Ball back in Delhi’s court: Answer sought to queries raised in FIA report
ISLAMABAD, Feb 9: Pakistan has described the information provided by India on the Mumbai attacks as ‘insufficient’ to reach a logical conclusion and bring the alleged perpetrators to justice....
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FBI woman accused of sexually harassing Indian terror suspect
NEW DELHI, Feb 9: An Indian suspect being probed in the wider conspiracy to stage the November terrorist attacks in Mumbai has accused a woman officer of the FBI of sexually...
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Holbrooke arrives on ‘exploratory trip’
ISLAMABAD, Feb 9: US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Ambassador Richard Holbrooke arrived here on Monday on an ‘orientation and exploratory trip’ ahead of a policy review for the region by the Obama administration....
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Poland vows to hunt down engineer’s killers
WARSAW, Feb 9: As Poles reeled on Monday in shock after the beheading of an engineer by militants in Pakistan, their government vowed to hunt down his murderers and bring them to justice....
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UK appoints special envoy for Pakistan, Afghanistan: Sir Sherard has reputation for plain speaking
LONDON, Feb 9: Britain appointed its own Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan and named Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, currently its Ambassador to Afghanistan, for the post on the day US President Obama’s Special Representative for the two countries arrived in Islamabad....
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UK terror suspect tells court he fabricated past
LONDON, Feb 9: A British-born Pakistani man, who had said he had links to Al Qaeda and had sent young men for terrorism training in Pakistan, has told a court that he was lying about his past....
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Poverty survey to start this month: Farzana
ISLAMABAD, Feb 9: A national survey of poverty will begin during the current month to gather data for providing relief to poor families, the chairperson of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), Farzana Raja told reporters on Monday....
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Dr Khan remains potential risk: US
WASHINGTON, Feb 9: The United States warned Pakistan on Monday that it believed Dr A.Q. Khan could indulge in further proliferation activities and said it would remain engaged with Islamabad over the decision to release the nuclear scientist....
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Movement of Dr Khan restricted, US assured
NEW YORK, Feb 9: President Asif Ali Zardari has assured the United States that the movement of scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan was still restricted, the New York Times said quoting a Pakistan government official....
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15 die as shell hits village market
KOHAT, Feb 9: At least 15 tribesmen were killed and six injured when a mortar shell exploded in a market in a village in Darra Adam Khel on Monday....
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Suicide attack on police post near Bannu; 18 injured
BANNU, Feb 9: A suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden pick-up into a police checkpoint on the Baran Pul in Miramshah, five kilometres from Bannu on Monday....
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Kayani to visit US this month
WASHINGTON, Feb 9: Chief of Army Staff Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani is coming to the United States later this month amid a major review of the US strategy towards Afghanistan and Pakistan....
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‘Pak-Afghan bad blood behind Holbrooke’s appointment’
WASHINGTON, Feb 9: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton opted for a special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan after having witnessed the bad blood between the countries’ leaders, she said in an interview released on Monday....
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Sincerity needed to fight terror: India
DHAKA, Feb 9: India and Bangladesh discussed on Monday setting up an anti-terrorism task force, but Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee said for such a mechanism to work participants must be sincere and committed....
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Sudhir Vyas may be next Indian high commissioner
ISLAMABAD, Feb 9: India is likely to appoint its ambassador to Bhutan Sudhir Vyas as the next high commissioner to Pakistan at that end of Satyabrata Pal’s term later this month....
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Woman suicide bomber kills 20 Sri Lankan troops
COLOMBO, Feb 9: A woman Tamil Tiger suicide bomber killed 28 people on Monday at a camp for civilians displaced by the fighting, the military said....
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Afghan military copters violate airspace in N. Waziristan
MIRAMSHAH, Feb 9: Two military helicopters violated Pakistan’s airspace and hovered over the border town of Ghulam Khan in North Waziristan on Monday morning....
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Australia faces fresh threat from wildfires
WHITTLESEA (Australia), Feb 9: Wildfires that have claimed 166 lives threatened to engulf a dozen more Australian communities on Tuesday, leaving a grim legacy of charred homes, bodies and shattered townships....
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UK returns artefacts
LONDON, Feb 9: The British government on Monday returned to Pakistan 198 pieces of antique pottery, said to be about 4,000 years old, which were smuggled to the UK two years ago....
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Hizb leader held
SRINAGAR, Feb 9: The ‘operational chief’ of occupied Kashmir’s dominant guerilla force, the Hizbul Mujahideen, was arrested on Monday, Indian police said....
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