on the railway track near the local railway station were crushed to death by the Lahore-bound Karachi Express on Sunday morning....
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Benazir and Nawaz to finalise MPC details
LAHORE, Feb 4: All matters concerning the holding of a multi-party conference will be decided by former prime ministers Benazir Bhutto and Mian Nawaz Sharif at a meeting to be held in London during the next few weeks....
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India test-fires short-range ballistic missile
BHUBANESWAR, Feb 4: India successfully test-fired a short-range ballistic missile on Sunday, the head of the test operation said....
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‘Four militants held in Delhi after shootout’
NEW DELHI, Feb 4: Indian police on Sunday arrested four suspected militants after a shootout with officers in New Delhi, reports said....
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Probe into Kashmir fake encounters, civilian killings
SRINAGAR, Feb 4: Indian security forces are probing the alleged killings of innocent civilians in Kashmir who were later labelled as militants so the killers could reap rewards or promotions, a statement said on Sunday....
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Kashmir protest
SRINAGAR (Occupied Kashmir), Feb 4: Thousands of people denounced the police and demanded an independent inquiry into the alleged slaying of civilians by security forces, at the funeral on Sunday of one of the supposed victims....
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14 politicians arrested in Bangladesh
DHAKA, Feb 4: The Bangladesh army-led forces detained at least 14 leaders of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and the Awami League for their alleged links with crime and corruption....
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US lawmakers to debate Iraq plan
WASHINGTON, Feb 4: The bruising political battle over President George W. Bush''s decision to send 21,500 extra troops to Iraq heads to the Senate floor on Monday, for debate on a resolution rebuking the unpopular plan....
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Gulf Arab official to open talks with IAEA
RIYADH, Feb 4: A Gulf Arab official will head to Vienna this month for talks with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on regional plans to pursue a nuclear energy programme, a Saudi newspaper said on Sunday....
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Kashmir Day to be observed today
ISLAMABAD, Feb 4: The Kashmir Solidarity Day will be observed all over the country and in Azad Kashmir on Monday to re-assert Pakistan’s moral, diplomatic and political support to Kashmiris and...
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Muslims in BD seek global peace
DHAKA, Feb 4: Some three million Muslim devotees raised their hands in prayer seeking global peace and harmony at one of the world''s biggest mass religious congregations, police and organisers said on Sunday....
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Explosive device defused
LAKKI MARWAT, Feb 4: A day after a bomb blast killed a person, another terrorism bid was foiled as a bomb disposal squad defused a locally made explosive device here on...
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