India hands over Mumbai ‘evidence’ to Pakistan
NEW DELHI, Jan 5: India on Monday handed over a dossier to Pakistan, claming it incriminates “elements” from across the border with the Mumbai terror attacks and said Islamabad should extradite those involved to face Indian justice....
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Israeli air strike kills 13 members of Gaza family
GAZA, Jan 5: Israeli tanks, planes and ground forces pounded Gaza on Monday and the defence minister said the offensive against Hamas in the Palestinian enclave would go on until Israel was safe....
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Mumbai attack culprits must be punished: US
ISLAMABAD, Jan 5: The United States urged Pakistan on Monday to track down and punish culprits involved in the Mumbai terror attacks and welcomed New Delhi’s move to share information with Islamabad....
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Panel set up to settle Pepco’s payment row with Kesc
ISLAMABAD, Jan 5: The government set up a committee on Monday to iron out differences between the Karachi Electric Supply Company and the Pakistan Electric Power Company over the amount outstanding against the former....
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‘Credible’ evidence needed, says Gilani
ISLAMABAD, Jan 5: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has called for repatriation of Dr Aafia Siddiqi from the United States on humanitarian grounds and immediate release of five Pakistanis detained in Guantanamo....
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11 Bajaur tribesmen kidnapped in Mohmand
GHALANAI, Jan 5: Militants kidnapped 11 members of the Mandel tribe of Bajaur in Mohmand Agency on Monday and took them to an unspecified place....
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Pakistan committed to fighting terror: Zardari
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari assured US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher on Monday that Pakistan was committed to fighting terrorism and appreciated the...
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German convert pleads innocent: Tunisia synagogue bombing trial opens
PARIS, Jan 5: A German convert to Islam pleaded innocent on Monday when he and Al Qaeda’s 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed were put on trial for plotting a bloody 2002 suicide bombing of a Tunisian synagogue....
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North-south divide to affect Afghan poll
KABUL, Jan 5: A troubling north-south security divide could affect the outcome of Afghanistan’s presidential election this year, a poll official warned on Monday, with voters still to be registered in some of the most dangerous provinces....
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Terror suspect called victim of geopolitics
LONDON, Jan 5: A refugee in Britain accused of calling for terrorist attacks on Pakistan was a “casualty of geopolitics” due to the West’s backing for former president Pervez Musharraf, a London court heard on Monday....
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Nine Taliban killed in Kandahar
KANDAHAR, Jan 5: Nine Taliban militants were killed in a gunfight early on Monday by Nato and Afghan troops in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, a senior police official said....
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Omar heads new govt in held Kashmir
JAMMU, Jan 5: National Conference leader Omar Abdullah was sworn in as the chief minister of occupied Kashmir on Monday....
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Far-left group seen behind Greek unrest
ATHENS, Jan 5: A Greek policeman was seriously injured on Monday in a shooting that police say marks the return of the country’s most dangerous far-left extremist group following nearly a month of youth unrest....
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Al-Haytham’s groundbreaking work helped Newton
LONDON, Jan 5: A Muslim scientist, Al-Hassan Ibn al-Haytham, born in AD 965, is said to have made it possible, with his pioneering work in physics, for Isaac Newton to fathom the universe and understand its behaviour....
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Tainted food blamed for deaths of 300 dogs in Taiwan
TAIPEI, Jan 5: Agricultural authorities in Taiwan have ordered a local firm to destroy 30 tons of contaminated dog feed after it was suspected to have killed more than 300 stray dogs, an official said on Monday....
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SC orders registration of case against police: ‘Encounter’ near Faizabad
ISLAMABAD, Jan 5: The Supreme Court here on Monday ordered the capital police to register a case against the police officials involved in an ‘encounter’ on the Islamabad Highway near Faizabad in which three persons, including a constable, were injured....
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Minister wants steel furnaces to control pollution
ISLAMABAD, Jan 5: Federal Minister for Environment Hameedullah Jan Afridi on Monday directed the Capital Development Authority (CDA) and the Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency (Pak-EPA) to ensure installation of ‘pollution mitigating...
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US-Pakistan military cooperation on the increase: WSJ report
WASHINGTON, Jan 5: Military cooperation between Pakistan and the United States has increased recently as both try to eliminate militants destabilising the region, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday....
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