Powell leaves ME empty-handed: ‘Mubarak declines to hold talks’
 CAIRO, April 17: US Secretary of State Colin Powell left the Middle East on Wednesday after talks with the foreign ministers of Egypt and Jordan at the end of a Middle...
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People’s weal uppermost: Musharraf
GUJRANWALA, April 17: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has said the government is working hard to make Pakistan strong and prosperous and, as such, is taking measures to promote agriculture and industry....
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SCBA challenges referendum
ISLAMABAD, April 17: The Supreme Court Bar Association on Wednesday challenged the holding of referendum, bringing the number of such petitions to five in the apex court, which would be taken...
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Canal opening for Punjab
LAHORE, April, 17: The Indus River System Authority (Irsa) on Wednesday allowed the opening of Taunsa-Panjnad Link canal to transfer 5,000 cusecs of Punjab’s share of water from the Indus arm....
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Pakistan win Sharjah Cup
SHARJAH, April 17: Pakistan clinched the Sharjah Cup in devastating fashion when they routed Sri Lanka by 217 runs in a one-sided final here Wednesday....
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Bush govt sued over Muslims’ detention
NEW YORK, April 17: A US civil rights group has sued the Bush administration in a Federal Court asking it to declare its prolonged detention of hundreds of Muslim men after...
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Lawyers oppose military govt, says SCBA
LAHORE, April 17: The Supreme Court Bar Association on Wednesday filed a direct petition against the Referendum Order of April 9 in the Supreme Court at Islamabad....
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US paper criticizes referendum plan
NEW YORK, April 17: Underscoring that “Gen Musharraf deludes himself if he thinks the presidential referendum he has scheduled at the end of the month is an affirmation of democracy” the...
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Latest action targets Taliban remnants
WASHINGTON, April 17: One of the objectives of the new military operation launched in south-eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday is said to be to deter a spring-time influx of militants from Pakistan...
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Thousands homeless in Mumbai fire
MUMBAI, April 17: A blaze gutted part of a teeming slum here on Wednesday, leaving several thousand people homeless but miraculously injuring only two....
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Zahir Shah due today in Afghanistan
ROME, April 17: Afghanistan’s former king, Mohammad Zahir Shah, is scheduled to depart on Wednesday from Rome and head back to his country after nearly 30 years spent in exile....
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US plans new mly command
WASHINGTON, April 17: Responding to the Sept 11 attacks with the military’s biggest structural change in decades, US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Wednesday said a new military command would be...
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Ghous’s son commits suicide
SUKKUR, April 17: Ameer Haider Shah, the youngest son of Sindh’s ex-chief minister Syed Ghous Ali Shah, committed suicide in Gari Mori, his home town, some 40km from Sukkur, on Wednesday....
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New Delhi’s charges rejected
ISLAMABAD, April 17: Pakistan on Wednesday condemned India’s decision to seek withdrawal of a staff member of Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi on trumped-up charges....
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