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Mullen urges India, Pakistan to refrain from public spats

by ANI January 27, 2010 Americas

Washington, Jan.27 (ANI): US Joint Chiefs of staff Admiral Mike Mullen has urged India and Pakistan to restrain themselves from publicly accusing each other and to avoid disputes which could further destabilise the region.
Addressing the third annual US Central Command chiefs of defence conference here, Mullen said issues can be discussed resolved privately without raking [...]

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Pakistan journalists targets in Taliban insurgency

by AP July 26, 2009 Asia

The militants wore masks, carried weapons and came by the dozens. Still, they exhibited a strange sense of courtesy: They let the reporter’s relatives leave the house before they bombed it.
Rehman Buneri, who works for Khyber TV in Karachi and contributes to Voice of America’s Deewa Radio, was not home when the 50 or so [...]

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5 militants killed in shootout in south Pakistan

by AP June 27, 2009 Asia

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Police killed five suspected militants Saturday in an overnight raid on a Karachi apartment housing insurgents loyal to the Pakistani Taliban leader blamed for a wave of suicide attacks.
City police chief Waseem Ahmed said officers found a large quantity of weapons and explosives in the apartment. He said the militants were [...]

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Nepal PM to visit India, Egypt

by ANI June 9, 2009 Asia

Visiting Indian Joint Secretary Satish C. Mehta and Indian Ambassador to Nepal Rakesh Sood met Foreign Secretary Gyan Chandra Acharya on Monday and discussed Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal’’s visit to India.
Sood said the possibility of the prime minister’’s visit to India was discussed but no date had been fixed.
The prime Minister will make his [...]

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Nepal, India sign MoUs under SAARC cooperation

by ANI June 9, 2009 Asia

Nepal and India signed four Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) aimed at fostering cooperation under the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC) framework here on Monday.
The MOUs were signed by Foreign Secretary of Nepal, Gyan Chandra Acharya and Indian Ambassador to Nepal, Rakesh Sood.
The MOUs relate to projects in the areas of Telemedicine, Shuttle Breeding [...]

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Sharif still a convict in plane hijacking case

by ANI June 9, 2009 Asia

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has not been pardoned in connection with the October 1999 plane hijacking case, The Daily Times reports.
Quoting a presidential document, which would be tabled before the Supreme Court soon, the newspaper said that while a court verdict has exempted Sharif from serving a sentence in the case, his convict [...]

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Zardari urges India to resume ‘unconditional’ talks

by ANI June 9, 2009 Asia

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has urged India to resume bilateral peace talks ‘unconditionally’ so that common problems afflicting both countries can be addressed effectively.
Zardari told the Executive Director of the Kashmir Centre in Washington, Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai, that Pakistan wanted Kashmir issue resolve peacefully.
“The ‘merchants of war’ promoted violence for settling political disputes, [...]

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Musharraf’s version of Akbar Bugti’s murder is a ‘white lie’ : Talal Bugti

by ANI June 9, 2009 Asia

Slain Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Bugti’s son, Talal Bugti, has rebuked former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf’s claims that Akbar Bugti was not killed in a military operation.
Terming Musharraf’s claims as a‘white lie’, Bugti said the former President had himself congratulated security personnel in Bhurban for killing his father.
He said he would soon meet the [...]

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Pakistani Senator charges Taliban with ‘defaming Islam’

by ANI June 9, 2009 Asia

A senator affiliated to the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazal ur has charged the Taliban with defaming Islam and questioned the government’s handling of banned outfit leader Sufi Mohammed.
“What militants are doing is no service to Islam, rather their actions are bringing bad name to it,” The Nation quoted Senator Maulana Gul Naseeb, as saying.
He also wanted [...]

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