Car bomb devastates Peshawar market: 22 killed, 90 injured
PESHAWAR, Dec 5: At least 22 people were killed and over 90 others injured when a car bomb ripped through a congested locality of Kocha Risaldar near Qissa Khwani Bazaar on Friday evening....
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A hoax call that could have triggered war
ISLAMABAD, Dec 5: Nuclear-armed Pakistan went into a state of ‘high alert’ last weekend and was eyeing India for possible signs of military aggression, after a threatening phone call made to...
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Three die in Miramshah drone attack
ISLAMABAD, Dec 5: A missile strike by a suspected US drone killed at least three people on Friday in a Pakistani tribal area, a security official said....
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Pakistan awaiting ‘concrete proof’, says Zardari
ISTANBUL, Dec 5: Pakistan is awaiting “concrete proof” on suspicions that a Pakistan-based militant group was behind last week’s deadly attacks in Mumbai, President Asif Ali Zardari said on Friday....
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Pakistan not moving troops from Afghan border: US
WASHINGTON, Dec 5: Pakistan has assured the United States it is not withdrawing troops from the Afghan border despite tensions with India following the Mumbai terrorist attacks, a US general said on Friday....
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Suicide attack on jirga: seven dead
KOHAT, Dec 5: At least seven tribesmen were killed and several others injured when a suicide bomber blew up an explosive-laden vehicle near a jirga between Baramadkhel and Utmankhel tribes in Kalaya, the headquarters of Orakzai Agency, on Friday....
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Gilani gets update on security
ISLAMABAD, Dec 5: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani was briefed on the prevailing security situation by Director-General of Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) Lt-Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha on Friday....
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Exam marks record sealed
ISLAMABAD, Dec 5: A controversy over additional marks given to a daughter of Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar in the higher secondary school examination deepened on Friday when the Islamabad High...
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India ‘angry’, awaiting response, says Singh
NEW DELHI, Dec 5: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Friday there was unprecedented anger in the country at last week’s terror outrage in Mumbai and New Delhi will decide...
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Austria probes possible phone link to attack
VIENNA / MUMBAI, Dec 5: Austria is looking into whether militants who besieged Mumbai last week used an Austrian telephone number to communicate during the attacks, the interior ministry said on Friday....
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Indian media stoking anti-Pakistan opinion
MUMBAI, Dec 5: Round-the-clock news coverage of the Mumbai attacks has made Indians nervous but analysts said on Friday it was also stoking anti-Pakistan public opinion and risks shaping policy before elections due by May....
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Jewellery worth $100m looted in Paris
PARIS, Dec 5: Armed robbers — some dressed in drag — made off with $100 million in loot in a lightning-fast jewellery store theft in central Paris, in what police on Friday called one of France’s costliest jewel heists....
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‘Honour killing’ sentence against Pakistani upheld
ROME, Dec 5: An Italian court of appeal upheld on Friday a 30-year prison sentence for a Pakistani father who murdered his daughter in a so-called honour killing in 2006....
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Rice tells Pakistan to act ‘or US will’
ISLAMABAD, Dec 5: The US Secretary of State, Dr Condoleezza Rice, is reported to have told Pakistan that there is ‘irrefutable evidence’ of involvement of elements in the country in the...
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Senator McCain in Islamabad
ISLAMABAD, Dec 5: Senator John McCain, a senior member of the United States Senate committee on armed services, arrived here on Friday under a plan to exert pressure on Pakistan to...
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Peace process must not be derailed: Gilani
ISLAMABAD, Dec 5: The militants who attacked Mumbai must not be allowed to derail the peace process between India and Pakistan, Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani said here on Friday....
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Anti-money laundering law termed ‘inadequate’
ISLAMABAD, Dec 5: Experts have termed the anti-money laundering law in Pakistan ‘inadequate’, saying it indirectly sanctions money laundering....
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Boucher meets Altaf
LONDON, Dec 5: Richard A. Boucher, US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, called on MQM chief Altaf Hussain at the party’s international secretariat here on Friday and...
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