Drone attack belies Mullen’s assurance: Six killed in S. Waziristan village
WANA / ISLAMABAD, Sept 17: Hours after the American military commander had assured Pakistan’s political and military leadership that the United States would respect the country’s sovereignty, missiles were fired from...
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Pakistan needs to deal with militants: US
WASHINGTON: Militants hiding in the tribal areas are not a threat to Pakistan alone but also to the entire world and Pakistan needs to deal with them, a State Department official said on Wednesday....
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Gates praises Fata operations
KABUL, Sept 17: US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said on Wednesday that he had been encouraged by recent Pakistani operations in the areas bordering Afghanistan because these had put pressure on extremists there....
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Troops move into area vacated by militants
MINGORA, Sept 17: Security forces took control of Swat’s Kozabandai on Wednesday after the Taliban pulled out of the strategic area in accordance with a promise made to a peace jirga on Tuesday night....
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Major offensive likely in Bajaur
KHAR, Sept 17: Security forces in Bajaur Agency were reinforced on Wednesday, triggering speculations that a massive ground offensive against militants was under way....
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US embassy in Yemen hit by suicide blasts; 16 dead
SANAA, Sept 17: Two suicide car bombs set off a series of explosions outside the heavily fortified US embassy in Yemen on Wednesday, killing 16 people including six attackers, a Yemeni interior ministry official said....
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Nisar is now Leader of Opposition in NA
ISLAMABAD, Sept 17: Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, parliamentary leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-N, was appointed on Wednesday Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly....
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Pakistan back on India’s terror radar
NEW DELHI, Sept 17: Devastating terror attacks in India’s urban centres and exigencies of electoral politics appeared on Wednesday to have put Pakistan back on New Delhi’s terror radar....
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India deploys planes with N-weapons in Kashmir
NEW DELHI / SRINAGAR, Sept 17: India has deployed its top fighter jets in occupied Kashmir, officials and a report said on Wednesday....
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Asfandyar elected chief of foreign affairs panel
ISLAMABAD, Sept 17: ANP president Asfandyar Wali Khan was elected unopposed chairman of the NA’s Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs on Wednesday....
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PM condemns attack
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani condemned the missile attack in the Baghar village of tehsil Barmal of South Waziristan area on Wednesday.—APP...
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Global financial storm tears through markets
NEW YORK / LONDON, Sept 17: The global financial firestorm tore through markets on Wednesday as shares of Wall Street firms Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs plummeted and Britain’s biggest mortgage...
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Russia wants its borders in Arctic marked
MOSCOW, Sept 17: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered his officials on Wednesday to draft a law marking out Russia’s borders in the Arctic, where it is competing with the West for control of vast energy resources....
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Obama ahead of McCain in new poll
WASHINGTON, Sept 17: Democrat Barack Obama has a 2-point lead in the US presidential race on Republican John McCain, whose choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate helped shore up...
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AI seeks global pledge to curb small arms sale
LONDON, Sept 17: World governments should pledge to actively prevent sales of weapons that are likely to be used in human rights violations in a new arms treaty under negotiation, Amnesty International said on Wednesday....
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Coin carrier crashes
MIMS (USA), Sept 17: A truck carrying $187,000 worth of five-cent coins crashed on Tuesday, killing one person and scattering the nickels across a highway in Florida....
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Vaccinated girl new victim of polio
PESHAWAR, Sept 17: A girl tested positive for polio in Khyber Agency on Wednesday, raising the number of cases found this year in the NWFP and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas to 17....
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Quetta rocked by rocket attacks
QUETTA, Sept 17: Three powerful explosions caused by rockets rocked the city on Wednesday evening....
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