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        <title>Pakistan 'role in Mumbai attacks'</title>
        <description>Pakistan's intelligence agency helped to plan the Mumbai train attacks which killed 186 people, Indian police say.</description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Sep 2006 15:03:34 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Suicide bomber strikes in Kabul</title>
        <description>At least 12 people are killed as a bomber blows himself up outside the Afghan interior ministry in Kabul, officials say.</description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Sep 2006 07:42:53 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>West 'will fail' without Pakistan</title>
        <description>Pakistan's President Musharraf warns the West would be &quot;brought to its knees&quot; without his country's support.</description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Sep 2006 10:58:01 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Strike in Kashmir over execution</title>
        <description>A general strike is held in Indian-controlled Kashmir in protest at the planned execution of a Kashmiri man.</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:21:37 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Pakistan rapped over detentions</title>
        <description>Pakistan is accused of detaining hundreds of alleged terror suspects without legal process.</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:32:37 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Bangladesh election talks offered</title>
        <description>Bangladesh's governing party invites the opposition to talks about next year's elections following weeks of protests.</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:42:19 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Nato chief defends Afghan plans</title>
        <description>Nato's leader backs the move to expand into all of Afghanistan despite not having all the troops needed.</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:42:43 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Dispute as woman fasts to death</title>
        <description>A terminally ill woman's religious fast unto death in northern India causes controversy.</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 04:06:23 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Violence curbs tsunami aid work</title>
        <description>A UN special envoy says tsunami recovery has ground to halt in parts of Sri Lanka because of renewed violence.</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 13:26:25 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Temporary relief for Delhi shops</title>
        <description>India's Supreme Court provides temporary relief to illegal businesses in residential areas of the capital, Delhi.</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:06:15 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Hair 'guessed' at ball-tampering</title>
        <description>TV analyst Simon Hughes says Darrell Hair was &quot;guessing&quot; when he penalised Pakistan for ball-tampering.</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 07:07:59 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Pakistan 'victory' in cricket row</title>
        <description>Cricket captain Inzamam-ul-Haq declares a &quot;victory for Pakistan&quot; after he is cleared of cheating.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:56:27 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Hair to miss Champions Trophy</title>
        <description>Umpire Darrell Hair will not officiate in the forthcoming ICC Champions Trophy in India.</description>
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        <title>Ex-actress convicted of forgery</title>
        <description>Former Bollywood actress Monica Bedi is sentenced to five years in prison for passport forgery.</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 09:30:19 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Many injured in clashes in Dhaka</title>
        <description>At least 200 are injured as police and protesters clash in the Bangladesh capital, reports say.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:26:12 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Bush seeks truce in leaders' spat</title>
        <description>The US president appeals to the Afghan and Pakistani leaders to put aside their differences to fight terrorism.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:24:40 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Pakistan agrees $43bn project</title>
        <description>Pakistan's government gives the go-ahead to a Dubai firm for a $43bn property development.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2006 06:06:33 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Musharraf defends his spy service</title>
        <description>Pakistan's president rejects claims that his intelligence service has indirectly helped the Taleban and al-Qaeda.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2006 00:31:56 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Sri Lanka war 'killing civilians'</title>
        <description>At least 200 civilians have died in fighting since July between troops and rebels in Sri Lanka, truce monitors say.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:22:58 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Pakistan road accident 'kills 22'</title>
        <description>At least 22 people are killed in a head-on collision between a minibus and a truck in southern Pakistan, police say.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:30:39 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Nepal talks fixed for 8 October</title>
        <description>Nepal's premier and the Maoists' top leader will meet on 8 October for delayed summit-level talks.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:02:41 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Air India inquiry hears rescuers</title>
        <description>Canada's public inquiry into the 1985 Air India bombing hears emotional testimony from rescue workers.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:37:57 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Dirty water 'kills 1.5m children'</title>
        <description>Lack of access to clean drinking water and proper sanitation kills 1.5 million children every year, Unicef says.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2006 05:57:40 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Tiger skin trade 'getting worse'</title>
        <description>Indian tiger skins are still openly bought and sold on the streets of China, conservationists say.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:43:22 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Warning over Indian trade zones</title>
        <description>A senior Indian politician adds to the growing unease over new economic zones, but ministers defend the policy.</description>
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        <title>Pepsi and Coke in India victory</title>
        <description>A ban on the world's biggest cola companies in the southern Indian state of Kerala is overturned.</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:50:52 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Will memoirs reopen wounds?</title>
        <description>President Pervez Musharraf's sensational memoirs could reopen old wounds in the troubled subcontinent, reports Shahzeb Jillani.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 05:18:23 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Poor Indians crack toughest test</title>
        <description>A college in poor Bihar state is the envy of India for the high numbers of its students who pass top exams, reports Amarnath Tewary.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:21:32 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Bangladesh's energy dilemma</title>
        <description>Bangladesh faces awkward choices in relation to its energy policy, writes Afsan Chowdhury.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:45:32 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Nato awaits Afghan 'acid test'</title>
        <description>The BBC's Alastair Leithead speaks to Lt Gen David Richards, the commander of the Nato forces in Afghanistan.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:34:44 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Questions over Indian justice</title>
        <description>As verdicts are reached over the 1993 Mumbai blasts, Muslims and Sikhs in India ask when they will get justice, reports the BBC's Zubair Ahmed.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:33:44 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Manipur woman's marathon fast</title>
        <description>Irom Sharmila Chanu has been on hunger strike for six years in India's Manipur state, reports the BBC's Suvojit Bagchi.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:46:49 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Preity Zinta, Ahmed Rashid, Kaushik Basu and Rohit Brijnath</title>
        <description>South Asia's brightest talents write for BBC News.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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