CEC calls upon parties to help ensure fair polls
 ISLAMABAD, Sept 1: Chief Election Commissioner Chief Justice Irshad Hasan Khan (retired) has asked the political parties to play their role in ensuring fair, free and transparent elections....
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Advani accused of derailing peace process
NEW DELHI, Sept 1: The head of a committee which is trying to persuade Kashmiri leaders to take part in upcoming elections on Sunday accused Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani of...
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Benazir ousted from election race
LARKANA/KARACHI, Sept 1: Election authorities on Sunday rejected nomination papers of former prime minister and PPP Chairperson Benazir Bhutto filed from Karachi and Larkana....
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Five more Palestinians killed
AL KHALIL, Sept 1: Israeli forces killed five Palestinians on Sunday, a day after five others died in a messy targeted killing, prompting Palestinian officials to hit out at Washington for...
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Hurriyat divided over party’s expulsion
 NEW DELHI, Sept 1: An old fault-line between anti-India hardliners and pro-freedom moderates in the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) deepened on Sunday when...
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Five Afghans killed in mine explosions
KABUL, Sept 1: Three Afghans were killed and at least 17 injured near Kabul on Sunday when an anti-tank mine exploded, destroying an ambulance....
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Oil, gas discovered near Sanghar
ISLAMABAD, Sept 1: The Oil and Gas Development Company has struck sizable oil and gas quantities in Sinjhoro block, 20 kilometres from Sanghar town in Sindh province....
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HRCP flays tribal justice system
ISLAMABAD, Sept 1: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) and the federal law minister on Sunday slammed the tribal justice system as a special court awarded death to six men...
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Paper questions US democracy call
NEW YORK, Sept 1: Decrying that “the United States has a nasty habit of embracing foreign dictators when they seem to serve American interests,” the New York Times noted that “Vice...
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Daewoo team due today to settle dues issue
ISLAMABAD, Sept 1: A delegation of South Korean conglomerate, Daewoo, is arriving on Monday to ask the government to repay $800 million which it had arranged from foreign banks for the...
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Benazir will stay away from country
KARACHI, Sept 1: Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto has postponed plans to return to Pakistan after the election officials had rejected her documents to contest the polls....
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Violence in Valley claims 12 lives
SRINAGAR, Sept 1: Twelve people including two children have been killed in armed attacks in occupied Jammu and Kashmir state in the past 24 hours, police said on Sunday....
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4 Pakistanis sentenced to death
DUBAI, Sept 1: A court in Dubai has sentenced four Pakistani workers to death for murdering their boss and trying to make it look like suicide, newspapers reported on Sunday....
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Strike hits Bangladesh
DHAKA, Sept 1: Bangladesh police clashed with members of the main opposition Awami League as a country-wide general strike called by the party took hold early on Sunday....
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Blast leaves 7 dead in China
BEIJING, Sept 1: Seven people have been killed and 20 others injured by an explosion at a residential compound in south China’s Guangxi province, local officials said Sunday....
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Moin due in Tehran today
TEHRAN, Sept 1: Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider is due here on Monday for talks on the fight against terrorism, drug trafficking and organized crime, the Iranian interior ministry announced on Sunday....
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