Govt acts after riots, orders end to gas cuts
ISLAMABAD, Jan 2: As violent energy riots raged in various cities and towns, President Asif Ali Zardari here on Friday ordered an immediate end to gas load-shedding for domestic consumers and...
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Investors buoyed by stocks’ rebound
KARACHI, Jan 2: Shares at the Karachi stock market rebounded on Friday, after as many as 13 consecutive sessions of a relentless fall which wiped out 37 per cent of equity value....
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Lankan army captures Tamil Tigers’ ‘capital’
COLOMBO, Jan 2: The Sri Lankan army captured the Tamil Tigers’ northern stronghold of Kilinochchi on Friday, inflicting a hammer blow to the LTTE’s struggle for a Tamil homeland....
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Evidence needed, US ambassador told
ISLAMABAD, Jan 2: President Asif Ali Zardari has assured the US that Pakistan will take effectiveaction against non-state actors responsible for the Mumbair terror attacks if India shared evidence about their involvement....
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India sees no ‘noticeable change’ in Pak attitude
NEW DELHI, Jan 2: India expressed its disappointment with Pakistan on Friday over what it said was Islamabad’s failure to crack down on militants blamed for the Mumbai attacks that New Delhi says came from across the border....
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Pakistan-Afghan border situation discussed
KABUL, Jan 2: The heads of the Afghan and Pakistani armies, and the commander of the Nato force, met in Kabul on Friday to review efforts to fight militants straddling the border....
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First N-bomb was built under Benazir govt: ex-US official
WASHINGTON, Jan 2: Pakistan built its first functioning nuclear weapon when the late prime minister Benazir Bhutto was in power, says former US Air Force secretary Thomas Reed....
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Sheikh Rashid meets President Zardari
ISLAMABAD, Jan 2: Former federal minister and chief of Awami Muslim League Sheikh Rashid Ahmed met President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday....
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Nine Muslim passengers removed from flight
WASHINGTON, Jan 2: Nine Muslim passengers, including three children, were removed from a flight at Washington’s Reagan National Airport after other passengers reported hearing a suspicious remark....
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US missile attack kills three ‘militants’
WANA, Jan 2: A US missile attack in Laddha area of South Waziristan killed three suspected militants and injured three others on Friday....
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Non-combatants bear brunt of Israeli savagery: Missile attack kills three Palestinian children
GAZA, Jan 2: The civilian death toll climbed in Israel’s air offensive against the Gaza Strip on Friday and Palestinian Islamists vowed revenge for the killing of a senior Hamas leader and his family....
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US manufacturing index drops to 28-year low
NEW YORK, Jan 2: An index of US manufacturing activity hit its lowest level in 28 years in December as the recession depressed every corner of industry, hurting companies from bakeries to cigarette makers to aluminium smelters....
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Israel keeps journalists out despite court ruling
EREZ CROSSING, Jan 2: Israel continued to bar foreign journalists from entering the Gaza Strip on Friday, despite a Supreme Court decision to allow a limited number of reporters to enter the territory....
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13 injured in attack on train
QUETTA, Jan 2: At least 13 people were injured in an attack on a Quetta-bound passenger train near the Bakhtairabad area of Sibi on Friday....
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Nato supplies resumed
LANDI KOTAL, Jan 2: Supplies for Nato forces in Afghanistan were partially resumed on Friday with the reopening of the Peshawar-Torkham highway....
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Two sets of twins baffle scientists, statisticians
LONDON, Jan 2: A mixed-race British couple has defied the odds — twice — by producing two sets of twins in which one sibling appears to be black and the other white....
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France hands over arrested pirates to Puntland
BOSASSO (Somalia), Jan 2: The French navy has handed over eight suspected pirates captured in the Gulf of Aden to the authorities of Somalia’s breakaway state of Puntland, according to an official....
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Jeddah-Makkah railway project to be taken up soon
RIYADH, Jan 2: Work on the Haramain railway project, which links Jeddah with Makkah and Madinah, is expected to start soon....
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Shelter provided to 300 made homeless by recession
TOKYO, Jan 2: Some 300 homeless people, most of whom have lost their jobs due to recession, flocked to a ‘tent village’ temporarily set up by volunteers in Tokyo as a shelter for New Year holidays, organisers said on Friday....
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Lashkar rejects ‘confession’ in Mumbai probe
SRINAGAR, Jan 2: The militant outfit blamed for the Mumbai attacks rejected on Friday a report that one of its leaders had acknowledged the group’s involvement in the carnage....
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Khaleda ready to work with Hasina
DHAKA, Jan 2: The party of former Bangladesh prime minister Khaleda Zia said on Friday she was ready to work with her bitter rival Sheikh Hasina who will lead the new government following elections this week....
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PML-N to requisition NA session: Nawaz criticises govt over power, gas shortage
FAISALABAD, Jan 2: Pakistan Muslim League-N chief Nawaz Sharif has said the people of the country are facing immense hardship because of the ill-conceived policies of the federal government which have...
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