Gunmen kidnap UN agency official in Quetta: Driver killed in ambush
QUETTA, Feb 2: A top UN official was kidnapped and his driver was killed after his vehicle was ambushed here on Monday....
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Obama orders additional troops for Afghanistan
WASHINGTON, Feb 2: US President Barack Obama on Monday ordered three more brigade combat teams for Afghanistan....
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Debt seen rising by Rs2trn this year
ISLAMABAD, Feb 2: Pakistan’s public debt is expected to go up by over Rs2 trillion by the end of 2008-09, the highest ever increase in a single year....
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India to wait patiently: Mukherjee
New Delhi, Feb 2: India does not have too many choices other than to patiently wait for Pakistan to respond to the dossier given on Mumbai attacks, Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Monday....
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Cricketers stopped from going to India for IPL
ISLAMABAD, Feb 2: Pakistan barred its cricketers on Monday from travelling to India and playing in the Indian Premier League tournament. The decision has been taken because of security concerns....
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Heavy snowfall disrupts rail, air travel in N. Europe
LONDON, Feb 2: Heavy snow disrupted air and rail travel in northern Europe on Monday, halting flights at London’s main airport entirely and bringing traffic in the British capital almost to a standstill....
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Japan plans conference to mobilise aid for Pakistan
TOKYO, Feb 2: Japan is inviting key nations to a conference to drum up aid to stabilise Pakistan in what it hopes would be one of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s first foreign trips, a senior official said on Monday....
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Minister hints at increase in power tariff
ISLAMABAD, Feb 2: Minister for Water and Power Raja Pervez Ashraf has assured a Senate committee that loadshedding will end by the year-end, but hinted at an increase in power tariff....
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UAE gifts 320MW plant
ISLAMABAD, Feb 2: The United Arab Emirates has offered to gift a power plant of 320 megawatts capacity to the people of Pakistan to help them in their efforts to resolve the power crisis....
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26 Pakistani fishermen arrested by Indian navy
THATTA, Feb 2: The Indian Navy arrested 26 fishermen and took away four fishing vessels and their catch worth millions of rupees from the Pakistan territorial waters in the Arabian Sea on Monday....
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Militancy to be eradicated, Zardari tells US lawmakers
ISLAMABAD, Feb 2: President Asif Ali Zardari said on Monday that terrorists would not be allowed to hold the country hostage and the government was determined to root out militancy....
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India, IAEA sign inspection agreement
VIENNA, Feb 2: India and the UN nuclear agency signed an agreement on Monday that will give inspectors access to more of the nation’s nuclear plants, a prerequisite for implementation of a landmark US-India nuclear accord....
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Suicide bomber kills 25 Afghan policemen
KANDAHAR, Feb 2: A suicide bomber in police uniform killed 25 policemen and wounded several others on Monday after infiltrating their morning exercises in southern Afghanistan, authorities said....
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‘US wasted billions in Iraq, Afghanistan’: Congressional report
WASHINGTON, Feb 2: The United States has wasted billions of dollars in Iraq and is making the same mistakes in Afghanistan, warns a Congress-mandated report released on Monday....
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Maoists kill 15 policemen in India
MUMBAI, Feb 2: Fifteen police officers were killed in the western Indian state of Maharashtra in a shoot-out with leftist militants, police said on Monday....
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Holbrooke urged to engage Iran and China
LONDON, Feb 2: Former UN High Representative for Bosnia Paddy Ashdown has advised his ‘old friend’ Richard Holbrooke, former special envoy of President Clinton to Bosnia and now the special envoy...
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UK, China in talks on common position to deal with economic crisis
LONDON, Feb 2: Prime Minister Gordon Brown pledged on Monday to haul Britain out of its current downturn by doubling exports to China over the next 18 months, during a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao at Downing Street....
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Kasab’s remand extended
MUMBAI, Feb 2: An Indian court on Monday extended the detention of the lone surviving gunman captured during the deadly attacks on Mumbai so that he could be questioned further, a senior police officer said....
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