HONG KONG: Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Tuesday urged India to provide evidence that Pakistanis were involved in the deadly Mumbai attacks and promised to cooperate if proof was provided. “They have given us some of the organisations but that is not evidence. If they will give us evidence we are commmitted that we will extend full cooperation,” Gilani said in an interview with a U.S. T.V channel. “Let the proof come, then we will give our point of view.”
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India demanded Pakistan hand over its most wanted man as sign of faith as diplomatic efforts to prevent the nuclear-armed rivals from heading toward a confrontation over the Mumbai attacks intensified on Tuesday.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 1 — With tensions rising between India and Pakistan after the deadly attacks in Mumbai last week, the United States on Monday increased pressure on Pakistan to cooperate in the investigation, while Indian officials lodged a formal diplomatic protest with their South Asian…
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LAHORE: Rehman Malik, Advisor to PM on Interior, said Monday MQM is such a truth that can never be avoided and conveyed his sympathy to the five workers of MQM who fell victim to current Karachi mayhem. He further added that along with MQM, more other political parties, including Pathan, Balochi, and Sunni Tehrik, also had to suffer Karachi violence. He urged political parties to collectively figure out the hidden hands involved to escalate ethnic tension in Karachi.
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KARACHI: Nineteen more were killed and 25 injured in the spate of violence in the city on Monday. Several shops, stalls, vehicles and godowns were torched in various parts of the city as violence continued for a third straight day.According to statement of Sindh Education Department, schools and colleges would remain closed on Tuesday while universities would be opened.The most tensed part of the city is Orangi Town where incidents of firing and violence continued throughout the day. Heavy contingents of police and Rangers were deployed in the affected areas.Moreover, the home minister said that he has now given the shoot-on-sight orders in writing.
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NEW DELHI: He may have made many bowlers lose their sleep by his explosive batting but Sachin Tendulkar could not close his eyes on the night the terror struck Mumbai, so disturbed was he. ” I have been disturbed. I have been tracking the horrific images of mayhem on television. It saddened me to see my countrymen being targeted. I couldn”t sleep all this time. I am numb, the images keep playing in my head,” Tendulkar said. “This was just not an attack on Mumbai; it is an attack on India,” he added. Tendulkar saluted the security persons who risked their lives to save the people of Mumbai.
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India demanded that Pakistan hand over several terrorist suspects as the government faced mounting criticism Tuesday over intelligence failures in the Mumbai attacks that left 188 dead.
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ISLAMABAD: Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan Dr Shamshad Akhter on Monday stunned the Senate Committee on Finance, saying the SBP did not enjoy o
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ISLAMABAD: Central Directorate of National Savings (CDNS) has enhanced the rates of profit by 1.0 percent to 1.80 percent on different saving schemes from December 1. Director Schemes of National Savings Afzal Bajwa told APP that a notification in this connection has been issued by the Ministry of Finance and the rate of profit on Bahbood Savings certificates/ Pensioner’’s Benefit accounts has been increased from 15% pa to 16.80% pa and on savings accounts from 9% pa to 10% pa while the rates of profit on Special Savings certificates (registered)/accounts have been enhanced from 13.00% pa to 14.53% pa whereas on Regular Income certificates from 13.30% pa to 15% pa.Accordingly the prize money on all types of prize bonds have also been increased.
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ISLAMABAD: Aging doyen of the bureaucrats, Salman Faruqui, has set a new record by grabbing the coveted post of Secretary General in Grade-23, for the
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