‘Missing’ envoy untraced
ISLAMABAD / LANDI KOTAL, Feb 12: Security forces have launched a massive search along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border for the missing, reportedly kidnapped, Pakistani Ambassador to Kabul Tariq Azizuddin....
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Over 19,000 polling stations sensitive: Troop deployment begins
ISLAMABAD, Feb 12: Deployment of army troops for maintaining peace in different parts of the country during the elections began on Tuesday and the government declared over 19,000 polling stations ‘sensitive’...
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PML-N offers help to PPP in forming govt
LAHORE, Feb 12: The PML-N has assured the PPP of its support in the process of forming government without seeking a share in power, well-placed sources in both parties say....
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Journalists among 9 injured in blast
QUETTA, Feb 12: Nine people, including four journalists, were injured when a bomb attached to a bicycle went off outside the election offices of a former provincial minister and an independent candidate in Khuzdar on Tuesday....
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‘Musharraf did nothing for my protection’: Benazir’s book
NEW YORK, Feb 12: “I had become aware that suicide squads might be sent from the North-West Frontier Province and Federally Administered Tribal Areas to try to assassinate me immediately on...
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Pemra Ordinance lapsed, SHC told
KARACHI, Feb 12: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday disposed of all three petitions challenging the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority Ordinance after the Pemra counsel informed the court that the...
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Free elections pave way for democracy: Miliband
LONDON, Feb 12: British Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Tuesday said that in Pakistan, the path to democracy begins with free and fair elections, “but it needs deeper roots: an independent...
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Five hostages killed
PARACHINAR, Feb 12: Tribesmen killed on Tuesday five hostages belonging to a rival tribe in the Kurram tribal region....
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40 suspects arrested
QUETTA, Feb 12: Law-enforcement personnel arrested over 40 suspects during a search operation launched in some areas on Tuesday....
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Only EU team from abroad to monitor polls
ISLAMABAD, Feb 12: The European Union’s observers’ mission will be the only credible team of monitors in Pakistan for the February 18 elections, it is learnt....
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The health of the federation
CAN election results tell us something about the health of the federation? Two distinct questions need answering....
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China may replace India in pipeline deal: Iran
NEW DELHI, Feb 12: A senior Iranian official has said that China is keen to join the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline and if New Delhi does not take a decision soon then Beijing would replace New Delhi in the deal....
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‘20pc houses not quake-proof’
ISLAMABAD, Feb 12: The Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority declared on Tuesday that about 20 per cent houses built in the quake-hit areas did not comply with safety standards....
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IRI survey a ‘success’ for PPP, claims Asif
LAHORE, Feb 12: While Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has welcomed the IRI survey as ‘success’ for his party, the Pakistan Muslim League-Q has rejected it and termed the report “alien to ground realities in Pakistan”....
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Australia issues text of apology to Aborigines
CANBERRA, Feb 12: Australia’s new prime minister aims to launch a fresh era in his country’s often-fraught race relations on Wednesday with an apology for the “indignity and degradation” suffered by Aborigines....
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Suspects in Benazir’s murder remanded
RAWALPINDI, Feb 12: An anti-terrorism court on Tuesday extended the physical remand of two persons held in connection with the plot to assassinate former prime minister Benazir Bhutto....
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Opposition requisitions Senate session
ISLAMABAD, Feb 12: Opposi-tion senators submitted a requisition notice to the Senate Secretariat on Tuesday for convening a session of the upper house....
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Arabs to seek ‘umbrella’ if Iran builds bomb
LONDON, Feb 12: Gulf states believe Israel will destroy Iran’s nuclear programme rather than allow it to acquire an atomic bomb, an adviser to the Kuwaiti government and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) said on Tuesday....
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