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Thursday, 01 November,
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Four
vital objectives achieved, says CE:
Support to anti-terror
war
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By
Ihtasham ul Haque
ISLAMABAD, Oct 31: President Gen Pervez Musharraf said here
on
Wednesday that his government's principled support to the
international
effort for combating terrorism has helped Pakistan
achieve four major
important national objectives including
assuring integrity and security of
Pakistan.......
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US
carpet-bombs Kabul; 13 killed in Kandahar
clinic
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KANDAHAR,
Oct 31: US planes carpet-bombed Taliban frontlines north
of Kabul on
Wednesday and attacked the militia's power base of
Kandahar in southeastern
Afghanistan, killing 13 people at a
clinic, witnesses
said.......(Reuters/AFP)
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Rumsfeld
plans to visit
Pakistan
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By
Tahir Mirza
WASHINGTON, Oct 31: Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is
expected
to visit Pakistan, India, Russia and some Central Asian
states
next week.......
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Change
in cabinet ruled
out
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By
Hasan Akhtar
ISLAMABAD, Oct 31: The president's spokesman emphatically said
on
Wednesday that no change in the cabinet by induction of
politicians was
contemplated and nothing of the sort had been
discussed by Gen Pervez
Musharraf in his recent interaction with
political leaders.......
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New
Delhi threatens Islamabad with
war
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By
Jawed Naqvi
NEW DELHI, Oct 31: Two days after fuming at the UN's peace
monitor
in Kashmir for accusing India and Pakistan of playing games
with
the troubled Himalayan region, India's army and prime minister
were
making threatening statements against Islamabad on Wednesday
that appeared to
vindicate, not allay, fears that bilateral
tensions between the two nuclear
neighbours could yet spin out of
control......
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Pakistan,
India asked to avoid
flare-up
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WASHINGTON,
Oct 31: Secretary of State Colin Powell said on
Tuesday that India and
Pakistan should take great care to avoid a
"flare up" over Kashmir as the
United States presses both
countries to give full concentration to the US-led
war on
terrorism......(AFP)
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APHC
lauds UN observer's
views
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Staff
Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Oct 31: Kashmir's All Parties Hurriyat Conference
on
Wednesday welcomed the assessment by the UNMOGIP chief about the
rising
tensions between India and Pakistan, saying it showed that
a grim reality was
dawning among international players that the
Himalayan region had become too
volatile a place to be ignored by
them any further.......
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Karakuram
Highway opened for Raiwind
event
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Staff
Correspondent
MANSEHRA, Oct 31: The armed workers of religious parties and
local
tribesmen have partially opened the Karakuram Highway for traffic
to
make it possible for people to attend the three-day annual
congregation of
Tablighee Jamaat being held from Nov 1 at Raiwind
near Lahore on
Thursday.......
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Restrictions
on use of
loudspeaker
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Staff
Reporter
ISLAMABAD, Oct 31: The government on Wednesday banned the use
of
loudspeaker in mosques except for Aazan and Khutba-i-Juma
(Friday
sermon) and decided to proceed against religious parties,
inciting
public unrest, under the sedition law......
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Debt
relief sought from
Japan
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ISLAMABAD,
Oct 31: Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz has expressed
gratitude to the Japanese
government for lifting economic
sanctions against Pakistan and providing it
assistance to help
offset the negative effects of the current volatile
situation in
the region......(APP)
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Registration
at refugee camp
suspended
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Staff
Reporter
ISLAMABAD, Oct 31: Pakistan has suspended registration at
the
Killi Faizo refugee camp near Chaman as it has been filled to
capacity
by the newly arrived Afghan refugees.......
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Taliban,
UN make conflicting claims: Meeting with
Brahimi
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Staff
Reporter
ISLAMABAD, Oct 31: The UN secretary-general's
special
representative for Afghanistan, Lakhdar Brahimi, and the
Taliban
authorities on Wednesday made contradictory claims of
declining
each other's request for a meeting.......
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Annan
calls for end to
attacks
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Staff
Correspondent
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 31: UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on
Tuesday
called for a quick end to the US-led military campaign
in
Afghanistan to allow the United Nations to begin sending food into
the
country before winter......
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Saudi
Arabia, UK agree to work for broad-based
govt
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RIYADH,
Oct 31: British Prime Minister Tony Blair said here on
Wednesday he had
reached an agreement with Saudi Arabia to work
for a broad-based government
in a reconstructed
Afghanistan......(AFP/Reuters)
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Mutawakil
denies
split
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KANDAHAR,
Oct 31: Taliban Foreign Minister Wakil Ahmed Mutawakil
on Wednesday dismissed
speculation of a schism in the ruling
Islamic militia, saying it was united
in the face of its
enemies.......(AFP)
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Petroleum
prices slashed
nominally
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Staff
Reporter
KARACHI, Oct 31: The Oil Companies Advisory Committee on
Wednesday
slashed the prices of petroleum products by 0.46 per cent to
8.17
per cent. The new prices will be effective from Nov 1
to
15......(APP)
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ForEx
Market
Update
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At
close of trading yesterday, the dollar was being sold for Rs
61.45 in the
open
market.
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