MOHALI: Openers Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir increased India’’s commanding lead to 301 at stumps Sunday on the third day of the second test after leg spinner Amit Mishra took 5-71 on his debut to help dismiss Australia for 268.India raced to 100-0 in its second innings after declining to bowl again when Australia finished two runs short of the total needed to automatically avoid the follow-on. Australia’’s day got worse when Sehwag brought up his half-century in the second last over, scoring 53 from 71 balls. Gambhir kept pace with Sehwag and collected 45 as the hosts attempted to set up a match-winning total.Australia relied on 78 from Shane Watson for cutting the first-innings deficit to 201 when the situation could have been much worse. Watson, appearing in his fifth test, looked the most comfortable of Australia’’s batsmen with 10 fours and a six from his 156-ballknock.His only mistake came when he played back to Mishra who replaced the injured Anil Kumble and was struck on the pad in front. Mishra got his fifth wicket when last man Peter Siddle was stumped but India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni chose to bat again to give his bowlers a rest.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistani forces killed at least 30 militants near the Afghan border, as the region’s provincial chief called for “peaceful dialogue” in a meeting with a U.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP): Pakistani forces killed up to 30 militants close to the Afghan border as the region’s chief minister told a top U.S. diplomat he wanted to resolve problems there through dialogue.
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International observers, including those surveyed in Foreign Policy ’s 2008 Terrorism Index (September/October 2008), have concluded that Pakistan will soon become the central front in the fight against terrorism and that their respective governments must play a central role in this fight.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistani forces killed up to 35 militants near the Afghan border, as the region’s provincial chief called for “peaceful dialogue” in a meeting with a US State Department official.
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AMSTERDAM: The Dutch government announced Sunday that it would inject 10 billion euros (13.4 billion dollars) into ING, one of the world’’s 20 biggest banks, in the latest rescue global finance crisis rescue.The move came two weeks after the government put 16.8 billion euros into the rescue of Dutch-Belgian bank Fortis. “It is a large sum that we are injecting into a healthy business and that is why we can look into the future with confidence,” Dutch Finance Minister Wouter Bos told a press conference announcing the injection.”The Dutch government realises that it is an unusual intervention into the banking system,” he said. “The government has said that it would exclude no measure to protect savers.”The accord between ING, which manages about 630 billion euros of assets, the finance ministry and the Netherlands central bank came after ING on Friday announced that it expected a 500-million-euro net loss in the third quarter because of the turmoil and asset depreciation.Its share price fell 27.5 percent amid market rumours about difficulties at the bank. Under the rescue, ING could be made to pay 150 percent of the amount put into the company, or after three years transform the figure into share.
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Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari is believed to have called for immediate US steps to prevent the use of Afghan drug money in terrorism in Pakistan.
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Oct. 20 (Bloomberg) — Pakistan may be forced to seek a loan from the International Monetary Fund to prevent the nation defaulting on its debt, according to a government official.
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PESHAWAR: Leader of the House in the Senate Mian Raza Rabbani has underlined the need for finding a peaceful solution to the crisis in the tribal are
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It hopes a deal to ship Iranian gas to India via Pakistan can boost its energy supply, regional ties.
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