New Delhi taken into confidence on probe: FIA submits report to interior ministry
ISLAMABAD, Jan 30: Pakistan said on Friday it had shared with India the progress made in investigations into the Mumbai terror attack conducted by its agencies....
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Probe still continuing: PM
DAVOS, Jan 30: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Friday that Pakistan was carrying out investigations into the Mumbai terror attacks and would share its findings with the world....
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Troop surge no threat to Pakistan: Pentagon
WASHINGTON, Jan 30: The deployment of additional US troops in Afghanistan is no threat to Pakistan, says the Pentagon....
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Kashmir taken out of Holbrooke’s brief, says report
WASHINGTON, Jan 30: On India’s request, the US administration has kept the Kashmir dispute out of the portfolio of Ambassador Richard Holbrooke who was appointed President Barack Obama’s special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan last week....
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Fresh oath must for restoration of judges: Naek
ISLAMABAD, Jan 30: None of the judges deposed by former president Pervez Musharraf would be restored unless they took a fresh oath of office, Law Minister Farooq H....
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PML-N complains of bid to malign Nawaz
ISLAMABAD, Jan 30: The Pakistan Muslim League-N on Friday complained in the National Assembly of what it saw a “character-assassination” campaign against its leader Nawaz Sharif sponsored by the government,...
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Gilani seeks ADB financing for Bhasha dam
DAVOS, Jan 30: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has urged the Asian Development Bank to play a leading role in setting up a consortium for financing the $8 billion Bhasha-Diamer dam project....
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PM says challenges to be converted into opportunities
DAVOS, Jan 30: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Friday that his government was facing serious economic and security challenges, but was determined to turn these into opportunities through good governance and transparency....
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Attacks were not planned in Pakistan, says HC
NEW DELHI, Jan 30: Pakistan’s High Commissioner in Britain Wajid Shamsul Hassan has said that the November terror attack on Mumbai was not planned in Pakistan or Britain, but somewhere else, comments that appeared to anger New Delhi....
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New SIM verification system irks firms
ISLAMABAD, Jan 30: Mobile phone companies are up in arms over the new SIM verification system, contending that it would compromise “privileged information” and could hurt the credibility of the cellphone industry....
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US posts worst GDP figures since 1982
WASHINGTON / NEW YORK, Jan 30: The US economy shrank at its fastest pace in a quarter century from October through December, the government reported on Friday....
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Erdogan in row with Peres over Gaza: Turkish premier storms out of Davos debate
ANKARA, Jan 30: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday stood firm on his heated exchanges with Israel’s president in Davos on Thursday, as the Jewish state sought to calm tempers, saying bilateral ties would recover....
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‘India to sign IAEA deal on Monday’
VIENNA, Jan 30: India will next week sign an inspections agreement with the UN atomic watchdog as part of a deal lifting a 34-year-old embargo on nuclear trade with New Delhi, diplomatic sources said on Friday....
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Illinois governor thrown out of office he abused
SPRINGFIELD (Illinois), Jan 30: Gov Rod Blagojevich was thrown out of office on Thursday without a single lawmaker coming to his defence, brought down by a “government-for-sale” scandal that stretched from...
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N. Korea tears up pacts with South
SEOUL, Jan 30: North Korea said on Friday it was ditching a non-aggression pact and all other peace agreements with South Korea, in an apparent attempt to use the threat of...
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Protest against foreign workers spreads in UK
IMMINGHAM (England), Jan 30: Strikes against foreign workers spread to oil refineries and other energy facilities across Britain on Friday, fuelled by fears of mounting job cuts due to the global slowdown....
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World Social Forum adopts ‘alternative currency’
BELEM (Brazil), Jan 30: At the World Social Forum in Brazil, anti-globalisationists are not only eschewing capitalism — they are also rejecting the currencies that go with it....
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California octuplets have six other siblings
WHITTIER (California), Jan 30: The Southern California woman who gave birth to octuplets recently had six other children and never expected to have eight more when she took fertility treatment, her mother said....
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