India’s regional role ‘very important’: US
* Controversial Indo-US nuclear deal sails through Senate, only awaits Bush’s signature
* State Department says similar deal with Pakistan not being considered ‘at this time’
By Khalid Hasan
WASHINGTON: India is going to play a very important role, along with a number of other... 
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Gilani demands US nuclear deal
ISLAMABAD/MULTAN: India’s nuclear trade agreement with the US should open the way for a similar deal for Pakistan, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Thursday. “Pakistan will now be justified to also make a demand for a similar deal as we don’t want discrimination,” Gilani said. The US Congress...
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Children of UN, British staff to leave Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: The United Nations and Britain on Thursday ordered the children of international staff to be evacuated from Pakistan in the wake of the deadly bombing of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad. The pullout comes despite increased security measures by Pakistani authorities after last month’s attack,...
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US drone strikes kill 20 in North Waziristan
* 12, including some foreigners, killed in Mohammad Khel village
* Army spokesman says reported attacks being investigated
MIRANSHAH: United States air strikes on three villages in North Waziristan killed at least 20 people on Wednesday and Friday.
Intelligence officials said...
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Pakistan next US president’s ‘single greatest challenge’
WASHINGTON: A report released here on Thursday describes Pakistan as ‘the single greatest challenge facing the next American president’. The report – The Next Chapter: the United States and Pakistan – by a group of Pakistan experts contains a number of recommendations for Pakistan as well as the US....
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Pakistan rejects US geological survey offer
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has rejected a United States offer of conducting a free of cost geological survey in the country due to security concerns to its strategic assets, sources said on Friday. Petroleum Ministry sources told Daily Times that the US has been insisting ‘time and again’ on being allowed...
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Karzai assures safety to Mullah Omar if he returns home
LAHORE/WASHINGTON: Afghan President Hamid Karzai has advised Taliban leader Mullah Omar to return to Afghanistan and join him in the political process, Geo News reported on Friday.
In an interview with the channel, Karzai said, “I propose that Mullah Omar return to Afghanistan as I will be responsible...
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70,000 Afghan refugees asked to leave Bajaur in three days
* 25 Taliban killed in operation
* Mamoond tribe to support forces
KHAR: The local administration has ordered Afghan refugees in Bajaur Agency to leave the area within three days.
There are an estimated 70,000 Afghan refugees in the agency. Authorities believe that elements...
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‘Mehsud seriously ill’
ISLAMABAD: Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud is seriously ill with diabetes and may even be in a coma, security officials and Taliban commanders said on Wednesday. Local television channels reported that Mehsud had died overnight. However, officials and Taliban sources insist he...
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Wali survives suicide attack, four killed
* ANP chief vows attack not to change party’s stand against terrorism
WALI BAGH: Awami National Party (ANP) President Asfandyar Wali Khan survived a suicide attack when the bomber blew himself up just ‘20 steps away’ from him at his residence in Charsadda district on Thursday.
Four...
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US court orders deportation of Hafiz Saeed’s brother
By Khalid Hasan
WASHINGTON: Imam Muhammad Masood, brother of Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, founder of the banned Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, was ordered deported by a Boston, Massachusetts court on Thursday on an immigration violation charge.
Under an agreement with federal immigration authorities,...
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Zardari says he escaped assassination at Marriott
* President says parliament, the people, all of democracy was target of bombing
* Woman can be president of Pakistan
WASHINGTON: President Asif Ali Zardari called the recent bombing in Islamabad’s Marriott hotel an assassination attempt he and other top leaders narrowly escaped, in...
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War until country is ‘terror-free’: Malik
ISLAMABAD: The government will fight until Taliban are either killed or forced to flee Pakistan, Adviser on Interior Rehman Malik said on Friday. Previous Pakistani military campaigns against Taliban in the tribal belt along the Afghan frontier were halted too soon, he said, in an apparent reference...
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Agra | In harmony
Indian Muslims offer Eidul Fitr prayers at a mosque inside the Taj Mahal complex on Thursday. Pakistanis celebrated Eid with religious enthusiasm on Wednesday amid stringent security. ap
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