Bid to destabilise country will be foiled: Gilani
ISLAMABAD, July 25: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has expressed the determination to thwart any attempt to destabilise the country. Reiterating the government’s resolve to tackle lawlessness in tribal areas, Mr Gilani told newspaper editors and columnists at the .....
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Bangalore rocked by string of bomb blasts
BANGALORE, July 25: India’s high-technology capital Bangalore was rocked by a string of bomb blasts on Friday with at least two people killed and a dozen more wounded, police said....
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Girls’ school, shops blown up in Swat
MINGORA, July 25: A girls’ school and 13 shops were blown up in a fresh wave of bombings in Swat on Friday. Local people said an explosive device damaged the Government Girls’ High School in ......
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Taliban free eight hostages
KOHAT, July 25: Taliban on Friday freed eight government employees in Orakzai Agency as a “goodwill gesture” in response to government’s move to halt the military operation in Hangu....
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Banks behaving like cartel, fleecing depositors: report
ISLAMABAD, July 25: Banks in Pakistan are earning windfall profits by taking undue advantage of the weak regulatory framework and are behaving like a cartel within the policy space provided to them by the State Bank....
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PM to meet Nawaz in London
LONDON, July 25: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, who is arriving here on Saturday en-route to Washington, is scheduled to meet former prime minister Nawaz Sharif later in the day....
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Oil firms put pressure on govt to lift freeze on profits
ISLAMABAD, July 25: The oil marketing companies (OMCs) are learnt to have started pressurising the government to end the freeze on their profit margins on petroleum products and have threatened to shelve their future investment plans....
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Pakistan must do more to stop militants’ infiltration: Rice
PERTH, July 25: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Friday that Pakistan needed to do more to help curb the “flow of militants across its border into Afghanistan as the Taliban had increased terrorist activity”....
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ICG recognises effectiveness of Taliban propaganda
KABUL, July 25: The Taliban in Afghanistan use a sophisticated media strategy to portray themselves as stronger than they are and undermine confidence in the government, a leading think-tank says....
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Two Nato soldiers killed in Afghanistan
KABUL: A British army dog handler was fatally shot by militants in southern Afghanistan, where a Danish soldier died in a roadside bomb attack, officials said on Friday....
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Aircraft lands with ‘gaping hole’ in fuselage
MANILA, July 25: A Qantas Boeing 747 flying to Melbourne made an emergency landing in Manila on Friday after a dramatic mid-air rupture that punched a “gaping hole” in its fuselage, officials and passengers said....
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Brown suffers poll blow in Scotland
LONDON, July 25: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown suffered another serious blow to his leadership on Friday after his governing Labour Party lost one of its safest seats in a by-election in his native Scotland....
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Talks for Cyprus reunification to resume in Sept
NICOSIA, July 25: Greek and Turkish Cypriots agreed on Friday to launch talks in September to re-unite their island, whose continuing division is damaging Turkey’s chances of joining the European Union....
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King Carlos and Chavez agree to end ‘shut-up’ row
MADRID, July 25: King Juan Carlos and President Hugo Chavez patched up their differences on Friday in their first meeting since the Spanish monarch told the Venezuelan leader to “shut up” at a summit last year....
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Combination of HIV drugs raises patient’s life span: study
WASHINGTON, July 25: Cocktails of HIV drugs help patients live an average of 13 years longer — if they are lucky enough to get them, researchers reported....
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Potential of cassava as food crop stressed
ROME, July 25: The UN food agency on Friday called for more research into the tropical root crop cassava as a way of helping poor countries threatened by soaring food and oil prices....
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Experts see strong US endorsement for democratic set-up in Pakistan
WASHINGTON, July 25: Insurgency in the tribal areas will cast an ominous shadow over Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s visit to Washington, but experts also believe that both the White House...
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Taliban occupy 3 posts
KHAR, July 25: Taliban militants took control on Friday of three security posts abandoned by paramilitary forces along the Afghan border in Bajaur....
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