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Zardari, Sharif to meet to clear differences

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:36:21 -0400

Islamabad, July 4: Pakistan People’s Party cochairman Asif Ali Zardari is likely to meet PML(N) chief Nawaz Sharif in London to remove "misunderstandings" that have

22 civilians die in Afghanistan raid

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:34:10 -0400

Afghanistan, July 4: Twenty-two civilians, including women and children, were killed in an air strike by US-led forces on Friday in Afghanistan’s eastern province of

Sex charges against deputy PM withdrawn

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:34:41 -0400

By VIJAY JOSHI Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia July 4: A private detective withdrew a sworn statement on Friday that suggested Malaysia’s deputy prime minister had sex with a

Italy to restore Pompeii site

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:35:04 -0400

By Silvia Aloisi Rome July 4: The Italian government declared a state of emergency at the Pompeii archaeological site on Friday to try to rescue one of

AQ: Pervez knew of N. Korea N-transfer

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:35:41 -0400

By MUNIR AHMAD Islamabad July 4: North Korea received centrifuges from Pakistan in a 2000 shipment supervised by the army during the rule of President Pervez Musharraf,

Taliban abduct 3 scribes in Pak

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:35:58 -0400

By Shafqat Ali Islamabad July 4: Taliban militants have abducted three mediapersons, including a US journalist, officials said. "The local Taliban have kidnapped three journalists from Lakanro

‘No strikes inside Pakistan’

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:28:17 -0400

Our Pakistan Correspondent Islamabad July 4: Pakistan has said that nobody has the right to take action inside Pakistan in the name of war against terror or

Ferry sinks in Burma, 38 dead

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:29:42 -0400

Rangoon (Burma), July 4: Thirty-eight people died when a motorised ferry sank in a river in Burma’s cyclone-battered Irrawaddy delta, state media reported on Friday. The

First Sino-Taiwan flight launched

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:30:38 -0400

Beijing, July 4: In a sign of warming of their ties, long-time rivals China and Taiwan launched the first cross-Strait weekend charter flights, a milestone

Siberian jail is TB fight champion

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:23:00 -0400

Tomsk, Russia: Alexander Pushkarev, head doctor at the 1,000-bed hospital in a Soviet-era prison nestling at the edge of Siberia, flashed a row of metal