Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani leaves Islamabad for Beijing this evening on a day’s visit to attend the inauguration ceremony of the Olympic Games.
According to official sources the prime minister will also meet Chinese leadership on the sidelines of the Beijing Olympic Games.
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Pakistan has said it will provide all possible assistance to its citizen Dr. Aafia Siddiqui in U.S. Custody.
In a weekly new briefing in Islamabad, foreign office spokesman Mohammad Sadiq said Pakistan has sought consular access to Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, so we get get first hand information from her. He said consular access is a legal process and we hope the
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Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that Pakistan attaches high priority to its relations with Afghanistan and wants to further Strenghen the Broadbased, close and cooperative relationship existing between the two countries.
The Prime Minister said this while talking to the outgoing Afghan ambassador, Mr. Mohammad Anwar Anwarzai, who paid a farewell call on him at the prime minister’s house today.The Prime Minister said that the ties between the two countries are root
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Operation against extremists is continued in kabal Matta and adjacent areas in Swat.
In Tehsil Matta extremists have attacked a police station. Due to retaliation of security forces extremists took a flee. Extremists have also set ablaze a building of the girls college.
In Thasil Kabal the extremists have killed a person on cha
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In Bajaur Agency, negotiations between political administration and local Taliban have been successful and both sides have agreed to observe ceasefire in the area.
Earlier, in Loysum area of Bajour agency, ten militants were killed and thirty others injured in fighting between the security forces and militants. Four security personnel were also injured in the fighting. In Tank, one security person was killed
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Eight members of one Iraqi family, including three women and two children, were killed when an old mine brought home by one of their children exploded inside their house.
Police said the incident occurred in the morning in Al-Bataha, a rural area about 350 Kilometres south of Baghdad Officials said a child from the family had found an old mine and was holding it and hitting the bomb when it exploded.One other fam
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A helicopter carrying firefighters to a northern California blaze crashed, with nine people believed Dead.
Federal aviation administration spokesman Ian Geroge said that four others aboard the aircraft were critically burned in the crash about 35 miles northwest of redding in remote terrain.
The helicopter, with a two-person crew and 11 firefigh
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More than two dozens Taliban suspects were killed and several others injured in clashes with security forces in Afghanistan.
Eight Taliban were killed and seven others injured in a police operation in Kandahar.
Six other Taliban were killed after they attacked a military convoy supplying NATO bases in Badghis province.Five policemen who were escorting the convoy and two
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An Indonesian village near Yogyakarta has turned to cultivating rare silk cocoons to boost their income during the annual drought season.
The Karang Tengah village, south of Yogyakarta, has acres of cashew nut farms that produce one of Indonesia's famed exports. But the drought season, shrivels the trees and leaves the farmers without much income.
However, a local farmer's organisa
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In Occupied Kashmir, protests demonstrations, marked with complete shut down, continued today, against the attacks on the Muslims and economic blockade by the Hindu communal groups of Jammu.
According to Kashmir media service, violent clashes continued between the protesters and the police in Srinagar. The police resorted to heavy Lathi Charge and severe tear gas shelling to disperse the protesters. The demonstrators on the occasion r
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The 29th Beijing Olympics games formally begin tomorrow in a spectacular ceremony to be attended by leaders, athletes and delegations from over 200 countries.
The sporting gala will continue till 24th of this month with the theme of one world full of harmony and integrity in the true Chinese spirit.
The traditional motto of the games: faster, higher and stronger has been literally followed by china to t
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The final of world juniors squash championship is being played between Pakistan and Egypt today in Zurich.
Pakistan beat India in the semifinal while England was beaten by Egypt in the second semifinal. Pakistan's Waqar Meboob, Amir Atlas Khan and Muhammad Shoaib overcome India's Adita Jagtab, Vikram Malhotra and Ravi Dixit easily.
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The ruling coalition partners at their talks in Islamabad have decided to impeach President Musharraf And later reinstate the deposed judges.
The decisions were announced by Senator Asif Ali Zardari and Mian Mohammad Nawaz Sharif at a joint news conference in Islamabad.
Reading out their Joint Declation, Senator Asif Zardari said the president will have to face impeachment if he faile
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