PM invites Baloch leaders for dialogue
* PM announces Rs 2bn to modernise provincial security agencies
* Hails progress on issue of missing persons
* Malik says govt has evidence of foreign role in Balochistan
QUETTA: Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said on Sunday that the government is ready for political...
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Time for mid-term polls is over: Gilani
MULTAN: Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani said on Sunday that his party’s rivals now know that the time for mid-term polls is over and the next general elections will decide who comes to power. Addressing a workers convention at the local Circuit House, Gilani said that the Pakistan People’s Party-led...
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25 killed in two blasts in KP
* ‘Suicide blast’ in Nowshera bakery surrounded by military facilities kills 19
* Six, including women, child, killed as bomb planted in passenger bus in Matani explodes
PESHAWAR: At least 25 people were killed and 39 injured in two separate bomb blasts in Nowshera and Matani,...
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Govt decides to remove serving PCO judges
* Law ministry official says president will soon send references against judges to Supreme Judicial Council
By Hasnaat Malik
ISLAMABAD: The federal government has decided to remove serving PCO judges under Article 209 of the constitution and it would file references against them...
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Israel kills 20 Palestinian protesters
MAJDAL SHAMS: Israeli troops fired at Palestinian demonstrators in Syria who rushed to the border fence on Sunday in what Israel called a challenge to its sovereignty. Syrian state-run media said 20 people were killed. “Anyone who tries to cross the border will be killed,” Israeli soldiers shouted...
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’98 percent sure’ Ilyas Kashmiri is dead, says Rehman Malik
* Interior minister says govt looking for substantive evidence to confirm death
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Sunday that he was “98 percent sure” senior al Qaeda operative Ilyas Kashmiri was killed in a US drone strike near the Afghan border.
US officials in...
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Peshawar | Devastated Police officers examine the site of a bomb blast in a bus stand in Matani on Sunday. ap
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