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NWFP governor in Kabul for mini jirga follow up

Peshawar :: Pakistan | about 11 hours ago | Political News

Posted by sudhir

NWFP Governor Owais Ahmad Ghani visited Kabul on Wednesday to discuss with members of Afghanistan's mini-jirga (jirgagai) issues pertaining to its work and the composition of different committees and contact groups. The governor, who is also the chairman of the...

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A local Shinwari and two Afghans kidnapped

Peshawar :: Pakistan | about 11 hours ago | Political News

Posted by sudhir

A local Shinwari and two Afghans kidnapped from Jamrud.Two Afghans were kidnapped from Sur Kamar Jamrud while the Shinwari person son of Hukam Khan was kidnapped from Ali Masjid here in the noon time, told a source. Kidnappings from ransom...

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MQM and ANP responsible for Karachi violence

Peshawar :: Pakistan | about 23 hours ago | Political News

Posted by sudhir

ANP and MQM are both ethnic and linguistic local organizations.MQM has been involved in the blood shed since eighty.The leader of MQM Iltaf Hussain who has adopted self exile in London is mainly working behind the bloody incidents in Karachi.MQM...

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Bilour seeks local bodies elections on party basis

Peshawar :: Pakistan | about 21 hours ago | No category

Source: The News

Nazimeen and revive the 1979 Local Bodies Act in order to make the system viable. Senior Minister Bashir Bilour, who also holds the portfolio of the Local Government, said that they would recommend the local bodies' elections on party basis...

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Suicide car-bomber kills four in Pakistan

Peshawar :: Pakistan | 1 day ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Pakistani forces are battling Al Qaeda and Taliban militants in the north-west, who have retaliated with a campaign of suicide bombings, particularly on the security forces in the ethnic Pashtun tribal regions on the Afghan border. The violence has raised...

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PAF can stop drones attack: Asghar Khan

Peshawar :: Pakistan | 1 day ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Source: The News

Leader of the Tehrik-e-Istiqlal (TI) Air Marshal (retd) Asghar Khan on Wednesday demanded of the government to stop the US drone attacks, which could encourage any other country to attack Pakistan. Talking to reporters at the press club here, the...

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Pakistan, Afghanistan to set up contact group

Peshawar :: Pakistan | about 23 hours ago | No category

Source: Dawn

Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to set up a joint contact group to expedite efforts to end violence in the war-torn country...The group will be jointly headed by Governor Owais and former Afghan foreign minister Dr Abdullah Abdullah. It will...

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Government toeing policies of Musharraf, says Jhagra

Peshawar :: Pakistan | 1 day ago | No category

Source: The Frontier Post

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz general secretary Iqbal Zafar Jhagra on Wednesday said that Pakistan fight war on terror on front line but the war has now been imposed on the county. He said that the present central government was following the...

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A woman's exemplary fight against stigma

Peshawar :: Pakistan | 1 day ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Posted by ashrafuddin

The international World AIDS Day is being marked today like every year for those who are HIV positive but it also has equal importance to Shafaqt Nisa who is HIV negative but this particular day reminds her of the fourteen...

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Arab- and Muslim-bashing failed in 2008

Peshawar :: Pakistan | 1 day ago | Political News

Posted by ashrafuddin

In looking back at the now-completed presidential contest, it is striking to note the degree to which Arabs, Muslims, and Islam itself, were factored into the race. While Arab Americans and American Muslims were, in fact, deeply involved in the...

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