‘Safe havens’ must be uprooted: Holbrooke: Qureshi urges talks with reconcilable elements
ISLAMABAD, Feb 10: US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Ambassador Richard Holbrooke urged the Pakistani leadership on Tuesday to eliminate safe havens of terrorists in tribal areas and said the Obama administration would fully support efforts for achieving the objective....
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Close ties, but no let-up on terror issue: Obama
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama has said he has sent his special envoy Richard Holbrooke to Islamabad with a message that terrorists who threaten the United States also threaten Pakistan....
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‘Rift in Pakistan govt sealed Pole’s fate’
WARSAW, Feb 10: Internal divisions within Pakistan’s government apparatus hampered efforts to save the life of a Polish hostage beheaded by Taliban militants, Poland’s foreign minister said on Tuesday....
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Engineer’s killing yet to be verified, says Qureshi
ISLAMABAD, Feb 10: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Tuesday said the reported beheading of the kidnapped Polish geologist Piotr Stanczak was yet to be verified, but if the reports were...
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UK plans anti-extremism ad drive for Pakistanis
LONDON, Feb 10: Prominent British Muslims are being recruited to star in a government-backed advertising campaign aimed at preventing people in Pakistan from engaging in extremist activity, the Guardian reported on Tuesday...
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Iran for talks with US in ‘climate of equality’
TEHRAN, Feb 10: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday that Iran was prepared to talk to the United States in an atmosphere of equality and mutual respect after three decades of severed ties....
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UN chief calls upon India, Pakistan to resume talks
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 10: United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon exhorted leaders of Pakistan and India on Tuesday to resume the “composite dialogue” to resolve all outstanding issues, including Kashmir....
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Fighting may displace over 600,000: UN
GENEVA, Feb 10: Fierce fighting in Pakistan’s border area with Afghanistan could soon drive more than 600,000 people from their homes, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Tuesday....
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Former CIA official to oversee policy review
WASHINGTON, Feb 10: US President Barack Obama on Tuesday tasked a former CIA officer Bruce Riedel to carry out an inter-agency review of the US policy towards Pakistan and Afghanistan....
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‘Al Qaeda video’ warns India of more attacks
NEW DELHI, Feb 10: A senior Al Qaeda leader, who was claimed to have been killed last year, has resurfaced to warn India of swift retribution if it attacked Pakistan, but...
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National Bank closes Gilgit office after loan scam
ISLAMABAD, Feb 10: The management of the National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) has decided to wind up its regional office in Gilgit after revelation of a fraudulent loan scam involving millions of rupees....
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Troops claim killing seven militants in Bajaur
KHAR, Feb 10: Security forces claimed on Tuesday to have killed seven militants in Bajaur and a large number of people were seen moving out of the conflict-hit areas....
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Acid victim dies after 25 days in hospital
KARACHI, Feb 10: Maria Shah, the 22-year-old midwife from Shikarpur who suffered extensive burns last month, died here on Tuesday morning — nearly a month after acid was thrown on her face by a man whom she had refused to marry....
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France tries Pakistani for setting girl afire
PARIS, Feb 10: A Pakistani man went on trial in France on Tuesday for setting his ex-girlfriend alight after she refused to marry him, in a case that rights groups are...
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Italy to host talks on situation along Pak-Afghan border
ROME, Feb 10: Italy, which heads the Group of Eight, will host a conference in June on securing the borders of Afghanistan and Pakistan to fight the ‘spillover’ of terrorism, drugs and organised crime, a senior Italian diplomat said on Tuesday....
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Demand for Maqbool Bhat’s proper burial
SRINAGAR, Feb 10: Scores of protesters demonstrated here on Tuesday to demand ‘a proper burial’ for a Kashmiri leader hanged a quarter century ago....
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Spain against sending more troops to Afghanistan
MADRID, Feb 10: Sending more troops to Afghanistan is not the answer to its problems and there has to be a greater emphasis on a political solution, Spain’s foreign minister said on Tuesday....
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Two Nato soldiers killed in Afghanistan
KHOST (Afghanistan), Feb 10: A bomb attack in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday killed two soldiers from the Nato-led force helping to fight an escalating Taliban-led insurgency, a military spokeswoman said....
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Taiwan’s ex-first lady admits she laundered $2m
TAIPEI, Feb 10: Taiwan’s former first lady admitted to laundering $2.2 million and forging documents on Tuesday, the latest in a judicial process that has seen her husband stage a jailhouse...
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Tanker on fire off Dubai port after collision
DUBAI, Feb 10: A tanker burst into flames on Tuesday after colliding with a container ship in a shipping channel off the coast of Dubai....
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Bosses of two British banks apologise for credit crunch
LONDON, Feb 10: Chiefs of two leading UK banks tendered on Tuesday their profound apologies live in front of television cameras for the credit crunch and events leading to the debacle of financial market....
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Former general divided judiciary, lawyer tells SC in Sharifs’ case
ISLAMABAD, Feb 10: A senior lawyer on Tuesday told a Supreme Court bench hearing the case of Sharif brothers’ electoral eligibility that the PML-N leaders were fighting to restore the majesty...
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