Unofficial ‘ceasefire’ in SouthWaziristan: Troops on the move, insists ISPR
PESHAWAR, Feb 3: An unofficial ceasefire agreed between security forces and militants has been holding ground in the troubled South Waziristan tribal region since Saturday, according to a tribal parliamentarian....
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Troops claim finding ‘torture cells’
DARRA ADAMKHEL, Feb 3: Security forces combing the Kohat Frontier Region for suspected hideouts of militants, demolished a number of torture cells, a sub-jail and the headquarters of local militants, officials and residents said....
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Two ICRC workers go missing in Khyber area
LANDI KOTAL, Feb 3: Two workers of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have gone missing in the Khyber tribal region, according to officials....
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‘Militant’ killed in operation
QUETTA, Feb 3: A suspected militant was killed in an operation in the Khal Gari area of Sui Tehsil on Sunday....
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Benazir’s ‘last testament’ gives hint about plot to kill her
LONDON, Feb 3: Former prime minister, the late Benazir Bhutto, in her still-to-be published book (Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy & the West) has asserted that Pakistan had become the epicentre for two...
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Officials claim foiling plot to kill Fazl
PESHAWAR, Feb 3: The police have arrested a teenager who has confessed to plotting a suicide attack to kill Maulana Fazlur Rehman, security officials said on Sunday....
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Ghous Ali Shah condemns minister’s threat to media
LONDON, Feb 3: Former Sindh chief minister and provincial president of PML-N Syed Ghous Ali Shah has roundly condemned the threats hurled against retired generals and the media by a caretaker federal minister....
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Power pylon blown up near Hub
QUETTA, Feb 3: A huge pylon of the high power transmission line near Hub was blown up on Sunday, suspending electricity supply to a vast area....
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Landslide claims six lives
QUETTA, Feb 3: Six Children of a family of nomads were killed and three others injured in a landslide on Sunday night in the Bibi Nani area of Bolan district, some 110km east of here, police said....
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US strategy ‘dangerously short-sighted’: Aitzaz
NEW YORK, Feb 3: Terming the US strategy on Pakistan “dangerously shortsighted”, President of the Supreme Court Bar Association Aitzaz Ahsan on Sunday asked the United States to seek release of...
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Not all that rosy for PML-Q
PAKISTAN Muslim League-Q goes to the polls under immense pressure. Three months ago, when President Musharraf reasserted his power by hammering down the judiciary and media, the party could not imagine the events would boomerang the way they have....
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Bus service between Quetta and Mashhad from March
ISLAMABAD, Feb 3: The caretaker Minister of Communications barrister Habibur Rehman has said that the Quetta-Mashhad bus service will be launched in March....
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80pc Muslim voters take part in US primaries
WASHINGTON, Feb 3: As many as 80 per cent Muslim voters in the United States are participating in primaries for the 2008 presidential elections, among the highest aggregates by any ethnic or religious group in America....
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Straw orders inquiry into report MP was bugged
LONDON, Feb 3: Justice Secretary Jack Straw ordered an immediate inquiry on Sunday into allegations that Scotland Yard anti-terrorist police secretly bugged an MP during private conversations with a constituent in prison....
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India may face isolation without N-deal: Mukherjee
NEW DELHI, Feb 3: India and the IAEA discussing a complex civil nuclear deal are yet to clinch an acceptable agreement as Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee warned on Sunday that without it New Delhi could face global isolation....
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Tanks used in battle for Chad capital
NDJAMENA (Chad), Feb 3: Fierce fighting with tanks and helicopter strikes rocked the Chad capital for a second day on Sunday as rebels surrounded President Idriss Deby Itno in his palace and hundreds of foreigners fled the country....
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OIC calls for lessening suffering of Palestinians
JEDDAH, Jan 3: The Organisation of Islamic Conference has called upon the international community to take steps to lessen the pain and suffering of Palestinian people living in the Gaza Strip....
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Woman raped by ex-husband, accomplices
SUKKUR, Feb 3: A woman was kidnapped and sexually assaulted allegedly by her former husband and his accomplices in the New Yard Railway Colony of Rohri on Saturday night....
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