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ISLAMABAD - Pakistan and India on Saturday exchanged lists of their nuclear installations and facilities in accordance with a bilateral agreement that prohibits attacks on each other atomic assets.
The South Asian nuclear rivals exchanged the lists despite lingering tensions in the wake of Mumbai attacks that occurred back in November 2008 and brought the Indo-Pak peace dialogue to halt.
"The governments of Pakistan and India exchanged lists of their respective nuclear

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan and India exchanged lists of nuclear installations and facilities under an agreement to prohibit any attack, by either side, a private TV channel reported on Saturday.
The lists are exchanged every year on January 1, under the Agreement on the Prohibition of Attack against Nuclear Installations and Facilities, inked by the two sides on December 31, 1988. The agreement is one of the best confidence building measures between the two nations.
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NEW DELHI - Iran's national oil company has refused to accept payments for oil sales to India without Reserve Bank of India (RBI) guarantees, sources said, prompting a meeting of their central banks over another obstacle to trade with Iran.
The Islamic Republic is under global pressure over its nuclear programme and although United Nations sanctions do not forbid buying Iranian oil, the United States has pressed hard for governments and companies to restrict dealings with Tehran.

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has asked India to stop using terrorist attacks in Mumbai for propaganda purposes, and it should also resolve the lingering Jammu Kashmir issue in accordance with the UN resolutions, a private TV channel reported on Thursday.
Speaking with journalists, Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit said that India has a rigid stance on the issues of Kashmir and Siachen. He reiterated that Pakistan was serious in the investigations of the attacks in Mumbai.
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NAROWAL - The Indian Border Security Forces opened indiscriminate firing at the working boundary at Sialkot Shaker Garh sector here on Wednesday to which Pakistani Punjab rangers retaliated immediately.
Indian BSF targeted the Imran Shaheed check post using 35 hand grenades and hundreds of bullets from Ram Pur (India) to which the Pakistani side replied by firing bullets. The issue will be raised in flag meeting with Indian forces, sources said.

DURBAN - India completed an 87-run win on the fourth day of the second Test against South Africa at Kingsmead on Wednesday to set up a series decider in the final match in Cape Town.
Set a target of 303, South Africa were bowled out for 215.
The match finished an hour after lunch but South Africa's hopes were effectively ended when overnight batsmen Jacques Kallis and AB de Villiers were dismissed in the first hour of the day.
It was a remarkable fightback by India, who

NEW DELHI - India, Bangladesh and Peru have opposed the European Union's proposal to give duty free access to Pakistani textiles as a flood relief measure. The countries have informed the World Trade Organisation (WTO) that trade concession was not the right option as it harmed interests of competitors, a government official has said.
A decision regarding EU's proposal to allow duty-free import of 75 items - 64 of them textiles - from Pakistan was deferred at a recent meeting of

LAHORE - Seventy-six Pakistani prisoners, including two women and two children, were handed over to Pakistan Rangers at Wagha Border by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF)on Tuesday.
These prisoners were detained because of various charges including over-stay, tempering visa and illegal border crossing and were released by Indian government some days ago.
The Edhi Foundation Lahore provided food, packets of juice, fruits and biscuits to the prisoners.

MUSCAT - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Tuesday denied any communication gap with India on the resolution of the Kashmir dispute and other outstanding issues, asking New Delhi not to hold the dialogue process hostage to the Mumbai incident.
Talking to reporters, Gilani said, "The impression should be dispelled that there is a lack of communication [between Pakistan and India]," adding however that there was a lack of trust. Mentioning his talks with his Indian counterpart

DURBAN - The bowlers of South Africa and India took it in turns to cause carnage as 18 wickets fell for 245 runs on the second day of the second Test at Kingsmead on Monday.
At the end of an extraordinary day, India, on 92 for four in their second innings, held an overall lead of 166 runs in the battle between the world's two top-ranked Test nations.
When India were all out for 205, losing their last four wickets for 22 runs at the start of the day, it seemed that the host

DURBAN - Dale Steyn produced another magnificent exhibition of fast outswing bowling on Sunday to scythe through the Indian batting on the opening day of the second Test at Kingsmead.
The world's top-ranked bowler followed his seven wickets in South Africa's innings victory in the first test with four for 36. At the close of a rain-interrupted day, India were 183 for six from 56 overs. Left-arm seamer Tsotsobe, who had struggled before lunch with two overs for 15 runs, returned

DURBAN - South Africa will be seeking to wrap up a series victory against India, the team ranked number one in Test cricket, in the second Test which starts at Kingsmead on Sunday.
South African captain Graeme Smith said his players wanted to carry on in the dominant form they showed in winning the first Test at Centurion by an innings and 25 runs on Monday. Smith and his side will also be eyeing the prospect of taking over the number one ranking if they win all three Tests

MUMBAI: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday wrapped up a short trip to India during which he focused on reviving ties between the two Cold War allies to offset approaches by Western powers.
Medvedev squeezed in a tour of the Taj Mahal before heading to the country's financial hub Mumbai to meet students at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay and visit a Bollywood film studio. His departure on Wednesday evening ended a flurry of diplomacy in

LAHORE: Onion prices in the provincial metropolis have peaked at between Rs 80 to Rs 90 per kilogram in retail markets. Vegetable dealers claim that onion export to India through Wagha border has reduced local stocks and pushed up the price of the essential commodity in vegetable markets.
Vegetable vendors at Badami Bagh wholesale market said that the Punjab was already facing a vegetable shortage of around 30-40 percent owing to heavy flooding this year and vegetable exports to

BHUBANESWAR: The Indian military successfully tested two short-range nuclear-capable missiles from a facility in the east of the country on Wednesday, a defence research official told AFP.
The domestically-developed Prithvi-II surface-to-surface missiles were tested as part of a routine exercise at the Integrated Test Range in Chandipur-on-sea in the state of Orissa, SP Dash, the range director, said.
The Prithvi-II missile has a range of 350 kilometres and can carry a

WASHINGTON - The United States has stressed that Pakistan and India to have a significant dialogue on Kashmir and resolve the decade-old issue, where continuing violence this year further strained relations between the two neighbours.
"The issue of Kashmir has come up on a regular basis in our discussions with Pakistan and with India, and our answer to officials of both countries is generally the same, that ultimately, it's Pakistan and India that to have a significant dialogue

NEW DELHI: Russia and India on Tuesday agreed on a series of defence and nuclear deals potentially worth billions of dollars and pledged to deepen cooperation on counter-terrorism and regional security.
The agreements surrounded talks in New Delhi between visiting Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Indian Premier Manmohan Singh, during which both sides set a target of doubling bilateral trade to 20 billion dollars by 2015. They also signed a contract envisaging the joint