Dawa offices in most cities and towns sealed: Hafiz Saeed, others in custody
LAHORE, Dec 11: Jamaatud Dawa Amir Hafiz Mohammad Saeed was placed under house arrest for three months as the countrywide crackdown on the organisation continued on Thursday....
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Pakistan urged to root out ‘epicentre of terror’
NEW DELDHI, Dec 11: India’s parliament united behind the shaken government of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday who apologised for the lapses that allowed armed militants to raid Mumbai at...
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Six killed in suspected US missile strike
ISLAMABAD, Dec 11: Six suspected militants were killed on Thursday when a missile apparently fired by a US drone struck a house in a tribal district known to be a Taliban stronghold, an official said....
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Hafiz Saeed and Lakhvi on UN terror watch-list
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 11: The United Nations Security Council’s sanctions committee put three leaders of Lashkar-e-Taiba and a Saudi operative on a terrorist watch-list, says a document released here on Wednesday night....
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LeT’s point man brought to Mumbai for investigation
NEW DELHI, Dec 11: An Indian militant based in Nepal who allegedly helped Pakistani gunmen cross India’s porous borders to stage attacks is being brought to Mumbai for questioning in the...
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Crackdown hints at Faridkot-Mumbai link
KARACHI, Dec 11: The targeting of Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jamaatud Dawa and the rounding up of the activists belonging to the two jihadi organisations appear to have been triggered by information originating...
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US backs Pakistan’s terror war policies
ISLAMABAD, Dec 11: US Deputy Secretary of State John D. Negroponte said here on Thursday his country fully supported Pakistan’s ‘war on terror’ policies....
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US to deploy three more combat brigades in Afghanistan: Gates
KANDAHAR, Dec 11: Warning that Afghanistan will be a ‘long fight,’ US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said on Thursday he hoped to send three more US combat brigades to the country by late spring....
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Stock exchanges to remove floor on 15th
KARACHI, Dec 11: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) issued a directive on Thursday evening, asking the three stock exchanges in the country to remove the ‘floor’ from under the equity prices from Dec 15....
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Bilawal receives award for Benazir
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 11: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the Chairman of Pakistan People’s Party, received here on Wednesday the prestigious UN Human Rights Award given to his assassinated mother Benazir Bhutto....
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NBP fined in France
PARIS, Dec 11: A Paris court on Thursday fined the National Bank of Pakistan 200,000 euros ($265,000) and gave two-year suspended jail sentences to two of its officials for their alleged role in a money-laundering scheme....
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Two US military trucks destroyed
PESHAWAR, Dec 11: Two US military trucks were destroyed when suspected militants attacked a parking lot with petrol bombs on the Ring Road here on Thursday evening....
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US arms sales fuelling conflicts, says report
WASHINGTON, Dec 11: The US arms trade is booming — sales reached $32 billion last year — and more than half of the purchasers in the developing world are either undemocratic...
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14 arrested in Belgium terror sweep
BRUSSELS, Dec 11: Police detained 14 suspected Al Qaeda-linked extremists on Thursday in raids in Brussels and eastern Belgium, including one militant who allegedly was plotting a suicide attack....
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Obama rules out staff role in Senate seat sell-off scandal
CHICAGO, Dec 11: President-elect Barack Obama attempted to clear both himself and his staff of any taint connected with charges the Illinois governor put Obama’s Senate seat up for sale, saying...
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Pakistan to uphold human rights: Zardari
ISLAMABAD, Dec 11: President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday felicitated the nation on conferment of UN Award for Human Rights on Benazir Bhutto posthumously, saying it had strengthened the resolve of government and people to uphold human rights....
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Seven of a family burnt; beheaded body found
RAWALPINDI, Dec 11: Seven members of a family were burnt, one of them critically, in a fire caused by a gas heater, while a woman’s beheaded body was found in a locked room during Eid holidays, police said on Thursday....
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‘Honour’ killing accused remanded in police custody
RAWALPINDI, Dec 11: Airport police on Thursday obtained one day physical custody of a man accused of killing his ex-fiancée in the name of honour after she got married to another man of her own free will....
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