US drone attacks kill 14 in Waziristan: First Obama-era strikes in tribal areas
MIRAMSHAH / WANA, Jan 23: Missiles fired by suspected US drones killed at least 14 people, including some Arabs, in the tribal areas of North and South Waziristan on Friday....
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Zardari and Shahbaz fail to resolve differences
ISLAMABAD, Jan 23: President Asif Ali Zardari and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif met here on Friday in what appeared to be an effort to bridge the trust deficit between the PPP and PML-N on various national issues....
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Carefree NA hears turmoil warning
ISLAMABAD, Jan 23: An apparently carefree sitting of the National Assembly on Friday heard a grim warning from a dovish PML-N lawmaker of a possible turmoil in the country if the...
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Singh in hospital for surgery; Mukherjee to stand in
NEW DELHI, Jan 23: India’s Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee will stand in for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after he undergoes a heart surgery on Saturday, Press Trust of India said....
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KSE under pressure as foreigners dash for the door
KARACHI, Jan 23: A thick blanket of gloom descended on the Karachi Stock market on Friday as investors watched the KSE-100 index crash through the 5,000 points barrier, on heavy selling by foreign investors with scarce buyers....
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Senate resolution assails Israeli atrocities in Gaza
ISLAMABAD, Jan 23: The Senate adopted on Friday a unanimous resolution assailing Israel’s barbaric attacks on Gaza, killing over a thousand innocent civilians, including women and children....
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Suicide attack, explosion in Swat
MINGORA, Jan 23: Two security personnel and three civilians were killed in a suicide attack and a bomb blast near Mingora on Friday....
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UK in recession after steepest GDP fall since ’80
LONDON, Jan 23: Britain is in recession for the first time since 1991, official data showed on Friday, triggering a plea from Prime Minister Gordon Brown for renewed international help to tackle the financial crisis....
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FO welcomes Holbrooke’s appointment
ISLAMABAD, Jan 23: Pakistan welcomed on Friday the appointment of Richard Holbrooke as a special US envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan while analysts said he would have to confront Pakistan-India tension if his aim was regional peace....
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Over 170,000 cases of power theft detected in Hyderabad: Rs357m recovered from accused: minister
ISLAMABAD, Jan 23: The Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (Hesco) detected 170,365 cases of power pilferage in 2007-2008, federal Minister for Water and Power Raja Pervaiz Ashraf informed the National Assembly on Friday....
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Russia to allow cargo for Afghanistan
MOSCOW, Jan 23: President Dmitry Medvedev has said that Moscow is ready to help stabilise the situation in Afghanistan by allowing the United States and others to ship cargo intended for coalition forces in the war-torn country across Russian territory....
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Belgian man knives two children to death
DENDERMONDE (Belgium), Jan 23: A man armed with a knife and wearing face paint went on the rampage at a Belgian creche on Friday, killing two children and an adult, officials said....
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Trial test of stem cell therapy allowed
WASHINGTON, Jan 23: The US Food and Drug Administration has cleared the way for the first trial to see if human embryonic stem cells can treat people safely, a company involved in the controversial research said on Friday....
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Conditional release of six Pakistanis in Spain
MADRID, Jan 23: Six Pakistani nationals who were arrested earlier this week on suspicion of tax fraud and diverting funds to terrorist groups, were granted conditional release on Friday, a court spokesman said....
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Newspaper editor in Sri Lanka attacked
COLOMBO, Jan 23: Assailants beat a Sri Lankan newspaper editor and smashed his car as he drove to work on Friday, colleagues said, in the latest of a string of violent attacks against journalists....
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PML-N secretariats wear deserted look
RAWALPINDI, Jan 23: The public secretariats set up by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) parliamentarians after sweeping the general election in Rawalpindi to address the problems of their constituents are now wearing a deserted look....
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Registration of aliens urged: Shutter-down in Muzaffarabad
MUZAFFARABAD, Jan 23: The AJK capital witnessed a complete shutter-down strike coupled with rallies and demonstrations by traders on Friday against non-registration of aliens who they alleged were “causing law and order problems and threatening the social fabric of society.”...
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Three SHOs served notices
ATTOCK, Jan 23: The district Police officer (DPO) Fakhar Sultan Raja on Friday issued show cause notices to the SHOs of three police stations of Attock city, Pindgheb and Basal....
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