Polls schedule tomorrow likely: CEC hopes nominations from Thursday
ISLAMABAD, Aug 12: Chief Election Commissioner Justice Irshad Hasan Khan said on Monday that the schedule for the forthcoming elections was expected to be announced on Aug 14....
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Poverty rose during last decade: ADB: Decay due to poor governance: report
ISLAMABAD, Aug 12: About 47 million people are living below poverty line in Pakistan, with more than 12 million were added to the rank of the poor between 1993 and 1999,...
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Lashkar-i-Jhangvi blamed for attacks
ISLAMABAD, Aug 12: The government on Monday identified the outlawed militant network Lashkar-i-Jhangvi as the group suspected of launching two attacks on Christian targets last week in which 11 people died....
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SC admits petition of PML-QA: Delimitation of constituencies
ISLAMABAD, Aug 12: The Supreme Court admitted on Monday a petition challenging the delimitation of five provincial assembly constituencies of the Lahore district....
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US ponders on Al Qaeda elimination worldwide
NEW YORK, Aug 12: US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is considering using Special Operations forces to capture and kill Al Qaeda leaders worldwide....
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ADB offers $3bn for gas pipeline project
ISLAMABAD, Aug 12: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has offered to fund the $3 billion gas pipeline project from Turkmenistan to Pakistan via Afghanistan....
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Grand National Alliance formed
ISLAMABAD, Aug 12: The Pakistan Muslim League (Q) and the National Alliance on Monday formed a Grand National Alliance with an understanding to contest the October elections on seat-to-seat adjustment basis...
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Muslims businesses under check in US
WASHINGTON, Aug 12: US authorities are monitoring hundreds of Muslims, specially Arabs, who own small businesses across the United States for possible links between criminal scams and funding for militant groups...
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Haq, Sinha not to meet in Nepal
NEW DELHI, Aug 12: The foreign ministers of India and Pakistan will exchange pleasantries but not hold formal talks in Kathmandu next week, their aloofness underscored on Monday by fresh remarks...
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Gujarat’s victims ask Kalam for help
AHMEDABAD, Aug 12: India’s new president, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, began a two-day visit to Gujarat on Monday, his first official trip since taking up the post, as local authorities continued frantic...
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Plan to buy $1bn planes for PIA approved
ISLAMABAD, Aug 12: A meeting here on Monday approved PIA’s $1 billion financing plan to buy new and old planes to upgrade the airline’s fleet....
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American Centre in Islamabad closed
ISLAMABAD, Aug 12: The US authorities on Monday shut down the American Centre in Islamabad because of security concerns....
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Shekhawat elected Indian VP
NEW DELHI, Aug 12: Indian legislators on Monday elected a senior member of the ruling BJP, Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, to the largely ceremonial position of vice president, officials said....
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Hurriyat approves dialogue with India
 SRINAGAR, Aug 12: The All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) on Monday gave its leaders the go-ahead to start the process of dialogue with the Indian government....
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PPPP, JI agree to cooperate
 ISLAMABAD, Aug 12: Makhdoom Amin Fahim, chairman of People’s Parliamentarians Group (PPG), on Monday held a meeting with Jamaat-i-Islami chief Qazi Hussain Ahmed at the latter’s office and the two reached...
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EU mission not to interfere, says chief
ISLAMABAD, Aug 12: John Cushnahan, Chief observer of the European Union Election Mission, said in a categorical statement on Monday that his mission would not interfere in the internal politics of...
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Man kills wife, four children in Lahore
LAHORE, Aug 12: A man chopped to death his wife and their four children for “honour” at his house in Sherakot on Monday....
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UN seeks security of LoC observers
NEW YORK, Aug 12: Kashmir media reports on the role of United Nations observers on the India-Pakistan border were “inflammatory” and can harm the safety of personnel in that mission, a...
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Smugglers’ gang busted: five children recovered
QUETTA, Aug 12: Levies officials have busted a child traffickers gang, including two women, and recovered five minors from their possession in Taftan, some 700km southwest of here at the border...
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Lok Sabha
NEW DELHI, Aug 12: The Lok Sabha (India’s lower house of parliament) was on Monday adjourned amid uproar over the alleged allotment of fuel stations and cooking gas agencies to friends...
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