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<title>Pakistan expresses concern over US drone attacks at UNSC</title>
<description>Pakistan has expressed concerns over drone attacks to the United Nations Security Council. Pakistan told the UNSC that armed drones were violating country's sovereignty, causing civilian casualties, and putting communities at risk of reprisal attacks. According to the Daily Times, Pakistan said drone strikes radicalised disaffected communities and increased the number of terrorists, adding that ... </description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:40:02 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Pak offended by Karzais statement implying Pakistani institutions opposed to promoting peace</title>
<description>Pakistan has expressed concern over remarks made by Afghan President Hamid Karzai against a Pakistani state institution. Karai had said that some institutions in Pakistan are opposed to promoting peace and stability in Afghanistan. While commenting on Karzai's statement, the Foreign Office spokesperson said the government of Pakistan and all its institutions have unanimity of views on issues of ... </description>
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<title>Zardari gets clean man stamp following Swiss refusal to re-open $60 mln money laundering case</title>
<description>Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has become a 'clean' man in a 60 million dollars money-laundering case after the Swiss Government refused to re-open the case. The Swiss Government had sent a letter to the PML-N Government informing about the development after the case was closed by a Swiss court after lapse of a specific period. In February this year, the Swiss Government told the PPP-led ... </description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:30:03 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>India clears Pakistani panels Mumbai visit to probe 2611 attacks</title>
<description>India has given consent to Pakistani authorities probing the Mumbai 26/11 terror attacks to visit the country and cross-examine witnesses. A dossier of related documents has also been sent by the Indian Government to the National Crisis Management Cell (NCMC) of the Ministry of Interior. An eight-member panel from Pakistan had visited Mumbai in April 2012 to cross-examine four key witnesses of ... </description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:30:03 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Whatmore to review flop Pak players with World Cup 2015 in mind</title>
<description>Pakistan coach Dav Whatmore has said that national team will be reviewed keeping in mind the 2015 World Cup after their dismal performance in the ICC Champions Trophy in England. Poor batting led to Pakistan's defeat in all three matches as they failed to post a single total above 170 runs, with the flop performance prompting calls from former players, media and fans to overhaul the system and ... </description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:30:01 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Pakistani leader among 29 killed in suicide bombing</title>
<description>A member of the provincial assembly of Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was among 29 people killed in a suicide bombing Tuesday, media reports said. Over 50 people were injured. Independent member Imran Mohmand was killed in the blast at a funeral procession in Mardan, Geo News reported. Police said the blast took place during the funeral procession of Haji Abdullah, a well-known figure ... </description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:10:01 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Antony for peaceful stable and democratic Pakistan</title>
<description>Asserting that a peaceful, stable and democratic Pakistan will help India, Defence Minister A.K. Antony on Tuesday urged Islamabad to take strong action against militant groups operating from its soil with an aim to improve cross-border relations between the two Asian neighbours. India was concerned about the militant groups, which were operating from Pakistani soil, Antony said. &quot;Our ... </description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:40:02 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Pakistani community gives envoy fond send-off</title>
<description>The event, at Grand Midwest hotel in Dubai Media City on Friday, was attended by Pakistan Association Dubai members and dignitaries from the wider Pakistani community in the ... </description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:27:35 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Pakistan closes university and hospital after fatal attacks</title>
<description>Pakistani have authorities closed Sardar Bahadur Khan Women&amp;#039;s University and Bolan Medical Complex in Quetta after terrorist attacks killed nearly 90 ... </description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:13:56 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Pakistan cricket board ordered to name new chief</title>
<description>Zaka Ashraf speaks at a press conference in Dubai last year. A Pakistani court Wednesday ordered the government to appoint an interim head of the cricket board, after the current chairman was suspended over a legal challenge to his ... </description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:17:58 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Pakistan discovers new gas reserves</title>
<description>Islamabad, June 19/Nationalturk- In what could be termed as a good news for the country facing energy crisis, a huge reserves of natural gas have been discovered in Southern Pakistan.  &amp;quot;Huge reserves of natural gas have been discovered in Sindh province of Pakistan. 39 million cubic feet gas reserves have been discovered during the drilling of wells in Sanghar area in Sindh,&amp;quot; ... </description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:35:08 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Pakistan seeks IMF bailout</title>
<description>Pakistan and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are opening on Wednesday week-long discussions on Islamabad&amp;#039;s latest fiscal and macroeconomic adjustments and its request for a possible US$5 billion bailout package for repayment of the fund&amp;#039;s outstanding loans.  A senior official of the ministry of finance said the government had made a fiscal adjustment of about 2.5 percent of GDP in ... </description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:27:08 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Pakistan violates ceasefire after Indian troops foiled infiltration bid</title>
<description>Poonch: Pakistani troops today violated ceasefire and opened indiscriminate firing along the Line of Control (LOC) in Poonch sector after an infiltration bid was foiled by Indian troops.A group of four armed persons from Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) were seen moving towards an Indian forward post in Krishna Ghati sector in Poonch district around 0950 hours, PRO defence SN Acharya said.Alert ... </description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:16:28 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Five More Killed in Karachi Violence</title>
<description>Islamabad, June 19 (BNA) - Five more persons were killed in overnight firing and violence incidents in different parts of this mega-metropolis city, Pakistan&amp;#039;s Geo News reported Wednesday morning.  Police said that unknown persons opened fire on a vehicle killing van driver Imran at sector 5-C2 of North Karachi in the vicinity of Khawaja Ajmernagri police station.    One person was shot dead ... </description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:18:01 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Pakistan funeral bombs death toll rises</title>
<description>THE death toll from a suicide attack at a funeral in Pakistan has risen to 34 after seven victims died overnight in hospital, police ... </description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:05:46 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Pakistan’s new government delivers pro-business budget</title>
<description>Pakistan&amp;#039;s newly-installed government of Nawaz Sharif&amp;#039;s Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) announced its first budget amid slow economic growth, a massive fiscal deficit and dangerously depleted foreign reserves. The government also faces declining foreign investment, a chronic power crisis and double digit inflation. The budget is a desperate attempt to encourage investment, while cutting ... </description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:29:40 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Pakistans Champions Trophy defeat prompts Whatmores exit</title>
<description>Islamabad, June 18 : Pakistan&amp;#039;s defeat in the Champions Trophy has prompted calls from former players, media and fans to overhaul the system and ditch coach Dav Whatmore and under-performing ... </description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:22:30 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>PTI leader calls out Pakistan govt on drone attacks</title>
<description>During Tuesday&amp;#039;s session of Pakistan&amp;#039;s National Assembly, Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf (PTI) leader Dr Shireen Mazari drew the speaker&amp;#039;s attention to the issue of US drone attacks on Pakistani territory, DawnNews reported.  Mazari said drone attacks could not be responded to with mere protests, stressing that the government would have to adopt more significant measures. She said even ... </description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:06:48 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Suicide blast at Pakistan funeral kills 28 including lawmaker</title>
<description>At least 28 people, including a provincial lawmaker of the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI), were killed Tuesday when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives during a funeral procession in Mardan district of restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.  At least 57 other people were also injured in the blast, said Jaffar Khan, the Deputy Inspector-General (DIG) of police in Mardan.  KP Information and ... </description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:59:47 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Bomber targets mourners at Pakistan funeral 29 dead</title>
<description>PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of hundreds of mourners attending a funeral on Tuesday in northwestern Pakistan, killing 29 people. Among the dead was a newly elected lawmaker who may have been the target, authorities ... </description>
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<title>Suicide bomber attacks mourners in Pakistan</title>
<description>A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of hundreds of mourners attending a funeral in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 29 people. Among the dead was a newly elected lawmaker who may have been the target, authorities said. The blast was the deadliest attack in the region since May 11 national and regional elections installed a new government in the northwestern province of Khyber ... </description>
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<title>20 people killed in bombing at funeral in Pakistan</title>
<description>Police in Pakistan were trying to determine if a suicide bombing Tuesday that killed 20 mourners at a funeral was aimed at one victim, a provincial legislator.  The funeral in Mardan, a small city 85 miles northwest of Islamabad in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, was for a man who was gunned down Monday, USA Today reported. Imran Mohmand, an independent who was elected to the provincial assembly May 11, was ... </description>
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<title>Lawmaker 29 others die in Pakistan blast</title>
<description>funeral procession at Shergarh in Pakistan&amp;#039;s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Tuesday. &amp;quot;... (The) dead included Imran Khan Mohmand, a member of provincial assembly. The bomber entered the funeral by foot,&amp;quot; said Tahir Ayub, a local police officer. Mohmand had joined Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) party after winning a provincial assembly seat as an ... </description>
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<title>Pakistan government gives Rs 61 million aid to Indias most wanted Hafiz Saeed</title>
<description>Lahore: Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), the parent body of banned terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba that carried out the 2008 Mumbai attacks, has been allocated over Rs 61 million in the budget for current fiscal by Pakistan&amp;#039;s Punjab province government headed by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif&amp;#039;s party PML-N.Besides a grant-in-aid of over Rs 61 million in its budget for fiscal 2013-14 for ... </description>
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<title>India border firing injures Pakistani woman military</title>
<description>An Indian army soldier looks towards the Pakistani side on the Indian side of Line of Control (LOC) near Kaman post on October 9, 2008. A Pakistani woman was injured Tuesday when Indian troops fired across the disputed border in the Himalayan region of Kashmir, Pakistan&amp;#039;s military ... </description>
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<title>Swat Summer Festival planned to promote tourism in Pakistan</title>
<description>SAIDU SHARIF, Swat Valley, Pakistan - All arrangements have been finalized for the four-day Swat Summer Festival starting from June 20, says the civilian and military administration in Pakistan, as reported by the Dispatch News Desk (DND).  Commissioner of the Malakand Division, Dr. Fakhar Alam, while addressing a press conference in Saidu Sharif, said the summer festival is being organized ... </description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:11:08 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Pakistans new Attorney General seeks govts instructions on Musharraf treason trial</title>
<description>Islamabad, June 18 : The newly appointed attorney general of Pakistan is seeking written instructions from the federal government about the pending petitions seeking trial of former President Pervez ... </description>
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<title>Malala denounces cowardly attack on female students bus in Pakistan</title>
<description>Washington, June 18 : Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by the Taliban for promoting girls&amp;#039; education, has denounced an attack on a bus carrying female students in Quetta as ... </description>
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<title>Suicide bomber kills 29 at Pakistani funeral</title>
<description>People prepare to carry the dead bodies of their relatives, victims of suicide bombing, at a hospital morgue in Mardan, Pakistan, Tuesday, June 18, ... </description>
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<title>Syrian Complex Situation Forces Kerry to Delay Visit to Pakistan</title>
<description>Islamabad, Jun 18 (Prensa Latina) The worsening of the situation in Syria forced U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to postopne his visit to Pakistan, diplomats who wished to remain anonymous told local press. Last week, Pakistani Foreign ministry&amp;#039;s sources unofficially announced that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry would visit Islamabad before the end of the month to discuss with the new ... </description>
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<title>Destruction Of Historic Building Sparks Debate About Pakistans History</title>
<description>fighting for a homeland in the vast, resource-rich region that borders Afghanistan and Iran.    Others brushed it aside as the destruction of a colonial-era building favored by British administrators. They pointed out that it is more important to protect the restive province&amp;#039;s beleaguered communities from terrorist violence rather than lament the loss of an historic building favored by ... </description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:08:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Outrage as Pakistans Mount Vernon is destroyed</title>
<description>Pakistani firefighters extinguish a blaze which gutted a historical building in Ziarat, about 50 miles southeast of Quetta, on Saturday. The country&amp;#039;s founding father Mohammad Ali Jinnah spent his last days in the building, which was declared a national monument following his death, one year after Pakistan&amp;#039;s independence in ... </description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:34:28 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Suicide Bombing Kills 27 in Pakistan</title>
<description>A suicide bomber has detonated explosives at a crowded funeral in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 27 people, including a provincial ... </description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:06:39 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Bombing Kills 27 Including Provincial Pakistani Lawmaker</title>
<description>PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- A suicide bomber has blown himself up in a crowd of hundreds of mourners attending a funeral in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 27 people.    Pakistani authorities said that among those killed was Imran Khan Mohmand, a newly elected provincial legislator who may have been the target of the attack.    The blast in Shergarh village of the Mardan district was the worst ... </description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:01:18 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Analysis Bridging the development-versus-pollution gap in Pakistan</title>
<description>studies by the UN Children&amp;rsquo;s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Wildlife Fund for Nature, up to 40 percent of all patients in Pakistani hospitals are suffering from water-borne diseases due to unsafe drinking water.    More than 250,000 Pakistani children are killed annually by typhoid, dysentery, cholera and hepatitis.    &amp;quot;When there is untreated sewage, it results in the groundwater being ... </description>
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<title>Death toll at Pakistan funeral blast jumps to 20</title>
<description>PESHAWAR, Pakistan -;  A police officer says the death toll from a bomb that ripped through a crowded funeral in northwest Pakistan has risen to 20 ... </description>
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<title>Bombing at Pakistani funeral kills 27</title>
<description>PESHAWAR, Pakistan -;  A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of hundreds of mourners attending a funeral in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 27 people. Among those killed was a newly-elected lawmaker who may have been the target, authorities ... </description>
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<title>Pakistan Determined to Stop U.S. Drone Attacks</title>
<description>Islamabad, Jun 18 (Prensa Latina) Pakistan is working now on a new policy to stop the bombing of U.S. drones and have the firm hope that it will be done, asserted here today a close collaborator of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Drone attacks are a violation of national sovereignty and have a counterproductive effect on the campaign against terrorism, said Sartaj Aziz, advisor of the Head of ... </description>
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<title>Suicide bomber strikes during funeral in Pak 20 killed</title>
<description>At least 20 people including a provincial legislator were today killed and over 50 others injured when a suicide bomber targeted a funeral at Mardan in the troubled northwest Pakistan. About 100 people were at the funeral of a businessman in Shergarh area of Mardan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province this afternoon when the bomber detonated his explosive vest, police officials and witnesses ... </description>
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<title>Young Pakistani activist launches drive for safe education</title>
<description>New York, June 18 : A 15-year-old Pakistani girl targeted by assassins - Malala Yousafzai - is the first signatory of a new worldwide petition calling for urgent action to ensure the right of every child to safely attend school, launched Monday with the backing of the United Nations Special Envoy for ... </description>
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<title>Officials Bomb kills 12 in northwest Pakistan</title>
<description>PESHAWAR, Pakistan --  A Pakistani spokesman says a bomb blast at a funeral in northwestern Pakistan has killed 12 people.The spokesman for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Shaukat Yousufzai, says the bombing in the city of Mardan on Tuesday also wounded 50 people.A police officer, Tahir Ayub, says a provincial lawmaker was among those wounded. Ayub says authorities are investigating whether the ... </description>
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<title>Paks Punjab govt allocates millions of rupees for Hafiz Saeeds Jamaat-ud-Dawa</title>
<description>2008 Mumbai attacks . Besides a grant-in-aid of over Rs 61 million for the JuD&amp;#039;s centre known as &amp;#039;Markaz-e-Taiba&amp;#039;, the provincial government has allocated Rs 350 million for setting up a &amp;quot;Knowledge Park&amp;quot; at the centre and other development initiatives. Details of the allocations were presented in budget documents tabled in the Punjab assembly on Monday by the PML-N ... </description>
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<title>Pakistan hopeful of end to US drone strikes</title>
<description>A top aide of Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said that his country is hopeful of end to US drone strikes in the country and will raise the issue with US Secretary of State John Kerry during his visit to Pakistan next ... </description>
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<title>Pakistan PM gives go-ahead to raise power tariff</title>
<description>Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday gave a go-ahead to raise power tariff during a high-level meeting on energy crisis in Islamabad.  The tariff for electricity is likely to be increased from July 1.  Moreover, the meeting also decided to immediately start communications with neighbouring states, including India, for energy import.  A plan aimed at resolving the circular debt issue was ... </description>
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<title>Pakistan says Kerry visit delayed because of Syria</title>
<description>This file photo shows US Secretary of State John Kerry during an event in Washington, DC, on June 3, 2013. Kerry has been forced to delay a visit to Pakistan because of the worsening crisis in Syria, Pakistani officials said on ... </description>
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<title>Concerns over online Quran teaching as ex-Pakistan militants instruct pupils</title>
<description>Teaching to read the Qur&amp;#039;an text online is booming, with many firms setting up as online instructors, prompting fears about radicalisation. Photograph: Rahmat ... </description>
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<title>Pakistan-Azerbaijan Youth Association chair visits Ireli</title>
<description>Editor in chief of The Diplomatic Insight &amp;amp; Media Diplomacy magazine, Chairman of the Pakistan-Azerbaijan Youth Association Muhammad Asif Noor has visited Ireli Youth Centre.    The guest first familiarized with the centre and its projects, talked to the youth and then met with Ireli Public Union&amp;#039;s Chairman Rauf Mardiyev and Secretary General Narmin Mammadova.    The meeting discussed ... </description>
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<title>Farooq Abdullah objects to IPL management companys faux pas on Kashmir says will complain to BCCI</title>
<description>Senior Union Minister Farooq Abdullah on Monday strongly objected to a prominent sports management company unilaterally altering the map of Jammu and Kashmir in an IPL-6 TV production manual.Abdullah, who is also president of the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association, said he would ask the BCCI president to have the map corrected immediately, so that such things don&amp;#039;t recur. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s ... </description>
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<title>Pakistans Punjab government allocates mlns of rupees for JuD centre</title>
<description>Jamaat-ud-Dawah , considered a front for the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba. Besides a grant-in-aid of over Rs 61 million for the JuD centre known as &amp;#039;Markaz-e-Taiba&amp;#039;, the provincial government has allocated Rs 350 million for setting up a &amp;#039;Knowledge Park&amp;#039; at the centre and other development initiatives. Details of the allocations were presented in budget documents tabled in the ... </description>
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