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Analysis: India's Military Build Up May Be Too Little Too Late?: India's 1.3 million-strong armed forces, hobbled by outdated equipment and slow decision-making, are undergoing an overhaul as defence priorities shift to China from traditional rival Pakistan. (NYT)
· SBP has directed banks to right-off outstanding loans of rice millers and traders of Sindh and Balochistan. (News)
· Leader of opposition Ch. Nisar Ali Khan has announced that his party had decided to support the 20th Amendment Bill after a positive response to some conditions he had set for its unanimous adoption. (Dawn)
· SC moved against Senate elections; petitioner says, 70 parliamentarians who will vote in polls do not have valid graduation degrees. (Majority of papers)
· New standoff between Government-Army around the corner? Report by Usman Manzoor. (News)
· US accepts all of Taliban’s pre-condition for talks. (News)
· US State Department Spokesperson Victoria Nuland has hailed the Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar’s visit to Kabul; said US steadfastly continues to support efforts towards improved ties between the two South Asian countries. (News, others)
· WHO warns Pakistan to control spreading of polio, HIV. (News)
· Pakistan will suffer serious water scarcity which will have a profound impact on the country’s future growth and well being of its citizens: World Bank. (News)
· Taliban armed with rockets, grenades and automatic weapons attacked FC check post in Kurram Agency; 7 soldiers, 18 Taliban killed; Taliban captured 4 FC men. (Majority of papers)
· Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani address as press conference after the inauguration ceremony of Pak Business Train at a Railway station. (Daily Times)
· SBP has directed banks to right-off outstanding loans of rice millers and traders of Sindh and Balochistan. (News)
· Leader of opposition Ch. Nisar Ali Khan has announced that his party had decided to support the 20th Amendment Bill after a positive response to some conditions he had set for its unanimous adoption. (Dawn)
· SC moved against Senate elections; petitioner says, 70 parliamentarians who will vote in polls do not have valid graduation degrees.
· Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani inaugurated Pak Business Train at a Railway station Lahore. (Daily Times)
· In winding down war, a fundamentally different challenge in Afghanistan than in Iraq, Greg Jaffe and Kevin Sieff (WP)
· The administration’s muddled message on Afghanistan. (Washington Post)
· Pakistani Taliban kills 7 soldiers, abduct in strike near Afghan border (WP)
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