Bajaur mission fulfilled: army: Chance to net Zawahiri ‘missed’, says govt
ISLAMABAD, Sept 1: The army said on Monday it had routed Taliban militants in Bajaur, killing 560 Pakistani and foreign fighters and thwarting a push to make Bajaur into a militant fortress....
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Six Kurram tribes announce ceasefire
PARACHINAR, Sept 1: Six tribes of Lower Kurram declared a ceasefire on Monday after nine people were killed and 26 injured in sporadic clashes between Turi and Bangash tribes....
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Police exhume bodies of two women buried alive
QUETTA, Sept 1: Police exhumed on Monday night the bodies of two women allegedly buried alive in the Baba Kot area of Nasirabad district last month....
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Uproar in Senate over burying of women alive
ISLAMABAD, Sept 1: The Senate strongly condemned on Monday the burying alive of five women in Balochistan in the name of family honour and demanded severe punishment of people who committed the crime....
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APHC leaders freed as anger festers
SRINAGAR, Sept 1: India authorities released All Parties Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Syed Ali Shah Geelani, the leader of a breakaway group, on Monday but anger festered in...
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Eight die in Bajaur shelling
KHAR, Sept 1: Eight people were killed when mortar shells hit a house in Inayet Kali area of Bajaur on Monday despite a ceasefire announced by the government on Sunday night....
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PPP to face tough challenges after poll: Zardari
ISLAMABAD, Sept 1: Pakistan People’s Party’s co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has said that his party faces the real test of coping with internal and external challenges after the presidential election....
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Eight MPs of PML-Q back Asif
ISLAMABAD, Sept 1: Eight lawmakers of the Pakistan Muslim League-Q called on Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Monday and assured him of their support for Asif Ali Zardari in the presidential election....
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Baloch groups call off militancy
QUETTA, Sept 1: Balochistan’s main militant organisations — the Baloch Liberation Army, Baloch Republican Army and Baloch Liberation Front — have decided to suspend their activities for an indefinite period....
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Ramazan begins
ISLAMABAD, Sept 1: The Ramazan moon was sighted on Monday, heralding the advent of the holy month....
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Punjab flour row settled
LAHORE, Sept 1: Provincial Minister for Food Malik Nadeem Kamran said on Monday that all issues between the Punjab government and flour mill-owners had been settled and the mills would start...
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Smuggling may cause flour crisis
ISLAMABAD, Sept 1: A difference of 43 per cent between the prices of flour in Pakistan and Afghanistan has thwarted the government’s efforts to stop smuggling to the neighbouring country and...
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Hurricane loses ferocity: About 2 million evacuated
WASHINGTON, Sept 1: A historic evacuation of nearly two million people has left the Louisiana coast in southern United States completely empty, guarded only by gun-toting police and National Guards personnel....
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Churches burnt in India
BHUBANESWAR, Sept 1: Mobs burnt at least four more churches as religious violence appeared to spread in Orissa....
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Sindh PA calls for punishing culprits
KARACHI: The Sindh assembly unanimously passed a resolution on Monday strongly condemning the burying alive of five women in Balochistan. The resolution, tabled by Information Minister Shazia Marri, read: “This assembly...
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Overdraft turned into loan
QUETTA, Sept 1: The State Bank on Monday agreed to convert the overdraft of the Balochistan government into soft loan and freeze its mark-up....
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Wah blast suspect’s remand extended for 10 days
RAWALPINDI, Sept 1: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) here on Monday remanded a suspected suicide bomber into police custody for 10 more days on the request of the investigators who said they...
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Afghans protest over children’s death
KABUL, Sept 1: Hundreds of protesters blocked a road in the Afghan capital on Monday accusing US-led troops of killing two children and their father in a raid in the city....
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