10 militants held in Karachi
KARACHI, Feb 15: Police have arrested 10 members of a militant organisation linked to the Taliban. They were planning massive terror attacks in the city during the elections, a senior police official said on Friday....
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Army chief seeks support for peaceful polls: 81,000 troops deployed
ISLAMABAD, Feb 15: Chief of Army Staff Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has expressed satisfaction over the pace and manner of army’s deployment for maintaining law and order during the elections....
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Durand line de facto border, says US
WASHINGTON, Feb 15: The United States believes that both Afghanistan and Pakistan recognise the Durand line as their de facto border but has not tried to settle the dispute between its two key allies, says a senior US official....
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Over 1,000 arrested in Peshawar
PESHAWAR, Feb 15: Police continued its crackdown on suspected trouble-makers for the third day on Friday and arrested more than 1,000 people, most of them Afghan nationals....
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Suicide bombers planning attacks, provinces warned
RAWALPINDI, Feb 15: The federal government is reported to have warned the police chiefs of the provinces and Islamabad to step up security around the diplomatic missions of some Arab countries...
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Qayyum ‘was aware of rigging plan’: HRW releases tape
ISLAMABAD / NEW YORK, Feb 15: A US-based human rights group on Friday released, what it claimed, was an audiotape of Pakistan’s attorney general acknowledging that the general election would be "massively" rigged....
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Accord with India to double flights
ISLAMABAD, Feb 15: Pakistan and India have agreed to increase the number of flights, destinations and airlines operating between them....
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Review plea on emergency dismissed
ISLAMABAD, Feb 15: The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a petition seeking review of the court’s detailed judgment giving reasons for validating Gen Pervez Musharraf’s declaration of the emergency on November...
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Statement of suspect in assassination case recorded
RAWALPINDI, Feb 15: The statement of another man arrested on Thursday night for his alleged involvement in the December 27 attack on former prime minister PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto was recorded...
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PPP will try to oust Musharraf: Awan
ISLAMABAD, Feb 15: Pakistan People’s Party will try to remove President Pervez Musharraf from office if it wins elections, a senior party official said on Friday....
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Pilot dies in PAF jet crash
SARGODHA, Feb 15: A Pakistan Air Force jet crashed on Friday during its routine flight near Chak No.125 SB near Shaheenabad, around 28 kilometres away from Sargodha....
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FC official killed
PESHAWAR, Feb 15: An FC official was killed and a police constable suffered injuries when a group of armed men attacked a Frontier Constabulary fort in Kishan Garh on Friday....
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Landmine blast leaves boy dead
QUETTA, Feb 15: A boy was killed and three others were injured when a landmine went off in Qadirabad village in Noshki district on Friday.Police sources said the landmine had been planted near the Hashima Mosque....
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Al Qaeda suspect held
KARLSRUHE (Germany), Feb 15: A German man of Pakistani origin has been arrested in southwestern Germany on suspicion of working for Al Qaeda, the office of the federal prosecutor said on Friday....
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Election to cost Rs200bn
KARACHI, Feb 15: The elections for the National Assembly and provincial legislatures would cost a record Rs200 billion, according to projections based on a survey carried out by a team of journalists....
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New Delhi committed to peace: Mukherjee
NEW DELHI, Feb 15: India is committed to peace, friendship and good neighbourly relations with Pakistan, Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee told a parliamentary of foreign affairs on Friday....
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Flour mills to get advance wheat quota
ISLAMABAD, Feb 15: The Federal Food Committee (FFC) on Friday directed all the relevant authorities to ensure supply of two-day advance wheat quota to flour mills by Feb 17....
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Man convicted in UK
LONDON, Feb 15: A British jury on Friday convicted a fifth suspect of joining in a plot to kidnap and decapitate a British soldier....
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PIA starts Kuwait flight from Sialkot
KARACHI, Feb 15: PIA’s first flight from the newly built Sialkot International Airport departed on Friday for Kuwait. The flight will operate once a week, every Friday....
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Election Focus: The battle for Punjab
Elections 2008 may be the most unpredictable polls ever held in this country. And yet they may also be the most easy to assess, depending on how you see them....
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