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DERA GHAZI KHAN: At least 101 suspected people including Uzbeks and Afghans have been arrested with huge cache of arms recovered from them during a crackdown on the foreigners unlawfully staying in Pakistan, Geo News reported Sunday.

According to Border Military Police, two suspected foreigners were arrested from Rakhigaj area of Dera Ghazi Khan; the arrested Abdus Samad and Ayub bin Yousuf are said to belong to South Africa.

Meantime, Chaman police arrested 27 Uzbek and Afghan nationals by conducting a raid on a passenger bus en route to Quetta.

District Kohat police arrested 42 suspected people including 12 Afghan natives during a search operation in the area.

According to District Police Officer Kohat Dilawar Bangash, 6 Kalashnikovs, 8 rifles, 12 guns, 25 pistols and 2000 bullets have been recovered from the possession of these suspects.

District Rahimyar Khan police apprehended at least 6 Afghan nationals in a raid on the coach heading for Karachi from Sadiqabad; while, 24 suspected people have been arrested from District Khairpur.

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LONDON: The showpiece men?s matches at next year?s ICC World Twenty20 in the West Indies will take place before, rather than after, the corresponding

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NEW DELHI: Injured Australian all rounder James Hopes will fly home after becoming the latest in the squad to be forced out of the one-day series in India.

Uncapped Victorian paceman Clinton McKay will replace the injured Brett Lee while all rounder Moises Henriques will stay on having come in as cover, a Cricket Australia release said on Sunday.

Hopes injured his hamstring during the first ODI and missed the next two, which India won to lead 2-1 in the seven-game series. The fourth game is scheduled in Mohali on Monday.

Australian stand-in stumper Tim Paine broke a finger and has been replaced by Graham Manou while first choice Brad Haddin and vice-captain Michael Clarke did not make the tour due to injuries.

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WASHINGTON: The White House is calling ?completely appropriate? Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton?s suggestion that Pakistani officials might

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KUALA LUMPUR: Pakistan’’s offensive in South Waziristan has been “very successful” and the military is likely to achieve most of its objectives before winter sets in, the foreign minister said Sunday.

Since October 17 some 30,000 Pakistani troops have been waging a major assault against Taliban fighters hiding out in the formidable terrain of South Waziristan, which borders Afghanistan.

Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said the military has made significant headway in the region, part of the tribal belt where United States officials say Al-Qaeda is plotting attacks on the West.

“The operation so far has been very successful. The resistance that we were expecting initially did not come with the same stiffness as we expected,” he said on the sidelines of a conference of developing nations in Kuala Lumpur.

“We would want to achieve our objectives as much as possible before the winter sets in. It seems, as things are going on right now, that we might be able to do so,” he said.

“That area becomes very cold so we want to operate and establish our foothold before that,” he said. Qureshi would not give a date, but winter sets in around mid-December in that region.

Qureshi said that many important towns and locations were now in the control of Pakistan’’s army and that “quite a few” militants had been killed or arrested.

“We are moving ahead, the entire region has been surrounded… to choke supply lines and minimise their effectiveness,” he said.

“The leadership that was located in South Waziristan is on the run, they are in retreat and there is disarray there.”

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LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf chief Imran Khan Sunday said the patriotism of the politicians would come to the fore over National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) in the parliament.

Addressing a press conference here at PTI Central Secretariat, he said the politicians who oppose this black law, would be ?number one? and those who support it, would be ?number two?.

Imran Khan said his party will kick-start people coordination campaign against Kerry-Lugar Bill and the NRO, adding a large demo would be held in Islamabad on Friday and another protest demonstration would be staged in Lahore on Saturday.

PTI chief said former President Gen (rtd) Pervez Musharraf earned dollars in return for bringing the US war in the country.

Imran also urged the members belonging to Pakistan People?s Party (PPP) to go up against the NRO, if they are sincere to take forward the Bhutto?s party.

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LAHORE: Former president Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan Sunday said even in the case of NRO being approved by the Parliament the judiciary will remain competent in declaring it null and void under the verdict of July 31.

He said this while talking to media here at Allama Iqbal International Airport on his return from the US.

Aitzaz Ahsan said the NRO is not above the law and if this ordinance is found to be in clash with the Constitution the Supreme Court can declare it void, even in the case of its approval by the Parliament.

He said he expressed his reservations on NRO when BB (Ms Benazir Bhutto) was alive. On this she said amendment will be made in the NRO, he added.

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LONDON: Jonathan Trott has angrily denied accusations from Michael Vaughan that the Cape Town born England international celebrated with South Africa

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WANA: Security forces, during the ongoing operation Rah-e-Nizat in South Waziristan, have taken control of Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud?s village Kotkai and unearthed a hidden tunnel where suicide bombers were trained.

The security forces have claimed to have cleared Kotkai of militants, where they have also found a 500 metre long tunnel. The tunnel had a facility for preparation of suicide jackets which has been destroyed by the security forces.

Suicide bombers were trained in this tunnel which connects different areas of South Waziristan.

Kotkai is the area of Pakistani Taliban Chief Hakimullah Mehsud and Qari Hussain.

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