US asks Pakistan to get tough with militants: Mullen comes unannounced
WASHINGTON / ISLAMABAD, July 12: Amidst growing fears of a unilateral American action against ‘terrorist sanctuaries’ in tribal areas, US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen made an unscheduled...
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Taliban kill 17 FC men
KOHAT, July 12: Seventeen Frontier Constabulary personnel were killed on Saturday after militants ambushed an FC convoy in Hangu district. Several soldiers were injured in the attack....
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S. Arabia to give oil worth $6bn on deferred payment
ISLAMABAD, July 12: Saudi Arabia has agreed to provide crude oil worth $5.8 billion to Pakistan on deferred payments for the current fiscal year to overcome its increasing financial difficulties....
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Taliban sow confusion on Afghan border, says Nato
KABUL/ISLAMABAD, July 12: Nato-led peacekeepers in Afghanistan on Saturday blamed militants for a mortar attack two nights earlier that wounded Pakistani soldiers and Afghan police on either side of the border and led to a Pakistani protest....
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FM’s visit unlikely to ease US pressure
WASHINGTON, July 12: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi’s talks in Washington are expected to bring some US assistance to help Pakistan deal with the current food crisis but will not ease...
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CNG stations under probe over cartelisation
ISLAMABAD, July 12: The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) has launched an investigation against owners of CNG stations for “operating like a cartel” by fixing the price of the utility....
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Rain pounds Lahore, northern regions
LAHORE, July 12: Heavy rain lashed parts of Punjab, the NWFP and Balochistan on Saturday....
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China, Russia veto Zimbabwe curb
UNITED NATIONS, July 12: Russia and China on Friday vetoed a resolution backed by the US and Britain in the UN Security Council to impose sanctions on Zimbabwe for holding a presidential election that was boycotted by the opposition candidate....
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Iran threatens to hit 32 US bases, Israel
TEHRAN, July 12: Iran would destroy Israel and 32 US military bases in the Middle East if the Islamic Republic was attacked over its disputed nuclear programme, a senior Iranian official was quoted as saying on Saturday....
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Iran releases Saudi fishing boats
RIYADH, July 12: Iran has released five Saudi Arabian fishing boats and their Indian crew which had strayed into Iranian waters, Saudi border officials said....
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Film leads to return home of two brothers
NEW YORK, July 12: Two teenagers ‘forced’ by their Pakistani father to attend a seminary in Karachi for nearly four years have returned home to Atlanta after a filmmaker intervened to...
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Lebanon, Syria to set up embassies
PARIS, July 12: Syria and Lebanon have decided to open embassies in each other’s country for the first time in their troubled relations, French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced on Saturday....
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India calls for ISI liquidation
NEW DELHI, July 12: India’s top security official claimed to have evidence on Saturday of the involvement of ISI in the recent suicide attack on Delhi’s embassy in Kabul and said time had come to destroy the spy agency....
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Threats to newspaper condemned
ISLAMABAD / LAHORE, July 12: All bodies representing the media have condemned threats given to an Urdu daily by pro-Taliban elements and Lal Masjid clerics over the newspaper’s views on rising extremism and intolerance in the country....
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PM to take nation into confidence: Govt’s performance
ISLAMABAD, July 12: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani reviewed his government’s performance during its first 100 days on Saturday at a high-level meeting....
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Altaf asks govt to stop Taliban’s influx
KARACHI, July 12: Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain has called upon Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani and the Sindh government to take notice of what he called the “import of Talibanisation to Karachi” and to prevent encroachment of land....
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Artist Mahmood Ali is no more
KARACHI, July 12: Acclaimed television, radio and stage artist Syed Mahmood Ali has died. He was 80....
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Security on high alert at courts
RAWALPINDI, July 12: Security remained on high alert at garrison areas in general and district courts in particular after a letter addressed to the sessions judge Islamabad some days ago threatened suicide attacks at the courts in the twin cities....
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