Protest lodged with India over reduced water flow
ISLAMABAD, Sept 15: Pakistan formally protested to India on Monday over the reduction in Chenab River flows and sought an emergency meeting of the Permanent Indus Commission for explanation of the violation of the 1960 treaty on water sharing....
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Diesel prices go up, petrol down
ISLAMABAD, Sept 15: Despite a 35 per cent drop in the international market, the government on Monday raised with immediate effect the prices of high speed diesel, light diesel oil and kerosene by Rs3.5...
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KESC control changes hands today
KARACHI, Sept 15: Al Abraj group will take over the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) on Tuesday, much ahead of the expiry of the three-year restriction on changing of hands under the privatisation agreement....
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Aafia’s son freed by Kabul, flown to Islamabad
ISLAMABAD, Sept 15: A 12-year-old son of neuroscientist Dr Aafia Siddiqui was handed over to his aunt Fauzia Siddiqui here on Monday after years of detention in a US military base in Afghanistan....
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Kidnapped security personnel released
MINGORA, Sept 15: Militants in Swat have released 25 of the 38 law-enforcement personnel they had kidnapped in July....
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Conflicting accounts of firing on US helicopters
PESHAWAR, Sept 15: Pakistani security forces fired at two US Chinook helicopters and foiled their attempt to land inside the tribal territory along the border with Afghanistan early on Monday morning, a local security official told Dawn....
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Four Indian troops killed in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, Sept 15: Four Indian soldiers and three suspected militants were killed in gun battles across occupied Kashmir on Monday....
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US economy in turmoil as linchpin goes bust
NEW YORK, Sept 15: In a stunning reshaping of America’s financial landscape, two venerable Wall Street firms fell from the shockwaves of a credit crisis that has plunged the financial system...
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India accuses Pakistan of supporting militants
NEW DELHI, Sept 15: India’s Defence Minister A. K. Antony said on Monday he was seriously concerned about support for militants from Pakistan after a string of bomb attacks in the nation’s capital killed 22 people at the weekend....
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Talks to push cross-LoC trade next week
NEW DELHI, Sept 15: The India-Pakistan Joint Working Group on Cross-LoC CBMs will be meeting in New Delhi next week to kickstart Cross-LoC trade in October, it was officially announced here on Monday....
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Govt, army at one on border violations: Gilani
ISLAMABAD, Sep 15: There is complete unanimity of views between the government and the army over the issue of border violations, according to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani....
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Asif pledges to end operation
QUETTA, Sept 15: President Asif Ali Zardari has said that the military operation in Balochistan would stop, missing people would be traced and all political prisoners would be set free, according to Nawabzada Gazin Marri, son of Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri....
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Asif extends stay, meets Brown today
LONDON, Sept 15: President Asif Ali Zardari is believed to have extended his stay here by one day and now he is likely to fly direct to Islamabad on Wednesday by a PIA commercial flight....
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Millions without power in US
GALVESTON, Sept 15: Millions of people remained without power and water in the US on Monday as deadly Hurricane Ike barrelled up from the Gulf Coast into the Midwest, reportedly leaving more than 15 dead across nine states....
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Iran faces new threat of UK, US sanctions: No logic to suspend enrichment: Tehran
VIENNA, Sept 15: Iran has stymied a UN inquiry into whether it researched ways to make a nuclear bomb, the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Monday and Britain said it would push hard for tougher sanctions on Iran....
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‘Israel may express sorrow for refugees’
JERUSALEM, Sept 15: Israel is prepared to express sorrow for the plight of Palestinians who became refugees when the country was created, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said....
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Bajaur clashes claim 26 lives
KHAR, Sept 15: Twenty-four militants and two civilians were killed in clashes between security forces and militants in the Bajaur tribal region on Monday. Twenty-eight people were injured....
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Malik leaves for London to assist Asif
ISLAMABAD, Sept 15: Adviser to the Prime Minister on Interior Rehman Malik left for London on Monday to assist President Asif Ali Zardari during his meeting with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown scheduled on Tuesday....
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