Obama, Zardari agree on ‘active engagement’
WASHINGTON, Feb 11: US President Barack Obama telephoned President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday, a day after his special envoy met the Pakistani leader with a message from his boss urging...
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Indian official says Al Qaeda involved in attacks
NEW DELHI, Feb 11: The head of India’s elite National Security Guard (NSG) that spearheaded the counter-attack in Mumbai’s terror nightmare seems to have sown confusion here by claiming on Wednesday...
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ANP lawmaker loses life in Peshawar attack: NWFP govt in three-day mourning
PESHAWAR, Feb 11: An MPA of the Awami National Party was killed and eight others were injured when his car was hit by a powerful bomb at a link road in Momin Town here on Wednesday morning....
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TTP threatens to destroy schools
KHAR, Feb 11: The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan threatened on Wednesday to destroy all educational institutions in Bajaur if the government did not withdraw security forces stationed in government schools in the region within three days....
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Taliban hit Afghan govt buildings; 26 killed
KABUL, Feb 11: Taliban militants launched suicide bomb and gun attacks on three Afghan government buildings in Kabul on Wednesday, killing at least 26 people in one of their most daring assaults on the capital....
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Holbrooke flies over tribal areas, Swat
PESHAWAR: US special envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke made an extensive aerial visit of the tribal region and Swat on Wednesday....
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Hyarbyar gets partial relief from UK court
LONDON, Feb 11: Faiz Baloch has been found not guilty in all the five counts he was charged with and, therefore, set free by the Crown Court while Hyarbyar Marri, son...
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PPP, MQM reach accord for Senate election
ISLAMABAD, Feb 11: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) have struck a ‘deal’ for the Senate elections and announced the lists of their candidates....
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IMF may be asked to reduce revenue target
ISLAMABAD, Feb 11: Pakistan is likely to request the International Monetary Fund to revise the revenue target down to Rs1.25 trillion in view of a Rs45 billion shortfall in revenue collection during the seven months of the current fiscal year....
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Increase in wheat sowing area reported
ISLAMABAD, Feb 11: The government has reported a six per cent increase in the wheat sowing area against last year’s crop area, raising the possibility that this season’s wheat crop target of 25 million tons may be achieved....
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US, UK may be losing patience with Islamabad: report
LONDON, Feb 11: The arrival in Islamabad of Richard Holbrooke and Britain’s appointment of its own diplomat as a special envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan indicates a loss of patience with...
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Six ‘Taliban’ arrested near Quetta
QUETTA, Feb 11: Security personnel raided a house on the outskirts of Quetta on Wednesday and arrested six suspected Taliban, officials said....
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‘Afghanistan could be Obama’s Vietnam’
LONDON, Feb 11: Unless the insurgents’ advance is halted, Afghanistan will become President Barack Obama’s Vietnam, fears Col John Nagl, a consultant....
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A.Q. Khan’s release worries EU
MOSCOW, Feb 11: European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana said on Wednesday he had told Pakistan’s government of his concern at the release from house arrest of nuclear scientist A.Q....
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Mumbai attacks not planned in Austria: interior ministry
VIENNA, Feb 11: Austria’s interior ministry said on Wednesday it had no evidence that the Mumbai attacks might have been planned in Austria, as reported in the media....
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UK ministers asked to appear before human rights panel
LONDON, Feb 11: British Foreign Secretary David Miliband has been asked to join Home Secretary Jacqui Smith in appearing before the parliament’s human rights committee amid growing concern that the government...
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Chinese firm to build Makkah monorail project
RIYADH, Feb 11: Saudi Arabia has awarded a $1.8 billion monorail project to carry pilgrims around the holy city of Makkah to the state-owned China Railway Co Ltd, formerly known as China Railway Engineering Group Co....
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New Zealander held at checkpost in S. Waziristan
TANK, Feb 11: A New Zealander was arrested at the Manzai Fort checkpost in South Waziristan on Wednesday. He was taken to Tank police station and handed over to personnel of a secret agency....
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Night-vision goggles
LANDI KOTAL, Feb 11: Nato authorities provided military gear, including night-vision goggles, to Pakistani forces at a tripartite meeting held in the Khyber tribal region on Wednesday....
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Afghanistan, Pakistan join hands to fight polio
ISLAMABAD, Feb 11: The two-day meeting of health officials from Pakistan and Afghanistan concluded here on Wednesday after endorsing recommendations of the working groups proposing joint strategies for stopping cross-border transmission of polio virus....
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