Sufi in Mingora to play the role of saviour
MINGORA, Feb 17: Tehrik Nifaz-i-Shariat Muhammadi chief Maulana Sufi Mohammad urged the people of Swat on Tuesday to support efforts for peace so that the region was put back on the path to progress and prosperity....
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Govt says accord not a sign of weakness
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, at a meeting here on Tuesday, reviewed the Swat peace accord and expressed the hope it would pave way for permanent peace in the country....
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From son-in-law to the father-in-law
NEVER before in the troubled history of the NWFP has the outcome of a peace agreement so heavily depended on one man. The septuagenarian leader of an outlawed Islamist movement has...
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Constitution of Pakistan has provision for Islamic law: US
WASHINGTON, Feb 17: The US State Department said on Tuesday that there was provision for the Islamic law in the Pakistani Constitution and the government’s decision to introduce religious laws in...
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PPP suspends Aitzaz and Safdar Abbasi from CEC
LAHORE/ISLAMABAD, Feb 17: The Pakistan People’s Party on Tuesday suspended the central executive committee membership of Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan and Senator Safdar Abbasi for issuing ‘harsh’ statements against its leadership....
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Steel Mills, Qadirpur gas field out of privatisation list
ISLAMABAD, Feb 17: The government approved on Tuesday its privatisation policy envisaging sale of 26 per cent shares of 21 state-owned enterprises “modelled around the concept of public-private partnership” and decided to scrap the previous government’s policy of strategic sales....
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Blast near nazim’s house; four dead
PESHAWAR, Feb 17: Four people were killed and 18 injured when a powerful car bomb exploded near the house of a leader of a local anti-Taliban force in a village in the outskirts of the city on Tuesday....
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Israel engaged in covert war inside Iran, says London paper
LONDON, Feb 17: Israel is involved in a covert war of sabotage inside Iran to try to delay Tehran’s alleged attempts to develop nuclear weapons, according to a British newspaper that quoted intelligence experts and a former CIA agent....
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PML-N and Q-League in Senate poll deal
ISLAMABAD, Feb 17: The Pakistan Muslim League-Q has reached an understanding with Pakistan Muslim League-N and decided to withdraw its Senate candidates Mushahid Hussain Sayed and Razina Alam to clear the...
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40pc increase in death of Afghan civilians: UN
KABUL, Feb 17: The number of Afghan non-combatants killed in armed conflict rose 40 per cent last year to a record 2,118 people as the Afghan war turned increasingly bloody, the UN said in a new report on Tuesday....
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Binyam was treated as per MI5-devised policy
LONDON, Feb 17: A policy governing the interrogation of terrorism suspects in Pakistan that led to British citizens and residents being tortured was devised by MI5 lawyers and figures in government, according to evidence heard in court....
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Minister quits for ‘drunken’ appearance
TOKYO, Feb 17: Japan’s finance minister abruptly resigned on Tuesday over allegations he made a drunken appearance at a G-7 news conference, shaking Prime Minister Taro Aso’s already deeply unpopular government....
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Pope to visit Jordan
AMMAN, Feb 17: Pope Benedict XVI would meet Muslim notables on a trip to Jordan in May and call for improving interfaith dialogue, a church official said on Tuesday....
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Obama calls Turkish leaders, discusses Pakistan, Afghanistan
WASHINGTON, Feb 17: President Barack Obama called Turkish President Abdullah...
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Kabul frowns upon ‘unauthorised’ negotiations with Taliban
KABUL, Feb 17: Talks with Taliban insurgents must only take place through Afghan government channels, President Hamid Karzai’s office warned on Tuesday after reports surfaced of dialogue led by Danish soldiers....
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Pakistani writers winning acclaim across the world
LONDON, Feb 17: Pakistani novelists writing in English — long overshadowed by literary giants from neighbouring India — are now winning attention and acclaim as their country sinks into violence and chaos....
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