Series of blasts terrorises, mystifies Karachi
KARACHI, July 7: Terror struck the city six times within an hour on Monday as unknown terrorists triggered a series of blasts that wounded over 50 people, including children and policemen....
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Islamabad bomber’s head found
ISLAMABAD, July 7: The head of the suicide bomber who blew himself up in Islamabad on Sunday has been found, according to Adviser to the Prime Minister on Interior Rehman Malik....
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Terror menace must be eradicated: PM
KUALA LUMPUR, July 7: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has called upon the nation to maintain calm in the current situation of distress and foil the nefarious designs of terrorists who are out to destabilise the democratic government....
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41 killed in strike on India’s Kabul Embassy
KABUL, July 7: Forty-one people, including Indian military attache and a political counsellor, were killed when a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden car into India’s embassy here on Monday, officials said....
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Taliban, tribal elders agree to expel Uzbeks
WANA, July 7: Local Taliban and tribal elders decided at a meeting on Monday to expel Uzbek militants and their local collaborators from the areas of Ahmadzai Wazir tribe in South Waziristan....
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‘Pakistan next US president’s big challenge’
NEW YORK, July 7: US President George Bush has said that the biggest challenge for the next President of the United States would be Pakistan and not Iraq or even Afghanistan,...
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Khatir Ghaznavi laid to rest
PESHAWAR, July 7: Prominent Urdu poet and writer Khatir Ghaznavi, who died in a Karachi hospital on Sunday, was laid to rest here on Monday....
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Slab for poor electricity consumers to be raised
ISLAMABAD, July 7: The government is considering broadening the consumption slab of lifeline electricity consumers from 50 units to 200 units a month to reduce economic shock to low-income groups when power subsidies are withdrawn....
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Gwadar port to be linked with Iran by year-end
ISLAMABAD, July 7: A Senate committee was informed on Monday that Gwadar Port would be made fully operational and connected to Iran by the end of the year....
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Over 10,000 schemes to be scrapped
ISLAMABAD, July 7: The government is reported to have decided to wind up the Rs25 billion Khushal Pakistan Fund and abandon more than 10,000 community-based poverty reduction and employment generation schemes launched by the previous government....
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Kashmir poised for direct Delhi rule
NEW DELHI, July 7: Occupied Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad resigned on Monday without facing a trust vote in the state assembly, which became necessary when a key...
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Delhi not to change course
NEW DELHI, July 7: India responded with anger and horror to Monday’s suicide attack on its embassy in Kabul and said such acts of terrorism would not deter it from its commitments in Afghanistan....
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FM condemns Kabul blast
ISLAMABAD, July 7: Pakistan on Monday condemned the deadly suicide bombing at the Indian Embassy in Kabul, saying terrorism negated human values....
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US condemns Islamabad, Kabul attacks
WASHINGTON, July 7: The United States on Monday condemned suicide bombings in Islamabad and Kabul that killed dozens of innocent people and offered to help India investigate the attack on its embassy in the Afghan capital....
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Hezbollah, Israel sign prisoner swap deal
BEIRUT, July 7: Israel and Hezbollah have signed a UN-mediated prisoner exchange deal and the date for the swap will be settled this week, a Lebanese political source said on Monday....
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Nuclear talks with Iran ‘difficult’: EU
PARIS, July 7: EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana on Monday said he was not too optimistic about prospects for a breakthrough with Iran on its suspect nuclear programme, saying: “It’s difficult.”...
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Israel extends curfew in Palestinian town
OUTSIDE NILIN (West Bank), July 7: Israeli soldiers fired teargas and stun grenades on Monday to stifle protests against the West Bank barrier, declared illegal by the World Court four years ago this week....
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Maulana Aziz moves SC against bail plea rejection
ISLAMABAD, July 7: Former chief cleric of Lal Masjid Maulana Abdul Aziz on Monday moved an appeal before the Supreme Court challenging rejection of his bail in children’s library case by the Islamabad High Court (IHC)....
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