Suicide bomber hits D.I. Khan hospital: 32 killed, 55 injured; Tehrik-i-Taliban claims responsibility for the carnage
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Aug 19: Thirty-two people, seven policemen and two health officials among them, were killed and 55 others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up near the emergency ward of the District Headquarters Hospital here on Tuesday....
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25 militants, 5 troops killed in Bajaur
KHAR, Aug 19: Twenty-five militants and five soldiers were killed in clashes following a Taliban attack on a scouts’ camp in the Bajaur tribal region. Three civilians were killed in air strikes, sources said on Tuesday....
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Coalition talks on judges hit snags
ISLAMABAD, Aug 19: Leaders of Pakistan People’s Party and Pakistan Muslim League-N, the major partners in the ruling coalition, failed on Tuesday to resolve their differences over the lingering issue of...
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Kayani meets Nato, Afghan commanders in Kabul
KABUL, Aug 19: Pakistan’s Chief of the Army Staff Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani made a surprise trip to Afghanistan on Tuesday for border security talks with Nato and Afghan commanders, just a day after President Pervez Musharraf announced his resignation....
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US wants Musharraf treated with respect
WASHINGTON, Aug 19: Now that the political leadership is firmly in control, the United States does not want any ambiguities about ISI’s role in the war on terror, says a State Department official....
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Musharraf’s foes oppose ‘safe exit’, call for trial
ISLAMABAD, Aug 19: On Pakistan’s first day without Pervez Musharraf’s presidency, his foes in the National Assembly on Tuesday called for denying him a “safe exit” and putting him on trial...
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Musharraf to get ‘best possible’ security, says Malik
ISLAMABAD, Aug 19: The government has decided to provide security in accordane with protocol to former president Pervez Musharraf....
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Saudi Arabia denies plane in Pakistan
RIYADH, Aug 19: Saudi Arabia has denied it has a plane waiting at Islamabad airport to take former President Pervez Musharraf to the kingdom, a press report said on Tuesday amid speculations that Riyadh could offer him asylum....
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50,000 families of Bajaur displaced
ISLAMABAD, Aug 19: The number of displaced people of Bajaur Agency has gone up to over 250,000 and the government has sought help from non-governmental organisations in relief and rehabilitation work....
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10 French soldiers killed in Afghanistan ambush
KABUL, Aug 19: Ten French Nato soldiers were killed in a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan, officials said on Tuesday, the deadliest ground attack on foreign troops here since the US-led war was launched in 2001....
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Govt likely to probe ‘oil pricing scam’: Consumers deprived of billions
ISLAMABAD, Aug 19: The government is considering investigating a ‘pricing scam’ that has kept retail petrol rates higher by about Rs11 a litre than the correct price, calculated according to a formula that has not been changed since 2002....
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Polio victim found in Dir
PESHAWAR, Aug 19: A case of polio has been found in Upper Dir....According to the World Health Organisation, a 16-month-old boy tested positive for poliomyelitis. The boy had received only two doses of the oral polio vaccine during supplementary immunisation...
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American suspect in India blasts escapes
NEW DELHI, Aug 19: There was growing anger on Tuesday over the mysterious way in which an American visitor, whose laptop computer has been linked to the recent blasts in Ahmedabad,...
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US offers help to set up drug regulatory authority
ISLAMABAD, Aug 19: The US has offered to help Pakistan develop a drug and food legislation and set up a drug regulatory authority to ensure availability of safe, efficacious and quality medicines....
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Three Britons sentenced for promoting terrorism
LONDON, Aug 19: Aabid Khan, Sultan Muhammad and Hammad Munshi, all three presumably Britons of Pakistani origin, were sentenced on Tuesday by a British court to serve varying prison terms for possessing or preparing documents promoting terrorism....
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Rice arrives in Warsaw to sign missile deal
WARSAW, Aug 19: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Warsaw on Tuesday, ahead of the formal signing of a deal on basing an American missile shield in Poland.A...
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Fire breaks out in Egypt’s parliament
CAIRO, Aug 19: A massive fire broke out at Egypt’s upper house of parliament on Tuesday, injuring six people, police and fire department officials said....
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Five killed in accident
SUKKUR, Aug 19: Five people were killed and 45 others injured when a Sehwan-bound passenger coach overturned at Sarhad bypass near Mirpur Mathelo, Ghotki district, on Tuesday....
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