Parties to file papers today: EC to issue certificates for contest
ISLAMABAD, Aug 4: All the political parties, intending to participate in the forthcoming elections, will submit documents of intra-party elections and audit reports, showing expenses and sources of their income, on...
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SJC not to be reconstituted
ISLAMABAD, Aug 4: The government has decided to drop the proposal for the reconstitution of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) with all the chief justices of the high courts as its...
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Benazir firm to return: report
NEW YORK, Aug 4: Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto has reaffirmed her determination to return to Pakistan and participate in the October elections even if she is jailed by “the country’s...
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Nawaz to guide PML-N
ISLAMABAD, Aug 4: Shahbaz Sharif, talking to the party leaders on Sunday here by telephone, has expressed his determination to work under the guidance of his elder brother Nawaz Sharif together...
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Pearl case: govt fears retrial if 4 suspects’ name made public
WASHINGTON, Aug 4: Authorities in Pakistan are reluctant to announce the arrest of four suspects who they believe killed American journalist Daniel Pearl because they fear the disclosure at this stage...
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Consultations on packages from today
ISLAMABAD, Aug 4: President Gen Pervez Musharraf will begin consultations with his legal aides on Monday to take final decision about the proposed constitutional amendments....
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No objection to Nawaz, Benazir return: Azhar
ISLAMABAD, Aug 4: Mian Azhar, the newly-elected President of Pakistan Muslim League (QA), said on Sunday that his party would sweep the coming elections....
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Bush seeks world help to stop bombing
 KENNEBUNKPORT (USA), Aug 4: US President George W. Bush on Sunday urged all nations to help end attacks against Israelis, saying he was distressed by the latest bombing of a bus...
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10 killed in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, Aug 4: Ten people, including seven identified by the Indian army as Mujahideen, were killed in occupied Kashmir during a 24-hour period beginning Saturday midnight....
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Attacks leave 13 dead in Israel
 MERON JUNCTION (Israel), Aug 4: Thirteen people were killed as Palestinian factions launched a wave of bloody anti-Israeli attacks on Sunday, with a bus blown apart in northern Israel claiming nine...
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Inquiry begins into banned groups’ finances
KARACHI, Aug 4: The Federal Investigation Agency is learnt to have initiated a thorough investigation into the financial affairs of all banned organisations and the Taliban across the country....
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‘Mulla Omar alive’
KANDAHAR, Aug 4: Taliban leader Mullah Omar is still alive and on the run inside Afghanistan, but there has been no sign of Osama bin Laden for months, a senior Afghan...
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Rockets fired at FC post
QUETTA, Aug 4: The Kohlu town rocked in the early hours of Sunday when three rockets fired by unknown culprits exploded near a Frontier Corps (FC) checkpoint, official sources said....
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Jeddah signs deal on meat import
JEDDAH, Aug 4: The governments of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan on Sunday signed an agreement to lift the ban on imports of goat and sheep meat and their products into the...
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