Ground assault by US-led forces: Women, children among 20 killed in Waziristan
WANA, Sept 3: At least 20 people, most of them women and children, were killed in an assault by US-led coalition forces on a village near the Afghan border on Wednesday....
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Protest lodged with US ambassador
ISLAMABAD, Sept 3: Pakistan on Wednesday condemned an incursion into its territory by the US-led coalition forces based in Afghanistan, saying it constituted a grave violation of its territorial sovereignty and undermined its efforts against terrorism....
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Shots fired at PM motorcade in Islamabad
ISLAMABAD, Sept 3: Shots fired by snipers hiding on a hill by the Islamabad Highway hit one of the cars used by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday when his motorcade was going to the airport to pick him up....
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30 militants, six civilians killed in Swat
MINGORA, Sept 3: Thirty militants, six civilians and several security personnel were killed as security forces pounded militants’ hideouts in Kabal tehsil of Swat on Wednesday....
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‘Bad intelligence caused death of innocent people’
WASHINGTON, Sept 3: Suspected US commandos blamed for killing 20 people in Pakistan were acting on faulty intelligence that was never shared with Pakistani forces inside the country, a Pakistani official said on Wednesday....
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25 police cadets kidnapped
KOHAT, Sept 3: Twenty-five cadets of the Police Training College in Hangu were kidnapped when they were returning to the college after vacation on Wednesday....
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‘Buried alive’ women were hit by blunt instruments
QUETTA, Sept 3: A post-mortem examination of the bodies of two women allegedly buried alive in the Baba Kot area of Nasirabad district last month suggests that they were killed by...
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Aafia indicted for attempted murder of US officers
NEW YORK, Sept 3: Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui was indicted on Tuesday afternoon by Michael J. Garcia, the US Attorney for the southern district of New York, on charges related to...
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Thai minister tenders resignation as protesters refuse to budge
BANGKOK, Sept 3: Thailand’s foreign minister handed in his resignation on Wednesday a day after the prime minister clamped emergency rule on Bangkok following deadly clashes and days of protests against his rule....
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British leader briefed on priorities
ISLAMABAD, Sept 3: The leader of Britain’s Conservative Party, David Cameron, called on Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Wednesday....
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US expresses concern over incidents of political violence
WASHINGTON, Sept 3: The United States on Wednesday expressed concern over incidents of “violence in Pakistani politics” while commenting on an apparent assassination attempt on Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani....
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Govt wins wide support against destabilisation threats
ISLAMABAD, Sept 3: Just three days before it is sure to capture the presidency, the ruling coalition on Wednesday won wide parliamentary support against perceived threats to the democratic process, as...
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Militants Kidnap subedar, 5 Khasadars
LANDI KOTAL, Sept 3: Suspected militants attacked the Ziarai checkpost, some 20km from here, on Wednesday and kidnapped a subedar and five Khasadars....
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Hopes for breakthrough in Cyprus talks
NICOSIA, Sept 3: Cypriot leaders launched talks on Wednesday seen as the best chance in decades to reunite their divided island and end a conflict threatening Turkey’s EU membership hopes....
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North Korea rebuilding N-facility, say reports
TOKYO, Sept 3: North Korea has started to reassemble its main nuclear facility, making good on threats after the United States failed to remove the communist state from a terrorism blacklist, reports said on Wednesday....
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‘Mistaken fire’ kills six Iraqi personnel
BAGHDAD, Sept 3: US forces killed six Iraqi security personnel north of Baghdad on Wednesday, Iraqi officials said, in an incident which the American military said was a case of “mistaken fire”....
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Shooting spree claims six lives in US
WASHINGTON, Sept 3: A terrifying shooting spree that stretched from a small northwest Washington town onto the state’s busiest highway left six people dead and at least two more wounded on Tuesday....
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New controversy in India over N-deal
NEW DELHI, Sept 3: India’s government was on Wednesday hit by a fresh storm over its nuclear energy deal with the United States following reports of new US stipulations....
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ISI behind abduction of Japanese worker, alleges Afghanistan
KABUL, Sept 3: Afghan intelligence claimed on Wednesday it had arrested a Pakistan national who said he was paid by his country’s spy agency to help abduct a Japanese aid worker who was later shot dead....
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Dismantling of French naval ship faces legal battle
LONDON, Sept 3: Environmental campaigners said on Wednesday they would go to the courts in a bid to stop an asbestos-contaminated French aircraft carrier from being broken up in Britain....
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No accord on Security Council’s expansion
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 3: The UN General Assembly’s working group entrusted to evolve a consensus on the expansion of the 15-member Security Council failed to reach an agreement on the enlargement of the council, diplomats here said on Tuesday....
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Khalilzad denies providing political advice to Zardari
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 3: US Ambassador to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad on Wednesday denied press reports that he had been providing political advice to Asif Ali Zardari, the PPP co-chairman, saying his contacts with him were of ‘social’ nature....
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