Make-or-break Asif-Nawaz talks today
LEADERS of the Pakistan People’s Party and Pakistan Muslim League-N met separately on Monday to prepare for what is being described by political observers as ‘make-or-break’ talks between PPP co-chairperson Asif...
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Floods wreak havoc in Khyber Agency, Peshawar suburbs
PESHAWAR, Aug 4: Torrential rains triggered flash floods in Peshawar suburbs and the adjoining Khyber Agency on Monday, inundating large areas and killing at least 22 people....
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Four more schools, govt offices burnt
MINGORA, Aug 4: Militants set on fire another four girls’ schools and blew up a basic health unit and an office of the forestry department in Swat on Monday, the sixth day of a military operation in the valley....
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Govt alive to security threats, Rabbani tells Senate
ISLAMABAD, Aug 4: The government assured the Senate on Monday it was alert to threats to national security, rejecting the opposition’s charges that it had run the county’s affairs non-seriously since its induction....
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Meeting will have to be decisive, says PML-N
LAHORE, Aug 4: PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif warned on Monday that the ruling coalition might not survive if his Tuesday meeting with PPP co-chairman Asif Zardari did not prove to be “decisive and effective”....
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Agreement signed for import of electricity
ISLAMABAD, Aug 4: Pakistan and Afghanistan on Monday signed an inter-governmental agreement with Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan for importing 1300MW of electricity from Central Asia by 2013....
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PPP may ask Musharraf to seek trust vote
ISLAMABAD, Aug 4: The Pakistan People’s Party is considering to ask President Pervez Musharraf to seek a vote of confidence from the National Assembly, in what is seen here as an...
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Musharraf sees foreign hand in Balochistan insurgency
QUETTA, Aug 4: President Pervez Musharraf has blamed foreign elements for the insurgency in Balochistan....
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Early approval of bill to triple non-military aid unlikely
WASHINGOTN, Aug 4: A bill proposing to triple non-military aid to Pakistan cannot be passed by the current Congress and may have to be reintroduced in the next Congress after the US presidential election on Nov 4....
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Karzai, Singh vow to fight future attacks
NEW DELHI, Aug 4: Having blamed Pakistan for last month’s attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul in direct and oblique comments recently, the leaders of India and Afghanistan resolved here...
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16 Chinese police killed in Kashgar terror attack
URUMQI (China)), Aug 4: At least 16 policemen in China’s Muslim-majority northwest were killed on Monday in a suspected terrorist attack, state media said, raising security fears four days before the Beijing Olympics....
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Nobel winner Solzhenitsyn dies at 89
MOSCOW, Aug 4: Nobel prize-winning Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who devoted his life to exposing the brutal Soviet Gulag, has died at the age of 89, bringing tributes from around the world on Monday....
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Osama driver helped make 9/11 possible, court told
GUANTANAMO BAY, Aug 4: Osama bin Laden’s former driver offered the terrorist leader aid and protection that helped make the Sept 11 attacks possible, prosecutors said on Monday in closing arguments at the first Guantanamo war crimes trial....
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Four Afghan guards killed in assault
KABUL, Aug 4: Dozens of militants stormed a police post in Afghanistan overnight, killing four policemen, while two clerics died on Monday when a bomb they were making in a mosque exploded, police said....
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Tehran testfires anti-ship missile
TEHRAN, Aug 4: Iran said on Monday that it had successfully testfired an anti-ship missile with a range of 300 kilometres (180 miles) that it had developed with homegrown technology so far unused by any other country....
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Russia to develop ties with Nato
MOSCOW, Aug 4: Russia’s newly-appointed military envoy to Nato pledged on Monday to develop ties with the Atlantic alliance provided it took into account Moscow’s security concerns....
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Karachi boy died of polio, say officials
KARACHI, Aug 4: Health authorities on Monday confirmed the prevalence of polio virus in a child who died in a hospital early last month....
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Iraqi facilities to be inspected for bad wiring
WASHINGTON, Aug 4: More than 80,000 facilities in Iraq will be inspected for faulty wiring as part of an effort to prevent future accidental electrocutions of US troops, the top commander in Iraq said....
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