Kerry urges resumption of Pakistan-India talks: Crisis caused by misunderstanding
ISLAMABAD, Dec 16: US Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s chairman-designate John Kerry has said that India is not aware of all that Pakistan has done to crack down on elements accused of being involved in last month’s terrorist attack in Mumbai....
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FBI investigators clear ISI
ISLAMABAD: US investigators have concluded after interrogating the lone captured suspect, Ajmal Amir Kasab, that the Inter-Services Intelligence is not involved in the Mumbai attacks....
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IMF go-ahead for Rs20bn bourse support fund
ISLAMABAD, Dec 16: The International Monetary Fund has given a go-ahead to Pakistan to provide Rs20 billion fund to support its sinking bourses....
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Move in US to get Pakistan aid stopped
WASHINGTON, Dec 16: US politicians with close links to India have quietly launched a campaign to persuade the incoming Obama administration to stop US aid to Pakistan....
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Cooperation in tracking terrorists
WASHINGTON, Dec 16: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has urged India and Pakistan to continue to cooperate in bringing perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks to justice and in ensuring that such incidents are not repea-ted....
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War not an option, says India
NEW DELHI, Dec 16: The terror outrage in Mumbai was a global issue and not a matter between India and Pakistan, nor should it be seen through the prism of the...
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PM gives ministers a wake-up call
ISLAMABAD, Dec 16: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani had a sobering advice for his cabinet ministers in the National Assembly on Tuesday: Own responsibility now instead of blaming predecessors....
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‘Gender equality’ vague, un-Islamic term, says CII
ISLAMABAD, Dec 16: The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) has declared the term ‘gender equality’, used in Section 7(a) of the National Commission for Status of Women Ordinance of 2000, ‘vague and un-Islamic’ and called for its repeal....
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Inter-faith harmony
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani gives a cheque to the principal of a school during an inter-faith Christmas programme held at the Pakistan National Council of Arts on Tuesday....
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Indian parliament considers FBI-style agency
NEW DELHI, Dec 16: The Indian government on Tuesday sought parliament’s approval for a national agency to investigate major militant attacks such as last month’s assaults on Mumbai....
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Lashkar vows to continue its armed struggle in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, Dec 16: Lashkar-e-Taiba vowed on Tuesday to continue its armed struggle against India’s hold over occupied Kashmir....
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Fed rate cut to virtually zero
WASHINGTON, Dec 16: The Federal Reserve slashed its base lending rate on Tuesday from 1 per cent to virtually zero, saying its target federal funds rate would be in a range of zero to 0.25...
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Bush shoe-thrower appears in court; brother alleges torture
BAGHDAD, Dec 16: An Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at US President George Bush appeared before a judge on Tuesday and admitted “aggression against a president”, a judicial spokesman said....
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Greek protesters occupy state TV, interrupt broadcast
ATHENS, Dec 16: About 20 student protesters occupied Greece’s state television channel on Tuesday, interrupting a news broadcast in a demonstration against the police killing of a teenager....
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Space cooperation body set up
BEIJING, Dec 16: China announced on Tuesday the setting up of the Asia-Pacific Space Cooperation Organisation (APSCO), which is designed to boost cooperation on space science and technology, the Xinhua news agency said....
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Dynamite found in Paris store
PARIS, Dec 16: Police found a bundle of dynamite in a major Paris department store on Tuesday after AFP received a letter from an unknown group threatening attacks unless France pulls its troops out of Afghanistan....
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Iraqi doctor guilty of British car bomb plots
LONDON, Dec 16: An Iraqi doctor was convicted on Tuesday of planning to bomb a nightclub in central London and a packed Scottish airport a day later last year in order to commit murder on an “indiscriminate and wholesale scale”....
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White House official not as lucky as Bush
BAGHDAD: The shoes thrown by Muntazer Al-Zaidi on Sunday missed the target and President George Bush emerged without a single bruise. White House spokeswoman Dana Perino, however, was not so lucky,...
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India slams Haroon’s appeal to Deoband
NEW DELHI, Dec 16: Pakistan’s appeal to India-based Deoband Islamic seminary that has ideological links across the border, to help rein in extremist ideas that inspired the Taliban-heartland, drew flak from New Delhi on Tuesday....
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Body to resolve row between land owners, Chinese firm: Compensation issue
ATTOCK, Dec 16: A high level meeting here on Tuesday decided to set up a reconciliation committee to resolve the dispute over compensation between a Chinese company and land owners that...
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