Posts Tagged ‘ afghanistan ’

KHAR: Inspector General Frontier Corps Major General Tariq Khan has said that security forces have regained full control of Bajaur besides killing 54 more militants, including seven key Taliban commanders. While ongoing operations in Orakzai Agency and Teerah will also be completed soon, he announced. Meanwhile, Director General Inter-Services Public Relation (ISPR) Maj-Gen...
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PESHAWAR: Chief Minister NWFP said that either Urdu is national language or language of communication but is the most spoken language of the country and deserve respect. He was speaking to media men here after inauguration of a police station.
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The political elite in Iraq have to be willing to sacrifice short-term, sectarian gain for the long-term interests of their country Iraqis will go to the polls again on 7 March to elect 325 members of the country’s council of representatives.
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Rescuers Search For Survivors After Chile Quake  : A woman sitting in front of a house affected by the earthquake in Talca, Chile, and after the earthquake of magnitude 8.8 hit the country, February 27, 2010 Rescue workers are tearing through the rubble looking for survivors in Chile on Sunday, a day after...
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NEW YORK: The trial of Aafia Siddiqui, the Pakistani scientist charged with shooting at her US interrogators in Afghanistan, moved into the final stage on Monday, with defence lawyers highlighting in their final arguments the lack of coherence in the accounts by prosecution witnesses. After both the prosecution and defence delivered their closing...
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WASHINGTON: Pakistani and US officials are increasingly convinced that the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud, who was behind the suicide attack on a CIA base in Afghanistan in December, had died from wounds sustained in a drone strike, The New York Times reported late Sunday. The newspaper said the Pakistani military,...
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PESHAWAR: At least five suspected militants were killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan’’s tribal area near the Afghan border late Friday, officials said.
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Earnings calls tend to be about as exciting as a stale piece of white bread, but every once in a while something juicy falls through — and morsels are filtering out of the earnings call that Motorola held this morning . Here are the biggies: We hope you like Blur , because it’s...
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ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has ruled out the likelihood of meeting with his Indian counterpart Krishna during the London Conference, as India is not displaying seriousness for the Composite Dialogue. In an interview with an Indian television channel, Qureshi asserted “I am not sensing zeal and enthusiasm in the Indian leadership...
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PARIS: World governments meeting on Thursday in London will ponder how to win the war in Afghanistan and cricket could be part of the answer, reported a US news agency.
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