Military to share secrets with MPs
ISLAMABAD, Oct 7: The two houses of parliament meet in a rare in-camera joint sitting on Wednesday where the military will share with politicians secrets about why blood is flowing with...
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Blasts rock Lahore market; 7 injured
LAHORE, Oct 7: Seven people were injured when three low-intensity bomb blasts hit juice shops near the busy Garhi Shahu chowk here on Tuesday night....
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Banks capable of absorbing market shocks, says SBP
KARACHI, Oct 7: The resilience of Pakistan’s banking sector will enable it to absorb market shocks and adverse macro-economic conditions, says State Bank Governor Dr Shamshad Akhtar....
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SECP freezes open-end fund unit transactions
KARACHI, Oct 7: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) on Tuesday directed that “pricing, issuance and redemption of units of open-end mutual funds having direct exposure to equity markets, be suspended with immediate effect”....
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Bajaur areas cleared of militants, claim elders: Deployment of security men sought
KHAR, Oct 7: A jirga of the Salarzai tribe in Bajaur declared on Tuesday that their area had been cleared of militants and now it was for the government to re-establish its writ....
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Cabinet expansion on the cards
ISLAMABAD, Oct 7: About 20 new ministers are likely to be inducted into the federal cabinet after the joint session of parliament beginning on Wednesday....
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Quake survivors now forgotten
ISLAMABAD, Oct 7: Three years since a devastating earthquake ravaged large swathes of Azad Kashmir and NWFP, life is a nightmare for the survivors, with almost quarter of a million families yet to get full compensation for their destroyed houses....
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Two-day Kashmir curfew lifted
SRINAGAR, Oct 7: Schools, businesses and government offices reopened on Tuesday and vehicles were back on the streets in occupied Kashmir as authorities lifted a two-day curfew from the troubled Himalayan region....
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EU shields depositors from firestorm
LUXEMBOURG, Oct 7: The European Union battled on Tuesday to protect people’s savings by more than doubling deposit guarantees to at least 50,000 euros in its first joint action against the global financial firestorm....
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Shaukat Tareen gets top finance post
ISLAMABAD, Oct 7: The government has decided to appoint senior banker Shaukat Tareen as the prime minister’s adviser on finance....
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US seeks peace with ‘reconcilable’ Taliban: Gates
WASHINGTON, Oct 7: The United States wants peace with ‘reconcilable’ insurgents in Afghanistan, says US Defence Secretary Robert Gates while commenting on a new peace move....
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Pakistan, Iran invited to Paris meeting on Afghanistan
PARIS, Oct 7: France has invited Pakistan and Iran to take part in a meeting of Afghanistan’s neighbours to help advance peace in the insurgency-hit country, Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said on Tuesday....
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Ban declines to give timeline for Benazir’s murder probe
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 7: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has declined to give a specific timeline to appoint an Inquiry Commission to look into the assassination of PPP leader Benazir Bhutto,...
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Spy planes trigger exodus
TANK, Oct 7: Continuous flights of spy planes over South Waziristan and fears of a military operation in the Mehsud area have triggered an exodus of tribesmen....
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India’s first moon mission to take off on 22nd
NEW DELHI, Oct 7: India will launch a locally built rocket for the country’s first unmanned mission to the moon on Oct 22, the head of the project said on Tuesday....
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Japanese, American scientists share physics Nobel
STOCKHOLM, Oct 7: Two Japanese citizens and an American won the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for discoveries that help explain the behaviour of the smallest particles of matter....
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Asfandyar rules out settlement at gunpoint
PESHAWAR, Oct 7: Awami National Party chief Asfandyar Wali Khan has said that although negotiations were needed for lasting peace in the NWFP and Fata, there would be no retreat in the face of threats and coercion....
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Security goes skyhigh
ISLAMABAD, Oct 7: Extraordinary security has been arranged for the already heavily guarded Parliament House area for the joint session of the parliament called for a briefing on the bloody operations against the terrorists on Wednesday....
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