Terror revisits Pindi security zone: Two army officers, six others die
RAWALPINDI, Feb 4: A lieutenant-colonel, a major and six others were killed in the city’s high-security zone on Monday when a suicide bomber rammed his motorcycle into a minibus carrying trainees of the Armed Forces Post-Graduate Medical Institute (AFPGMI)....
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Economic woes force Rs70bn cut in PSDP
ISLAMABAD, Feb 4: The government has decided to cut the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) by Rs70 billion because of a slowdown in the economy and huge losses suffered in the wake of the assassination of PPP leader Benazir Bhutto....
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Bush seeks $830m for Pakistan
WASHINGTON, Feb 4: US President George W. Bush on Monday unveiled a $3.1 trillion budget plan for 2009, which includes a financial assistance of $830 million for Pakistan....
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All brickbats during Senate debate on emergency
ISLAMABAD, Feb 4: It was all brickbats, and no bouquet, for President Pervez Musharraf on Monday when the Senate debated his controversial 42-day emergency rule, which the opposition called a “virtual...
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Only six of 24 NWFP districts ‘normal’ for polls
PESHAWAR, Feb 4: The government has planned to deploy over 57,000 security personnel at polling stations in the NWFP where only six of the 24 districts have been declared ‘normal’ for Feb 18 general elections, according to a senior government official....
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May 12 mayhem: SHC says it can’t assume role of investigators
KARACHI, Feb 4: The Sindh High Court disposed of the May 12, 2007, mayhem case on Monday with the observation that the court cannot assume the role of an investigator in exercise of its writ jurisdiction....
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Accord to exchange security information signed with India
NEW DELHI, Feb 4: India and Pakistan on Monday signed an agreement to exchange security information, officials said, opening up a new channel of communication between the two countries....
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Edhi narrates JFK airport ordeal
KARACHI, Feb 4: Talking about the recent ordeal that he underwent at an American airport, prominent social worker Abdul Sattar Edhi said this was for the third time that he had been detained at a US airport and interrogated....
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Kurd placed under house arrest
QUETTA, Feb 4: Ali Ahmed Kurd, one of the leaders of the lawyers’ struggle for restoration of the pre-Nov 3 judiciary, was placed under house arrest on Monday, only a few days after his release from nearly three months of detention....
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Man killed in landmine blast
QUETTA, Feb 4: A man was killed and three people suffered serious injuries when a tractor trolley hit a landmine in the Pat Feeder area near Sui tehsil on Monday....
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Natwar Singh slams Indian stance on N-deal
NEW DELHI, Feb 4: New Delhi’s hurry to clinch a controversial nuclear deal with the United States despite its unpopularity in the Indian parliament was politically divisive and there would be...
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Independence day bomb attacks kill 13 in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO, Feb 4: Tamil Tiger rebels killed 13 people with two roadside bombs on Monday, just hours after the government celebrated the island’s 60th anniversary of independence with a parade of military might in the capital....
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UK trying to pit Taliban against Taliban: paper
LONDON, Feb 4: The so-called ‘war on terror’ appears to have gone haywire in Afghanistan as the occupying authorities seemingly have lost the direction and come into direct confrontation with the Hamid Karzai government, which they support....
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Bugging row may cause heavy damage to Labour govt
LONDON, Feb 4: Weekend reports that police bugged private conversation between Pakistani origin British Labour whip Sadiq Khan and Babar Ahmad, who is facing extradition to the US for trial over...
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PML-Q and the Maharaja
THE absolute power that Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi enjoyed in Punjab for five years is paralleled only by that epitome of Punjab’s glory, Maharaja Ranjit Singh who too was born and raised not far away from Gujrat....
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Iran fires rocket into space, joins elite club
TEHRAN, Feb 4: Iran on Monday fired a rocket into space to mark the opening of its first space centre, triggering swift condemnation from the United States amid continued tensions over the Iranian nuclear drive....
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Suicide bomber strikes Israel after gap of one year
DIMONA (Israel), Feb 4: A Palestinian suicide bomber killed a woman in a desert town in southern Israel on Monday, the first such attack in the country in a year, but Israeli officials said peace talks would not be derailed....
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Riyadh beheads 3 foreigners
RIYADH, Feb 4: Saudi Arabia beheaded an Indian, an Iraqi and a Pakistani on Monday after they were convicted of drug smuggling, the interior ministry said....
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Bureaucracy opposing RCO plan for NWFP, Fata
PESHAWAR, Feb 4: The proposed Regional Coordination Offices (RCOs), being portrayed as people who will solve all problems, are unlikely to bring any significant improvement in the law and order situation...
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Balochistan strike
QUETTA, Feb 4: Traders in Dera Allahyar and Dera Murad Jamali observed on Monday a strike in protest against kidnapping of four Hindu businessmen....
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