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     Updated: ( 2:58:10 GMT) May 13 , 2008
Women and children endure a long wait for water in Bhopal, India

Pak indecisive for J&K trade: Azad

NEW DELHI: Cross-Line of Control (LoC) trade in Jammu and Kashmir is suffering delays because of Pakistan's indecisiveness. India administered J&K Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad told visiting British High Commissioner in India Richard Stagg and a public rally in the border town of Uri that India was fully prepared to start trade across LoC. "We have made all arrangements including construction of godowns and Customs office and double-laning [sic] the Baramulla-Kaman Post road. It is now for Pakistan to decide when it wants the cross-LoC trade to take off," Azad told the rally.

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PESHAWAR: The Afghan refugees’ repatriation programme via Peshawar has been temporarily suspended due to security problems in Afghanistan’s eastern city of Jalalabad, officials said on Monday. Zille Usman, field officer with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, told Daily Times that the programme would remain suspended till May 15.
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Pakistan re-admitted to Commonwealth
LONDON: Pakistan was re-admitted to the Commonwealth on Monday, Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma said in a statement after a meeting of Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG). The CMAG agreed “the Government of Pakistan has taken positive steps to fulfill its obligations in accordance with Commonwealth fundamental values and principles”.
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India for global engagement with Iran
ABU DHABI: India has called for a deeper international engagement with Iran to help defuse tensions in West Asia and Afghanistan. In an address at Abu Dhabi’s Emirates Centre for Strategic Studies and Research (ECSSR), the visiting External Affairs Minister, Pranab Mukherjee, said Iran is “a significant role player in regional and world affairs.”
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Pak-Sri Lanka partnership talks on way
ISLAMABAD: The second round of negotiations between Srilanka and Pakistan on Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) started here on Monday. The negotiations aim to incorporate chapters on investment and trade in services and customs cooperation into the bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two countries.
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Fighting 'continues' in Kashmir
SRINAGAR: Suspected militants have fired on security forces in Indian administered Kashmir, a day after eight people were killed in armed violence. Army said they had recovered the body of a third militant during search operations in Samba district where Sunday's violence took place. Four civilians, a soldier and two militants died in the fighting.
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