Security forces regain control of Kohat tunnel
KOHAT, Jan 27: Security forces took positions on hilltops around the town of Darra Adamkhel and the Friendship Tunnel on Sunday as 24 militants and five soldiers were killed in clashes....
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50 militants held in Swat
SWAT, Jan 27: Fifty militants, including a local commander, were arrested during a military operation in Sambat, Bodigram and Matta areas of Upper Swat on Sunday....
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Bodies of 3 soldiers found in Waziristan
TANK, Jan 27: The bodies of three soldiers were found in the Makin area of South Waziristan on Sunday....
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Three Levies men killed
HANGU: Three Levies personnel were killed and two others injured in attacks on two security checkpoints in Orakzai Agency on Saturday night....
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Move to raise flour price by Rs4
ISLAMABAD, Jan 27: The ministry of food has suggested to the Federal Food Committee (FFC) to increase the official flour price at Utility Stores and in the open market by a...
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Army to keep out of poll process, says ISPR
ISLAMABAD, Jan 27: A spokesman for the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) has said that the conduct of elections in accordance with the Constitution is the sole responsibility of the Election Commission and the army will not be involved in the process....
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‘Stormy and substantive’ agenda for Senate
ISLAMABAD, Jan 27: Acting Chairman of Senate Mir Jan Mohammad Jamali on Sunday summoned the upper house session at 4pm on Wednesday....
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Benazir’s will to be part of her book
KARACHI, Jan 27: Pakistan People’s Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has warned that any manipulation in Feb 18 elections will be tantamount to tearing the country apart and the people themselves will foil all such attempts of the ‘local Gorbachev’....
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Zardari condemns victimisation
ISLAMABAD, Jan 27: The Pakistan People’s Party has condemned what it called continuing victimisation of party workers as “a planned and orchestrated pre-poll rigging” aimed at forcing activists to keep away from elections....
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China lodges protest over Indian troop movements
NEW DELHI, Jan 27: China has lodged a diplomatic protest over Indian military activity in Sikkim and claimed that Indian troops were trying to be active on the Chinese side of...
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‘World should help Pakistan, Afghanistan against terror’
WASHINGTON, Jan 27: Afghan President Hamid Karzai believes that Benazir Bhutto’s assassination has forced both Pakistan and Afghanistan to realise that they have to fight terrorism together....
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Egypt battles to contain Gaza exodus
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, Jan 27: Israeli and Palestinian leaders met over the crisis in Gaza on Sunday as Egypt battled to regain control of its breached border with the impoverished territory and contain the exodus of Palestinians....
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Suharto is dead
JAKARTA, Jan 27: Indonesia’s former president Suharto, whose legacy of economic development was marred by graft and human rights abuses during his 32 years in power, died on Sunday, aged 86, after suffering multiple organ failure....
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Musharraf rejects proposals for US military action
NEW YORK, Jan 27: President Pervez Musharraf rebuffed the Bush administration’s proposals to expand any American combat presence in Pakistan, either through unilateral covert CIA missions or by joint operations with Pakistani security forces, the New York Times reported on Sunday....
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British team to return next month
ISLAMABAD, Jan 27: The Scotland Yard team investigating the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto will be returning to the country some time next month and not on January 27 as announced by the government....
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PPP prepares statements for investigators
KARACHI, Jan 27: The Pakistan People’s Party is recording statements of its leaders and workers who were inside or close to the vehicle of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto when she was assassinated....
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‘Terrorist’ held
DERA MURAD JAMALI, Jan 27: Police claim to have arrested a man wanted for his alleged involvement in several attacks on railway tracks and cases of murder, murder attempt and terrorism in Balochistan and Sindh....
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Gen Tariq leaves for Bahrain
RAWALPINDI, Jan 27: Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Tariq Majid has left for Bahrain on a four-day visit to meet Pakistan Navy troops, high-ranking government and military officials, including the US NAVCENT commander....
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