Troops pull out of Lowi Sam
KHAAR, Aug 9: Security forces on Friday night pulled out of Lowi Sam area of the Bajaur tribal region after fierce clashes with militants. Both sides suffered heavy casualties in the three-day gunbattle....
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8 policemen killed in attack on post
BUNER, Aug 9: Militants stormed a police post in village Kingargalai of the Buner district on Friday night, killing eight policemen....
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Coalition move gathers momentum: President’s impeachment
ISLAMABAD, Aug 9: The ruling coalition got a boost on Saturday after four senators from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) declared support for the move to impeach President Pervez Musharraf...
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Musharraf unlikely to sack assemblies
ISLAMABAD, Aug 9: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has accepted the advice of his political allies to defend himself against coalition parties’ charge-sheet in a “democratic way” and not to use the...
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Aafia says she is innocent
NEW YORK, Aug 9: Aafia Siddiqui, the Pakistani neuroscientist who is being held without bail in New York, has said that she is innocent of the charges made against her by...
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Kashmiris move to defy blockade
NEW DELHI, Aug 9: Rival resistance groups in the Kashmir Valley closed ranks on Saturday against Jammu-based Hindu activists, who have stalled all transport services to Srinagar, and vowed to establish a trade corridor with Muzaffarabad to defy the crippling blockade....
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Talks cannot help resolve Fata problem: Rice: ‘Pakistan remains a strong ally’
WASHINGTON, Aug 9: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has warned that there’s no negotiated settlement to the problem of extremism in Fata....
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Georgia sues for peace after Russian blitz
GORI (Georgia), Aug 9: Georgia called for a ceasefire on Saturday after Russian bombers widened an offensive to force back Georgian troops seeking control over the breakaway region of South Ossetia....
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Police officers shot dead
QUETTA, Aug 9: Two policemen were gunned down here on Saturday....
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Nagasaki mayor asks India to sign N-treaties
TOKYO, Aug 9: Nagasaki on Saturday called upon North Korea to fully abandon nuclear weapons, while urging India to sign nuclear treaties, as the Japanese city marked 63 years since it was flattened by an atomic bomb....
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North to expel S. Koreans
SEOUL, Aug 9: North Korea said it would start expelling South Korean personnel from a mountain resort in the communist state on Sunday amid growing tensions over the shooting of a Seoul tourist....
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Relative of US volleyball coach killed in Beijing
BEIJING, Aug 9: A Chinese man stabbed to death a relative of a US Olympic coach at a Beijing tourist spot on Saturday before committing suicide....
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Five Africans arrested in Italy
ROME, Aug 9: Italian police have arrested four Tunisians and a Moroccan on suspicion of recruiting holy warriors for Iraq and Afghanistan and are looking for a sixth man, also from Tunisia, they said on Saturday....
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NA session
President Pervez Musharraf has summoned the National Assembly in the Parliament House on Monday, said a press release issued here on Saturday.—APP...
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‘US bid to prevent emergency full of bark, no bite’
WASHINGTON, Aug 9: A top US military official met President Pervez Musharraf on Nov 2 to persuade him not to impose a state of emergency but failed to prevent him from doing so, says a book published recently....
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Impeachment to harm judges’ cause: Imran
WASHINGTON, Aug 9: The move to impeach President Pervez Musharraf will weaken the campaign for restoring the judges forced to step down after the imposition of emergency, says Tehrik-i-Insaaf chief Imran Khan....
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Three govt servants shot dead in Swat
MINGORA, Aug 9: Three government servants were killed and two other people were injured when masked men opened fire on them in the Sherpalam area of Matta tehsil on Saturday....
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NRSP to start work in Diamer
GILGIT, Aug 9: Northern Areas Chief Secretary Babar Yaqoob Fateh Mohammad has assured the people of Diamer that the National Rural Support Programme (NRSP) would launch work for socio-economic development in the area....
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