Former Pakistani PM Benazir Bhutto has said she expects a breakthrough on Thursday on power-sharing talks with President Pervez Musharraf.
Ms Bhutto said in London that she expected to be given an amnesty on corruption charges against her.
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India may send team for Male blast probe
NEW DELHI: The bomb that injured 12 people in Male last week has alerted Indian security agencies to the threat of "marine jehadis" as the terrorist act in the tourist paradise in the Arabian Sea bears a strong imprint of an "Al Qaida-type" operation modelled on the Bali bombings of 2002.
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India's about-face on junta
NEW DELHI–For years, India supported the pro-democracy movement in neighbouring Burma. Burmese students found safe passage into and through India and were given scholarships to attend university here.
Its leaders in exile had friends in high places. But 10 years ago, a change in policy changed ties.
Battles flare in Sri Lankan north
Sri Lanka's military says it has killed 12 Tamil Tiger rebels and wounded 36 others in clashes in the north-west.
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Troops fired on rebel positions with artillery and mortars near Mannar. Four soldiers were wounded, the army said.
Musharraf details election terms
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf will stay on as head of the army if he is not elected for another presidential term, his lawyer says.
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Speaking in the Supreme Court on Tuesday, the lawyer was clarifying the general's conditional promise to remove his military uniform.
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