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After sweets from Pakistan, bitter pill for BSF - firing at forward post
India | Aug 15, 2012, 10:48 PM ISTPTIJammu, Aug 15: Hardly had they savoured the sweets from the other side of the border, BSF troops were fired at by Pakistan Rangers at a forward post in Samba sector in the seventh ceasefire
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Pak frees 55 Indian fishermen
World | Aug 15, 2012, 07:38 PM ISTIslamabad, Aug 15: Pakistan today freed 55 Indian fishermen from a jail in the southern port city of Karachi as a gesture of goodwill on the occasion of India's Independence Day.The fishermen were released from
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Deaf, mute Indian woman Geeta to be sent back to India
World | Aug 14, 2012, 11:11 AM ISTKarachi, Aug 14 : The Sindh government has established contact with a well known welfare foundation to obtain details of a deaf and mute Indian woman, who had inadvertently strayed into Pakistan at least 13
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Deaf-mute Indian woman stranded in Pak desperate to go home
World | Aug 11, 2012, 06:18 PM ISTIslamabad, Aug 11: A deaf and mute Indian woman, who inadvertently strayed into Pakistan at least 12 years ago, is desperate to return home to her parents.The woman—whom leading Pakistani rights activist Bilqees Edhi has
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Pak swelling nuclear arsenal to counter India, says US report
World | Aug 09, 2012, 07:25 PM ISTWashington, Aug 9: Seeking to counter India, Pakistan is making qualitative and quantitative improvements to its nuclear arsenal and could increase the number of circumstances under which it would use them, a US Congressional report
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Pak Supreme Court summons PM Ashraf in corruption case
World | Aug 08, 2012, 06:54 PM ISTIslamabad, Aug 8: Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered the prime minister Wednesday to appear before it to explain why he has not followed their instructions to reopen an old corruption case against the president. The order
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Pak court martial gives jail terms to army brigadier and 4 majors
World | Aug 03, 2012, 10:35 PM ISTRawalpindi, Aug 3: Pakistan Army's Field General Court Marshal (FGCM) today handed out jail terms to a brigadier and four army majors for having links with the banned Hizb-ut-Tahrir. The FGCM have five years rigorous
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Terrorist involved in attack on Sri Lankan team killed in Pak
World | Aug 02, 2012, 11:08 AM ISTLahore, Aug 2: A terrorist wanted for alleged involvement in the 2009 attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team was killed in a shootout with police in Pakistan's Punjab province, officials said today.Law enforcement agencies
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Terrorist involved in attack on Sri Lankan team killed in Pak
Cricket | Aug 02, 2012, 11:06 AM ISTLahore, Aug 2: A terrorist wanted for alleged involvement in the 2009 attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team was killed in a shootout with police in Pakistan's Punjab province, officials said today.Law enforcement agencies
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Ansar Burney to sue Maya Khan after Hindu boy was converted to Islam live on TV
World | Jul 28, 2012, 04:23 PM ISTIslamabad, July 28: Pakistan's noted human rights activist Ansar Burney, has said that he would sue TV anchor Maya Khan and ARY Digital for carrying out a live religious conversion on television by using his
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Pak judicial farce on 26/11, court calls judicial commission's report illegal
World | Jul 17, 2012, 09:06 PM ISTIslamabad, Jul 17: In a setback to the prosecution of seven suspects charged with involvement in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, a Pakistani court today ruled that all findings of a judicial commission that visited India
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Taliban storms police building in Pak; take hostage
World | Jul 16, 2012, 05:04 PM ISTIslamabad, Jul 16: Burqa-clad Taliban militants today stormed a police station used by local intelligence personnel at Bannu in northwest Pakistan and took several hostage, before securitymen stormed the building to end the siege. Four
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Shiv Sena vows to oppose Pak cricket tour
Cricket | Jul 16, 2012, 04:21 PM ISTMumbai, Jul 16: Shiv Sena today announced it would strongly oppose the year-end tour of India by the Pakistani cricket team. Shiv Sena leader Ramdas Kadam said here that the perpetrators of 26/11 Mumbai terror
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Pak non-state and state actors behind 26/11: Chidambaram
India | Jul 05, 2012, 08:12 PM ISTKolkata, Jul 5: India has conveyed to Islamabad that information from the interrogation of LeT terrorist Abu Jundal clearly pointed to involvement of non-state actors and state actors in Pakistan who were behind the 26/11
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Pak, US to conclude pact on anti-terror cooperation
World | Jul 05, 2012, 01:17 PM ISTIslamabad, Jul 5: Pakistan and the US are likely to conclude an agreement that will spell out areas of cooperation and their “respective limitations” in order to remove ambiguities in their fragile relationship, according to
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Pak re-opening NATO supply routes as Clinton says 'sorry'
World | Jul 04, 2012, 06:03 AM ISTWashington, Jul 3: Pakistan has agreed to reopen vital supply routes into Afghanistan blocked since a deadly cross border NATO attack in November that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said
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Pak Foreign Secretary arrives, says mandated to take peace process forward
India | Jul 03, 2012, 04:28 PM ISTNew Delhi, Jul 3: Ahead of the Indo-Pak Foreign Secretary-level talks, Pakistan Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani today said he has been “mandated” by his leadership to move the peace process forward and was looking
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India thump Lanka, to face Pak in U-19 Asia Cup final
Cricket | Jun 29, 2012, 06:20 PM ISTKuala Lumpur, Jun 29: Captain Unmukt Chand (116) slammed a sparkling century as India spanked Sri Lanka by six wickets to storm into the final of the Under-19 Asia Cup cricket tournament here today.Chand, who
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Taliban says no to polio vaccination campaign in Pak
World | Jun 26, 2012, 05:29 PM ISTIslamabad, Jun 26: In another setback to Pakistan's efforts to eradicate polio, the Taliban has banned a vaccination campaign in the restive South Waziristan region till the US halts its drone strikes in the tribal
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Elahi appointed Pak Deputy Prime Minister
World | Jun 26, 2012, 05:17 PM ISTIslamabad, Jun 26: Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, a top leader of the ruling PPP's key ally PML-Q, has been appointed as Pakistan's Deputy Prime Minister.Besides, 15 PML-Q lawmakers have been included in new Premier Raja Pervez