Lal Masjid arms seized during operation ‘stolen’
ISLAMABAD, Dec 21: A large quantity of arms, seized by security forces during the Lal Masjid operation and stored in the Aabpara police station’s heavily guarded armoury, is missing, reported ‘stolen’....
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Gwadar port becomes fully functional
QUETTA, Dec 21: The Gwadar port became fully functional on Sunday after a ship carrying fertiliser from Qatar anchored at the port....
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Govt, armed forces alive to situation, says Qureshi
MULTAN, Dec 21: The government and armed forces were fully alive to the situation and fully capable of countering any aggression, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said here on Sunday....
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Rumsfeld may be prosecuted for prisoner abuse: Biden
WASHINGTON, Dec 21: US Vice President-elect Joseph Biden has refused to rule out the possibility of prosecuting former defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other high officials for prisoner abuse in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo prisons....
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Rawalpindi plaza fire toll 12; 8 firemen among dead
RAWALPINDI, Dec 21: The death toll in the devastating Ghakhar Plaza fire rose to 12 on Sunday after seven bodies, including that of a fire-fighter, were found in the debris....
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Sonia warns Pakistan
JAMMU, Dec 21: Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi warned Pakistan on Sunday against “taking India’s wish for peace as a sign of weakness” and said her country was capable of giving...
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Saudi religious police allows screening of ‘some films’
RIYADH, Dec 21: The chief of Saudi Arabia’s religious police said some films may be acceptable in the kingdom, despite a decades-old ban on cinemas, local press reported on Sunday....
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Kabul welcomes extra US troops, Taliban warn of more attacks
KABUL, Dec 21: Afghanistan on Sunday welcomed a US pledge to send up to 30,000 extra troops by mid-2009, but the Taliban warned Washington that its forces would be ‘cruelly defeated’ as the Soviets were in the 1980s....
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Israel plans major Gaza offensive
JERUSALEM, Dec 21: Israel threatened on Sunday to launch a major offensive against the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip as violence simmered around the impoverished territory days after the end of a truce with the Islamists....
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2009 may be ‘even darker’ economically, says IMF
LONDON, Dec 21: The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned on Sunday that the economic situation could get even worse in 2009 if governments fail to take firm enough action....
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Mumbai’s Taj and Trident reopen amid tight security
MUMBAI, Dec 21: Two luxury hotels that were stormed by militants re-opened amid tight security in Mumbai on Sunday, less than a month after devastating attacks that rocked India’s financial and entertainment hub....
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Shoe thrower to sue for damages: lawyer
BAGHDAD, Dec 21: Muntazer al-Zaidi, the Iraqi reporter who threw his shoes at US President George W. Bush, is to sue security guards who he alleges beat him up after the incident, his lawyer said on Sunday....
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Four militants killed
KHAR, Dec 21: Four militants were killed and three others wounded when military planes bombed suspected hideouts of militants in the Umary area of Bajaur’s Mamond tehsil on Sunday....
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Ebadi office raided in Iran
TEHRAN, Dec 21: Iranian police on Sunday raided and closed the office of a watchdog group led by the country’s Nobel peace prize winner Shirin Ebadi ahead of a celebration to mark the International Human Rights Day....
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Iraqi military officer gets ‘kiss of death’
MOSUL, Dec 21: A suicide bomber on Sunday used a ‘kiss of death’ to kill an Iraqi army officer who was guarding a roadblock in the northern city of Mosul on Sunday, security officials said....
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Musharraf’s trial promised in Nawab Bugti case, claims Talal
ISLAMABAD, Dec 21: Nawab Talal Akbar Bugti, chief of Jamhoori Watan Party and son of Nawab Akbar Bugti claimed at a press conference here on Sunday that the government had promised...
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US officials stress need to work with Pakistan
WASHINGTON, Dec 21: The situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan is urgent and is of “very immediate concern” to the United States, says US Vice President-elect Joseph Biden....
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Iran says kidnapped diplomat is alive
TEHRAN, Dec 21: An Iranian diplomat kidnapped last month in Pakistan is alive, Tehran’s ambassador to Islamabad was quoted by a newspaper as saying on Sunday....
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