124 held in massive crackdown: Five camps and 20 offices of Dawa, LeT closed; publications and websites banned
ISLAMABAD, Jan 15: The government said on Thursday that it had shut down five training camps of the outlawed Jamaatud Dawa and Lashkar-e-Taiba, banned their seven publications and blocked all their websites....
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Israelis destroy UN offices, food stock in Gaza
GAZA CITY, Jan 15: Israel shelled the United Nations headquarters in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, engulfing the compound and a warehouse in fire, destroying thousands of pounds of food and...
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Miliband urges settlement of Kashmir: Dispute resolution to deny militants ‘call to arms’
LONDON, Jan 15: Foreign Secretary David Miliband who is currently visiting India believes that the resolution of Kashmir dispute “would help deny extremists in the region one of their main calls to arms”....
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Sufi backs BB income support plan
ISLAMABAD, Jan 15: Sufi Mohammad’s Nifaz-i-Shariat Committee of Swat has decided to support the Benazir Income Support Programme....
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India rejects UK minister’s remarks on Kashmir
New Delhi, Jan 15: British Foreign Secretary David Miliband’s quest for a political rather than military approach to weed out terrorism may have been welcomed in Indian administered Kashmir but the prescription was dismissed by India’s foreign ministry as intrusive....
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India softens stance on extradition of suspects
NEW DELHI, Jan 15: A news conference on Thursday where Prime Minister’s Adviser on Interior Affairs, Mr Rehman Malik, announced a crackdown on suspected terrorist groups has not gone down too...
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‘Waterboarding’ is torture, says Obama nominee
WASHINGTON, Jan 15: US attorney general-designate Eric Holder on Thursday branded the interrogation technique known as “waterboarding” as torture, in a sharp break from Bush administration’s “war on terror” tactics....
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Gilani urges joint move to repeal 17th Amendment
ISLAMABAD, Jan 15: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said the government would support a consensus bill to repeal the 17th Amendment....
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Saudi prince in talks with Afghan govt, opposition leaders
KABUL, Jan 15: Saudi Arabia’s intelligence chief has met top officials in Afghanistan, the government has said, likely as part of a behind-the-scenes effort to smooth hostilities between the Afghan government and militants seeking to overthrow it....
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Checklist cuts deaths from surgery in half
ATLANTA, Jan 15: Scrawl on the patient with a permanent marker to show where the surgeon should cut. Ask the person’s name to make sure you have the right patient....
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Army ready to meet any challenge: Kayani
ISLAMABAD, Jan 15: Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani said on Thursday the Pakistan Army was fully prepared to meet any challenge....
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UK’s Jewish MP calls it Nazi-like operation
LONDON, Jan 15: A British Jewish lawmaker compared the Israeli offensive in Gaza on Thursday to the Nazis who forced his family to flee from Poland....
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79 suspected militants held in Karachi
KARACHI, Jan 15: Security forces arrested 79 suspected militants here on Thursday after a pre-dawn raid on their hideout in which two policemen were killed. A sizeable quantity of weapons and ammunition were seized, officials said....
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Ex-officer charged with murder of black American
OAKLAND (California), Jan 15: A former police officer has been charged with murder for the fatal shooting of an unarmed and allegedly restrained black man in a racially charged case that...
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Indian polls in April, says official
NEW DELHI, Jan 15: India is to hold general elections in April, an election commission official said on Thursday....
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Obama vows to succeed where Bush failed
WASHINGTON, Jan 15: Incoming US President Barack Obama has pledged to try to succeed where his predecessor George W. Bush failed, by catching or killing Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden....
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Combination vaccine for children launched
DHAKA, Jan 15: Bangladesh began immunising children with a new combination vaccine on Thursday that will protect against some severe forms of pneumonia, meningitis and four other deadly diseases, the United Nations said....
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Sharifs’ candidature case: PCO judges’ position questioned
ISLAMABAD, Jan 15: The Supreme Court was told on Thursday that in the absence of parliamentary approval for the imposition of emergency the superior court judges sworn in under the Provisional...
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