War forces change in economic strategy : Funds for 3 projects stopped
ISLAMABAD, Nov 3: President General Pervez Musharraf has directed the officials of the Ministry of Finance and Planning Commission to change the whole economic and development strategy of the country to...
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Claim, counter-claim over Mazar-i-Sharif
KHWAJA BAHAUDDIN, Nov 3: Fighting raged on Saturday in northern Afghanistan amid claims and counter-claims by the Northern Alliance and the Taliban over the key city of Mazar-i-Sharif....
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US not given security of N-plants: Rashid
ISLAMABAD, Nov 3: US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld will arrive here on Sunday on a brief visit to discuss the Afghan situation with President Gen Pervez Musharraf....
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Japan to provide relief goods to refugees
ISLAMABAD Nov 3: Japan has expressed its desire to work alongside Pakistan in providing medical and other relief services to Afghan refugees under the “Japan Platform” an umbrella organization of various...
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CE to raise issue of attacks in Ramazan: Fund for DPs set up; Rumsfeld due today
ISLAMABAD, Nov 3: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Saturday again urged the United States to halt air strikes in Afghanistan during Ramazan to avoid their “negative impact”....
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Wardak holds talks with commanders
PESHAWAR, Nov 3: The former Afghan army chief, Gen Abdur Rahim Wardak, who arrived in Pakistan on an important assignment recently, has held meetings with former Mujahideen commanders and military officials...
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Pakistan, India on US list of major drug producers
WASHINGTON, Nov 3: Pakistan and India as well as Afghanistan remain on the list of countries that are considered as major producers of illicit drugs entering the United States or whose...
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Osama calls Annan ‘criminal’
DOHA, Nov 3: Osama bin Laden on Saturday branded UN Secretary General Kofi Annan a “criminal” and appealed to Muslims to defend “their brothers in Afghanistan” in the “war between Muslims...
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Hockey: Pakistan draw with Netherlands
ROTTERDAM (Netherlands), Nov 3: Pakistan drew 1-1 Saturday against Olympic champion and Grand Slam holder the Netherlands in the men’s Champions Trophy field hockey tournament, crediting its goalie Muhammad Qasim for...
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Taliban claim downing helicopter
 ISLAMABAD Nov 3: Taliban Ambassador Mulla Abdul Salam Zaeef said their troops had shot down a US gunship helicopter in the Nawur mountainous area of Ghazni province....
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Americans want fast action: report
NEW YORK, Nov 3: The American people do not want the US war in Afghanistan to last for years, “they want action fast and that means killing or capturing Osama bin...
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Three aides of Zahir Shah executed
QUETTA, Nov 3: Taliban militia has hanged three supporters of former Afghan deputy foreign minister, Hamid Karzai, at Dehramad in Uruzgan province of Afghanistan, sources said here on Saturday....
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Pentagon version
WASHINGTON, Nov 3: The Pentagon said on Saturday an unmanned spy plane had crashed in Afghanistan, but it had no plans to recover it. The statement came shortly after the crash...
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US copters rescue Zahir’s envoy
ISLAMABAD, Nov 3: US helicopters have plucked an envoy of Afghanistan’s ousted monarch from the clutches of his Taliban pursuers, the militia’s ambassador to Islamabad said on Saturday....
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Taliban release French journalist
 PESHAWAR, Nov 3: The Taliban authorities released a French journalist on Saturday arrested on charges of espionage in Jalalabad on October 19....
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Karzai safe in Afghanistan, says brother
QUETTA, Nov 3: Hamid Karzai, the former deputy foreign minister in the first Mujahideen government in Afghanistan, has no plans of abandoning his mission in Afghanistan and returning to Pakistan, Ahmed...
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