EC invites parties to apply for symbols
ISLAMABAD, Aug 6: The Election Commission on Tuesday asked the political parties to apply for allocation of symbols till August 12....
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Nine Hindu pilgrims killed in Kashmir
NEW DELHI, Aug 6: Foreign ministers of India and Pakistan are not likely to meet bilaterally at a Saarc conference in Kathmandu this month, their aloofness shored up by a fresh...
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Benazir vows to contest polls
ISLAMABAD, Aug 6: The former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said on Tuesday she would defy a ban on her participation and contest Pakistan’s general elections in October — even if it...
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Germany not to side with US over Iraq
HANOVER, Aug 6: German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said on Monday his country would not participate in military “adventures” in Iraq, as his party strengthened its resistance to possible US strikes against...
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Gas price reduced by 32 paisa
ISLAMABAD, Aug 6: The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) on Tuesday reduced the prescribed price of Sui Southern Gas Company Limited (SSGCL) by about 0.3 per cent or 32 paisa...
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Mansur’s one deal cost $50m to exchequer
ISLAMABAD, Aug 6: Mansur-ul-Haq, who has been stripped of his rank of admiral in a single deal of purchase of three cargo ships for the Shipping Corporation of Pakistan caused a...
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Australians advised to leave Pakistan
CANBERRA, Aug 6: Australia on Tuesday urged its citizens living in Pakistan to consider leaving after six people were killed in an attack on a school for children of foreign missionaries....
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US official terms S. Arabia enemy
WASHINGTON, Aug 6: A briefing to a Pentagon defence panel last month described Saudi Arabia as an enemy of the United States and recommended that it be given an ultimatum to...
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Politicians’ views on package to be considered: Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, Aug 6: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has said the views of constitutional experts, intelligentsia and political leaders will be given due consideration before proposed amendments are finalized....
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3 suspects in school attack kill themselves
MUZAFFARABAD/MURREE, Aug 6: Three persons, whom the officials suspected could be involved in Murree terrorist attack, blew themselves up with grenades in an Azad Jammu and Kashmir village on Tuesday after...
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UN stresses end to Israeli occupation
 UNITED NATIONS, Aug 6: The UN General Assembly in a resolution on Monday expressed concern over Israel’s occupation of Palestinian cities and called for an immediate end to the occupation....
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Pakistan rejects accusations
ISLAMABAD, Aug 6: Pakistan on Tuesday rejected “with contempt” Indian accusations that it was behind the massacre of nine Hindu pilgrims in Valley....
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Shahbaz co-accused in 2 cases, says NAB
ISLAMABAD, Aug 6: The newly elected president of Pakistan Muslim League (N) Mian Shahbaz Sharif is co-accused in two cases of money laundering and bank default of over Rs two billion,...
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Brigadier Tafazzul passes away
 KARACHI, Aug 6: Brigadier Tafazzul Hussain Siddiqui, a former director of the Inter-Service Public Relations, died of heart failure early Tuesday. He was 77....
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