Trade policy widens scope for imports from India: •Export target set at $22.1bn •EPB to be activated
ISLAMABAD, July 18: The trade policy for the fiscal year 2008-09 unveiled on Friday sets an ambitious export target of $22.10 billion, but avoids projecting an import target because of rising international oil and food prices....
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Accord reached to expand LoC contacts
ISLAMABAD, July 18: Pakistan and India have agreed to expand ‘people-to-people contacts’ for Kashmiris on both sides of the Line of Control (LoC) and worked out modalities for intra-Kashmir trade and a Muzaffarabad-Srinagar truck service....
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Helicopters target Hangu hideouts
KOHAT, July 18: Helicopter gunships attacked on Friday afternoon a number of militant hideouts in Shamsud Din Banda and Ghlu Chinna areas, near the Kurram Agency, inflicting heavy casualties....
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Decision to reduce political agents’ power, amend FCR
ISLAMABAD, July 18: The government on Friday decided to reduce the powers of political agents in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) and bring tribesmen to the national mainstream....
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Differences over findings of attack probe, says US
WASHNGTON, July 18: The US State Department acknowledged on Friday that Pakistan, Afghanistan and the United States had differences on the findings of an investigation into an attack on a Pakistani outpost early this month....
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Taliban ‘ban’ dealing with Afghan trade centre
QUETTA, July 18: Taliban have banned entry of vehicles from Pakistan into the Shorawak district of Kandahar province and asked people not to deal with the trade centre at Poti Mandi in Afghanistan....
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Three ‘US spies’ executed
WANA, July 18: Bodies of three men, who were executed by militants for being US ‘spies’, were found on Friday in a water channel in the Mehsud-dominated Kawan Manza area of South Waziristan....
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Dozens injured in Kashmir attack
SRINAGAR, July 18: Thirty-two people, including children and police officers, were wounded on Friday in an explosion at a busy bus station in occupied Kashmir, police said....
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PM to address nation today
ISLAMABAD, July 18: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani will address the nation on radio and television on Saturday evening....
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Citizenship to be taught in UK mosque schools
LONDON, July 18: As part of a government attempt to keep young Muslims away from what is believed to be the influence of extremism, they will now be taught citizenship in mosque schools....
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Inter-faith conference urges global anti-terror agreement
MADRID, July 18: Representatives of the world’s great monotheistic religions on Friday called for an international agreement to combat terrorism, at the end of a landmark Saudi-organised conference....
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Afghanistan claims arresting ‘woman bomber from Pakistan’
GHAZNI, July 18: Police arrested a woman and a 13-year-old child they alleged were suicide bombers planning to kill a provincial governor in central Afghanistan, officials claimed on Friday....
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Judge sets stage for first Guantanamo war crimes trial
WASHINGTON, July 18: The United States can begin trying Osama bin Laden’s former driver next week at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, a federal judge ruled on Thursday, rejecting the defendant’s plea...
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FO pins hope on Gilani’s US visit
ISLAMABAD, July 18: Foreign Office spokesman Muhammad Sadiq has said that Pakistan-US relations are in the mutual interest of both and the forthcoming US visit of Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani would strengthen ties....
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Rice confirms shift in US policy
WASHINGTON, July 18: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Friday confirmed that the United States had shifted its position on diplomacy with Iran, with the decision to send a senior envoy...
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New uranium leak found in French factory
PARIS, July 18: French nuclear firm Areva has detected a uranium leak that could date back several years at a factory it operates in southeastern France, safety authorities said on Friday....
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Students refuse to end hunger strike
QUETTA, July 18: Three students who have been on a hunger strike to press their demand for a quota-based system for admission to the Balochistan University of Information and Technology refused...
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Iftikhar to address lawyers on 26th
BAHAWALPUR, July 18: Deposed chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry will preside over an all Pakistan Lawyers’ Convention here on July 26, Bahawalpur High Court Bar Association President Malik Muhammad Aslam Channar told reporters on Friday....
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