American general warned over missile attacks
ISLAMABAD, Nov 3: The political and military leadership warned the United States on Monday against air strikes inside Pakistan and stressed that territorial integrity of the country must be respected....
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Fahim among 40 new ministers
ISLAMABAD, Nov 3: As many as 22 federal ministers and 18 ministers of state were inducted into the federal cabinet on Monday, raising its strength to 55....
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Obama retains lead, but McCain still in race
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, Nov 3: Democrat Barack Obama is likely to win Tuesday’s US presidential election but his Republican rival John McCain is not out of the race yet....
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Iftikhar hits out at Musharraf and Aziz
ISLAMABAD, Nov 3: In what appeared to be a departure from his earlier stand, deposed chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry dwelt on political issues for the first time on Monday and...
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Zardari to seek Saudi oil on deferred payment
ISLAMABAD, Nov 3: Pakistan will seek 110,000 tons of crude oil per day from Saudi Arabia on deferred payment for a period of two years when President Asif Ali Zardari visits the kingdom on Tuesday, officials told Dawn....
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Zardari’s Saudi visit part of attempt to avoid IMF loan
ISLAMABAD, Nov 3: President Asif Ali Zardari embarks on Tuesday on another trip to seek an economic bailout package for the country, this time to traditional ally Saudi Arabia being billed...
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Tribal force plans major action in Bajaur
KHAR, Nov 3: A grand jirga of Salarzai tribe announced on Monday it would launch a major action against militants and criminals in Bajaur Agency on Wednesday....
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Ex-DAG lost son fighting alongside Taliban
ISLAMABAD, Nov 3: A former deputy attorney-general, Raja Mohammad Irshad, who spilled the beans about Gen Pervez Musharraf’s alleged move during last year’s judicial crisis to get a favourable decision in...
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US destroys drug lab in Afghanistan
KABUL, Nov 3: Coalition and Afghan troops hunting for Taliban militants in southern Afghanistan discovered a drug lab and destroyed more than 40 tons of hashish on Monday, officials said....
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French aid worker kidnapped in Kabul
KABUL, Nov 3: Gunmen abducted a French aid worker in the Afghan capital on Monday and shot dead an Afghan man who tried to rescue him, the Kabul government said....
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BD warships move over Myanmar gas dispute
DHAKA, Nov 3: Bangladesh mobilised three warships and said it would take “all possible measures” to protect its territory on Monday after accusing neighbouring Myanmar of encroaching on its seawaters to hunt for gas....
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Hasina plans to return on Thursday
DHAKA, Nov 3: Former Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina will return to Dhaka on Thursday to lead her party in next month’s parliamentary election....
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Pakistani faces probe over blaze blamed on neo-Nazis
BERLIN, Nov 3: A Pakistani restaurant owner in Germany is under investigation for a fire at his establishment that was initially blamed on neo-Nazis, prosecutors said on Monday....
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Pakistanis, Afghans held in Indonesia
JAKARTA, Nov 3: Indonesia has intercepted 20 Afghans and Pakistanis in a boat off western Java who were planning to illegally enter Australia’s Christmas Island, police said on Monday....
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Move to simplify language of humanitarian law
GENEVA, Nov 3: Senior military officers from 50 countries gathered in Geneva on Monday to put international humanitarian law into simple language that can be understood in theatres of war worldwide....
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Thousands await relief in Pishin, Harnai
QUETTA, Nov 3: Thousands of people in some parts of Pishin and Harnai districts, who had been rendered homeless by last week’s earthquake, are still waiting for relief and shelter, particularly tents to save them from the freezing weather....
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Parliamentary panel to monitor resolution
ISLAMABAD, Nov 3: The formation of a powerful parliamentary committee on terrorism will be completed on Nov 6 or 7 to monitor implementation on the resolution passed by the parliament during its in-camera sitting, Dawn learnt on Monday....
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Afghan ex-official kidnapped in Chitral
CHITRAL, Nov 3: Akhtar Kohistani, a former Afghan government official, was kidnapped from Drosh area near the Afghan border late on Sunday night....
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