(RTTNews) - The Pakistan rupee weakened against its US counterpart during early Asian trading on Thursday. At about 12:00 am ET, the rupee touched an 8-day low of 71.71 against the dollar, compared to 71.05 hit late Wednesday in New York.
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July 17 (Bloomberg) — NATO forces in Afghanistan used helicopter gunships and artillery to attack militants in Pakistan after coming under fire, as U.S. defense chiefs told the government in Islamabad to combat extremists on its side of the frontier.
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KARACHI -(Dow Jones)- Pakistan’s stock market regulator has received initial commitments of up to PKR12 billion ($169 million) from financial institutions to establish an equity market support fund, a director at Karachi Stock Exchange said Thursday.
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Nato-led forces in Afghanistan say they have fired into Pakistan after coming under attack from there by suspected militants.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 16 (UPI) — A patient with dengue virus was receiving treatment at an Islamabad, Pakistan, hospital, officials have confirmed.
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A U.S. air strike that killed 11 Pakistani soldiers in June was the result of an incomplete U.S. military database that did not include the location of the soldiers’ post on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
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COLOMBO: Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene said on Wednesday his team was keen to renew the rivalry with India in a three-Test series starting here
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BEIRUT: Five Lebanese militants freed from prisons in Israel in exchange for the bodies of two captured Israeli soldiers returned home Wednesday to a boisterous welcome from hundreds of cheering spectators. Israel released Samir Kantar and four others after Hezbollah handed over two black coffins with the bodies of the Israeli soldiers, closing a painful chapter from the 2006 war in Lebanon.Kantar, who had been serving multiple life terms in Israel for a grisly 1979 attack, wiped away tears as he stood before a crowd in the coastal border town of Naqoura.The five later flew to Beirut, where they received an official welcome from the president and were congratulated by Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, who was last seen in public in January.”Your return is a new victory and the future with you will only be a shinning march in which we achieve the sovereignty of our land and the freedom of people,” President Michel Suleiman said in his address. “I congratulate the resistance (Hezbollah) for this new achievement.”Winning freedom for Kantar was one of the reasons Hezbollah’’s leader cited at the time for going to war with Israel in 2006.
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KarachiThe Sindh government on Wednesday disbanded the Board of Governors (BoG) system at four teaching hospitals including the Civil Hospital
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RawalpindiIt is a ritual in Rawalpindi since the time immemorial. In the monsoon season every year, the civic authorities wake up from deep sl
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