Nato supply line disrupted by bridge blast: Work on alternative road under way
LANDI KOTAL, Feb 3: The crucial supply line for US and Nato troops in Afghanistan was disrupted after an important bridge on the Peshawar-Torkham road was blown up on Tuesday....
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70 militants killed in Swat
PESHAWAR, Feb 3: Over 70 militants were killed by security forces during fierce clashes in Swat on Monday night and Tuesday....
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Gilani lifts ban on recruitment
ISLAMABAD, Feb 3: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani dissolved the ‘task force on employment’ on Tuesday and lifted a ban on recruitment in government services....
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TCP directed to import 200,000 tons of sugar
ISLAMABAD, Feb 3: The Economic Coordination Committee of the cabinet directed the Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) on Tuesday to import 200,000 tons of refined sugar to stabilise prices in the market....
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Mumbai attacks destroyed gains of peace talks: Antony
NEW DELHI, Feb 3: The recent terror attacks in Mumbai have destroyed all the gains of years of peace talks between India and Pakistan, India’s Defence Minister A.K....
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Minister hints Mumbai plot not hatched in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Feb 3: The Minister of State for Interior, Tasnim Ahmad Qureshi, said on Tuesday the Federal Investigation Agency had submitted its preliminary investigation report on the Mumbai attacks....
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Over dozen suspects being quizzed in Quetta
QUETTA, Feb 3: Police were questioning more than a dozen suspects on Tuesday over the kidnapping of a top UN official in Balochistan....
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Iran sends home-built satellite into orbit
TEHRAN, Feb 3: Iran said on Tuesday it has launched its first home-built satellite into orbit, raising fresh concerns among world powers already at odds with Tehran over its nuclear drive....
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Obama says Pakistan must not be destabilised
WASHINGTON, Feb 3: Pakistan’s nuclear weapons are the main cause of concern for US President Barack Obama and his military chiefs who have vowed not to allow the destabilisation of Pakistan...
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11 Pakistanis held in Spain
MADRID, Feb 3: Spanish police arrested 13 people on Tuesday on suspicion of links to organised crime and terrorism groups....
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US gets first African-American attorney general
WASHINGTON, Feb 3: Eric Holder, sworn in on Tuesday as the first African-American to become US attorney general, promised a clean break with the past policies of the Bush administration....
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LTTE rebels urged to lay down arms
COLOMBO, Feb 3: The United States led international warnings on Tuesday, telling the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam to surrender in the face of an offensive by the Sri Lankan army....
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Two more schools blown up in Bajaur
KHAR, Feb 3: Militants blew up two government schools in the Pashat area of Bajaur Agency on Tuesday....
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One killed in grenade attack on mosque
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Feb 3: A man was killed and 25 others were wounded in a grenade attack on a mosque in Jogiano Street here on Tuesday evening....
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Icy weather forces closure of schools across Britain
LONDON, Feb 3: An icy night and forecasts of more heavy snow disrupted airports and schools across Britain for a second day on Tuesday with hundreds of flights delayed or cancelled....
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Kyrgyzstan to close US military base
MOSCOW, Feb 3: Kyrgyzstan’s president said on Tuesday the United States must close its military base in the Central Asian country, once seen as a key support centre for US operations in nearby Afghanistan....
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PAC chief calls military estate offices ‘dens of corruption’
ISLAMABAD, Feb 3: Chairman of National Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has called military estate offices ‘dens of corruption’ and accused them of being involved in all sorts...
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Finance secretary changed again
ISLAMABAD, Feb 3: The finance ministry got a new secretary on Tuesday in a fresh reshuffle of the federal bureaucracy in less than 20 days....
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Indonesia rescues 198 more boat people
JAKARTA, Feb 3: Indonesian authorities rescued more boat people from Myanmar on Tuesday after finding them floating in a wooden boat off the coast of Aceh after 21 days at sea....
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Ex-Macedonia minister fails to appear at murder trial
ZAGREB, Feb 3: The Croatian trial of a former Macedonian interior minister over the murder of seven South Asian immigrants, six of them Pakistanis, was postponed on Tuesday after he failed to appear in court, HINA news agency reported....
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Italian man defies govt in right-to-die case
ROME, Feb 3: The father of an Italian woman who has been in a coma for 17 years defied the Vatican and Italy’s centre-right government on Tuesday, moving her to a...
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Ban likely to announce UN probe panel today: Benazir’s assassination
ISLAMABAD / NEW YORK, Feb 3: United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who is arriving in Islamabad on Wednesday, is expected to announce formation of a UN commission to look into the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto....
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