Opposition MPs flex muscle for frank debate: Joint session resumes today
ISLAMABAD, Oct 12: After two days of listening to the military that many said informed them little, it will be the turn of parliament members to speak out on the so-called...
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Air strike kills 27 in Orakzai
KOHAT, Oct 12: Twenty-seven militants, including two important commanders, were killed in an air strike in Orakzai tribal region on Sunday, says a press release issued by Frontier Corps....
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World Bank renews pledge for $1.4bn loan
WASHINGTON, Oct 12: The World Bank, which is providing $1.4 billion loan for investment projects and budgetary support to Pakistan, has also identified lack of policy action over the past two...
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SECP, KSE keep market open
KARACHI, Oct 12: With the stock market sinking deeper into the mire, a marathon meeting between the apex regulator Securities & Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) and the Karachi Stock Exchange...
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Allied forces thwart big Taliban attack, kill 100
KANDAHAR, Oct 12: About 100 militants were killed in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, half in air strikes that thwarted a major attack on a key town overnight, Afghan and British forces said on Sunday....
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Chenab water blocking may hurt ties, says Zardari
ISLAMABAD, Oct 12: President Asif Ali Zardari said on Sunday Pakistan would raise the issue of India’s move to block Chenab’s water, adding that it could harm confidence-building efforts between the two countries....
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Ministry wants Punjab to lift ban on flour movement
ISLAMABD, Oct 12: The food ministry has urged the prime minister to ask the government of Punjab to immediately end its ban on inter-provincial movement of flour....
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Europe plans to pump capital into banks, buy debt
PARIS, Oct 12: European leaders raced against the clock on Sunday to craft a rescue strategy for banks hit by the worst financial crisis since the 1930s, focusing on pledges to recapitalise banks or buy debt they issue....
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Communal riots in India; family of six burned to death
HYDERABAD, Oct 12: Rioters in southern India killed six members of a Muslim family by setting fire to their home after earlier clashes between Hindus and Muslims left four others dead...
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Indian troops kill six in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, Oct 12: Indian troops have shot dead six suspected militants during gunbattles in occupied Kashmir, some along the Line of Control, police said on Sunday....
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Impersonator hijacks Palin image, pulls in crowds
NEW YORK, Oct 12: She was plucked from obscurity to become the most watched woman in America, but now vice-presidential pick Sarah Palin’s very image is at risk of being hijacked by a hugely successful impersonator....
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Son follows father, travels to space
BAIKONUR (Kazakhstan), Oct 12: American millionaire Richard Garriott followed in his astronaut father’s footsteps on Sunday, blasting off aboard a Russian rocket to become the world’s sixth space tourist....
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Tehran markets close against value added tax
TEHRAN, Oct 12: The Iranian capital’s traditional bazaar stayed on strike on Sunday to back calls for the scrapping of VAT (value added tax), even after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad froze implementation...
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US poll result not to affect ties: FM
MULTAN, Oct 12: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that Pakistan will continue to work with the US in the war against terror, regardless of the result of the US presidential election next month....
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Six suspects held in Zhob
QUETTA, Oct 12: Six suspected extremists were arrested in the border town of Zhob, some 380km north of here, on Sunday....
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85,000 children to get polio vaccination
ISLAMABAD, Oct 12: The capital administration has set a target to administer anti-polio dose to over 85,000 children in Islamabad during its three-day drive that kicks off from Monday....
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7 killed in Mosul attacks
BAGHDAD, Oct 12: At least seven Iraqis were killed and several dozen wounded on Sunday in three attacks in Mosul, two of them suicide car bombs aimed at American and Iraqi soldiers, the US military and a police source said....
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Lebanon busts ‘terrorist network’
BEIRUT, Oct 12: Lebanese authorities on Sunday arrested a “terrorist network” behind deadly bomb attacks in the northern city of Tripoli, the army said....
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