Malik urges Nawaz to contain long march
LAHORE, Jan 18: Prime Minister’s Adviser on Interior Affairs Rehman Malik conveyed a ‘special message’ from President Asif Zardari to PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif on Sunday and discussed the lawyers’ long...
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War of words breaks out between Nato, Karzai govt
WASHINGTON, Jan 18: Nato chief Jaap de Hoop Scheffer has denounced Afghanistan’s “ineffective” government and said the authorities there are almost as much to blame for the country’s plight as the Taliban....
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13 Taliban killed in clash withtroops
GHALANAI, Jan 18: At least 13 militants, a local commander among them, were killed and several others were injured in a clash with security forces in the Kandaro tehsil in Mohmand tribal region, sources said on Sunday....
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Pakistan hints at tit-for-tat response to extradition demand
ISLAMABAD, Jan 18: Pakistan will ask India to hand over perpetrators of the Samjhauta Express blast, if the Indian government insists on extradition of ‘non-state-actors’ suspected to be involved in the Mumbai attacks....
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Dozens of bodies found in rubble: Ceasefire in Gaza
GAZA CITY, Jan 18: Israel began withdrawing troops from the Gaza Strip on Sunday as a fragile unilateral ceasefire came into effect after three weeks of attacks and atrocities which left over 1300 people dead....
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60m S. Asians exposed to heart disease: study
PARIS, Jan 18: Tens of millions of people from the subcontinent are destined to suffer heart disease due to a single genetic mutation, according to a study published on Sunday....
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Lanka team arrives for three-match series
KARACHI, Jan 18: A 15-member squad of Asian champions Sri Lanka was accorded a warm welcome when it arrived here from Dhaka on Sunday to play a three-match One-Day International series against Pakistan from Tuesday....
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IPPs seek arbitration for payment of dues
ISLAMABAD, Jan 18: Power crisis in the country has deepened because five independent power producers (IPPs), producing about 900 megawatts, have shut down six units and approached international arbitrators for the recovery of their dues....
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Taiwan doles out shopping coupons
TAIPEI, Jan 18: Taiwan started handing out shopping vouchers to each of the island’s residents on Sunday, as part of a 2.5-billion-dollar scheme aimed at boosting its flagging economy....
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Mugabe’s wife punched photographer, says report
HONG KONG, Jan 18: A British photographer said on Sunday that the wife of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe punched him repeatedly in the face after he tried to take pictures of her near a luxury hotel in Hong Kong....
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Festive Washington readies for Obama inauguration
WASHINGTON, Jan 18: The US capital came alive on Sunday in festival and ceremony to honour Barack Obama’s inauguration this week as the 44th president of a nation weighed down under a crushing economic recession and two difficult wars....
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Extraordinarily high public approval
WASHINGTON: Barack Obama has attained extraordinarily high levels of public approval, according to opinion polls released on Sunday....
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Decisive victory for German conservatives in state poll
BERLIN, Jan 18: German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives clinched a decisive win in a state election on Sunday, preliminary results showed, at the start of a super voting year expected to propel her to a second term....
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French soldiers’ bodies found from copter wreckage
PARIS, Jan 18: Divers on Sunday recovered the bodies of several French soldiers from the wreckage of a military helicopter that crashed off the coast of Gabon, the general staff said.Two...
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Downed jet lifted from frigid water
NEW YORK, Jan 18: The airliner that was piloted to a safe emergency landing in the Hudson River was hoisted from the ice-laden current and placed on a barge, and its...
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Development projects hit by IMF conditions
ISLAMABAD, Jan 18: A massive shortfall in revenue collection and the International Monetary Fund’s condition to lower budget deficit has forced the government to drastically cut the development budget during the first half of the current fiscal year....
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Taliban’s video claims attacks on FIA, ISI offices
PESHAWAR, Jan 18: Taliban militants released on Sunday a rare video of statements from purported suicide bombers and footage of deadly attacks they claimed to have perpetrated in Pakistan....
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Benazir’s assassin wants to kill me: Zardari
LONDON, Jan 18: “Why would she leave it to me if she didn’t think I was fit enough?” President Asif Ali Zardari is quoted by Sunday Times correspondent Christina Lamb as...
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