All parties support peace talks: FM: Manmohan likely to visit Pakistan
NEW DELHI, June 27: Foreign ministers of Pakistan and India on Friday announced a fifth round of their Composite Dialogue from July 21, sanguine that the opposition parties in both countries backed the peace process....
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IPI pipeline fee dispute resolved
India and Pakistan have resolved commercial differences holding up a proposed multi-billion-dollar gas pipeline from Iran, oil ministers of both South Asian nations said on Friday....
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Tough message for militants: Kayani meets Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, June 27: The political and military leadership of the country on Friday put militants on notice that the security challenge they posed would be met with a firm hand....
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Gates says Fata plan creates an opportunity
WASHINGTON, June 27: Pakistan’s decision to empower the army to deal with militants in the tribal areas also creates an opportunity for the United States to defeat terrorism in that region, says US Defence Secretary Robert Gates....
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$150m aid for Pakistan
WASHINGTON, June 27: The US Senate on Friday approved $150 million of economic assistance for Pakistan....
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Islamabad, Isaf to reactivate tripartite commission
ISLAMABAD, June 27: Pakistan’s military authorities and Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) in Afghanistan agreed on Friday to reactivate the tripartite commission. According to defence sources, the next meeting of the commission will take place next month....
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‘US spies’ executed publicly
KHAR, June 27: Militants in Bajaur Agency executed two Afghan nationals in public on Friday on charges of spying for the United Sates....
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PML-N, PPP make gains
ISLAMABAD, June 27: Major components of the ruling coalition — Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) and the Awami National Party (ANP) — have won most of the seats in by-elections to National Assembly and provincial assembly constituencies....
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Big Kashmir rally calls for freedom: Anger at allotment of land for pilgrims
SRINAGAR, June 27: Thousands demonstrated in the streets of occupied Kashmir on Friday, protesting the transfer of land to a Hindu shrine in what they charge is a ploy to change...
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UN rights chief urges early end to judges issue
ISLAMABAD, June 27: United Nations human rights chief Louise Arbour has called for an expeditious and consensual resolution of the judiciary issue but without compromising on the independence of judiciary and clipping the remedial powers of courts....
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Mugabe in one-man ‘election’
HARARE, June 27: Polls closed in Zimbabwe’s run-off election on Friday with President Robert Mugabe certain of victory as the sole candidate in a contest that the opposition urged world leaders to reject....
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Obama, Hillary in show of unity
UNITY (New Hampshire), June 27: Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton made a show of unity on Friday in a hamlet named for it, their first joint public appearance since the divisive Democratic primary race ended....
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Manekshaw dies at 94
NEW DELHI, June 27: A former Indian army chief who led the country to victory against Pakistan in 1971 in a war that resulted in the formation of Bangladesh has died at the age of 94, officials said on Friday....
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43 missing people traced: Raisani
QUETTA, June 27: Forty-three missing people have been traced by the authorities concerned and efforts are being made to locate others, says Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani....
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Zardari meets Turkish president, PM
ANKARA, June 27: Pakistan People’s Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari held separate meetings with Turkish President Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan here on Friday and discussed with them ways to further strengthen cooperation between the two countries....
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‘Rockets from Pakistan kill child in Afghanistan’
ASADABAD (Afghanistan), June 27: Several rockets fired by suspected militants in Pakistan at villages across the border in eastern Afghanistan killed a child and wounded 13 others on Friday, officials said....
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What was achieved in India-Pakistan talks
New Delhi, June 27: Here is the agreed outcome of the meeting between the foreign ministers of India and Pakistan:...
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Taliban free 8 tribesmen
TANK, June 27: A joint jirga of the Mehsud and Bhittani tribes here on Friday succeeded in getting eight members of the Jandola Peace Committee released from the custody of the local Taliban.—APP...
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