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Defence cuts could worsen US unemployment-Pentagon

ABOARD A US MILITARY AIRCRAFT: US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta is warning members of Congress that...
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Obama makes job, tax case to big donors

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama made the case for his re-election and his jobs plan at two big-ticket...
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Japan’s PM Noda: warm to Washington, wary of China

TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda is turning his back on his Democratic Party's early...
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Kabul attacks cast gloom over Pak-US engagements
By Baqir Sajjad Syed
The two sides were to negotiate a framework for future engagement in their meetings on the sidelines...
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LBOD design blamed for Sindh’s woes
By Amin Ahmed
According to a joint report of UN (FAO) and Suparco, the runoff water does not find any inlet into the...
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US stiffens opposition to Pak-Iran gas pipeline project
By Khaleeq Kiani
US delegation asked Islamabad to intensify its efforts to develop its own indigenous hydrocarbon resources...
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Suicide strike on Lower Dir funeral leaves 26 dead
By Haleem Asad
Sources told Dawn that most of the people attending the funeral in the village of Beero were from the...
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Differences crop up among Waziristan militant outfits
By Zulfiqar Ali and Pazir Gul
IMK, an alliance of splinter groups, declared members of the Gul Bahadur-led N-Waziristan Shura as its...
(7 hours ago) Today
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Government resumes payments to IPPs
By Our Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Nine independent power producers (IPPs) decided on Thursday to withdraw notices they had...
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Protest over detention of JSQM chief
By Imran Ayub
The Sindhi nationalist party threatened to call a “province-wide shutter-down strike on Friday if its...
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Abbottabad commission continues its inquiry

The commission continued its working on the third day and recorded statements of officials of police,...
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Ebad welcomes ANP, MQM leaders positive statements

KARACHI: Governor Sindh, Dr. Ishratul Ebad Khan on Thursday welcomed the statements made by the leaders...
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Sindh Governor appeals people to assist rain affected

Dr. Ishratul Ibad said this when he handed over a consignment of relief goods to a delegation of the...
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Senior al Qaeda militant killed in US drone strike

WASHINGTON: A senior al Qaeda leader was killed by a CIA drone strike in Pakistan's tribal areas...
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Libya interim govt says on outskirts of Sirte

Until earlier this week, repeated attempted advances by anti-Qadhafi based in the Misrata area had been...
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