Top moneychangers in custody: FIA action in Lahore, Karachi and Gujranwala
KARACHI/LAHORE, Nov 8: The Federal Investigation Agency arrested on Saturday two directors and as many employees of a known foreign exchange firm for ‘illegally’ transferring foreign currency from Pakistan....
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Shelling kills eight in Matta village
MINGORA, Nov 8: Eight villagers were killed and several others injured when mortar shells hit houses in Kherari village of Matta tehsil on Saturday....
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Zardari assured of PML-N’s support
ISLAMABAD, Nov 8: President Asif Zardari and PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif dined together on Saturday in the Aiwan-i-Sadr in what was described as their first social-cum-political meeting after Mr Sharif pulled...
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PML-Q not out of trouble yet
ISLAMABAD, Nov 8: Although the Pakistan Muslim League (PML-Q) has managed to avert a split for now, after a meeting on Friday between party president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and a group...
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Obama to back democratic order
WASHINGTON, Nov 8: US President-elect Barack Obama called President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday and assured him of his support to the new democratic setup in Pakistan....
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Militants want to capture state power: President
ISLAMABAD, Nov 8: President Asif Ali Zardari said on Saturday that militants had a “political agenda and wanted to capture state power” and vowed that the government would not spare any effort to root out militancy....
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82 die in Haiti as school collapses
PETION-VILLE (Haiti), Nov 8: Rescuers uncovered a classroom full of dead students on Saturday morning after searching through the night for survivors of a school collapse in a Haitian shantytown which killed at least 82 people....
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32,000 quake victims need shelter urgently: ICRC
QUETTA, Nov 8: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says that 4,500 families, or about 32,000 people, immediately need shelter in the earthquake-affected areas of Balochistan....
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New tariff to protect middle class consumers: minister
LAHORE, Nov 8: The Minister for Water and Power, Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, has said that a revised power tariff would be announced by Tuesday....
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‘World losing war against terror financing’
WASHINGTON, Nov 8: The international system for tracking and cutting off terrorist financing has achieved major successes but is fraying seven years after the Sept 11 attacks, two former Treasury Department officials report....
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Afghan militants kill district governor
KABUL, Nov 8: Afghan government and international military officials said on Saturday that Taliban militants had gunned down a district governor overnight and about 30 militants had been killed in various clashes....
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Two Afghans killed for ‘spying’
MIRAMSHAH, Nov 8: Two Afghan nationals were killed on the charges of spying for the US forces in North Waziristan on Saturday....
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Iran speaker assails Obama’s remarks
TEHRAN, Nov 8: Iran’s head of parliament on Saturday criticised US President-elect Barack Obama for saying its development of a nuclear weapon would be “unacceptable” and repeated the country’s call for fundamental policy change....
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System would block ‘British Obama’: watchdog chief
LONDON, Nov 8: The way Britain’s political parties are organised, particularly the Labour Party, means a Barack Obama would never have been elected in Britain, the head of the country’s equality watchdog says....
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Indian spacecraft enters lunar orbit
BANGALORE, Nov 8: India’s first unmanned spacecraft entered lunar orbit on Saturday, 18 days after an Indian-built rocket transported it into outer space, officials here announced....
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Kayani meets Saudi military leadership
RAWALPINDI, Nov 8: Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, who is on an official visit to Saudia Arabia, called on Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, deputy prime minister...
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Spain deports Osama’s son
MADRID, Nov 8: Spain has rejected a final appeal for asylum by a son of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and put him on a plane bound for Egypt, the...
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Buy one car and get another free
LONDON, Nov 8: A British car dealer has found one way around the looming recession by offering a buy-one-get-one-free offer on new cars, a report said on Saturday....
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