Asfandyar unfazed after suicide attack
CHARSADDA, Oct 3: Investigators probing into the attack on Awami National Party chief Asfandyar Wali Khan in Walibagh on Thursday have claimed to have found important clues which could lead to the group behind the suicide bombing....
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16 foreigners among 21 killed in missile raid
MIRAMSHAH, Oct 3: Twenty-one people, two women and a child among them, were killed in a missile attack on a village in North Waziristan on Friday....
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Afghans told to leave Bajaur
KHAR, Oct 3: All Afghan nationals have been asked to leave Bajaur Agency within three days and at least 25 militants were killed in clashes with security forces on Thursday and Friday....
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Congress throws lifeline to US economy
WASHINGTON, Oct 3: The US House of Representatives on Friday overwhelmingly approved a $700 billion bailout package to rescue US financial market from a possible collapse....
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Bush signs bill
WASHINGTON: President George W. Bush on Friday signed the economic rescue package aimed at saving troubled US banks and easing a credit crunch that he warned could spell disaster for the US public....
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Biden, Palin at one on Pakistan ‘danger’
WASHINGTON / NEW YORK, Oct 3: For Democratic vice presidential candidate Joseph Biden, Pakistan is the most dangerous country in the world, with nuclear weapons that can hit Israel and the Mediterranean....
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Gilani calls it part of election rhetoric
MULTAN, Oct 3: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that Pakistan will seek a civil nuclear agreement with the United States similar to the one it has signed with India....
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Taliban claim Pole’s kidnap
KOHAT, Oct 3: Militants in Darra Adamkhel have claimed that a Polish engineer kidnapped from Attock is in their custody....
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Ten die in accidents
MUZAFFARABAD, Oct 3: Ten people, two women and a girl among them, were killed and eight others were injured in two road accidents in Bagh district of Azad Kashmir on Friday....
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Kashmir mountain gunbattle kills 14
SRINAGAR, Oct 3: A fierce gunbattle between Indian troops and militants high in the Himalayas in occupied Kashmir has ended after a week, killing 14 people, the army said on Friday....
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Emergency US aid for Pakistan, Afghanistan
WASHINGTON, Oct 3: American President George American President George W. Bush on Friday freed up to $8.3 million in emergency aid to help Afghanistan, Georgia, and Pakistan cope with urgent refugee needs, the White House said. In a memorandum for US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and made public...
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Taliban reject Karzai’s talks offer
SPIN BOLDAK, Oct 3: A senior Taliban commander on Friday rejected reconciliation with what he called the “puppet” Afghan government, the latest in a series of pronouncements from both sides on potential peace talks....
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French cable says UK envoy sees Nato defeat in Afghanistan
LONDON, Oct 3: Britain’s ambassador to Afghanistan is understood to have said that the campaign against the Taliban militants would fail and that the best hope was to instal an acceptable dictator in Kabul....
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Rice going to Delhi to celebrate signing of N-deal
WASHINGTON, Oct 3: The Bush administration, like the government in India, is celebrating the signing of the US-India nuclear deal but is unlikely to offer a similar arrangement to Pakistan....
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Brown’s rival back in reshuffled cabinet
LONDON, Oct 3: EU trade commissioner Peter Mandelson sensationally returned to the British government on Friday in what he admitted was an unexpected comeback for a former enemy of Prime Minister Gordon Brown....
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Boy, 7, feeds zoo animals to crocodile
SYDNEY, Oct 3: A seven-year-old boy broke into an animal centre and fed an 11-foot crocodile a range of native reptiles, police said on Friday....
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Mao’s plane up for sale
BEIJING, Oct 3: Mao Zedong’s personal aeroplane has been put up for sale by the owner of a shopping centre in southern China to make space for parking....
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Fossett’s jet debris found
MAMMOTH LAKES (California), Oct 3: Thirteen months after thrill-seeker Steve Fossett disappeared, authorities finally know what happened to his small single-engine aeroplane: it slammed into a mountain....
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$700bn — five times Pakistan’s GDP
SHOCKWAVES from the global credit crisis spread this week, threatening industry and jobs worldwide and putting pressure on the US Congress to pass a $700 billion bailout of the financial sector....
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Aafia’s psychological evaluation ordered
NEW YORK, Oct 3: Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui has been transferred to federal medical centre in Texas from the Brooklyn detention centre in New York....
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