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News for Thursday, 7 Apr 2011

Housing for police

There are no proper housing facilities available for the police. They are mostly found to be fending for themselves when they are posted at various locations. It is important that...

Countering terrorism

At least seven people, including an anti-Taliban leader and his son, were killed in a suicide attack at a market in the Munda area of Lower Dir district.

It...

Government’s promises

When Pakistan Peoples Party was elected to govern over the country, President Asif Ali Zardari in his address to the nation chanted a slogan Pakistan Khappey. I want to ask...

Six die as Afghan ambulance bomb targets police

KANDAHAR - Six Afghan security personnel were killed Thursday as Taliban gunmen detonated a bomb hidden in an ambulance amid an attack on a police centre near the key southern...

Hopes fade for 150 Libya boat people lost at sea

ROME - Hopes faded on Thursday for some 150 African refugees fleeing Libya whose boat capsized in the middle of the Mediterranean in stormy weather, a day after 53 survivors...

Palmer and Nicklaus officially launch Masters

AUGUSTA - Golfing greats Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus launched the 75th Masters on Thursday while three-times champion Phil Mickelson prepared to begin his title defence later in the day....

Skipper Clarke finds form in Australian warm-up victory

FATULLAH - New captain Michael Clarke was among four Australian batsmen to score half-centuries in their 90-run win over a Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) XI on Thursday.
Clarke retired...

NATO airstrike kills 5 in Libya

AJDABIYAH - A NATO air strike killed at least five rebels near the Libyan port of Brega on Thursday, medics said, and insurgents reported Muammar Gaddafi's forces killed five more...

Gates hails ‘extraordinary’ progress in Iraq

CAMP LIBERTY - US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday hailed the "extraordinary" progress made in Iraq, and said Baghdad set an example for democracy in the region.
Gates, who...

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