Carrot-and-stick plan to tackle militancy: •COAS gets vast powers •Tribals to expel foreigners
ISLAMABAD, June 25: A high-level meeting on Wednesday took stock of the deteriorating security situation in the North West Frontier Province and progress in the ‘war on terror’, declaring that the...
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Apex court stays by-poll in NA-123: Partial relief provided to Nawaz
ISLAMABAD, June 25: The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered postponement of by-elections to the NA-123 Lahore constituency from where PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif has been barred by the Lahore High Court from contesting....
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Militants kill 22 rival tribesmen
TANK, June 25: Pro-Baitullah Mehsud militants killed 22 rival tribesmen in Jandola the day after kidnapping them, an official said on Wednesday....
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US lawmakers for tripling non-military aid
WASHINGTON, June 25: US lawmakers are pushing for a new legislation that would triple non-security aid to Pakistan to $15 billion over a period of 10 years but will also condition security assistance to Islamabad’s performance in the war against terrorism....
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US delivers four F-16s
WASHINGTON, June 25: The United States has delivered four refurbished F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan....
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Polling for by-elections today
ISLAMABAD, June 25: Polling for by-elections to five National Assembly and 25 provincial assembly constituencies will be held on Thursday (today).Voting will begin at 8am and continue till 5pm without break....
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Nato not to carry out ‘hot pursuit’
ISLAMABAD, June 25: A senior Nato official regretted on Wednesday the US-led forces’ cross-border attack in which 11 Pakistani soldiers were killed earlier this month and assured that Nato forces would not enter Pakistan’s territory in ‘hot pursuit’....
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Taliban turn school into ‘Jamia Hafsa’
KHAR, June 25: The Taliban seized a government-run girls’ school and renamed it after an Islamabad madressah destroyed in a siege last year, residents and officials said on Wednesday....
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S. Arabia arrests 700 of ‘deviant ideology’: Plots to attack oil installations
RIYADH, June 25: Saudi Arabia has arrested 701 people in the past six months on suspicion of plotting attacks on oil industry installations, the interior ministry announced on Wednesday....
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Indian coalition partners fail to bridge gap on N-deal
NEW DELHI, June 25: The Indian government and its communist allies on Wednesday failed to settle an impasse over a landmark nuclear deal with the United States, but decided to continue talks....
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PM to meet Bush next month
WASHINGTON, June 25: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani is coming to Washington next month on his first visit to the United States as the head of the new government in Islamabad....
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$30bn a year needed to fight world hunger
VIENNA, June 25: The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation said on Wednesday that 30 billion dollars would be needed every year until 2050 to stave off world hunger, this year exacerbated by a food crisis....
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Southeast Asian groups still a ‘real’ threat: report
JAKARTA, June 25: Southeast Asian ‘terror’ groups still pose a ‘very real’ and strategic threat requiring vigilance from governments, despite a drop in attacks, an Australian think-tank said on Wednesday....
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Presidential spokesman suffers minor stroke
ISLAMABAD, June 25: President Pervez Musharraf’s spokesman Maj-Gen (retired) Rashid Qureshi Wednesday suffered second Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA) after a gap of six years but luckily escaped permanent damage....
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Judge killed in accident
QUETTA, June 25: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) judge was killed and three people were injured in a collision between a freight truck and a car near Sibi in Bolan district on Wednesday....
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Iran to pull assets from EU
VIENNA, June 25: Iran will withdraw assets from the European Union in response to the tightening of sanctions imposed over its nuclear programme, Deputy Foreign Minister Mahdi Safari said in an interview published on Wednesday....
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UK strips Mugabe of knighthood
LONDON, June 25: Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has been stripped of his honorary British knighthood as a “mark of revulsion” following recent pre-election violence, the Foreign Office in London said on Tuesday....
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Nine killed in road accidents
MUZAFFARGARH, June 25: Nine people were killed and 21 others injured in two road accidents here on Wednesday....
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