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		<title>NAB treating convict FIA officer with velvet gloves</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[National Accountability Bureau (NAB)]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD: While the Supreme Court has taken note of how the convicted FIA officer Ahmed Riaz Sheikh got a top job, the NAB is treating him with velvet gloves and has not yet reopened his case although he enjoys no immunity like his friend President Asif Zardari.
As cases of all other NRO beneficiaries have been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judges get hefty raise in salary, allowances in poor Pakistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Iftikhar Chaudhry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari today approved a 30 per cent increase in the salary and allowances of judges of the Supreme Court and high courts.
Under the revised pay structure, the Chief Justice of Pakistan has been given an increase of Rs60,000 per month (30 per cent increase). His salary will now be Rs259,838 against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FIA gets 8 days to submit Pak Steel Mills scam report</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD: The government has given eight days to the Federal Investigation Agency to submit a first report on alleged corruption in Pakistan Steel Mills and asked it to identify the people who had caused immense losses to the country’s largest industrial unit.
The decision was taken at a high-level meeting held on Tuesday in pursuance of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asif Ali Zardari’s home obstructs flyover construction in Karachi</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SOUTH ASIA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asif Ali Zardari]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karachi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[KARACHI: District government has been unable to start construction work of a flyover on Shahra-e-Faisal for more than three months now. The delay in construction is not due to lack of funds, but because of a house belonging to president Zardari.
Officials at the district government say that the chief minister of Sindh has ordered to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ISI chief Lt. Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha gets one-year extension</title>
		<link>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/isi-chief-lt-general-ahmed-shuja-pasha-gets-one-year-extension/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani]]></category>
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ISLAMABAD: The Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, has given a one-year extension in service to Lt. General Ahmed Shuja Pasha to allow him to complete his tenure as three-star general and, more importantly, as head of the country’s premier spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).

Sources told our correspondent a summary for Lt. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Pakistani men seized &#8216;days before the planned terror attacks in Britain&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:19:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[EUROPE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TERRORISM & CRIME]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON: Five Pakistani men linked to a terror plot in Britain similar to the attacks on the London transport system in 2005 were arrested days before they planned to strike, a hearing was told Tuesday.
A British intelligence officer, identified only as ZR, told an immigration panel that the group had been planning to stage an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>100s Held in pre-emptive Tibet crackdown amid anniversary of bloody riots in 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/hundreds-of-tibetans-held-in-pre-emptive-crackdown-amid-anniversary-of-bloody-riots-in-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[China News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[LHASA: Hundreds of Tibetans have been rounded up in Lhasa and armed paramilitaries are patrolling the streets in the run-up to the anniversary of a bloody riot in 2008.
The authorities are anxious to avoid a repeat of the anti-Chinese attacks that left about 20 people dead when Tibetans rampaged through the streets of the Himalayan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Muhammad Yousuf &amp; Younis Khan suspended indefinitely from playing cricket, others heavily fined</title>
		<link>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/muhammad-yousuf-younis-khan-suspended-indefinitely-from-playing-cricket-others-heavily-fined/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board on Wednesday slapped banned and imposed heavy fines on a number of its top]]></description>
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		<title>Eight powerful cartels refuse to cough up Rs 7 billion in fines and penalties</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD: The top guns of the PPP government have made a confession before the National Assembly Secretariat about their failure to recover a mind boggling Rs 7 billion in fines and penalties from eight powerful cartels after 50 sugar barons, 20 cement tycoons, eight banks, five cellular phone companies, energy tycoons and stock exchanges of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven arrested in Ireland over an alleged plot to kill the Swedish cartoonist</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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DUBLIN: Police in Ireland arrested seven people over an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog.

Irish police said four men and three women were detained in raids across the south of the country.
The force says the arrests were part of an investigation into a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dubai accuses Israel&#8217;s intelligence agency Mossad of ‘vast falsification’ of passports</title>
		<link>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/new-suspect-named-in-dubai-assassination-of-hamas-leader-in-his-luxury-hotel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MIDDLE EAST]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hamas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interpol]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mahmoud al-Mabhouh]]></category>
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DUBAI: Dubai&#8217;s police chief has accused Israel of “vast falsification” of travel documents, noting that dozens of false passports were uncovered following a Hamas leader&#8217;s murder in the emirate.
“I ring alarm bells. Israel is falsifying Western passports on a large scale. We discover forged passports on a daily basis,” Dahi Khalfan told AFP.
“The world must stop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>7 Indian MPs suspended amid rumpus in Rajya Sabha</title>
		<link>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/indian-parliament-rumpus-seven-mps-suspended/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW DELHI: Socialist lawmakers forced India’s parliament to adjourn twice Tuesday as they tried for a second day to block passage of a historic bill to increase the number of female lawmakers across the country.
On Monday, angry legislators in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of parliament, rushed to the chairman’s seat as he presided over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waqar Younis, Wasim Akram &amp; Ijaz Ahmed are being utilized after clearance: Ijaz Butt</title>
		<link>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/ijaz-butt-promises-strict-action-against-leading-pakistani-players/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CRICKET NEWS]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[LAHORE: Ijaz Butt, the PCB chairman, has promised to take “more than significant” action against leading Pakistan players in the aftermath of inquiry]]></description>
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		<title>Preventing the militants&#8217; comeback as they are losing their strongholds in Pakistan</title>
		<link>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/preventing-the-militants-comeback-after-losing-their-strongholds-in-pakistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Taliban & Al-Qaeda]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Militants affiliated to the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have been on the run for sometime now after losing their strongholds in Swat and the rest of Malakand region, South Waziristan, Frontier Region Bannu and parts of the tribal areas of Kurram, Khyber, Mohmand and Darra Adamkhel. Recently, they lost almost all of Bajaur due to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miss Captive Beauty 2010: 22-year-old crowned in Cereso prison beauty pageant</title>
		<link>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/miss-captive-beauty-2010-22-year-old-crowned-in-cereso-prison-beauty-pageant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CULTURE]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[JUAREZ: Cecilia Juarez, 22, incarcerated for drug trafficking, was crowned Miss Captive Beauty 2010 during a pageant for the women inmates at the Cereso prison in Juarez.
Municipal authorities organized the pageant, dubbed &#8220;Belleza Cautiva,&#8221; or captive beauty, as part of the International Day of the Woman.
The jury chose the most beautiful inmate among 15 participants.
Juarez [...]]]></description>
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		<title>500 Christians butchered by Muslim gangs&#8217; night-time raids in Nigeria killing fields</title>
		<link>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/500-christians-butchered-by-muslim-gangs-night-time-raids-in-nigeria-killing-fields/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LAGOS: Dozens of bodies lined the dusty streets of three Christian villages in northern Nigeria yesterday. Other victims of Sunday morning’s Muslim rampage were jammed into a local morgue, the limbs of slaughtered children tangled in a grotesque mess.
One toddler appeared fixed in the protective but hopeless embrace of an older child, possibly his brother. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Vice President Joe Biden pledges full support to Israel against Iran</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OCCUPIED-AL-QUDS: US Vice President Joe Biden began a visit to Israel and the West Bank , assuring Israelis in a newspaper interview that Washington would close ranks with them against any threat from a nuclear-armed Iran.
Biden, the most senior US official to visit Israel since President Barack Obama took office in January 2009, is widely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Traditions, tech cause 96 Million females “missing” in Asia: UN</title>
		<link>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/96-million-females-are-%e2%80%9cmissing%e2%80%9d-in-asia-un-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW DELHI: United Nations report claims that Asia is “missing” about 96 million women — the vast majority in China and India]]></description>
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		<title>American &#8216;Al-Qaeda spokesman&#8217; was a case of mistaken identity</title>
		<link>http://www.thestatesmen.net/news/top-al-qaeda-leader-adam-yahiye-gadahn-reported-held-in-karachi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[KARACHI: An American captured in Pakistan this week and accused of being a key spokesman for al-Qaeda was wrongly identified as Adam Gadahn, the most wanted American in the terrorist organisation, Pakistani officials admitted today.
The man arrested in the southern city of Karachi was first identified as Mr Gadahn, who was born in Oregon and is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RAW worked against Mahinda Rajapakse in Sri Lankan polls</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:18:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[COLOMBO: India’s external intelligence agency tried to undermine Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapakse at polls in January &#038; wanted him defeated, a minister]]></description>
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