Taliban claim Chinese in their custody: 15 killed in Swat air strikes
MINGORA, Sept 2: The Tehrik-i-Taliban in Swat claimed on Tuesday to have kidnapped two Chinese engineers who had gone missing in Dir Lower four days ago....
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Bloodshed continues in Kurram
PARACHINAR: Despite talk of ceasefire and desire expressed by rival tribes to maintain peace during Ramazan, eight people were killed and several others were injured in fresh clashes in the Kurram region on Tuesday....
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Gilani vows to do away with 17th Amendment
ISLAMABAD, Sept 2: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani reiterated on Tuesday the People’s Party commitment to do away with the 17th Amendment, saying that national institutions would be made supreme....
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NAB move to reopen Sharifs’ graft cases
RAWALPINDI, Sept 2: The National Accountability Bureau filed on Tuesday an application in the court of special judge central seeking to reopen three corruption references against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and members of his family....
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Minister says PPP not to quit Punjab govt
ISLAMABAD, Sept 2: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Sherry Rehman said on Tuesday that the Pakistan People’s Party would not destabilise the coalition government led by the PML-N in Punjab...
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Pakistani among three released from Guantanamo
WASHINGTON, Sept 2: A Pakistani national was among the three prisoners released this week from the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Pentagon announced on Tuesday....
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State of emergency in Bangkok after street violence
BANGKOK, Sept 2: Thailand’s prime minister declared a state of emergency in the capital on Tuesday after thousands of his opponents and supporters clashed in the worst street violence here in more than a decade....
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Curfew lifted as ‘goodwill gesture’
SRINAGAR, Sept 2: Authorities in occupied Kashmir lifted on Tuesday a nine-day curfew imposed after a land dispute triggered mass protests against Indian rule in the region....
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Customs has no clues to ‘Rs1bn duty loss’
ISLAMABAD, Sept 2: The customs department has no information about 250 containers of imported goods cleared through an automated system without proper assessment of duty and taxes because of flaws in the software....
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Rs457bn transferred to provinces in 2007-08
ISLAMABAD, Sept 2: The centre transferred Rs457 billion to the provinces in 2007-08 as their share from net proceeds of the federal divisible pool but this was Rs8.5...
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FSC asks govt to amend Army Act
ISLAMABAD, Sept 2: The Federal Shariat Court on Tuesday ordered the federal government to amend the Pakistan Army Act and the Pakistan Air Force Act Rules within six months and allow...
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Balochistan militants observe truce
QUETTA, Sept 2: No terrorist attack or incident of sabotage was reported from any part of Balochistan since the announcement of a suspension of resistance by three Baloch militant organisations....
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Key rebel town seized, claims Sri Lanka
COLOMBO, Sept 2: Sri Lankan soldiers seized a key rebel-held town on Tuesday after 12 days of fighting, easing access to several other rebel strongholds, the military said....
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Egypt tycoon charged with ordering Lebanese singer’s killing
CAIRO, Sept 2: Egyptian tycoon Hisham Talaat Mustafa was charged on Tuesday with paying two million dollars for the brutal killing of Lebanese pop singer Suzanne Tamim, reportedly his one-time lover....
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Two suspects burnt alive
KARACHI, Sept 2: Two suspected dacoits were burnt to death by enraged people late on Tuesday night in Buffer Zone, witnesses said....
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New polio victim
PESHAWAR, Sept 2: An Afghan child has tested positive for polio, bringing the number of afflicted children to 16 in the NWFP this year....
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Gilani rules out steps to destabilise Punjab govt
LAHORE, Sept 2: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday sought to quash speculations that the Pakistan People’s Party and the Pakistan Muslim League-N were trying to destabilise each other’s governments in Punjab and the centre....
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‘Misuse’ of military land condoned
ISLAMABAD, Sept 2: The caretaker government of Muhammadmian Soomro, who is now acting president, approved a move to condone the ‘misuse’ of military land over the past six decades, giving a...
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Conference on improving development aid delivery opens
ACCRA, Sept 2: Translating billions of dollars of foreign aid into concrete, timely action that helps the world’s poorest is the biggest challenge for donors and recipient countries, speakers at an aid conference said on Tuesday....
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40-language web browser launched by Google
WASHINGTON, Sept 2: Google on Tuesday launched its own internet browser, opening up a new challenge in cyberspace to Microsoft and its dominant Internet Explorer....
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