Gilani, corps commanders endorse Kayani’s stand: Nation told not to get upset by US threats
ISLAMABAD, Sept 11: The government expressed its determination on Thursday to defend the country’s borders in the wake of increasing air attacks by US-led forces on tribal areas and American and...
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Nato not to take part in US raids inside Pakistan
BRUSSELS: Nato will not take part in a proposed US strategy of conducting raids into Pakistan from Afghanistan against Taliban and Al Qaeda militants, a spokesman said on Thursday....
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Brown and Bush to discuss new strategy
LONDON, Sept 11: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will meet in London President Asif Ali Zardari, who is arriving here on Sept 16 on a private visit, to discuss a “new...
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Up to 100 killed in Bajaur: Offensive intensified
KHAR, Sept 11: Security forces intensified their offensive in Bajaur on Thursday, killing dozens of militants....
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New attacks on Swat militants; 8 killed
MINGORA, Sept 11: At least eight militants were killed when security forces, backed by helicopter gunships and artillery, pounded suspected militant hideouts in Swat on Thursday....
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Irsa sees 35-40pc shortage of water for Rabi season
ISLAMABAD, Sept 11: The Indus River System Authority (Irsa) has estimated a water shortfall of 35-40 per cent for Rabi season and told provinces that their allocations would not match their indents....
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Move to defuse tension in Pakistan-US ties
WASHINGTON, Sept 11: On the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, talks of US raids into Fata seem to have strained America’s relations with Pakistan, which has so far been a key US ally in the war against terror....
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Tribute paid to Quaid
ISLAMABAD, Sept 11: The 60th death anniversary of the Father of the Nation, Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, was observed with reverence and solemnity across the country on Thursday....
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Four children die as school wall collapses
KARACHI, Sept 11: Four children were killed when a wall of an old school building on the Manora island collapsed on Thursday....
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Karzai backs US plan to attack Fata militants
KABUL, Sept 11: Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday welcomed a new US “war on terror” focus on Pakistan’s border areas as further deadly violence underscored rampant militancy seven years after the September 11, 2001 attacks....
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Khaleda Zia set free
DHAKA, Sept 11: Former prime minister and chairperson of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Khaleda Zia, has demanded lifting of emergency and holding of general elections as early as possible....
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Syria says US policy fuelled terrorism
ROME, Sept 11: The “war on terror” declared by President George W. Bush after the Sept 11, 2001 attacks on the US has caused more terrorism than it has prevented, according to Syria....
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Cyprus rivals begin key phase of peace talks
NICOSIA, Sept 11: Rival Cypriot leaders began talks on Thursday on how to share power in a future unified state, their first substantive negotiations in a bid to end the Mediterranean island’s 34-year division....
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India opens talks on buying nuclear technology
NEW DELHI, Sept 11: India had begun talks with American companies on purchasing nuclear technology and equipment, although a US-India civil nuclear cooperation accord was still awaiting approval in Congress, an Indian official said on Thursday....
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Israel ‘seizes’ more land in West Bank
RAMALLAH, Sept 11: Jewish settlers had seized thousands of acres of West Bank land by widening their communities’ perimeter fences or scaring Palestinian farmers off their fields through harassment, an Israeli human rights group said on Thursday....
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World differs on perpetrators of terror attacks
NEW YORK, Sept 11: There is no consensus in Muslim countries about the perpetrators of 9/11 attacks as significant minorities cite the US government itself and in a few countries Israel....
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55 extremists held in France this year
PARIS, Sept 11: France has arrested 55 ‘militant Islamists’ this year and the country’s prisons have become a favourite recruiting ground for such groups, Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said in an interview published on Thursday....
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Samak determined to become PM again
BANGKOK, Sept 11: Thailand’s Samak Sundaravej accepted his party’s nomination on Thursday to return as prime minister, the official party spokesman said....
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‘US faces defeat’
KABUL, Sept 11: Taliban movement said on Thursday the United States was on the ‘edge of historic defeat’ in Afghanistan seven years after invading the country....
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Tears and political truce mark 9/11 anniversary
NEW YORK, Sept 11: John McCain and Barack Obama declared a truce on Thursday in their rancorous White House campaign, joining Ground Zero ceremonies on the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks....
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