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Brown: UK will lead way through crisis

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:38:11 -0400

By OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT London Oct. 12: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who last week unveiled a £500 billion radical aid package to bail out struggling financial

Killed Taliban leader was Pak officer

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:38:33 -0400

London: British officials covered up evidence that a Taliban commander killed by special forces in Helmand in year 2007 was in fact a Pakistani military

Zardari says violation will damage ties

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:38:46 -0400

By Shafqat Ali Islamabad Oct. 12: Pakistan Pre-sident Asif Ali Zardari said on Sunday that violation of Indus Water Treaty by India will damage the bilateral ties

Nothing to celebrate this Oct. 12 for Musharraf

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:39:33 -0400

By OUR PAKISTAN CORRESPONDENT Islamabad Oct. 12: Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf celebrated every October 12 in the last eight years to see his power growing, but

Lanka fighting kills 30 Tigers, 2 soldiers

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:39:46 -0400

Colombo, Oct. 12: Separate battles between government forces and Tamil separatists across Sri Lanka’s volatile northern region killed 30 rebels and two soldiers, the military

Karzai offers Taliban a role in govt

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:40:02 -0400

London, Oct. 12: Afghan President Hamid Karzai has offered Taliban leaders the possibility of positions in his government if they struck a peace deal to

Pak forces pledge support to govt

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:40:39 -0400

By OUR PAKISTAN CORRESPONDENT Islamabad Oct. 12: Pakistan’s powerful armed forces and intelligence agencies have pledged to support the democratically elected government led by the Pakistan People’s

Pakistan says insiders behind terror attacks

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:41:02 -0400

Islamabad, Oct. 12: Rattled by a wave of suicide bombings, Pakistan government has said that such attacks were perpetrated by people from within the country

Somali pirates capture tanker, attack UN ship

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:41:21 -0400

Nairobi, Oct. 12: Pirates seized a tanker and attacked a UN food ship that escaped, officials have said, the latest in a series of incidents

Israeli Prez warns Iran against surprise attack

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:42:42 -0400

Jerusalem, Oct. 12: Israeli President Shimon Peres on Sunday warned Iran against considering a surprise attack, at a ceremony commemorating the 35th anniversary of the