Foreign Minister Mukhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that Islamabad desires having friendly relations with India based on mutual respect and prefers dialogue on equality basis.
Addressing a public meeting at Kaiyanpur after inaugurating sui gas schemes, the minister said that Pakistan would not inch away from its principled stance on Kashmir and water issues. He said that we would not compromise on country’s prestige and
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President Asif Ali Zardari said that Pakistan values its cordial relations with Iraq,
and desires to further strengthen bilateral cooperation in all fields especially economic, trade and commercial sectors. Talking to the outgoing ambassador of Iraq Qais Sobhi Al Yaqoobi who paid a farewell call on him, the President hoped that the
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At least 13 people including three security personnel were killed and fifty-two others wounded in a suicide attack in Mingora, Swat.
A suicide bomber with explosive wrapped around his body got off from a rickshaw at a checkpoint near district courts and detonated himself. The police said at least ten kilogram explosives were used in the explosion. curfew was imposed in the area
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Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has convened a special meeting of the federal cabinet on Wednesday March 17,
at the Prime Minister’s secretariat to discuss the law and order situation in the country. The chief ministers of the four provinces and heads of the law enforcement agencies have been invited to attend the meeting. The Prime Minister rang up the c
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Prime Minister Gilani has constituted a committee headed by the deputy chairman planning commission to improve the functioning of various organizations of the government through application of latest information technology.
The Prime Minister took this decision during a meeting on emergency response and social administration information system project in Islamabad. He said that the government will employ all possible sources at its disposal to provide an efficient com
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At least 30 people killed and 46 wounded in a series of suicide bombings in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar.
Official says the first blast happened at the city's main prison. The second explosion came from a motorbike while another involved a suicide bomber on a bicycle who targeted a police vehicle. The fourth blast was at Kandahar police headquarters, w
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Partial results from Iraq's election show Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's coalition ahead in Baghdad, which accounts for 20 percent of parliament's seats.
Although there are still no results from seven of Iraq's 18 provinces, partial counts released so far this week show Mr. Maliki leading in five. He is followed closely by the former Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi. There have been complaints about the
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In Indonesia, a powerful earthquake hit off the eastern Indonesian island of Maluku today but no tsunami warning was issued.
Its intensity on the Richter scale was seven. There are no reports of casualties or loss of life so far.
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In Afghanistan eight people have been killed in Fresh incidents of violence.
Six civilians were killed when a roadside bomb hit their vehicle in Uruzgan province.one passenger was also injured in the incident that occurred in Tirin Kot area.
Two militants were also killed when the explosive device they were trying to plan
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The U.S state department has expressed concern over the extra-judicial killings of people in custody, disappearances, torture and rape by paramilitary forces and police in occupied Kashmir.
The U.S state department’s 2009 human rights report, quoting different human rights organisations, activists and media sources, said that ten thousand Kashmiris were missing in custody. The detainees, had no legal facilities and their family member
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Australia has won the men’s field Hockey World Cup.
In the final played at New Delhi, Australia defeated defending champions Germany by 2 goals to 1. Netherlands defeated England 4-3 to clinch the third position in the tournament.
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Britain's Elena Baltacha is through to the third round of the BNP Paribas Open after an impressive victory against seventh seed Li Na of China.
The qualifier won 7-6 (10-8) 2-6 7-6 (9-7) in a marathon match that last almost three hours in Indian Wells. She fought back from 5-1 down in the third set tiebreaker to seal her first win over a top-10 ranked player. Baltacha next plays Aussie wi
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Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani chaired a high-level meeting to develop a comprehensive, coherent and well coordinated approach for the forthcoming Pakistan-US Strategic Dialogue.
The Pakistan-US Strategic Dialogue is scheduled to be held on March 24 in Washington and would broadly cover economic, defence, security and social sectors. A number of proposals like structured-dialogue process envisaging sectoral track cooperatio
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