Dialogue under stress: India
NEW DELHI, July 21: Pakistan and India struggled to hide their exasperation with each other at the start of a fifth round of ‘composite dialogue’ between their foreign secretaries here on Monday....
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Oil industry resisting move to contain prices
ISLAMABAD, July 21: The oil industry is resisting a move initiated by some parliamentarians and the petroleum ministry to contain rising prices by withdrawing some duties and restricting other charges....
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Court gags Dr Khan, but allows visits to relatives, friends
ISLAMABAD, July 21: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday barred nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan from speaking on the nuclear proliferation issue, but allowed him to meet relatives and travel inside the country after security clearance....
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Gilani seeks elders’ help to curb militancy
PESHAWAR, July 21: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani called upon tribal elders on Monday to cooperate with the government in the war against militancy and extremism for the sake of peace in the region....
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Normality returns to Hangu
KOHAT, July 21: Normalcy returned to major parts of Hangu district on Monday as security forces flushed out militants from trouble spots after a week of clashes....
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Pro-govt tribal leader killed in ambush
KHAR, July 21: Malak Shahjehan Khan, a prominent pro-government tribal leader and chief of the Mamond tribe, was killed and three other people were injured in an ambush near Shandi More, about one kilometre from here, on Monday....
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Guessing game about size of PM’s entourage to US
WASHINGTON, July 21: How many people will Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani bring with him when he visits Washington next week — 35, 70 or 170? But even more important than...
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Indian parliament opens debate ahead of confidence vote
NEW DELHI, July 21: The future of India’s coalition government and a controversial nuclear deal with the United States were hanging in the balance on Monday as parliament opened debate ahead of a key confidence vote....
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Two killed as bombs hit FC vehicles
QUETTA, July 21: Two people were killed and 11 others, six security personnel among them, were injured in bomb explosions in Dera Bugti and Jaffarabad districts on Monday....
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Bodies of ‘spy’, son found
MIRAMSHAH, July 21: An Afghan national and his son were killed in Lawara Mandi area of North Waziristan on Monday on the charge that they were spying for the United States....
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Osama’s driver pleads not guilty
WASHINGTON, July 21: Osama bin Laden’s former driver, Salim Hamdan, pleaded not guilty at the opening on Monday of the first war crimes trial before a special military tribunal at the US base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, officials said....
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Nepal elects its first president: Maoists suffer setback
KATHMANDU, July 21: Lawmakers in Nepal voted in the Himalayan nation’s first post-royal president on Monday, but their rejection of a candidate backed by the Maoists was likely to lead to more political deadlock....
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New polio case found in Swat
PESHAWAR, July 21: A second case of polio has been found in Swat within one week, raising to five the number of victims of the deadly disease detected in the NWFP this year....
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Police foil Quetta blast plan
QUETTA, July 21: Police claimed on Monday to have foiled an attempt to carry out a series of car bomb blasts in the city and arrested five saboteurs, two of them Afghan Tajiks....
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Indian troops kill two ‘militants’
SRINAGAR, July 21: Indian troops killed two suspected militants in occupied Kashmir as they thwarted the militants’ attempt to attack a convoy of Hindu pilgrims visiting the state, police said Monday....
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Taliban leader held in Quetta
QUETTA, July 21: Law-enforcement personnel have arrested a suspected Taliban commander from a house in the city’s Kharotabad area....
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Students end strike
QUETTA, July 21: Three activists of the Baloch Students’ Action Committee ended their hunger strike on Monday after the speaker of the Balochistan Assembly and a provincial minister assured them that...
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Coalition partners meet tomorrow
RAWALPINDI, July 21: Coalition partners are scheduled to meet Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday to sort out differences among them and to chalk out the future line of action to address the challenges being faced by the country....
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