ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 23 — At least 10 people were killed and six others injured in a suspected U.S. missile strike Thursday in Pakistan’s restive tribal region, intelligence officials and an eyewitness said.
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WASHINGTON: World Bank President Robert Zoellick has said the next U.S. administration emerging from November 4 election must focus on long-term development partnership with Pakistan as part of efforts to ensure peace and stability in key South Asian region. Writing an article for an American daily, Zoellick said that both presidential candidates Democratic Barack Obama and Republican John McCain are alive to regional dangers in the context of security challenges but underscored success will take an approach, encompassing all the various trouble-shooting elements. Both candidates have recognized the dangers in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but success will take more than troops. The earliest hard-edged test for the new administration will be synthesizing security, governance, legitimacy and development in a long-term partnership with both countries and with a wider coalition, from NATO to China and India, he advocates in an article due to appear in the Post on Sunday. A successful wind-down in Iraq, a path of progress for Afghanistan and Pakistan, and a push for peace and development in the Middle East will also set the context for achieving broader peace and security in the region, says Zoellick, who served as U.S. deputy secretary of state in 2005-06.
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Oct. 25 (Bloomberg) — Pakistan will consider extending trading restrictions on its stock market for the third time in a month to prevent a further slide.
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BEIJING: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Saturday said Pakistan had received a positive response from world leaders in its endeavour to face chal
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KARACHI: Pakistan on Saturday chose former skipper Intikhab Alam as their new coach, just a day after sacking Aussie import Geoff Lawson over poor res
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KHAR: After getting complete control of the strategic Loisam town of Khar Tehsil, top military officials on Saturday claimed to have killed around 1,5
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Sept 1998: Legendary former captain Javed Miandad takes over from Haroon Rasheed, previously a middle-order batsman.April 1999: Miandad resign
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LAHOREPresident PML-Q, Punjab, Chaudhary Pervaiz Elahi has said the party was united and would continue to make efforts to protect the solidar
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LOISAM, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani forces have turned the corner in the country's main front in its war against militancy with the capture of a strategically important village after heavy fighting, the commander of the operation said on Saturday.
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LONDON: Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain thanked President Asif Ali Zardari for his urgent intervention in resolving the issues of power crisis and hike in power tariff and called for permanent solutions in this regard.In a statement issued here on Saturday, Altaf Hussain said he was grateful to President Zardari for meeting Karachi-based industrialists and traders on his personal request. He further thanked the president for putting the recent power tariff hike on hold for ten days. Hussain also lauded Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Federal Minister Raja Parvez Ashraf for their sincere efforts in this connection. He called for permanent solution of increase in power tariff and noted that people, shopkeepers, small traders and industrialists were in grave trouble due to the ongoing power crisis. MQM chief was of the view that deprived and middle class sections of the society were developing psychiatric problems over power crisis.
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