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Resume Nato supplies, Karzai tells Pakistan

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Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai on Friday asked Pakistan to resume NATO supplies that were suspended after airstrikes last year left two dozen soldiers dead, a media report said.

Biz visas for Pak to get easier

India said Wednesday it was in the final stages of revising its 1974 visa agreement with Pakistan to facilitate the movement of people, particularly businessmen, between the two countries.

Sharma: india to go ahead with iran visit

Union minister for commerce and industry Anand Sharma said on Wednesday that an Indian business delegation would still visit Iran despite a string of bomb attacks blamed on the increasingly isolated Islamic republic.

Pak to decide on negative list in 2 weeks

The Pakistan government is likely to take a crucial decision on the ‘negative list’ trade approach with India in a fortnight, even as the two countries today signed three important pacts to improve economic ties.

Pakistan expected to grant India MFN status by year-end

Pakistan is expected to grant the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status to India by this year-end as it is likely to phase out the negative list by then.

"The negative list is to be phased out; the timi

Pakistan mulls successor to ISI chief

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Pakistan has begun to look for a successor to spy chief Lt Gen Shuja Pasha, who retires next month, a media report said. General Pasha is a confidant of army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani.

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6 militants killed in US drone attack in Pakistan

Stepping up a campaign against militants holed up in Pakistan's tribal areas, a US drone on Thursday fired two missiles on a house in North Waziristan, killing six suspected insurgents, officials said

Zardari, Ahmadinejad discuss gas project amid US pressure

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday discussed ways to deepen ties and a bilateral gas pipeline project that has come under a cloud following

PIA flight full, so two get seats in loo instead

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The plane was full but the toilet wasn't. So, throwing all rules and caution to the wind, a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) captain blithely decided to accommodate two passengers in the toilet o

Did Musharraf know bin Laden's hiding place?

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Former president Pervez Musharraf knew that Osama bin Laden was hiding in the garrison town of Abbottabad and the Pakistani intelligence itself had made the safe house that sheltered him, a former ISI

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