Troops on the offensive in Darra, occupy militants’ stronghold
DARRA ADAMKHEL/ KOHAT, Jan 25: Troops, backed by tanks and helicopter gunships, launched an operation in Darra Adamkhel on Friday after local militants refused to hand over army’s four ammunition trucks they had seized on Wednesday....
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Two soldiers killed in attack on checkpost
WANA, Jan 25: Two soldiers were killed and seven others wounded when militants attacked with rockets an outpost on a hill in Spinkai Raghzai area of South Waziristan on Friday....
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Foreign troops must not enter Pakistan, says Musharraf
LONDON, Jan 25: President Pervez Musharraf kicked off his three-day visit to the UK here on Friday with an hour-long talk on ‘Vision for Pakistan and Regional Harmony’ at a prestigious...
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UK diplomat summoned over Shujaat kin incident
ISLAMABAD, Jan 25: The Foreign Office summoned Britain’s Acting High Commissioner Ray Kyles on Friday and conveyed to him Pakistan’s concern and consternation over the treatment meted out to relatives of...
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US ready to ‘partner with’ Pakistan troops in Fata
WASHINGTON, Jan 25: The United States remains “ready, willing and able” to assist Pakistan and partner with the Pakistani armed forces as they take on Al Qaeda, says US Defence Secretary Robert M....
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President seeks more market access to be able to fight root causes of terrorism
DAVOS, Jan 25: President Pervez Musharraf said here on Friday that Pakistan was not going to disintegrate....
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Statements of 90 police officers recorded
RAWALPINDI, Jan 25: Pakistani investigators probing Benazir Bhutto’s assassination have recorded statements of 139 people, including 90 police officers who were on duty when she was killed outside the Liaquat Bagh, Dawn learnt on Friday....
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Fazlullah’s aide, other militants held in Swat
SWAT, Jan 25: Police conducted raids in several areas of Swat on Friday and arrested a number of militants and proclaimed offenders, including a cleric who wrote a Fatwa sanctioning suicide attacks and beheading of government officials....
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Pakistan tests ballistic missile
ISLAMABAD, Jan 25: Pakistan on Friday conducted a successful training launch of the Shaheen-1 (Hatf-IV) medium-range ballistic missile....
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Blasts affect power supply to Hub, Barkhan
QUETTA, Jan 25: Balochistan’s industrial town of Hub and its other parts plunged into darkness on Friday evening when two pylons were blown up, one in the Hub riverbed and the other in Barkhan....
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Zardari says PPP to foil rigging plan, sweep polls
KARACHI, Jan 25: The Pakistan People’s Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari claimed on Friday that his party would register a thumping victory in the Feb 18 election and said that the people would not let the election be stolen....
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Signing of gas deal with Iran delayed
ISLAMABAD, Jan 25: Iran’s “increasing international commitments and compulsions” have delayed the signing of a gas sale and purchase agreement for the cross-border pipeline. The agreement was to be signed this month....
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Polls to be held on schedule: Soomro
ISLAMABAD, Jan 25: Prime Minister Mohammedmian Soomro said on Friday that the elections would be held on schedule and the government would provide the necessary support to the Election Commission of...
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IFIs held responsible for economic decline
ISLAMABAD, Jan 25: Pakistan’s economy could have developed faster and would have made substantial gains had governments not invited world bodies to intervene in its development planning....
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Doubts over seriousness of Spain ‘terror plot’
MADRID, Jan 25: The Spanish government expressed doubt on Friday about how close an alleged cell of Muslims may have been to staging suicide attacks, questioning the assertion of a judge...
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France offers nuclear technology to India
NEW DELHI, Jan 25: The leaders of India and France agreed here on Friday to forge closer strategic ties but decided to wait for the IAEA to signal its approval before...
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Investigator among four dead in Beirut blast
BEIRUT, Jan 25: Lebanon’s top anti-terrorism investigator was slain along with three other people in a powerful car bombing that ripped through a neighbourhood of eastern Beirut on Friday, officials said....
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World’s first oil paintings found in Afghan caves
TOKYO, Jan 25: Forget Renaissance Europe. The world’s first oil paintings go back nearly 14 centuries to murals in Afghanistan’s Bamiyan caves, a Japanese researcher says....
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