Delimitation of NA, PAs seats announced
ISLAMABAD, March 26: The Election Commission announced on Tuesday delimitation of seats for national and provincial assemblies, with all the urban centres registering significant increase in their share of representation in...
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2,000 killed in Afghan earthquake: World help sought
KABUL, March 26: Some 2,000 people were killed and more than 3,000 injured after a series of earthquakes flattened a district capital and villages in northern Afghanistan on Monday night and...
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Islamabad grieved
ISLAMABAD, March 26: Pakistan fully shares the grief of Afghan brethren over loss of precious lives in earthquake that struck Afghanistan on Monday night, says a statement issued on Tuesday by...
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No search in Pakistan: US
WASHINGTON, March 26: The United States has no plans to send its troops into Pakistan to search for possible Al Qaeda/Taliban men escaping from Afghanistan, Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has said....
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Structural change in Constitution ruled out
ISLAMABAD, March 26: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has said the government does not intend to bring about any change in the basic structure and spirit of the 1973 Constitution, as it...
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Boundaries of constituencies reviewable, says Irshad
ISLAMABAD, March 26: Chief Election Commissioner Irshad Hasan Khan said on Tuesday that boundaries of the constituencies were reviewable provided representation was “desirable” in the interest of justice....
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Convicts cannot hold public offices: official
ISLAMABAD March 26: All those people who were convicted had been barred under law from holding any representative office, said president’s press secretary Maj-Gen Rashid Qureshi, at a joint press briefing...
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Only EC can disqualify anyone: CEC
ISLAMABAD, March 26: Chief Election Commissioner Irshad Hasan Khan said on Tuesday that Election Commission was the only authority to disqualify any person from contesting polls....
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Nasrullah challenges externment order
LAHORE, March 26: Alliance for Restoration of Democracy leader Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan has challenged his externment from Lahore for 30 days in the Lahore High Court....
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Masood Azhar shifted to his house
BAHAWALPUR, March 26: Banned Jaish-i-Muhammed Chief Maulana Masood Azhar was shifted to his residence in Kausar Colony here from Mianwali Jail on Monday night. He will remain under detention, as his...
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Parliament approves POTO with divided vote
 NEW DELHI, March 26: A controversial new anti-terrorist law was forced through by the Bharatiya Janata Party-dominated government on Tuesday during a rare joint session of the Indian parliament....
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Five killed in Jhang accident
JHANG, March 26: Five people were killed and 29 others injured when two buses collided head-on near Pull Sandianwali, on Jhang-Shorkot Road, some 35km from here, late Monday....
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PAF plane crashes
MULTAN, March 26: A Pakistan Air Force fighter aircraft crashed here on Tuesday evening during a training flight in the outskirts of Multan city....
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Kashmiris protest
SRINAGAR, March 26: Top Kashmiri leader Yasin Malik was remanded into police custody for a week on Tuesday, as protests against his arrest continued for a second day.—AFP...
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