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India clears Pakistani panels Mumbai visit to probe 2611 attacks
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 ...
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Pakistan expresses concern over US drone attacks at UNSC
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 ...
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Whatmore to review flop Pak players with World Cup 2015 in mind
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 ...
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Pakistan to benefit fromChinese hybrid rice technology
BEIJING, China - Pakistan wants to benefit in the field of agriculture and particularly in enhancing rice production by employing Hybrid rice technology developed by an expert from Hunan province, said Pakistans Ambassador to China, Masood Khan. Pakistan largely benefited from the Hybrid rice seeds developed by Professor Yuan Long Ping, who is popularly known as Father of Hybrid Rice, said ...
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Militants kill six Pakistani soldiers in attack on convoy
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A senior police official said militants attacked a military convoy with rocket-propelled grenades and other heavy weapons in northwest Pakistan, killing six soldiers.Shafiullah Khan says two soldiers were wounded in the attack Wednesday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of the main northwest city of Peshawar. Two vehicles were destroyed.Khan says the soldiers ...
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Pakistan election-monitoring group pulls back on some claims
A Pakistani election-monitoring group has backpedalled on some claims it made of voting irregularities in the aftermath of the country's May 11 ...
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Pakistani girl killed in Kashmir border firing officials
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 girl was killed Wednesday when Indian troops opened fire across the de facto border that divides disputed Kashmir between the two nuclear-armed rivals, officials ...
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Pakistani Bishops Decry Discrimination in Textbooks
Curriculums Continue Despite Ongoing Appeals to Foster PeaceBy StaffROME, May 30, 2013 (Zenit.org) - The Pakistani bishops are reiterating an appeal to their government to form young people in a mentality of justice and peace and remove religious discrimination from textbooks.According to the Fides agency, the episcopal conference's Justice and Peace Commission submitted a report on ...
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Kashmir court orders reopening of Kunan Poshpora mass rape case
A court in Kashmir on Tuesday ordered the reopening of Kunan Poshpora mass rape case.The Chief Judicial Magistrate Kupwara, J. A. Geelani, while dismissing closure report of Jammu and Kashmir police in the case, asked police to "further investigate to unravel the identity of those who happen to be perpetrators."The court said the investigation would be conducted by an officer not below ...
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Seven people were killed and four others were wounded following night-long ethnic clashes in Karachi…
Seven people were killed and four others were wounded following night-long ethnic clashes in Karachi ISLAMABAD - Ethnic violence killed seven people in Karachi province of Pakistan on Tuesday.Mirza Adem, a senior police officer, stated that seven people were killed and four others were wounded following night-long clashes in ethnic-sensitive areas of Karachi.Police staged operations on some ...
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Karzai boycotts US-backed talks with Taliban because of Pakistani hand
Hamid Karzai suspended negotiation with Washington on Wednesday over a bilateral security agreement, angered by the perceived betrayal of Kabul by the Americans, who in turn appeared to have been suckered by Taliban. The terrorist group, given political stamp of approval by the Obama administration on Tuesday, killed four US soldiers in an attack hours after the talks agreement, despite ...
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Pakistan to address energy with IMF
Pakistan said it would brief the International Monetary Fund on plans to address the energy crisis as part of a financial bailout package. Pakistan started talks Wednesday with IMF delegates on its request for a $5 billion bailout package. Pakistani newspaper Dawn reported the government was working to cut its fiscal deficit from 8.8 percent to 6.3 percent of gross domestic production for the ...
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Investors to gain access to Pakistan with imminent fund launch
The first Pakistan fund, the Melchior Selected Trust Pakistan Opportunities Fund (MSTPOF), will be launched on 19 June by Dalton Strategic Partnership LLP, advised by KASB Funds in Karachi. At launch, it is believed that MSTPOF will be the only Luxembourg UCITS Fund dedicated to investing in Pakistan equities. Dalton Strategic Partnership LLP believes that Pakistan warrants particular ...
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Pakistan violates ceasefire after Army foils another infiltration bid
As the infiltration bid was foiled, Pakistani troops opened heavy firing on Indian posts in Mandi, Krishna Ghati and Chakan-Da-Bagh in Poonch ...
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Pakistani community gives envoy fond send-off
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 ...
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Pakistan closes university and hospital after fatal attacks
Pakistani have authorities closed Sardar Bahadur Khan Women's University and Bolan Medical Complex in Quetta after terrorist attacks killed nearly 90 ...
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Pakistan cricket board ordered to name new chief
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 ...
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Pakistan discovers new gas reserves
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. "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," ...
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Pakistan seeks IMF bailout
Pakistan and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are opening on Wednesday week-long discussions on Islamabad's latest fiscal and macroeconomic adjustments and its request for a possible US$5 billion bailout package for repayment of the fund'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 ...
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Five More Killed in Karachi Violence
Islamabad, June 19 (BNA) - Five more persons were killed in overnight firing and violence incidents in different parts of this mega-metropolis city, Pakistan'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 ...
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Pakistan funeral bombs death toll rises
THE death toll from a suicide attack at a funeral in Pakistan has risen to 34 after seven victims died overnight in hospital, police ...
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Pakistan’s new government delivers pro-business budget
Pakistan's newly-installed government of Nawaz Sharif'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 ...
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