The operation of the security forces is continuing in Kabal, Matta and other areas of district swat.
Firing was heard in suburbs of Saidu Sharif while miscreants blew off a soap factory in Qambar-Rahim abad area near the main city Mingora.
The miscreants set ablaze a girls school in Aligram where two militants were killed by their own bomb.The mi
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The Senate has adopted three resolutions, unanimously expressing profound concern on the violation of loc, blockade of Srinagar and the threatening statement of Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
Tabling the first resolution, leader of the house Mian Raza Rabbani said that this house calls upon the government of India to take step for avoiding the recurrence of loc violation. Leader of the opposition Kamil Ali Agha tabled the second resolu
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President Pervez Musharraf today cancelled his scheduled visit to china, where he was to attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.
The foreign office said the visit has been cancelled due to developments at home.
Foreign office spokesman Mohammad Sadiq said the Chinese government has been informed that due to developments at home, the President will not be able to attend th
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The central leadership of Pakistan Muslim League-N met in Murree today.
Party Quaid Mian Mohammad Nawaz Sharif presided.The participants held consultations with regard to the dialogue process with the peoples party. Later, talking to media, PML-N’s central secretary information Ahsan Iqbal said it is the responsibility
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Rains and floods in different parts of the country have left 31 more people dead.
According to reports, hundreds of houses have been destoryed and a large number of people displaced.The national disaster management authority and all provincial disaster management authorities, relief commissioners and concerned agencies have been
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Japan commemorates the bombing of Hiroshima by the United States during the Second World War on this day more than 60 years ago.
About 45 thousand people gathered in Hiroshima to mark the 63rd anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city, which killed thousands of people and destoyed the city.
Survivors and families of victims assembled at the peace memorial park near "gro
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U.S. President George W. Bush and South Korean president Lee Myung-Bak met for talks expected to sidestep past differences and focus on ridding the Korean peninsula of nuclear weapons and promoting free trade.
The two leaders were expected to present a united front on the need to set up a process for verifying details of North Korea's nuclear weapons programme, which is being dismantled, before Pyongyang can receive additional benefits.Bush said during a
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Hong Kong has raised a storm warning as a severe tropical storm, Kammuri, is close to the city.
The Hong Kong observatory said winds with speed reaching to 63 kilometers per hour forced theClosure of the city's financial markets and causing flight delays. Tropical cyclones normally happen from May to November, and are particularly prevalent i
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In Sri Lanka, some 43 Tamil rebels and four soldiers have been killed in fierce fighting in the island's north.
The army struck Tamil rebels in Jaffna in a pre-dawn attack today, killing five rebels and wounding 25 others. The latest deaths came after the little mounted a counter-offensive in Vavuniya district late last night. Some 38 rebels were slain and a
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In Occupied Kashmir, complete strike was observed today to protest against the anti-Muslim riots and economic blockade by Hindu communal groups of Jammu.
According to Kashmir media service, all shops, business establishments, educational institutions, courts, banks, government and semi-government offices remained closed and traffic was off the roads in all towns and cities of the occupied territory.
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The fourth and last cricket test between England and South Africa begins from tomorrow at the Oval.
The tourists will play England in a twenty20 game on 20 august before the one-dayers start two days later. Batsman Herschelle Gibbs has been included in South Africa's 15-man squad for the one-day series and twenty20.England are 2-0 down in the ser
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Jamaican sprinter and world's fastest man in the 100 metres Usain Bolt says he wants gold medal more than world records.
Bolt said at a news conference "the Olympic gold lasts longer than the world record because a person has to wait four more years really to be an Olympic gold medalist again, if i win this year, but a world record can go at any time, any place. The
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Another round of talks between PPP Co-Chairman Senator Asif Ali Zardari and PML-N Qaid Mian Nawaz Sharif is underway at the Zardari house in Islamabad.
JUI-F Chief Maulana Fazlur Rahman is also attending the meeting. Khurshid Shah, Sherry Rahman, Farooq H Naik of PPP and Shahbaz Sharif, Chaudhry Nisar and Ishaq Dar of PML-N are also attending. The coalition partners are discussing the issue of rei
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