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Pakistan seizes explosives-packed van: security official

Pakistan seizes explosives-packed van: security official

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP): Pakistani security forces battling to clear militants from the area along a key NATO supply route into Afghanistan on Sunday seized a van packed with 1,000 kilos of explosives, an official said.
Seven suspected Taliban militants were also arrested in the operation in the northwestern town of Jamrud, the gateway to the famed [...]

January 4, 2009 News, World 0 Comments

Pakistan wants regional approach to combat terrorism: FM

Pakistan wants regional approach to combat terrorism: FM

MULTAN, (APP): Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on Sunday Pakistan remains committed to maintaining friendly ties with all neighbouring countries including India and prescribes a regional approach to tackle terrorism so as to stop recurrence of Mumbai like incidents.
“ Mumbai attacks was a big incident which caused great damage and we need to [...]

January 4, 2009 Defence, News, Politics, World 0 Comments

7 killed, 35 injured in bomb blast

7 killed, 35 injured in bomb blast

DERA ISMAIL KHAN (APP): At least seven people including five policemen were killed and 35 others injured in a bomb blast in front of a hotel, adjacent to Polytechnic College on Multan Road here Sunday evening. It is to be mentioned that FC personnel had been deployed in the college to maintain security during Muharram. [...]

January 4, 2009 News, World 0 Comments

PM felicitates Myanmar counterpart on independence day

PM felicitates Myanmar counterpart on independence day

ISLAMABAD (APP): Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has felicitated Prime Minister Thein Sein of the Union of Myanmar on the independence day of Myanmar on January 4.
In his message of felicitations the Prime Minister said, “on behalf of the government and people of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and on my own behalf I [...]

January 3, 2009 News, Politics, World 0 Comments
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