| Pakistan
tests nuclear-capable cruise missile |
Islamabad,
May 8:
Pakistan successfully tested a nuclear-capable, air-launched
cruise missile with a range of 350 km on Thursday, the military
said, a day after India tested a long-range missile.
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| "Pak
tribal areas safe haven for militants"
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Washington,
May 8:
US' Foreign Affairs Committee chairman has said that the tribal
regions of Pakistan provide safe haven for thousands of militants
and terrorists who seek not only to destabilise Pakistan and
neighbouring...
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| Bangladesh
court allows trial of Sheikh Hasina |
Dhaka,
May 8:
Bangladesh's Supreme Court (SC) Thursday allowed trial of former
prime minister Sheikh Hasina, upholding the caretaker government's
right to invoke the stringent Emergency Power Rules (EPR).
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| Hindus
in Pak asked not to cremate dead in British ground
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Islamabad,
May 8:
Pakistani Hindus have been asked not to use a cremation ground
allotted to them during the British era in the country's troubled
northwest.
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| Palestinians
still long for lost villages |
Balata
(West Bank), May 8:
Perhaps a week, not much longer, until the fighting died down,
that was how long 14-year-old Ahmed Aswed thought he would stay
away from his village in 1948.
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