EC told to prepare election schedule: Some aspects under study
ISLAMABAD, July 7: The federal government has formally written to the Election Commission to prepare the schedule for holding next general election before Oct 12....
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PPP, PML reject govt restrictions
 ISLAMABAD, July 7: The Pakistan Muslim League (N) and Pakistan People’s Party have denounced the government decree preventing anyone who has held the office of the prime minister or chief minister...
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Benazir, Nawaz cannot contest polls, says Ranjha
LAHORE, July 7: Federal Law Minister Dr Khalid Ranjha says that both former prime ministers Benazir Bhutto and Mian Nawaz Sharif cannot contest the elections as they have been convicted by...
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System of funds’ release changed
ISLAMABAD July 7: The federal finance ministry, in a shift from the past practice, has decided to release 60 per cent of the budgetary allocations to various ministries, divisions, attached departments...
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Meeting to formalise gas pipeline deal today
ISLAMABAD, July 7: Pakistan, Turkmenistan and Afghanistan are meeting in Ashkabad on Monday to formalise technical details of the $4 billion trans-Afghanistan oil pipeline project and an allied liquefied natural gas...
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Armed protesters block highway
KOHAT, July 7: Armed mobs continued to block intermittently the Indus Highway on Sunday, demanding immediate release of the arrested religious leaders and handing over of the bodies of the four...
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Security in Afghanistan: lawmakers seek active US role
NEW YORK, July 7: US lawmakers on Sunday called for more active role for American troops in providing security to Afghanistan in the backdrop of the assassination of Afghan vice-president Abdul...
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US senator asks Bush to find Kashmir solution
NEW YORK, July 7: A top Republican Senator said here on Saturday he had asked President Bush to remain engaged as active partner in Pakistan, Afghanistan and “in seeking a lasting...
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Six culprits in stoning case identified
FAISALABAD, July 7: A special police team has reportedly identified six persons who were mainly responsible for instigating the mob to stone the blasphemy accused, Zahid Shah, in Chak Jhumra....
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Rally in support of ex-W. Bank police chief
AL KHALIL, July 7: Hundreds of supporters of Jibril Rajoub, the West Bank strongman unceremoniously dumped by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, took to the streets in his defence on Sunday, while...
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Musharraf to address nation soon
ISLAMABAD, July 7: President Pervez Musharraf is expected to address the nation over radio and television soon to explain his government’s proposed constitutional reform package, sources told Dawn on Sunday....
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Imam, two others held for attacking US Muslim
FAISALABAD, July 7: Jaranwala police on Sunday arrested a Pesh Imam and two others for instigating villagers to kill an American Navy engineer on charges of blasphemy....
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Anger and sorrow as Afghan VP laid to rest
 JALALABAD, July 7: The assassinated Afghan Vice President Haji Abdul Qadir was buried in his hometown on Sunday as thousands of mourners tried to contain their grief and anger....
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Kolhi girl’s gang-rape: landlord still at large
HYDERABAD, July 7: The Hyderabad police, during raids at different places, arrested six men suspected to be involved in the gang-rape of a peasant girl in Husri....
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33 miners die in Kiev
 KIEV, July 7: A fire raced through a coal mine in eastern Ukraine on Sunday, killing 33 miners trapped hundreds of metres underground in the latest of many mining tragedies to...
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Gang-rape: 2 more held
MULTAN, July 7: Two more accused of the Meerwala gang-rape case were arrested on Sunday....
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